SSL Certificate Selling

Business Manager supports integration with SSL certificate providers. The integration supposes that customers purchase certificates in Business Manager, and the latter acquires the certificate through the provider API.

To acquire an SSL certificate, a customer submits the initial information to Business Manager, which then forwards it to a provider. The certificate provider analyzes the information and queries for additional details if necessary through Business Manager. The interaction is repeated until the provider has enough information to issue the certificate.

Customers are notified about these additional requests by notifications in the Account tab of the Panel. Until the certificate is issued, the subscription status is user input required.

To sell SSL certificates to your customers, use SSL certificate plans. Configuring SSL certificate selling includes the following steps:

1. Configure an SSL certificate provider plugin.

   This will allow you to sell certificates from this provider. Learn how to do it in the chapter Configuring SSL Certificate Providers.

2. Add an SSL Certificate plan and set up the certificate types you will sell.

   Do this from the Properties tab of the plan settings page.

You can also configure the system to automatically offer SSL certificates to hosting plan subscribers in online stores. This way is natural and convenient: when customers subscribe to a hosting plan, the online store offers them the chance to purchase an SSL certificate to protect their websites. To learn how to set up the offering of SSL certificates, see the section Offering Hosting Plans with SSL Certificates.