Is Blesta the best billing/management software for enhance?

Derek

For the most part I host two types of clients:

Wordpress hosting for those who want a lot of hand-holding
Forums for businesses

I'd like to automate things a bit and handle billing and provisioning in a more automated way. Is Blesta the way forward here? I've already got a paid license for it (never really made it work with DA years ago so gave up on it.) Is there a billing package that I should be paying attention to instead?

Vortex

Derek
We use upmind till our own billing build in react is ready.
Till then i just suggest everyone NOT to use upmind.
Api-first my ass. Imagine I opened a ticket to get some api endpoints since their documentation does not work and I managed to find the endpoint at the end by my self with random guesses since they continued giving me irrelevant endpoints when my initial message was simple: "I need to get prices of products with discounts for front-end use"
Intergations take for ever.. or actually never. They seem to focus on nothingness and useless fixes.
So it's a no go for long term use. Not trustworthy.
Don't be amazed by their nice ui. You can build.it your self and own it if you have devs on team.

Derek

I've been doing some digging and it's looking like Upmind might be preferred, I'm just concerned Enhance support is listed as "coming soon." But it's free to start so I suppose I can try and out and see...

bluelinq-computers

Derek I do NOT recommend going with Upmind. Extremely slow development. They have their priorities in the wrong places. It's very much an unfinished software

jeff

You may want to search Upmind here on the forums. Many have tried them, ourselves included.

I found them to be very beta, not responsive to support and generally not suitable.

mendozal

Blesta doesn't have an official Enhance integration. You need to purchase a separate module from a third party developer.

The module needs to be polished to be honest. But when you buy it, you receive the source code, so you can adapt it to your needs.

Derek

So what do people use that's they're happy with? WMHCS? Hostbill (I hope not - this is a sideline I'm hoping to grow, and they seem pricy).

mendozal

Derek The WHMCS integration is good, since the Enhance team maintains it, and there are a few features they're planning to add looking at the roadmap.

There's also Clientexec, they have a first party integration. I haven't tested it thoroughly though.

mendozal

mendozal Just saying........ Upmind has the best Enhance integration so far. Maybe you can give it a try and see if it fit your needs.

jeff

mendozal Simply can't agree. Upmind has been buggy and missing features and as much as I'd like ANY alternative to WHMCS, Upmind just isn't it at the moment.

Zoinkies

Upmind is really limited, you can’t move fast or work well with Upmind currently.

tecreasey

Vortex We use upmind till our own billing build in react is ready.

I looked at Upmind and yes it is pretty but I find it too complicated. I have had a play with Blesta, but I am not sure. I am using WHMCS at the moment and thought about creating my own billing platform, but have put it off. I mean, it can't be too difficult, I feel like I too might give it a try.

dilroopgill

Got clientexec free, tried the wordpress plugin someone dropped here that works with a gpled version of subscriptions too, worked okay, prefer client execs way even tho it isnt directly integrated into the wordpress site (dont need to buy wordpress subscriptions either, clientexec comes free with racknerd and my server control panel/payment portal are hosted there) It works well for autodeploying and grabbing a username, domain, and pass at signup so they can login to the control panel and automatically be provisioned their package that preinstalls some plugins and wordpress. Havent seen any screenshots of blesta and im wondering if its significantly superior to clientexec which is basically free for me.

MDG

You can do it like this - WooCommerce + Subscriptions and then use SureTriggers to create, update and change customers in your enhance -> https://apidocs.enhance.com/

Almost free, and really easy

xyzulu

If we had to switch from WHMCS, we'd probably go with Hostbill. It's not that expensive over time. We would have switched a long time ago but the lack of forums/support visibility of Hostbill is a little different to what we are used to. There is nothing that WHMCS does for us that Hostbill wouldn't do... but.. switching is a big deal no matter what system you use.

We tested Upmind..switching is actually easier than I thought.. but while the data comes over nicely there are no mass adjust tools to help correct things after the import (domain name renewal dates get set to the expiry date and don't follow the previously set default you set in Upmind).. so for now Upmind isn't even an option for us.