Three.Three is here and it includes a lot of great new features.

If you purchased an owned license more than a year ago, be sure to renew your support & updates plan before upgrading. To do so, log into the client area and click “Manage” next to your license, then “Addons” to purchase . Lifetime and Monthly licenses do not require a support & updates plan.

Download 3.3

See the documentation for details on how to install or upgrade.

What’s new in 3.3?

• New Order Forms: Wizard List, and AJAX List
• Pro Rata
• Pro Forma Invoices
• Price Overrides
• Client Upgrades/Downgrades
• Multicraft (Watch the Video, Documentation)

And more, see the changelog!

What’s next?

We have the following features planned for 3.4:

• Knowledge Base
• Contact Logins and ACL
• Two Factor Authentication for Clients and Contacts

There will be more too, of course, but we are doing our best to prioritize development based on demand. Is there a feature you really want to see in a future release? Let us know on our feature requests forum!

We are excited to announce that 3.3.0 BETA 1 has been released! If you purchased Blesta direct, you may download blesta-3.3.0-b1.zip from the client area now (Login Required). During installation, choose to start a free trial unless you have a dev license you can use. Then, head over to our 3.3 beta forums to report any bugs and let us know what you think.

We don’t recommend using beta releases in production.

New order forms “Wizard List” and “AJAX List”.

So what else is new in 3.3?

In Blesta 3.3, we focused primarily on your feature requests, adding many new and highly requested features, including:

• Pro Forma Invoices
• Pro Rata / Proration
• Client Upgrades & Downgrades
• Pay with an existing credit
• Price Overrides
• Wizard List and AJAX List order forms
• Copy Packages
• Multicraft Module

There’s a lot more in this release, see the release notes for details.

When is the final release?

Version 3.3 will be officially released after the beta phase is completed. Generally the beta for a minor release lasts around 2-3 weeks, but it can vary. An official release is only made once we deem it to be stable.

What are you waiting for? Download the beta and let us know what you think!

Blesta 3.3 is in active development and is coming along nicely. One of the new highly requested features is Pro Forma Invoices. Let’s take a look!

In this video I’ll walk you through the process of enabling pro forma invoices. This is the process you’ll follow after we release version 3.3, if you need to issue pro forma invoices to your clients.

That was easy!

I know what you’re thinking. It’s too simple right? You should have to tweak settings and hone your coding skills modifying files that you’ll have to change again after you upgrade. Right? Not with Blesta.

So, how does it work?

After enabling pro forma, invoices will be created as pro forma invoices. Once paid, the pro forma invoice will be converted to a standard invoice with new invoice numbering. Invoices and Pro Forma Invoices have unique numbering and formats. By default, Pro Forma Invoices will start with PROFORMA-, followed by a number, but this can be changed under “Pro Forma Invoice Format”.

If you’re not an EU company, chances are good you don’t need pro forma invoices. Blesta will continue to use the standard invoice format out of the box.