| The Auto-Signup script means that your customers will have to pay before their account is generated. This might not be ideal for some of your customers (for instance, the ones paying by bank transfer or cheque), or those that have signed up for free accounts. In these instances, it may be preferable to use the normal signup script. Helm creates a HTML form you can place on your site and use to automatically signup customers. If using this feature sounds attractive to you, please read on because there are a couple of caveats.
The first caveat is that users who signup through the signup script are assigned a random username that’s a combination of the prefix you define in the user settings and an incremented number. The second caveat is that once a user signs up using the signup script, they still need to login to the control panel, pay their bill using a specified payment gateway, and then setup their domain. While this process isn’t exactly complicated, less knowledgeable Internet users may find the process overwhelming to start with.
User Settings
After logging into the control panel, click on the “Account Settings” icon and then click on the “User Settings” icon. There are a few things we need to enable at the “User Settings” screen before proceeding.
Account Number Prefix: This field is where you can input a custom username prefix that will be used for the customer’s signup with the auto signup script.
Min Password Length: This field serves a dual role. First, it acts as a password policy, in that when your users change their password they will have to make their password at least as long as the length you specify. The other role that it serves is that when Helm emails out passwords to customers automatically, the passwords will be randomly generated and will be the length you specify here.
Enable Remote Auto-Signup Script: If this auto-signup is not enabled, the script that Helm generates will not work.
Account Vetting: With account vetting enabled, whenever a new user is added to the system (either manually or through the auto signup script) an email alert is sent to the email address specified. You then have to login to Helm and mark the account as approved. If vetting is not enabled, all accounts are created – including those through the auto signup script. Customers are free to login to their account and add their domain name, without any verification.
Signup Script Generator
Step 1: Click on the “Signup Script Generator” icon.
Step 2: In order to generate the signup script, Helm requires just two pieces of information from you – the success URL that users should be directed to after their account has been added successfully, and the failure URL that users should be redirected to if there is a problem with setting up their account. Also, you have the option of asking your customer to select a web hosting package.
Step 3: Click Next.
Step 4: Helm has now generated the signup script for you. The code that Helm generates is standard HTML code, which means that you should be able to copy it, and then add the look and feel of your existing website to the Helm form very easily
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