Ken

I've owned both and disagree. Whether we were LLC or S-Corp made no difference in consumer confidence, at all. It never came up. And me as a consumer never cared one way or the other. LLC or S-Corp. Both pass through taxation. Both filed with SoS. One allows share holders the other has managing members. Not even sure how this applies.

Best advice yet. You want clients who are going to price match you with every dirty cheap host out there and will drop you the second they find something else? Go with a pubic or national marketing campaign where you're going to invest lots of money in a very saturated market. But that racket is typically only successful for big explosive startups with big money backed by investors and front men with evangelical qualities. They also push out a lot of media which also require big money. If you're a DIY, small, practical then I'd be going after quality over quantity. I grew up around entrepreneurs and repeat, referral and word of mouth business were not only more profitable net-net but the most loyal. You conversion rates are somewhere above 80% as opposed to less than 3% (an optimistic number) in the national campaign spectrum. There will come a time when wide marketing campaigns become effective (usually for brand recognition purposes) for your business.

Why? http://www.blesta.com/contact/

It really doesn't happen that often. What you're seeing is a sell off of pre v3 promo licenses that are now being sold off because people decided they didn't need them or are trying to turn a few bucks. It's been suggested already though.

Also I've not utilized this yet but perhaps this might be useful? http://www.blesta.com/forums/index.php?/topic/2001-support-manager-tickets-delete-merge-spam-multiple-tickets/ EDIT: Ahh it looks like you already have.

This will mark all tickets in all departments closed. UPDATE `support_tickets` SET `status` = 'closed' Are you wanting to close them in a single department only? If so then you'll need to find the department ID in the 'support_departments' table and use the following. Where the number 1 is you'll need to change it to the department ID of choice: UPDATE `support_tickets` SET `status` = 'closed' WHERE `department_id` = '1'

The plugin simply provides a single URL that does the following: 1. Redirect to Blesta 2. Login to Blesta with username that was used to login to 3rd party application 3. Redirect back to 3rd party application So if a user named 'c0nfused' logged into a 3rd party application such as Wordpress they would automatically be logged into Blesta. It only works one way so if the user logs in through the Blesta login screen they will still need to login to Wordpress manually. If you're referring to yourself as the end user then yes you would, as Cody mentioned, need to integrate the examples that he provided into your application. Big thanks, Cody, for writing this!

So I didn't even realize that they dropped server federation last year. XMPP client-to-server is still supported but I'm guessing that doesn't help us here. Glad to see Google staying true to their "openness" mantra.

Make sure your merchant is PCI compliant.

I've not installed yet but did you test it with something like gtalk or something like Paulo would have tested against? I am curious if it's working at all for you or only breaking on your open fire install.

I saw and edited a bit late I guess. So this doesn't even qualify for PCI avoidance which is why people want to use it so I agree with iamp. Paul is right though about stripe.js and the server handling the markup, always kind of wondered about that myself.

Not according to this: "Creates a single use token that wraps the details of a credit card." Edit: but then as I look in my database I can see that the last four and exp are encrypted but regardless populated. So I see what you mean.

+1

Awesome! I'll test this weekend.

Very nice. Looking forward to checking it out.

This would make a good feature request.

I'm unclear on what you intend to be included as "all-in-one" but being that Blesta is a modular system where you can pick and choose which plugins to use and strip it straight down to just billing, some of us may or may not be utilizing it's ticketing system or domain reseller modules and etc. A case for discussion is the importance of XMPP which as far as I can tell is the most preferred method these days. Personally I try to avoid using native apps anymore. I use them on a very minimal basis and don't necessarily want an app for everything. Dealing with buggy or outdated apps are a pain especially when features you need only exist on them. Due there being so many application platforms for mobile devices now the only companies that seem to maintain them well enough are very large companies. The only apps that are profitable are the ones which are lucky enough to go viral or are free with a paid service of some sort, take Server Density or New Relic for example. Starting off with XMPP would make it immediately available to everyone and then the people who don't have devices supported by your app will still have mobile access with push notifications. Keep up the good work, Paulo. It looks great.

What features need to be added to Blesta Core to get XMPP working? Do they already have a core number from the devs?

Isn't it already supported? https://github.com/LiveHelperChat/livehelperchat/issues/183 http://livehelperchat.com/new-version-1.65v-gtalk-xmp-xabber-221a.html

I say Windows is the software not tested properly. But I am bias.

Yep. Approved.

Yea I bet.

Great dialogue. This is going to be a good reference point in the future I think if and when I get time. Thanks for sharing! $0.30 tier... pretty much the tier you're in when you get home and start the washer and dry, turn on the AC, microwave some pizza, turn on the TV, and login to Blesta Forums. SoCal loves their Edison! For everyone else there's DWP if you're the lucky few. Cloudrck you're under 5 cents per kWh? Where at?

Damn! I was just about to offer you 500 too!

I feel like metered billing would be built into a module/plugin. Blesta is handling "invoicing" and as Paul mentioned an hourly service would get billing out monthly with a line item report or whatever. There's more than one way to bill hourly so that's why I suggest that it should be build into whatever service/provisioning module you have. That's my plan anyway.