Feature Request: "Locked / Upgrade Prompt" state for disabled Feature Set modules

[justiceakorede]

Currently, when a module is disabled in a Feature Set (e.g. Redis, Node.js, or PostgreSQL for a basic plan), OpenPanel completely hides the module icon from the user's dashboard.
While this keeps the UI clean, it misses a significant upsell opportunity for web hosting providers. Customers on entry-level tiers often assume the platform simply doesn't support these tools, rather than realizing they are available on higher plans.
Proposed Solution:
Add an option in OpenAdmin under Feature Manager to set disabled modules to "Locked / Show with Upgrade Prompt" instead of hiding them completely.

• UI/UX: The module icon remains visible in the dashboard/sidebar with a small lock badge or semi-opaque state.
• Behavior: When clicked, instead of opening the module, it opens a modal overlay:
  • "This feature requires the [Plan Name] or higher."
  • A customizable button or redirect link (e.g., pointing to the hosting provider's WHMCS package upgrade URL).
    This "freemium" UX model is widely used in modern SaaS/control panels and would give hosters using OpenPanel a built-in mechanism to drive plan upgrades.
    Thank you for considering this!

[stefanpejcic]

Thanks for the suggestion!

Sure, this makes sense. We can just add a new column in the database for plans to link to the upsell plan, and then do the lock option as you described it in openadmin.

In user panel we should also cover this when user reaches plan limits to compare and offer upgrade, example if user plan has 5 sites, when user tries to create site number 6 we should check the limit on that upsell plan and prompt for upgrade instead of the current message that just says limit is reached.

I'll add this on the TODO for next week 👍

[justiceakorede]

Thank you for doing a great job, I just tested it, but right now it seems it's only available for Disabled Apps for the apps installer, it shows "App is disabled for your plan..." which is great, but not showing for the rest of the module. eg. If I disable Email, it still hides it instead of showing it with disabled button.

Also for each hosting package in OpenAdmin if there's al option to add link to upgrade (Whmcs package link) it'll be great

Again, I did not believe this could be implemented so fast, thank you very much

[stefanpejcic]

apologies, I completely missed that point to have all options shown in user panel, and just show them as disabled prompting for upgrade..

OpenPanel

Currently only on /auto-installer it will show that way and offers an upgrade if the feature set on upsell plan has that module. And on the /dashboard page when user reached any limit domains/db/emails.. it will check limits on that upsell plan and if it has higher limits prompt them to upgrade.

OpenAdmin

This is available on Enterprise only. On Plans there is a new column that shows upsell plan and link, and it can be set on Plans > New and Plans > Edit

[stefanpejcic]

I'll try to implement that later this week: if an upsell plan is set, also fetch its feature set. Then iff a feature is available in the upsell plan but not in the current plan, show it as disabled and prompt the user to upgrade.

[stefanpejcic]

This is now implemented in the 2.0.9 update.

For this to work, you need to enable the module and configure the feature as available on the upsell plan, not on the user’s current plan.

When the user navigates to that feature in the UI, it will be disabled and links to the upsell plan url to upgrade:

[justiceakorede]

Oh, this is great.
Thank you