Reselling third-party licenses via API

This is the documentation for the deprecated product BILLmanager 5. It is no longer updated and may be irrelevant. Documentation for the current version of BILLmanager can be found in the BILLmanager 6 section.

This article describes how to sell CloudLinux, KernelCare, and Softaculous via ISPsystem billing panel. Here you can find the API requests that allow ordering a license in the billing system https://eu.ispmanager.com and performing supported operations.

API URL of ISPsystem billing system: https://api.ispmanager.com.

Authentication is performed with the authinfo parameter set to authinfo=user:passwd, where user is a username at https://eu.ispmanager.com; passwd is a user password

Order license

License order is performed wit the softexternal.order.param function which has the following parameters:

ip — license IP address.

licname — license name.

period — licencing period. Currently, only 1-month licenses can be ordered, so the parameter should be set to period=1.

pricelist — tariff code:

CloudLinux: pricelist=9203
Softaculous: pricelist=9204
KernelCare: pricelist=11738

Example of function call

https://api.ispsystem.com/manager/billmgr?authinfo=user:passwd&out=xml&func=softexternal.order.param&clicked_button=finish&ip=10.10.10.10&licname=name&period=1&pricelist=9203&sok=ok&skipbasket=on

Edit license parameters

With the softexternal.edit function you can change the license name and IP address. A new license name is passed by the licname parameter, the IP address is passed by the ip parameter.

Example of function call

https://api.ispsystem.com/manager/billmgr?authinfo=user:passwd&out=xml&func=softexternal.edit&elid=<license id>&licname=<new value>&ip=<new IP address>&sok=ok

Disable license

The softexternal.suspend function allows disabling a license. The elid parameter is passed to the license that should be disabled.

Example of function call

https://api.ispsystem.com/manager/billmgr?authinfo=user:passwd&out=xml&func=softexternal.suspend&elid=<license id>

Activate license

Call the softexternal.resume function to activate a license. The elid parameter is passed to the license that should be activated.

Example of function call

https://api.ispsystem.com/manager/billmgr?authinfo=user:passwd&out=xml&func=softexternal.resume&elid=<license id>

Renew license

Call the softexternal.prolong function to renew a license. The elid parameter is passed to the license that should be renewed.

Example of function call

https://api.ispsystem.com/manager/billmgr?authinfo=user:passwd&out=xml&func=service.prolong&elid=<license id>&period=1&sok=ok

Delete license

Call the softexternal.delete function to delete a license. The elid parameter is passed to the license that should be deleted.

Example of function call

https://api.ispsystem.com/manager/billmgr?authinfo=USER:PASSWD&out=xml&func=softexternal.delete&elid=<license id>&sok=ok