Afrinity – Hosting Billing, Client Area & Support Desk (WHMCS Alternative, Laravel)

Afrinity — hosting billing, client area and support in one Laravel app

Afrinity runs a web hosting, domain or service business end to end: automated invoices and renewals, cPanel / DirectAdmin / Plesk provisioning, domains with live search, a support desk with e-mail piping, and 9 payment gateways verified on the server. A modern alternative to WHMCS, built on Laravel 13 with a browser installer and the vendor folder included.

A website that sells

Home page with domain search, plan cards, reviews and FAQ, edited in the admin website builder. Light and dark mode, fully responsive on phones.

One-page checkout

• Plan, billing period, domain and coupon on one page
• Live total with tax and setup fees; the account is created during checkout

Domains built in

Live availability search, register / transfer / renew pricing per TLD, Namecheap and NameSilo modules, DNS records, EPP codes and ID protection.

A client area customers enjoy

• Services, domains, invoices, quotes, tickets and affiliates
• One-click cPanel login, usage meters and plan upgrades with proration

Payments you can trust

• Stripe, PayPal, Razorpay, Paystack, PayHere, Cashfree, PhonePe, NOWPayments and bank transfer
• Every payment must match the stored checkout (amount, currency, invoice); signed webhooks are closed without a secret; each reference pays only one invoice

A powerful admin panel

Clients, services, invoices, credit notes, tickets with an optional AI reply assistant, products, coupons, GST / VAT reports, fraud checks and a WHMCS importer.

Your brand, your colours

Colour presets with live preview, logo, website builder with 11 blocks, menus, pages and an announcement bar.

What you get

• Complete application with vendor folder and browser installer — upload to public_html and open your domain
• Updates apply themselves: upload the new files and the database updates on the next visit
• Starter content, HTML documentation and automated tests
• No licence key or activation

Demo note: the live demo runs in demo mode — keys and server settings are read-only and the data resets every hour.

• PHP 8.3 or 8.4 with MySQL 8 or MariaDB 10.6+ (SQLite for testing)
• PHP extensions: pdo_mysql, mbstring, openssl, curl, fileinfo, gd, iconv, intl, zip, tokenizer, xml, ctype
• Apache or LiteSpeed with mod_rewrite (cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin) or Nginx
• A cron job once per minute
• No Composer, Node.js or SSH needed — all libraries are included
• Optional: SSL certificate, SMTP account, payment gateway accounts, a registrar account, WhatsApp / SMS provider and an AI API key

Install

1. Create an empty MySQL / MariaDB database and a user with all privileges, and select PHP 8.3 or newer.
2. Upload the contents of the product folder into your domain folder (e.g. public_html). No document-root change is needed: the included .htaccess serves the site from the public folder.
3. Open your domain: the web installer opens by itself, checks the server, connects the database and creates your admin account (optional starter content).
4. Log in at /admin and set up company & tax, payment gateways, servers and your theme.
5. Add the cron job shown on the last installer screen.

Updates

1. Upload the new files over the old ones (keep .env and storage) and open your site — the database updates itself.

The full illustrated guide is in documentation/index.html inside the download.

Version 1.7.0 — October 2026

• Upload straight into public_html: the installer opens on your domain with no document-root change
• Updates apply themselves: the database updates on the first visit after uploading new files
• Phone layout: log in button in the header, menu actions and full-width call-to-action buttons
• English starter content and USD as the default currency
• One-click demo logins for the public demo (admin and client)
• Payment hardening: every gateway is verified with the provider, webhooks fail closed and a payment reference can be used only once

Version 1.6.0

• 17 languages with browser detection, a language switcher and right-to-left Arabic and Urdu
• Translation editor and e-mails in each client's language
• 60+ currencies with daily exchange rates

Version 1.5.0

• GST tax invoices and GSTR-1 CSV export
• Credit notes and refunds, prorated plan changes, fraud screening
• Browser installer and demo mode

Version 1.4.0

• WHMCS importer, SMS via MSG91 and Twilio, AI-drafted ticket replies, cPanel usage meters

Version 1.3.0

• PDF invoices and quotes, e-mail piping, Namecheap and NameSilo registrars, WhatsApp notifications

Version 1.2.0

• Domains and DNS, support desk, knowledgebase, status page, affiliates, quotes, promo codes, two-factor sign-in

Version 1.0.0

• Billing engine, provisioning drivers, payment gateways, theme manager, website builder and client area