How: Auto Expiration?

you will need some sort of custom script to do this most likely. I doubt cpanel would ever include a feature like this. People have main domains expire all the time while parked domains still resolve to the same user account.

 

I like that feature. A simple feature to suspend account at certain date.
I wish I knew how to do something like that. I would also add a 'comments' field to an account, so notes about a certain domain can be kept for sysadmins to not any special conditions.

 

Anyone have any luck finding something that can do auto suspension of accounts?

 

One solution could be to have a daily cron job that runs a script that would determine which accounts need to be suspended on a specific day and uses the XML API to suspend those accounts.

 

I think it would take longer to maintain the script then it would a spreadsheet with the same information.

Any idea why it isn't currently an option? Is there a way to submit feature requests?

 

You are correct that manually keepng track of the users is quite time consuming. As there are MANY different billing software options available, and not everyone wants the same option, I am glad there is a choice available. I think WHM/cPanel is great software for handling the configuration of the sites, but I like my billing software, and others have different software that they like. There are many choices for billing software that has been designed to work with WHM, why make WHM into something that it was not designed to be?

Manual book keeping and control seems to work for a few sites, but billing software makes the job a lot easier when you are talking about more than a few customers. It is just a matter of finding the software that you prefer for your site. Someone skilled in programming could make their own, but I know I am not that good!

Ron