While I understand your point, but I would say that this is quite subjective as different businesses / users have different requirements. For me right now a fully comprehensive eNom module would rank as high priority, while this may not necessary be the same for another user.
I appreciate that Blesta has an extensive API, but I for one am not a developer and don't want to spend an arm and a leg in hiring someone to do this for me when the features I require come as standard out-of-the box with the competitor software.
Paul, as I hinted in my original post, I do really like the Blesta product and do hope that we can move to it sometime in the very near future. If all the features required by my business was already available in Blesta, believe you me I would probably jump ship to Blesta the very same day! Domain is now very big business for me, but right now I feel that Blesta is not quite ready or fully equipped to handle the domain front out-of-the-box.
While the competitor has not really released any new features I agree, but I would say that it has tried to improve it's eNom domain module and are quite proactive. Last year they released a "Claim your .UK" addon when Nominet released shorter .UK domains. V6 now comes with an eNom name spinner. Furthermore, there are also developers that have released good eNom modules that further enhance the domain and SSL business that we are using. So essentially, if it hasn't been released by the competitor there is something out there already released by a developer, can't say the same about Blesta just yet.
I do hope that it will be considered and feature request sent higher up in the priority list.
Yes nelsa, Blesta does have an impressive stability record and, although I'm not a coder, its quite apparent that their code is very well written. I am too quite surprised there isn't an active developer community just yet. I don't know whether its because there isn't a lot of companies using Blesta just yet, but at the same time I would say that it's probably because Blesta doesn't yet tick all the boxes, if more developers got involved I'm sure more people would migrate over much sooner. It's a bit like the debate on what comes first - an egg or the chicken?
So in the Blesta scenario - do you wait for customers to come first before working / investing in modules or do the latter first and attract more customers as a result?
Unfortunately we have considered all other providers but for us eNom suits us best. Due to the volume, we also have some pretty good pricing from them too.
Couldn't agree with you more!!!!
But thanks all for reading my feedback!