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Nice, welcome back to the land of Blesta. I was sad to see you guys go when you signed your exclusivity agreement. Hopefully now that you've returned, we'll be able to do more business here. I suspect that most people will come to you and insist on having a copy of the source in the event you are forced to do what you did last time, from this point on. I know I would, if I considered hiring ModulesGarden for my module development needs.

That is very good to know. I've noticed you have done other modules for the competitor and have released open-source versions as well. I like this, as it provides the buyer with a lot of flexibility. Still, I hope you do well here.

Keiro, that should not be a problem as we always provide our customers with the source code of their custom software development projects. If we code something specially for you, then the code is yours. This is natural. If we create and officially release a module completely on our own, then it is usually encrypted, but in most cases we offer its open source version as well.

Hi guys! After a little break, we are back! ModulesGarden is proud to announce a double release of extensions designed specially for Blesta! With our brand new products you will be able to expand the possibilities of your system and integrate with world-famous providers: Zendesk and GoDaddy! Our first (actually the second ;)) module called plainly Zendesk For Blesta will let you manage and respond to all your tickets directly in Zendesk. At the same time, your customers will be able to send and control their tickets, enriched with several interesting Zendesk features, straight from your client area! Have you ever considered using external customer service platform inside your Blesta? Now you have a chance! The next module will enable you to automate the provisioning and management of over 300 TLDs & gTLDs in your Blesta. GoDaddy Domain Registrar For Blesta will empower your clients to register, transfer, renew and update domains provided by GoDaddy without even leaving your client area. An excellent tool for all GoDaddy API Resellers! That's not everything! On this marvelous occasion we have prepared for you a 50% discount valid until the end of September! Just use this promo code: #MGForBlesta We cordially invite you to visit our website and find out more about our new extensions: 1) Zendesk For Blesta 2) GoDaddy Domain Registrar For Blesta We hope that our extensions will meet your expectations. You can test them for free, just download trial version from our pages. Do not hesitate to contact us, send your feedback and report bugs. Need Custom Software Development For Your Business? Get Your Free Quote Now! Specially for you we will adapt an application and its design to your own needs, create a new module or even a completely new system built from scratch!

Thank you for all your comments and your faith in ModulesGarden! Everything is correct. cPanel Extended was our first module developed for Blesta and released over 3 years ago. Thanks Paul! Indeed, with over 3000 projects finished and hundreds of official & custom modules developed mostly for web hosting, we are recognizable in the industry. We are aware of fact that the trust of Blesta community has to be earned first but we are now more than ready to contribute to your success. Awaiting with interests the outcomes of our actions, we count on Blesta community support. That's more than understandable. Actually, we did not just pack up and went away without saying goodbye. Please be advised that once we developed the module and it turned out that we could not offer it any longer, we instantly took several actions to maintain the unwavering operation of the module. Firstly, we did not drop offering the support for those customers who already placed their orders until the module was taken by Blesta and successfully deployed. Yes, we gave the module to Blesta along with its documentation etc. because it was the only right thing to do, we believe. We are really happy to see that the module is still in the offer and it is actively developed. Furthermore, we offered full refunds but we still allowed our clients to use their modules for free, if that was their wish. It may appear that we deserted our clients but we did everything to reduce any inconveniences resulting from this unforeseen event. The migration and related processes went really smoothly and eventually the whole fuss has finished with success. We cannot turn back time but we can assure you that we always have the best interest of our clients in mind. Totally! We are open to any polls, either on Blesta's or our own forums. The more we understand your needs, the more useful solutions we can create for you.

I don't disagree at all. I've been preaching for a while now how Blesta should encourage more custom module development. I just have a sore spot for what happened here, and trying to think of ways we can guarantee it not happening again. The reason I seem sour on this is simple. I trust Blesta 100%. My business will be running on Blesta once the migration and customization is complete. I trust that Blesta will be there to issue security updates and software updates regularly. Blesta is a critical part of the business. I trust most of the developers here. Cyandark, Paulo, Naja have all shown they're willing to contribute time and resources into developing modules, even free ones. I trust them to do right by the customer. They've been here since V3 was released, and are still here today contributing. Can I trust a developer who made a pretty cool plugin, that people relied on, and then essentially deserted them? Like Mike mentioned above, everyone deserves a fresh start, but when you rely on software to run your business, you really don't want to break that trust, because it's very hard to get back.

I hear you. All good points. Blesta is under developed for the hosting industry. Blesta's vision of their software vs. reality is where the problem is. I really believe Blesta thought they could develop the core part of the software, make it all very modular, and then developers would take it from there and offer modules based on demand. Reality is that there are only ~5 module developers for Blesta, and the market is so small, they get very little out of making modules. Some modules exist, and make a really good impact on the overall software, but you're basically relying on a single person to extend Blesta to the point you need it to be at. The reason is companies don't want the headaches of having to search out developers for features that the industry expects to be standard in any software release now. So the customer base isn't growing much, which means less developers. A classic catch-22. An idea I had a little while back would be for Blesta to partner with developers, get all the code going in the same direction, and implement those modules directly into Blesta, and they pay the developers. I'm not going to assume what the finances of that arrangement would be, but it's an idea. One other thing that should be done is really start doing focus groups of actual users, of varying company sizes. And then pivoting in small, quick releases, based on that feedback. One of Blesta's competitors just released a feature... auto-update. Because it was the highest voted feature by their community. I won't get into how ridiculous that kind of feature is, because if you can install the software, you sure can update it. Especially since no one in their right mind would auto-update their billing system. But they spent months of dev time creating this feature and trying to hype it up. Stupid stupid stupid. It shows they didn't really talk to the people running their software and relied on community upvotes instead. The opportunity cost is high. I'm going to give Blesta a shot after their initial 4.0 release. This release, from what I can tell is more of a major re-factoring and maintenance release, positioning Blesta for better future updates. So I'm not expecting a lot of critical features to be in it, and I hope you aren't either. Documentation is a separate issue. I really do hope Blesta comes to understand their core market segment, which is hosting. It's where it was born. The reason for its existence was the faltering of previous competitors. Get that industry taken care of first, grow the business, and then look at other industries that are struggling to get by with subpar billing systems and hit them up. Don't try to be a generic be-all billing system yet.

Someone said already there is no bad advertising ,look it at that way.In fact even worst blesta reviews I sow are not so bad at all,if you look negative reviews from competitions you'll see real flaws,security related issues,stability issues.....for blesta it is mostly slow development,someone didnt find some module...at the end the best way to see how product is good is to look bad reviews

as a professional i need to accept any claim or critics . from them i need to seek the positive energy to To move forward toward success . this is the life my friend, you need to be adaptable to any situation . take your cup of coffee and relax .

your callback url should be set in blesta gateways and send via options to your whmcs gateway . something like Configure::get("Blesta.gw_callback_url") . Configure::get("Blesta.company_id") ."/your_blesta_gateway/?client_id=" . $this->ifSet($contact_info['client_id'])