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A Blesta 3.0 developer commentary walking through how to build a merchant gateway that processes credit card payments, using a demo gateway to speed it up.
A video tour of the Blesta 3.0 client area: a clean, usable design with staff login-as-client, prominent payment reminders, tooltips, and helpful notices.
Blesta 3.0 automates paper invoices through Postal Methods, printing, stuffing, and mailing invoices for clients who prefer postal mail over email or fax.
Blesta 3.0 developer resources include a detailed manual and Doctorate, a minPHP plugin that auto-documents the source and API using PHP Reflection.
How Blesta handles payments the right way: pay one invoice with multiple payments or many invoices with one, and track exactly how each payment applies.
How Blesta 3.0 uses unbuffered queries with PDO and the Record component to slash web server memory use, building on the switch to InnoDB for enterprise efficiency.
Video on Blesta 3.0 multi-currency: set fixed per-currency prices at the package level, fetch exchange rates from Foxrate, Yahoo, or Google, plus Day/Week/Year terms.
Blesta Translator update adds Dutch (nl_nl), Google machine translation for reference, In Order and For Confirmation methods, and added context for language strings.
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