jluis Posted September 28, 2015 Report Posted September 28, 2015 Hi there, this is my first post here. I'm looking to use Blesta in a new hosting project using VMWare vCloud Director as the backend system. This backend also has an accounting engine to log all customer usage in terms of RAM, CPU, disk, etc As I will be having a custom module built to integrate Blesta with VMWare, I will need to fetch this usage from VMWare but I cannot see from the module documentation where is Blesta triggering the usage collection on a server module. The basic idea is to have Blesta collecting the real usage information from the backend and then generate invoices accordingly. Can anyone please shed some light on this?
Max Posted September 28, 2015 Report Posted September 28, 2015 Blesta doesn't support overage nor metered billing. http://www.blesta.com/forums/index.php?/topic/551-overage-billing/
jluis Posted September 28, 2015 Author Report Posted September 28, 2015 Ok, that's why I didn't find it... Is there any plan on the roadmap to include it?
jluis Posted September 28, 2015 Author Report Posted September 28, 2015 I wonder if is it possible to develop an addon that fetches the usage and generates the billable information for Blesta. I believe in WHMCS it's possible to write an addon and have it perform this task. Is that the case with Blesta as well?
Max Posted September 28, 2015 Report Posted September 28, 2015 You can let your module create its own separate invoices for the overage, but that's not an acceptable solution for small amounts.
jluis Posted September 28, 2015 Author Report Posted September 28, 2015 The thing is the whole point is to have the consumption calculated by VMWare as it already includes a package to track memory, cpu time, disk usage, etc ... Blesta would simply create the account on vmware and then track the usage to generate the invoice. How can the module generate it's own invoice? Sounds like a good solution if the invoice is properly integrated with Blesta for the billing part.
Michael Posted September 28, 2015 Report Posted September 28, 2015 Sounds like you want a bucket billing, http://www.blesta.com/forums/index.php?/topic/4121-bucket-billing-short-and-long-term-solution/
jluis Posted September 28, 2015 Author Report Posted September 28, 2015 On 9/28/2015 at 1:45 PM, Licensecart said: Sounds like you want a bucket billing, http://www.blesta.com/forums/index.php?/topic/4121-bucket-billing-short-and-long-term-solution/ Thats exactly what I'm looking for! As something like this already been developed? Sorry, but I'm still struggling with the documentation.
Michael Posted September 28, 2015 Report Posted September 28, 2015 On 9/28/2015 at 2:07 PM, jluis said: Thats exactly what I'm looking for! As something like this already been developed? Sorry, but I'm still struggling with the documentation. Not yet, you can +1 the feature, Blesta do it themselves so it is possible.
jluis Posted September 28, 2015 Author Report Posted September 28, 2015 Pardon my ignorance, but how do I do a +1 on that feature? Just add +1 in the forum thread?
Michael Posted September 28, 2015 Report Posted September 28, 2015 On 9/28/2015 at 2:18 PM, jluis said: Pardon my ignorance, but how do I do a +1 on that feature? Just add +1 in the forum thread? Correct
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