Service Properties

We added service properties in WHMCS 7.2.

In WHMCS 7.2 and later, you can associate product addons with provisioning modules.

Many provisioning modules require storage of additional information relating to a product. Service properties are key/value pairs for a specific instance of a product or addon, and they facilitate storing and working with extra data. Service properties use custom fields to store this data in a consistent format that provisioning modules can access programmatically.

Using Service Properties

A model instance that represents the service or addon that the module is performing an action against is passed to all module function invocations as part of the module parameters.

For example:

/**
 * @param array $params
 *
 * @return string
 */
function samplemodule_CreateAccount(array $params)
{
    try {
        // Perform actions to provision service and receive back an order number
        $orderNumber = '12345';

        // Save order number to Service Properties
        $params['model']->serviceProperties->save(['Order Number' => $orderNumber]);

        return 'success';
    } catch (\Exception $e) {
        return $e->getMessage();
    }
}

function samplemodule_SuspendAccount(array $params)
{
	try {
		// Utilise Service Properties to retrieve the Order Number
		$orderNumber = $params['model']->serviceProperties->get('Order Number');

		// Perform actions using order number here

		return 'success';
        } catch (\Exception $e) {
            return $e->getMessage();
        }
}

The save method will look up a custom field with the given name. If it does not find an existing field, it will create a new custom field to store the value.

Supported Fields

When using service properties against a service (for example, a directly-created product and not an addon), the system may use a dedicated core field rather than a custom field. This occurs for the following field names.

• Username
• Password
• Domain
• License Key
• Dedicated IP
• Disk Usage
• Disk Limit
• Bandwidth Usage
• Bandwidth Limit
• Last Update

Using these field names with an addon will create a custom field.