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Actually, that about sums it up. (Check out that happy face in our logo) Though I originally came across the name "Blesta" using a random word generator. We wanted a unique name that we could build a brand around. blesta.com was available when I came across the name and it went on my short list. A few days later I went to register the domain and it was taken . I went through hundreds of more names and didn't like any of them, and for a kick I did a whois on blesta.com again. It was available! Someone bought the domain, and then returned it during the grace period. I had never seen that happen before or since. It was meant to be!

That sounds like it could be anything, from PayPal, to calling home to license the software. I would highly recommend you move hosts, because I've not ever ever heard of a host blocking outgoing connections, never in my entire time in the industry from 2008.

Blesta comes from the root word "blest" (blessed), from the Latin word "benedicere", meaning to praise. In later Old English it meant to make happy. And we want to make everyone that uses the software happy by providing them with a useful and stable billing application to make running their business easier. Hah! I'm kidding about that--while partially true, that's not why it's named Blesta. Had you going for a second.

How are you activating the servers manually? By creating them in Multicraft? If so, the two problems may be related. You should manually provision the service from within Blesta instead. Did you setup a cron job to run Blesta's automation tasks? When a customer pays an invoice for a service, that pending service is made active when the cron runs. You should check the following: You have setup a cron job for Blesta The Automation task for "Paid Pending Services" is enabled, and runs at a frequent interval. See [settings] -> [Automation]. If you bought the Multicraft service from an order form, check whether your order form has the option checked for "Require Manual Review and Approval of All Orders". If that option is checked, then you will need to manually approve the order first. To do this, go to [billing] -> [Overview]. On that page should be a Orders widget. Check the box next to the order you want to approve (i.e. the multicraft order), and Approve it by clicking the button below the list. By approving the order, you make it available for activation. The Multicraft module will automatically create a user account for each client, and then assign the server they ordered to their account. Any subsequent servers will be added to the same account.

Paul just came up with it I believe, and then found out Blesta is an anagram of Stable so a perfect match .

Hi, I'm sharing a quick method for making custom static pages in blest system without any additional plugin. Please consider that any future update would require to take care of the changes made as they can be erased. In this example I'll be doing a static page that will be located in your_blesta_location.com/services 1.1 Creating a static page with custom HTML 1. Open plugins/cms/controller/main.php Find: else { $this->redirect($this->base_uri); } Replace for: else { switch($uri) { case 'services': $this->structure->set("page_title", "*** INSERT PAGE TITLE ***"); $this->structure->set("title", "*** INSERT TITLE SHOWN ON PORTAL TEMPLATE ***"); // Placeholders won't work with this method, so let's use variables $url = rtrim($this->base_url, "/"); $blesta_url = $this->Html->safe($url . WEBDIR); $html = <<<EOT <div class="col-md-4 col-sm-6 portal-box"> <a href="{$blesta_url}services> <div class="well"> <i class="fa fa-cogs fa-4x"></i> <h4>Foo</h4> <p>Bar.</p> </div> </a> </div> EOT; $this->set("content", $html); break; default: $this->redirect($this->base_uri); } } You can repeat the php case for making all the static pages you want, putting HTML between the EOT marks (There should be no space or characters after EOT; mark). If you don't like the broken indentation you can try another methods for doing multi line strings in PHP, but I think using nowdoc is more easy when you need to insert html. 1.2 Adding custom meta tags to the new static page (optional) 1. Open plugins/cms/controller/main.php Find $this->set("content", $html); Add Before: $metatags = <<<EOT <meta property="og:title" content="foo"/> <meta property="og:description" content="bar."/> <meta property="og:image" content="baz"/> <meta property="og:url" content="http://www.example.com/services"/> EOT; $this->structure->set("metatags" , $metatags); 2. Open /app/views/client/bootstrap/structure.pdt (or in your own template) Find <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> Add after <?php echo $this->Html->ifSet($metatags) ?> Dev note: this could be easier if could find a way to get structure protected property values, then concat the metatags to an existing variable like $custom_head (Is there a method like $this->structure->get()?) Also, don't forget that the Portal plugin is being developed for being a fully functional CMS system, so this would not be needed in the future. Here is my result, I'm linking this custom static page from the blesta portal main page for linking to different order pages (currently in design and module coding process, blesta flexibility is awesome) Result: Setting what Facebook shows by modifying meta tags I hope somebody finds this useful Bye EDIT: fixed a detail in $url definition EDIT2: Added how to add custom html into <head> EDIT3. Confirming that this still works for Blesta 3.5.1

