Prime Media
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I do agree on the domain front, however I think there are bigger features that take some precedence.
Not to mention there is a pretty extensible API to Blesta so you could look into adding the needed requirements for the domain module yourself.
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.
Our competitor hasn't released an official feature update since we released version 3.0 a year and a half ago (5.3 was a big bugfix release that didn't follow semantic versioning). Many people are disappointed with their v6 beta. We are about to release 3.5, and have added many features since our initial release.
We are pushing forward with needed features, but it takes time. Better support for domains is becoming a big priority as well as a few other items we'll be addressing soon.
Thanks for your feedback, and for taking the time to register and post. There are a lot of people who are not happy with our competitor and are waiting for xyz to transfer to Blesta. After each release more and more people switch, so we know we are headed the right direction.
Cheers
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.
Well I'm using Blesta for 17 months and while i'm satisfated with Blesta,mainly with stability I can agree with some parts of your feedback about futures.
In time when I started with Blesta I was hope there will be much more integrations and futures for let say 1 year in forward(expecually 3th party) but great stability (without even one problem for 17 months in my case) and fact that code is 99% open source is something that force me to bealive that Blesta was(in time I buy it) and still is most potent billing and accounting software on market and to be honest I tought there will be much more devlopers active till now here.
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?
We are all waiting module for domain management, DNS editor, and not only for a given registrar.
Regarding enom registrar, I recommend you to use in place internetbs as their API is better (particularly for EU cctld and their requested fields) as well as their price. But if you are in EU, they are now using/charging EU VAT (I think UK VAT rate).
I had feeling the Blesta domain management, dns editor is coming with Blesta 3.5
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.
Can imagine that for UK businesses, the ability to register a .co.uk domain may be a tiny bit more important, than having a mailing list.
Couldn't agree with you more!!!!
But thanks all for reading my feedback!
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So I purchased a Blesta license before v3 was released. Was very excited and was ready to move my entire business over, but then found out that a lot of the features we use were missing that made me change my mind. So I thought I'll try again sometime in the future after Blesta matures a bit more.
The recent price increase by a competitor software was a push to reconsider Blesta again. But I am very disappointed at the progress! In recent times I've found our domain business is doing really well and now accounts for almost 40% of all sales. But the Blesta module for eNom has not been touched in years. I remember this being the main reason why we didn't switch. Fast forward a year +, and this is again the deal breaker for us.
The eNom module is very limited and lacks very basic domain registration and management features, not enough for a business that has a growing domains division that accounts for 40% of all sales.
Being a UK based company that manages a lot of .UK domains it still lacks more specific API field requirement options as well. It has already been raised and feature request submitted by another user over a year ago:
http://www.blesta.com/forums/index.php?/topic/1990-enom-couk-registrations/
http://www.blesta.com/forums/index.php?/topic/2626-orguk-domains/
As you can see, no official reply posted and feature request has not been acknowledged.
In the meantime, a competitor is really improving their domain / eNom module because they have already identified that domains are becoming big especially with hundreds of new gTDLs already released and more in the pipeline.
Furthermore, they are adding NEW features. Features such as "Claim Your .UK" addon, domain name spinner, etc. etc. But Blesta development seems to have other plans and priorities lie elsewhere.
This post isn't meant to be a complaint but rather the main reason why we are not using Blesta. It's competitor seems to be one step ahead. I keep on reading on other forums how Blesta is the best software and has ALL the features now but really we shouldn't kid ourself, it still is lacking some basic stuff, especially domain registrar modules.
I'll come back again in a years time and see whats changed and if theres any new developments.
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Blesta: Over A Year And Still Lacking Features...
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Well you are right here, I turned to Blesta following the latest v6.0 release. I've got a dev license setup and the hype is not living up to expectations.
I am a prime example of this. I ended up just renewing my support and updates with WHMCS early to lock in the lower price only because Blest doesn't offer what I need right now while WHMCS offers pretty much all the features I need out-of-the-box. I will visit again before the next renewal to see the progress of this in Blesta, fingers crossed this is the final year of us using WHMCS.