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!

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.