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Release announcements, version previews, security advisories, and the occasional detour — written by the team building Blesta.
Blesta 3.0 multi-company support runs multiple brands in one install, each with its own domain, staff roles, clients, packages, gateways, and branding, from $95 per company.
Blesta 3.0 beta starts Wednesday, May 15th for paid license holders, plus a contest to guess an unannounced flagship feature no competitor offers, with a free license prize.
Blesta 3.0's ticket system is a plugin with email piping, departments, staff assignment and notes, attachments, predefined responses, schedules, and Markdown replies.
Why two-factor authentication matters: how TOTP one-time passwords, password entropy, and length protect Blesta accounts even when a password is already compromised.
Blesta 3.0 Quick Links let staff bookmark any client, package, setting, or email template with one click, right from the page, shown per staff on the dashboard.
A look back at how the Blesta 3.0 interface evolved in house, from its first hour as a static Photoshop image to the finished, working v3 design.
BlestaLabs runs the Blesta v3 alpha on a Raspberry Pi with Debian, Apache, PHP 5.4 and MySQL, proving the next-gen app runs even on tiny ARM hardware.
Blesta 3.0 custom client fields are client-group specific with text, checkbox, dropdown and textarea types, validation, optional 256-bit AES encryption, and API access.
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