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Hi @Tiny If it's a plugin you should install it to: public_html/plugins If it's a Module you should install it to: public_html/components/modules If it's a plugin, make sure to go to the available plugins (in blesta) to install, if it's a module go to the available modules to install.

Hi @viablethought How would you see that working? Logging in with the same username (email or username) but having access to 10 different accounts, how would they select which account they wanted to log into at the time? This thread was about the same client on multi companys so at least it would know which account to log them into not about one provider wanting the same user to log into 10 different accounts. Changing the database to allow same email address to be used for different companies wouldn't be too hard but I think what you are suggesting viablethought is more like a master account that has access to sub accounts. Maybe that could be put as a feature request? Create a contact with the ability to add which accounts it has access to. When they log in they could be directed to a landing page where they select the account they want to log into.... come to think of it you could probably code up something to do that yourself anyway

Best bet would be to convert back to normal support manager I think.

Firstly I think Domains are a service, but if you wanted to go the route of making their own section with their own widget etc, would that be most of the 'leg work' done to be able to split off other sections if we wanted. Say for example we sold Domains, webhosting and extras (IP address, Web Dev etc). Would having domains in their own section allow further splitting so we could have 'Domains' 'Webhosting' 'Extras' instead of the current 'services' or proposed 'Domains' & 'Services' "Existing registrar modules would be incompatible with the Domain Manager plugin" The quote from the OP shows that they are planning on a whole new system not just tweaking what is currently offered hence wanting a heads up on the ETA before many hours of work are put into something that could be outdated shortly after completion. We have waited for so long I personally would much prefer they build the system they have suggested not just tweak the current offering to add renew and transfer.

Do we have an ETA or should we assume a few more years? I need to re-write a module but I've been holding off as the new domain system is 'coming' I don't want to write it to have to re-write it within the next year. I know the EU stuff had to get pushed up the queue but is the domain rework in the next major release?

If you are upgrading you should NOT delete your blesta.php You only rename blesta-new.php to blesta.php IF and only if you are doing a new install, if it's an upgrade you can just ignore the blesta-new.php or delete it if you don't like it hanging around. Also as a suggestion, you should never delete a file if you are not 200% sure of what you are doing, best thing to do would be to rename it to something else so you can move/rename it back if it was not the right thing to do. If you have your blesta.php from before your upgrade I would suggest restoring it, if not restore your whole account if you have a full backup.

Hi, You could use it for selling software, Blesta use their own software to sell their software I haven't tested it for anything else but anything you need to invoice for it could be used for. A plumber, for example, could set up a client every time he does a job, create an invoice, print and hand them, or email it to them.

Hi, Settings -> Mail Settings. Enter your SMTP settings for sending via google apps, I don't use google apps but I assume they have an SMTP server. For the support manager, you would just set it up to check via IMAP/POP and check your google apps email.

What might be easier for them to implement is a PHP version check on login to blesta. If the version has changed check if it needs to apply a patch for that version then ask, if ok, apply the patch files and continue. What would also be good is if during install from Softaculous Blesta detects the PHP version for cPanel/that account and applies the patches itself when installing.

@Mariano have you tested it? I haven't but I did setup my own testing client using the same email account on two different companies. Maybe it only rejects it if it's done via the client signup and not via the admin area? Don't have time to test it but I can say it is possible to have the same email address used on two different companies.

@Blesta Addons I 100% agree with you it would be great if there was a setting to force either or. I would personally use it and force email only. I have a few times told customers their client area login is their email address only to find out after I've sent the email it's not. @breeze You could also ask for a developer to make the quick change for you for a small price, one of the massive benefits to Blesta is the ability to change things to suit your own needs without needing to wait forever for an update and a setting. I know there is a list of people who make modules / plugins for blesta on request (and payment) I've seen Paul link it a few times, maybe someone who knows the link could post it below for breeze. (I think Blesta Addons is one?)

