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The easiest way to sign up a client is through the SecureBill.co.za website, the address https://www.securebill.co.za/*/signup where * is your reseller username. The reason we use https for the signup form, is due to the ability to enter credit card details in the process. For an example of the SecureBill signup form, take a look at the signup for Lusion Technologies (username=ltserv) https://www.securebill.co.za/ltserv/signup, or for a different branded version take a look at the Test Host (username=test) one at https://www.securebill.co.za/test/signup.
If you want to add a client through your control panel it would be through your control panel, which you can reach by logging in to your AHS on our website. From your control panel, click the “Create a new account” button on the far left. This will allow you to add a new client to your account. Once the client has been added, you can attach a hosting account to the client, using “Add Hosting Account”. If you want Lusion Technologies to register the new domain name you’ll need to go to “Add Domain Registration” afterwards and add it there too.
The recommended way (the version we use on http://www.lusion.co.za), is to use the SecureBill signup form through a lightbox. For the lightbox we use the free Floatbox lightbox scripts, which we have conviniently hosted at http://www.securebill.co.za/floatbox/
The code to set up a lightbox (you can view an example in our labs) is:
<!-- The following two lines load in the floatbox libraries from http://www.securebill.co.za/floatbox/ -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.securebill.co.za/floatbox/floatbox.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" media="screen,projection" type="text/css" href="http://www.securebill.co.za/floatbox/floatbox.css" />
<a href=”https://www.securebill.co.za/ltserv/signup” rel=”floatbox” rev=”width:740; height:600; outsideClickCloses:false; showClose:true; enableDrag:true;”>signup</a>
The other important thing is that the page it is placed on must use a valid document type to avoid quirks mode. This must appear as the first line of code in the pages source code, an example of a valid code is:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
The word “signup” in the link can be replaced by whatever content, and the Floatbox library will automatically cause a click to it to load a floatbox with the signup form. It also has the added advantage that when used on a computer that does not have javascript enabled, the link will simply take the client to your SecureBill signup form.
We also offer an API that you can use to automatically sign clients up, you can contact us for more details about that.
