WHMCS has recently stated that they are very excited to announce the beta release of WHMCS 8.5.

So, they want you to be among the first to try out the new features and functionality by getting involved in the Beta today.

New Features of WHMCS 8.5:

1. Client Area Home Page SSO

Clients will now be able to use single sign-on to access their active services like cPanel and Plesk hosting accounts from the Client Area Home Page.

2. Multi-Year SSL Order with DigiCert 

Now WHMCS offers two-year and three-year SSL certificates from RapidSSL, GeoTrust, and DigiCert via MarketConnect with fully automatic reissuance and reinstallation throughout your order period.

3. Shopping Cart Cross-selling

An additional product recommendation can be set up to display when customers add a product to their cart or checkout.

4. Metric Billing for Plesk

The in-depth details on bills like bills for the resource usage also include things like email addresses, disk space, and bandwidth.

5. cPanel SEO via MarketConnect 

It’s an SEO product that helps your customers’ websites to rank more highly in search engines like Google, in order to create more successful websites to maximize customer retention.

6. Improved System Settings

New system settings now come with categories, sorting preferences, and improved responsive behavior.

Read about more functionalities and features of WHMCS 8.5 in the Release Notes.

Why Should you Try the Beta Version?

This beta version gives you direct access to try early pre-production releases and help test and contribute to the WHMCS development team. If you wish to try just download WHMCS 8.5 or update it using the Automatic Updater.

Note: Beta version is for testing purposes only. We do not recommend it to try on live projects.