Hi @Chris van der Westhuizen, it would be {contact.id_code} for a paid invoice, please see the below https://docs.blesta.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4161645 You can see the other email templates at the link below: https://docs.blesta.com/display/user/Email+Templates

Hi @breeze I've only had a quick look into it but you could just edit the orderform signup.pdt so it's not an option, maybe make a hidden field to pass the pram back to blesta <div class="radio"> <label> <?php $this->Form->fieldRadio('username_type', 'email', ($this->Html->ifSet($vars->username_type, 'email') == 'email'), ['id'=>'username_type_email']); $this->_('Signup.index.field_username_type_email'); ?> </label> </div> <div class="radio"> <label> <?php $this->Form->fieldRadio('username_type', 'username', ($this->Html->ifSet($vars->username_type) == 'username'), ['id'=>'username_type_username']); $this->_('Signup.index.field_username_type_username'); ?> </label> </div> Change that to a hidden field with a name and ID as 'username_type' and the value of 'email' i think would work, or you could just remove the username option both may or may not work and would require testing.

Hi Xzion, Maybe you could use the Dev tools in either Chrome or Firefox to find which file/piece of content (image, css, javascript etc) is being loaded via http instead of https and change that/them. Should be pretty simple to fix.

Hi, It will attempt the card every day and will email them every day. You can change how many times it tries though. What Paul was meaning is you could put this one customer into a different client group and have that client group attempting to charge the card a different amount of times if that would help, it would still be daily. I think an email should be sent every single time the card is attempted as there is a record on the banks' side of the attempt. It would look bad if you are trying to charge someone's card but not letting them know every time. @Paul Hijacking this thread sorry but do you know what could cause failed charges not to count up? We are using a custom Braintree plugin but on a failed transaction the customer is emailed but the database never seems to increment the failed charge count, so no matter what we set for x number of charges it just keeps trying every single day.

Oh great, thanks will install that tonight and let you know if I find any problems or have any suggestions :) Great work!

It's a business expense plain and simple. I'm from NZ so I have no idea on UK tax but you should be able to claim the business expense so you would not be taxed on that income at all as you didn't make income that turnover it went to business expenses. Not sure if you can just call up HMRC (I think they deal with Tax in UK?) but if you can give them a call and ask how you claim business expenses. Should be the same as you claim all other expenses eg hosting/servers/power/phone/room rental (even in your own house).

@Blesta Addons When might this be ready for public use?

Wow that little radio box I never noticed changing from package to module, it is possible sorry and thank you for pointing it out

This is something we would be interested in too, we were thinking of making a client group for each server and if customers wanted to receive notifications they needed to make a contact in the group for their server name, but it was too complex for customers. Would love the ability to send emails to customers only on certain servers using the cPanel module. +1

this is something I really want, retention period in one form or another. I have Blesta backing up to an account in a different location and it hits 20gb often before I remember to remove the old backups. Apart from file changes for support desk attachments I don't think the files change that often at all, are you able to have different period backups for files and database, for example? Backup frequency: Files - Weekly/daily/hourly etc Database - Daily/hourly etc Or whatever period is selected Also for the file backup are you able to set a folder(s) to exclude as well? We don't really worry about the email attachments files for the support desk and as time goes by that will just get larger and larger to a point where we would not want to be backing it up all the time, there is no reason really not to but there is also no reason to. We do full cPanel backup before we make any changes so this backup is just for disaster recovery and email attachments don't rank for recovery. Looking forward to this please do let us know when you finish it.

No, @turner2f did you follow the link I put, it's a different control panel system, like DirectAdmin and cPanel are different but Blesta provide plugins to Blesta for both, now they also include CyberPanel. It is not a replacement for cPanel, it's a different product.

Google CyberPanel? It seems to be a control panel like cPanel built for OpenLiteSpeed and Blesta have created a plugin for it just like they have for cPanel. https://www.cyberpanel.net/

Great move to make too. As Blesta.Store said Paul would be able to answer RE the dealer. Regarding the plugins, you can just start creating them. https://docs.blesta.com/display/dev/Creating+a+Plugin Personally, I found it easier just to have a look at the code of a similar plugin/gateway/module and work from that. I find the below helpful as well https://docs.blesta.com/display/dev/Module+Methods

@agisthos, why don't you install v4.2 and have a play around and see if you like all the updates? From what I've read v3 was a full code re-write. I came around to blesta after the change but even since v3 there have been a lot of good updates you'll be missing due to that one module. If you have access to VPS's you could always do a quick install of blesta on a new setup and test your module with TLS1.0 disabled. I'm sure it would still work.