We’ve been hard at work on the next installment of Blesta (version 2.1) lately, which is looking to be our most feature rich update to date. One thing we’ve worked hard on is adding support for Windows machines. Continue »

Tags: Blesta 2.1 | Windows

There’s no doubt there are tough times ahead for many of us in this cooling global economy, but we’re wishing you a prosperous 2009 anyway! It’s a good time for automation and we’re here to help. If you don’t already, consider relying on Blesta to automate your business so you can focus on growth. Continue »

Blesta looks… well, very different now. It’s no accident that it’s also easier to use, and more intuitive. If you read no further, at least take a look at the demo. Even if you downloaded a trial in the past, you can download 2.0 and try it out again. 2.0 brings forth a completely new look with a theme we call Argentum that improves function for both the admin and client areas through improved flow and more AJAX. Continue »

In an effort to increase future compatability with both browsers and PHP environments we’ve introduced two new standards in the Blesta 2.0 release. Continue »

Tags: short tags | standards | xhtml

I recently received an email from GoDaddy.com that I thought was hilarious. Apparently users with mobile devices can only visit .mobi domain names? Continue »

In celebration of Blesta’s 1 year anniversary we are giving away 1 free owned license per month until the end of the year! To be eligible you must have an active* trial, monthly, or owned license during the month. On the 1st of the following month a winner will be selected from the previous month randomly. Continue »

We are excited to announce the release of version 1.4 of Blesta which contains our much anticipated integrated order system. The integrated order system allows admins to quickly and easily set up new order forms directly within Blesta. In addition to this we’ve improved the ticket system by adding departments and email ticket piping. SMTP email is now supported as well, in addition to PHP’s mail function. We have added support for the following Continue »

One thing we’ve noticed lately is that some hosting companies are better suited to host Blesta (And other cool apps written this century) than others. Unfortunately if your hosting company is not running PHP 5.0+, cURL and OpenSSL (Reasonable right?) Blesta won’t work and that’s not cool because Blesta is awesome… and you need it, so we got an idea. Continue »

While we crank away on version 1.4 (scheduled for release next month), I wanted to give a quick update on a couple of the big features we’ve gotten excited about. Continue »

Last week I introduced the Blesta import library, discussed why this is an important feature of Blesta and touched a little bit on how to work with the library. This week we get a little more technical and dive a bit deeper into the import library, but first a little history on the topic. Continue »

Tags: documentation | import documentation | importing

Switching from one application to another can be a painful experience, so we’ve attempted to make it as simple as possible. What we’ve done is develop a custom import library specifically for Blesta, to make writing import scripts fast and easy. Continue »

Tags: import | importing

Wouldn’t it be great to create portable graphic files on the fly, without the need for library extensions or any necessary computation on the part of the server machine? If you think so, I’ve got news for you: you already can. Continue »

Tags: CAPTCHA | SVG | XML

We are proud to announce the release of Blesta 1.3! We have added long awaited tax support with native support for Sales, GST, and VAT tax types. New module OnlineNIC and new gateways CashU and Chronopay have been added. The ticket system has been improved with changes to the interface and the addition of predefined responses for those common questions. A predefined response can also be set for the automatic closure of stale tickets. Continue »

Tags: 1.3 | blesta

We are excited to announce a strategic partnership with MaxMind. MaxMind’s minFraud service evaluates orders and scores them on their likelihood of being fraudulent. Blesta uses this score and other information obtained from MaxMind to determine whether or not to accept the order. So what does this partnership mean for Blesta customers? Continue »

Tags: fraud | maxmind | partnership