The page outline how you can create a Live Event for sale
Creating a Product
In order for the Live Event to be available for order and purchase, a Product must be created under your WHMCS.
To do this, goto the Admin section of your WHMCS → Setup → Products/Services → Products/Services
Now click on the Create a New Product button at the top.
On the next page, you will need to fill in the few options; Product Type, Product Group, Product Name, Module, Create as Hidden
| Settings | |
|---|---|
| Product Type | Other |
| Product Group/Product Name | Your Choice |
| Module | PayWall Live Provisioning Module |
| Create as Hidden | Off |
Once the product is added to your WHMCS, you should now see the following page.
There are a few more fields that you will need to adjust before putting the Live Event for sale. We will list the important ones that is crucial to the functionality. Let's take a look.
Details Tab
| Settings | |
|---|---|
| Welcome Email | This is where the system will send an email to your Live Event buyer when the Live Event product is activated for use. |
| Stock Control | If you want to limit how many to sell |
| Apply Tax | If you want the buyer to pay tax on the purchase |
Pricing Tab
This tab is pretty self explanatory. You can set the Live Event you are selling as Free, One time fee.
Module Settings
This is the last important setting you will have to set for the Live Event. However, we will leave it and return to here after the next section.
Creating the Live Event
The next step we need to do is to define the Event. To do this, click on Addons → WHMCS Streaming Paywall in the Admin section.
You should now see the following screen.
Now, click on Events and you will see the following Add Event form
Event Properties
| Settings | |
|---|---|
| The display name of the event | |
| The start time of the event | |
| The end time of the event | |
| Depending on your streaming software, this is the Stream Key which you can identify the stream | |
| Enable the 720p stream | |
| The Stream Key for the 720p stream | |
| Enable the 1080p stream | |
| The Stream Key for the 1080p stream | |
| Enable the 2k stream | |
| The Stream Key for the 2k stream | |
| Enable 4k stream | |
| The Stream Key for the 4k stream | |
| Enabling this will allow for the viewer to the view the VOD file set below if the viewer go into the Event page after the end time of the event | |
| How much longer the VOD is available after the end time of the event | |
| The is the relative name of the video file. If your file name is video.mp4, then enter video.mp4 into this field | |
| Depending of your video server, it can set to either HLS streaming or direct HTTP viewing | |
| The VOD server where the file will be loaded on | |
| Enable 720p quality | |
| The relative name of the 720p filename. If your 720p filename is video_720.mp4, then enter video_720.mp4. Otherwise, you can leave it blank and the system will automatically append _720p into the original filename. | |
| Enable 1080p quality | |
| The relative name of the 1080p filename. If your 1080p filename is video_1080.mp4, then enter video_1080.mp4. Otherwise, you can leave it blank and the system will automatically append _1080p into the original filename. | |
| Enable 2k quality | |
| The relative name of the 2k filename. If your 2k filename is video_2k.mp4, then enter video_2k.mp4. Otherwise, you can leave it blank and the system will automatically append _2k into the original filename. | |
| Enable 2k quality | |
| The relative name of the 4k filename. If your 4k filename is video_4k.mp4, then enter video_4k.mp4. Otherwise, you can leave it blank and the system will automatically append _4k into the original filename. | |
| The description of the event |
If you go type your plan name in the Edit Plan section you should see the plan you just created.
We will skip the editing plan for now and goto the next section. Categories.
Creating a Category
Similar to Adding Plans, create a Category now.
Now load up the category you just created in the Edit Category drop down bar. You should now see the following screen.
Category Properties
The follow properties are as follows.
Allow Category Viewing: This settings allow for the viewing of the list of videos in this category by public without having logging in.
Hide Category: This setting will hide the category from the sidebar category menu.
Set Status: This setting will enable/disable the category completely.
Videos: This is all the videos listed in the category.
Tags: This will be the tags that apply to this category.
Now that you have setup this category, lets move onto the adding a new Video.
Adding a Video
Now click on the Videos tab, you should see the following video adding form.
The follow properties are as follows.
Video Properties
Once are you ready, hit Save.
Assigning the Event to the Product
Now lets add the Event back to the Product (Event) you had created at the beginning
Once it is ready, Save it.
Now that you have a video added, let's assign it to a Category.
Assigning a Video to a category
Lets reopen the Categories tab, and load up the category you want to put the video in.
Under the Videos field, type in the video name you want to add it. You should now see it in the drop down menu, select it.
Save the Category once you are ready.
Assigning the Category to the Plan
Go back to the Plans tab and load up the Plan you want to assign a Category in.
Type in the name of the Category you wish to assign in the Category field, you should be able to select it from the drop down and then Save it once you are done.
Now you have the Plan ready with all the Categories you want. Lets add it back to the Product (Membership)
Go back to the Product you created at the very beginning on this page, then click on the Module Settings tab.
Now select the Plan Event you want to assign to this Product (MembershipLive Event) in VOD Plan dropdown Event dropdown.
In the Watch Time drop down, At the bottom of the page you can set how long the Membership is valid for from the time it is activate. Once the Watch Time passes the set time, the Membership will no longer be able to view any videos. the system provision the Product when somebody purchase it.
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