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Author: James Farmer

  • Introducing Reseller – Automate Your Digital Agency

    Today we are officially releasing our new Reseller platform, the end-to-end way to sell hosting, domains, templates, support and services through your own white-label portal, on your own domain.

    Exclusively available for WPMU DEV Agency members, we’ve built this platform from the ground up to make selling-sites-while-you-sleep a reality.

    Read on to see how you can use Reseller to create your own Squarespace, GoDaddy, or to just automate your web development business.

    Manual no more

    Our members have always resold WPMU DEV plugins, hosting and services and we’ve always done whatever we can to make that happen by making it easy to white-label everything we do.

    But that’s always been a manual process, your customers have had to contact you, you’ve set stuff up and emailed them back, and so on.

    Well, that ends today, because with Reseller you can offer your site visitors a hosting plan, a choice of templates and any services you care to add on, and they can purchase it and create a subscription, without you having to lift a finger.

    They’ll be able to manage their site and their subscription using your professional custom portal, get support, and purchase other services as you define them.

    And shortly, you’ll be able to package domains with that too.

    Reseller tools

    To get started, just visit the new Reseller icon in The Hub and follow the instructions, as part of this you’ll set up:

    White-label billing, powered by Stripe

    A screen showing our clients and billing interface
    Easily manage your clients, invoices, and recurring revenue from one place.

    Our client billing platform has already processed over $5 million in subscriptions and invoices for our members, and it powers Reseller, allowing you to easily let your customers set up subscription packages and make one-off payments.

    Even better, we charge 0% commission, so you get to keep the entire fee.

    White-label client portal, at your own domain

    A screen showing a branded portal login
    Create a branded portal where clients can check out, log in, and manage their sites.

    The Hub Client is already used by thousands of WPMU DEV members to provide a professional portal for their clients, and now you can also use it to create elegant product and pricing tables that allow your users to check out directly to their new site.

    And you can control exactly what they see there.

    Hosting and template packages

    An example of some newly created hosting reseller products and plans
    Add your products, create bundled plans, and set your pricing/subscription terms.

    It’s easy with Reseller to create as many packages as you like, combining templates (use ours or create your own) and whatever hosting packages you choose. Then, simply add prices and advertise them on your site.

    We’ll only ever charge you, at our normal rates, for the hosting your customers buy.

    Coming soon…

    Reseller is ready to go now. In fact, it’s already being used successfully by a number of members, but there are some core integrations coming soon that we think you’ll enjoy.

    Domain automation

    A screen showing our wholesale domains which will soon be part of the automated reseller process
    Full domain reseller automation is on the way next!

    Allow your customers to search for and purchase a domain with their package, this will automatically map the domain to their site and set up a subscription for them too. Domain transfers will also work just fine.

    In the interim, you can encourage customers to bring their own domains or let them know you’ll arrange that shortly (and you can use the billing platform for that).

    White-label support

    A screen showing what white label support for your clients might look like
    Brand our highly-rated 24/7 expert support as your own!

    Are you concerned about not being able to support your clients 24/7? We know exactly how you feel and that’s why we’re going to offer white-label support to help you run your round-the-clock business, with a platform that integrates your support with ours.

    Of course, you can already provide your own integrated support right now as part of The Hub Client.

    Let us know how you go

    We’re really looking forward to seeing how you use Reseller and developing the platform to help you succeed, so please let us know through the feedback tab how you go, and what we can do to help you succeed.

    And, of course, we’re interested in your impressions here too 🙂 So feel free to leave a comment below!

  • Introducing… Domains!

    Since we launched WPMU DEV hosting you’ve been asking us for integrated domain purchase and management. So today, we deliver. Wholesale pricing, 120+ extensions (many more on the way) and reseller ready.

    Read on for a quick overview or, if you are a member, jump in now.

    No WPMU DEV membership? No problem! Trial an Agency plan today 🙂

    Wholesale Pricing

    Even your most non-tech-savvy client knows how much a domain costs.

    If it’s GoDaddy, SquareSpace, or Namecheap, there’s a standard pricing method of offering heavy discounts during domain registration and charging higher prices on renewals. However, nobody is going to become rich off it (unless you sell a million of them a month).

    So we are providing you domains purely at cost (purchase and renewal), with no margin for us (except to cover transaction fees) so that you can provide them to your clients at whatever price you’d like to set and save a decent bit of money on your existing provider.

    For example:

    WPMU DEV domain pricing
    Get wholesale domain pricing at WPMU DEV!

    Fully Integrated with WPMU DEV

    With our domains, simply click “Connect to a hosted site” and your domain will be automatically configured and set up for your site.

    One-click setup? Yep!

    That’s all you need to do to manage your domains alongside your hosting and your site management tools.

    Domain integration with WPMU DEV Hosting
    One-click domain setup and easy automatic integration with WPMU DEV hosting.

    120+ Different Extensions and Counting

    If you’re after a .com, .club or a .casino… we’ve got you covered.

    Right now you’ll find over 120 different extensions (or .tlds) available through our hosting.

    We’ll be adding more – country specific domains are coming REALLY soon!

    And of course, all domains come with free privacy by default, plus free email and a bunch of other features too if you connect them to one of our hosting plans.

    Search from A to Z to find and register the perfect domain at WPMU DEV!

    Reseller Ready (Full Automation Coming in 2023!)

    So, what does WPMU DEV give you now?

    Next up, let’s tie these all together so you can create your own GoDaddy… coming in 2023!

    Agency Only

    We can only offer this kind of service at wholesale pricing by making it exclusive to our Agency plan (just as we did with Quantum hosting).

    As an Agency member, you get loads of other amazing benefits (like an unlimited site license for all of our plugins, white labelling and reseller facilities, fee-free client billing and team and client management tools in The Hub… and that’s just the start!). See our documentation for more details.

    So, if you haven’t tried our Agency plan, start your 7 day, easy to cancel, no obligation free trial today.

    If you are already an Agency member, what are you waiting for? Jump in and go take a look right now.