You should be able to get a developmental license from Blesta directly... but you'd need to talk to Paul about it, as LicenseCart is correct in that Paul issues dev licenses at his discretion. We have an Owned Unbranded license with LicenseCart and I was able to get a development license directly with Blesta when I asked if I could have one. I haven't set the dev install of Blesta up yet as I've been researching and planning how to implement the module we intend to develop. We suspect it'll be a fairly large module as it requires quite a bit of work to make it happen. And... yeah, LicenseCart is crazy-fast in responding through various mediums. In fact, more often than not, when I'm posting somewhere, he usually shows up almost directly after I've posted. Just a little bit scary... but in a good way! If you want flexibility with selling licenses and the like to your own customers... LicenseCart is the way to go. I'd go with LC over BuycPanel any day, that's a fact.

I've recently been noticing that invoice emails are being sent without the attached invoice. This was brought to my attention about a 2 weeks ago when a client told me they were getting payment due reminders, but couldn't find the invoice. Unless the setting to allow customer to set invoice settings breaks this, I normally manually enter my new clients. But I've even noticed this behaviour with clients I had entered back in version 2.x. The ability to select a global default delivery method would be nice, then clients could still change their delivery method.

WOW *FACEPALM*. Thanks, I had to reinstall blesta and forgot to reactivate the cron job. Everything works fine now. It was just the cron job thing. Thank you so much

I think there may be a plugin for IP Board to tag threads in that way, but I don't remember what it was called. The only tags we can put on there currently, I believe, is the "Answered" tag when a post is marked as "Solved". If we could also add other statuses for feature requests, I could see that being beneficial. The alternative is for us to modify the thread title and add something like this, but that's not ideal.

Well you had me believing you!!

Don't think it can automatically do it unless you did a coupon for a one time and make a tier for 2 months. I would do this. Make a package group, with two packages. 1. Free package (cancel at end of term) 2. Paid package. That way customers use the free package and then can upgrade to the paid version. They will get invoiced for it and activated after payment.

1st Question, it takes 5 minutes minimum for it to be activated due to the Cron job. 2nd I'm not sure.

The CMS plugin redirects back to the web directory if the page can't be found, which should be the case when you add random text to the URL. I find this is working correctly for me, so I wonder whether you are using the latest CMS plugin from Blesta (without modification)?

That might be a good feature request. I'm not sure that order form was intended to support changing currency from the domain step, but it seems like it'd make sense.

Ha yeah when i am typing Blesta on my phone it tries changing it to stable

Just to report that the process was successfully completed. Again, thank you so much for help.

I would look for another host that does not block this kind of thing. Out of curiosity have you used other billing software? how long have you been with them? i got a feeling that mike is right about them suspending outgoing traffic but that is no way to run a hosting company Anyways if you need any help with anything let me know

Thank you so much, guys!!! I will delete the cron before using the Import Manager then. Never know Blesta is this sweet with great folks like you.

Yes .. like my hosting. I use different hosting to set which use blesta (as clientarea) and which use main page. Pelajarhosting.com and lapangan.pelajarhosting.com

i would suggest delete the cron for Blesta - do the import then make sure everything is fine before you set up the cron on Blesta Last thing you wont is random emails or invoices etc being sent to customers When we did the import we made sure everything was spot on before enabling the cron

invoices/Services Moving from client ot client is in my Next Major TODO list (v 3.0.0) so is soon , stay stunned .

the redirect is not working inthe second company , that is my first impression , but it should work in any company , if not ; i'm sure this is a kind of a bug .

Id say because both companies share the same configuration files, and if you have edited the routes.php file it would be the same on both companies. And if you have a plugin the link works. So you could use the Admin tools from Naja7host and disable plugins not assigned to the companies.

Licensecart +1 On average, Michael responds almost at the same time your email leaves your outbox. He is one of the best VARs I've ever experienced in this industry.

What was you doing to get this error out of curiosity? The more information we have the better we can diagnose.. But like Mike said your host should not be blocking outgoing connections.. To block outgoing connections means any licensed software.. API calls etc would be blocked leading to your hosting being pretty much information based and not interactive

I believe so, with the PHP 5.5 hotfix included in the distro. 3 files to overwrite in the hotfix, works with PHP 5.4, 5.5, and I believe 5.6. If you have any trouble with 5.6 with the hotfix please let us know.

i recommand Licensecart , as is a active user here and can help also from outside the forum .

If you received an email like this, ignore it. The email contains an encoded admin_login.php file, DO NOT UPLOAD IT TO YOUR SERVER.