New and Improved in WHMCS 8.9

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Now in its first Beta release, WHMCS 8.9 introduces new PayPal® payment gateway modules and extends on-demand renewals to allow early renewals for product addons from within the Client Area.

You can learn more about the technical details of this release's changes in our Release Notes.

New PayPal Payments Modules

We recommend the new PayPal Payments modules for all new PayPal merchants.

49% of PayPal users abandon their purchases if PayPal isn’t a payment option. The new PayPal Payments payment gateway module helps you maximize your business success by enabling payments with PayPal. You can use this module to process and store payment methods using PayPal’s latest secure tokenization system.

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  • When you enable PayPal Payments, PayPal Smart Buttons allow clients to make one-click payments, including payment with credit and debit cards, during checkout and on invoices.
  • Enable the additional PayPal Card Payments module to display a separate unbranded option that accepts credit and debit cards using PayPal Advanced Checkout.

You can enable PayPal Payments and PayPal Card Payments at Configuration () > Apps & Integrations.

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These new PayPal Payments modules also ensure the security of your customers’ stored payment details with merchant-level vaulting through PayPal Vault. PayPal Vault is currently available for PayPal merchant accounts in the US, Canada, the UK, Italy, France, and Spain, with more support coming soon for additional EU markets.

For more information, see PayPal Payments.

On-Demand Renewals for Product Addons

WHMCS 8.9 extends the on-demand renewals feature to include product addons. On-demand renewals make it easy for your customers to renew eligible items before WHMCS generates their next invoice. It requires no manual intervention from you, helping you reduce customer support needs while retaining existing customers and avoiding missed due dates.

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You can configure on-demand renewals globally, for all eligible products and product addons on your WHMCS installation, and configure them further on a per-product and per-addon basis.

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Get started configuring the global settings for on-demand renewals for product addons in the Ordering tab at Configuration () > System Settings > General Settings.

For more information, see On-Demand Renewals.

Updating to WHMCS 8.9

To take advantage of these changes, you need to update to WHMCS 8.9.

Right now, WHMCS 8.9 is in its first Beta release, so we only recommend it for testing and development installations. That gives you plenty of time to make sure your customizations are up-to-date for the new version and to check the compatibility of any third-party modules you use.

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