Resellerclub

Sell domain names through your Resellerclub reseller account.

BAMCS checks availability, registers, transfers and renews domains automatically, and clients manage their nameservers, contacts, transfer lock, privacy and EPP codes from the client area.

Features

Ordering

• Domain search: live availability checks in the storefront. Premium domains are recognised.
• Register, transfer and renew run automatically once the client's invoice is paid. Staff can also register a domain straight away from the admin area.
• Expiry date: after registering or renewing, BAMCS reads the real expiry date from the registry.
• Your balance pays: registrations, transfers and renewals are paid from your Resellerclub balance. Resellerclub sends no invoice of its own; you bill your clients in BAMCS as usual.
• Price import: import your Resellerclub prices into Domain Pricing with a percentage or fixed markup. They are converted into all your store currencies.

Client self-service

Clients manage their active domains from the client area:

• Nameservers: view and change them.
• Contacts: update the registrant, admin, technical and billing contacts.
• Transfer lock: turn it on or off.
• EPP / auth code: reveal it to transfer the domain away. Every reveal is logged.
• Child nameservers: create, update and delete them, for example ns1.theirdomain.com.
• WHOIS privacy: turn it on or off. If you charge for privacy, it is billed through an invoice.

Automatic sync

• Every day, BAMCS syncs each domain's expiry date, nameservers and transfer lock from Resellerclub.
• Pending transfers are checked every day and completed automatically once Resellerclub reports them as active. Failed transfers are flagged.
• Domains that have left your account are marked as transferred away.
• Staff can run a sync for a single domain from its admin page at any time.

Clients and contacts

• Customers: each BAMCS client gets their own customer account in your Resellerclub account automatically.
• Contacts: WHOIS contacts are created from the contact details entered at order and reused across that client's domains.
• Fallback: if a client's own customer or contacts can't be created, the default customer and contact from the settings are used, so the order still goes through.

Reliability

• Retries: failed registrar actions are retried automatically. If they still fail, staff and the client are notified, and staff can retry the action from the domain's admin page.
• Connection check: an hourly check alerts staff if the API stops responding, for example after an API key change or an IP allowlist problem.
• Credentials: the API key is stored encrypted and is removed from error messages.

Requirements

• A Resellerclub reseller account with funds in your balance. Orders are paid from it.
• Your Reseller ID and an API key from the Resellerclub control panel.
• Your BAMCS server's IP address added to the API allowlist in Resellerclub.
• Outbound HTTPS from your server to httpapi.com. For the demo environment, that is test.httpapi.com.
• The BAMCS queue worker and scheduler running. Registrations run in the background, and the daily sync and transfer checks run on the scheduler.

Installation

1. In BAMCS, go to Modules → Marketplace and install Resellerclub. Alternatively, upload the module .zip under Upload a module package.
2. Under Installed Modules, click Activate. This creates the module's settings. The demo environment is on by default.
3. Open Modules → Resellerclub → Settings.

Configuration

Settings

Step 1: API access

1. In the Resellerclub control panel, go to Settings → API.
2. Copy your Reseller ID and API key.
3. Add your BAMCS server's public IP address to the API allowlist.
4. Enter the Reseller ID and API key in the module settings.

The demo environment (test.httpapi.com) uses a separate Resellerclub demo account. Use your demo credentials while Demo environment is on, and your live credentials once it is off.

Step 2: Fallback customer and contact

In your Resellerclub account, create (or pick) a customer and a contact, and enter their IDs as Customer ID and Default Contact ID. They are only used when a client's own details can't be used.

Step 3: Default nameservers

Set Default Nameserver 1 and Default Nameserver 2 if you want registrations to get your nameservers when nothing else is specified.

Step 4: Assign TLDs

Go to System → Domain Pricing:

• Import: choose Resellerclub, set your markup and import its TLDs and prices.
• By hand: edit a TLD and pick Resellerclub as its registrar.

Only TLDs assigned to Resellerclub are registered through it.

Step 5: Go live

1. With Demo environment on, order a domain end to end and check that it turns active.
2. Enter your live credentials and turn Demo environment off.

Limitations

• No DNS hosting: DNS zone management is not included. Clients point their nameservers to your DNS servers or to a DNS provider.
• TLDs with extra requirements: TLDs that require extra registrant details or special contact types can't be registered through the module. Examples include some country-code TLDs such as .us, .ca, .eu and .uk.
• No redemption restore: domains that have entered redemption can't be restored from BAMCS. Restore them in the Resellerclub control panel.
• Transfers update daily: a transfer shows as completed on the next daily check, not instantly.
• Privacy after a transfer: WHOIS privacy isn't switched on automatically when a transfer completes. The client can turn it on afterwards.
• Phone numbers: phone numbers are sent to the registry correctly when they are written as +<country code> <number>, for example +45 12345678. Numbers without a space after the country code, or without a country code, may get the wrong country code.
• Price import:
  • Prices are treated as USD, so your store needs USD as a currency.
  • Check .com after importing. Resellerclub lists it under a different product key, so the import may skip it.