AraTheme 1.3 · For WHMCS administrators
AraTheme is a complete look for WHMCS: a client-area theme, an order form and a theme manager in your WHMCS admin. It works in every language WHMCS supports, with a true right-to-left layout for Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, Urdu, Kurdish and Pashto, and a normal left-to-right layout for all other languages. You change the look, the menus, the homepage and every text from the admin — no code needed.
This article is the starting point. It explains what you get, what your server needs, and in which order to read the other guides.
What is in the package
| Part | Folder on your server | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Client-area theme | templates/arahosterone/ | The public site and the client area: homepage, store pages, sign-in, dashboard, services, domains, invoices, tickets, account, knowledgebase, announcements, network status and error pages. |
| Order form | templates/orderforms/arahoster_cart/ | The store and checkout. Built on WHMCS Standard Cart and keeps its IDs and classes, so payment gateways and modules keep working. |
| Theme manager | modules/addons/arahoster_theme/ | The addon at Addons → AraTheme: every setting, the licence and one-click updates. |
The download (aratheme-x.y.z.zip) contains an upload/ folder with these three folders, plus README.md, CHANGELOG.md and INSTALL.txt.
Requirements
| Item | Needed |
|---|---|
| WHMCS | Version 9.0 or later. |
| PHP | 8.1 or later. |
| ionCube Loader | Yes — the same loader WHMCS itself needs. The addon's PHP files are ionCube-encoded; templates, CSS, JavaScript and language files are open so you can read them. |
| PHP extensions | curl (licence and updates), sodium (checks the signed licence answers), zip (one-click updates), gd (profile photo uploads). Most hosts have all four on. |
| Outbound HTTPS | Your server must be able to reach https://me.arahoster.com once a day for the licence check and when you install an update. |
| WHMCS cron | Should run as WHMCS recommends (every 5 minutes). AraTheme uses it for the daily licence check and the live platform status. |
| For one-click updates | PHP must be able to write to the three AraTheme folders, and you need about 50 MB of free disk space. Without this you can still update by uploading the files yourself. |
| Licence | One active AraTheme licence per WHMCS installation (also for staging or development copies). |
Price and licence in short
- Annual licence for one WHMCS installation: $99 the first year, then $149 per year.
- Every feature is included. Support and updates are included while the licence is active.
- 7-day refund from the purchase date.
- If the licence is not renewed, WHMCS switches back to its own theme and order form. Your site keeps working, and all AraTheme settings are kept. When you renew, AraTheme switches itself back on.
Read the guides in this order
- Buying AraTheme, your licence key and the download — what happens after you order.
- Installation guide — upload, activate, switch WHMCS to AraTheme, first checks.
- Licence, renewals and one-click updates — how the licence works and how you update.
- Theme manager guide 1: brand, colours, header, menus, promo bar, footer and client account.
- Theme manager guide 2: homepage, product cards, store and order form.
- Theme manager guide 3: support tools, pages, news and offers, texts and translations, emails and invoice.
- Tracking, statistics, cookie consent and SEO.
- Features, custom CSS, backup, troubleshooting and FAQ.
- Changelog — what changed in each version.
Main features at a glance
- Every client-area page redesigned, with light and dark mode and a mobile layout.
- Right-to-left and left-to-right layouts; theme texts ready in English, Arabic, Norwegian and Spanish, and editable for every language.
- Theme manager with settings search, per-language editing, a sticky save bar and export / import of all settings.
- Brand, logos and colours with an automatic shade scale and a contrast check.
- Homepage builder: hero with domain search, plan tabs with live WHMCS prices, sections you can reorder, FAQ.
- Store: plan cards, billing period switch, compare-plans table, one-step checkout, "complete it in one step" offers, restyled MarketConnect pages.
- Page builder for your own pages (about us, privacy policy, landing pages).
- News and offers with promo codes, countdowns, banners and a one-time pop-up.
- Support tools: department hours and reply times, common requests, a help assistant that answers from your knowledgebase, live platform status from your providers' status pages.
- Client emails and the PDF invoice in your brand style.
- Built-in cookie-free statistics, Google Analytics 4 reports, trackers with Consent Mode v2, a GDPR cookie banner with a record of consent.
- SEO: titles and descriptions per page and language, canonical links, hreflang, share cards, structured data, XML sitemap and robots.txt.
- Signed one-click updates with automatic backup and restore.
Getting help
Open a ticket at me.arahoster.com/submitticket.php and choose the department for our marketplace products. Tell us your WHMCS version, PHP version and what you see (a screenshot helps). See the live demo at me.arahoster.com.
