HostBill tax system gets even more power by enabling to set the tax rate per item, regardless of the localization.

Automated tax calculations in HostBill

As a comprehensive billing solution, HostBill offers a wide range of multiple and complex tax configuration options to comply with various legal requirements. Advanced tax features in HostBill allow you to set multiple tax levels and rates, add additional taxes for late invoices, calculate negative tax or control whether tax should be calculated before or after credit is applied. You can also choose if the tax should be inclusive, where the prices displayed are gross prices, or exclusive, with the prices that you set in system are net prices. HostBill enables to define multiple tax rules to comply with the country-specific tax rules. You can also easily save the time and hassle by using one of our presets – tax rules by country.

Tax per product and line item  

Now we’re giving our tax system even more power by enabling to set the tax rate per item, regardless of the localization. This gives you plenty of new opportunities, especially when you have multiple products and services in your portfolio that need to have different tax rates applied, as it may be the case in some of the European Union countries.

Tax groups

In HostBill tax settings (General Settings -> Currency & Tax Settings -> Taxes) you can now create multiple tax groups (by default there is one, standard tax group). Once you create a group you can add and configure a new tax and assign it to the given group.

When configuring products, you can assign products to different tax group and in result impose a different tax to this product. This is especially useful to EU businesses, where there are different tax rates for different products, depending on product/service category etc.

Adding tax on invoice

When editing invoices you now have the opportunity to manually enter tax rate for each invoice item. HostBill will automatically calculate the tax and add it to the invoice.

More on taxes you can read in HostBill documentation.

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This week in HostBill we’re presenting new AD/LDAP client authentication module and new feature for orders and tickets review!

LDAP Client Authentication plugin

In HostBill we already have AD/LDAP Module that allows to authenticate staff member with Active Directory / Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. Now we’re happy to present similar module, this time created to authenticate clients. The AD/LDAP module for clients allows to connect with multiple AD/LDAP hosts to authenticate clients against them. Client profiles that are missing in HostBill can be created automatically using a template. AD/LDAP module also allows to create LDAP groups and select group per client. Client password can also be auto synchronized from LDAP in HostBill db upon login.

Order Review

HostBill allows to define order scenarios that control which steps must be taken after client submits new order. One of the steps is Final Manual review – it requires to review the order manually right after it was provisioned. Only marking this step as complete (if its activated in order scenario) will result in marking order as Active. If Final Admin review  step is active you can view orders that have not been reviewed yet in “Pending Review” order listing. The listing can be browsed only by admins with relevant ACL (Support: Review orders)

Ticket review

When creating staff departments in HostBill you have the ability to define various settings and permissions per department. One of the options enables the supervisor to review tickets. If this option is on, once the ticket is closed it is marked as “pending review”. Admin with relevant permission (Support: Review tickets) can review the ticket, mark it as reviewed or re-open it or change its status. 

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The full list of new features added this week can be found in our changelog.

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This week we’re launching two new domain registrar modules: Joker.com and Neustar!

Joker.com domain registrar

Joker.com is one of the leading European providers of domain registrations – and one of the oldest. It is operating since 1997 (and accredited since 2001). Joker.com offers all major domain types (including .com, .net, .de, .org, .info, .games, .party, .college, .cars, .bid, .legal, .pics, .institute, .productions and much more). The company is focused on the product “pure domain” – providing broad business opportunities especially to resellers. Joker.com module is free and available to all HostBill users.

Neustar domain registrar

Neustar is an information services and technology company that offers wide range of services, including domain registration. Neustar Domain Name Registry Services operates the global registry for .us, .biz and .co. In addition, it provides back-end registry services for .tel and .travel, gateway services to country code top level domains (ccTLDs), internationalized domain names (IDNs), and full registry services to new top level domains. Neustar module for HostBill is a premium module and it can be bought from our marketplace as an addition to your HostBill license.

Domain management with HostBill

Thanks to the integration with domain registrars, you can sell domain names and automate the whole domain management process – domain provisioning, transfers, renewals and terminations. HostBill also domain synchronization, which allows your staff members to update HostBill domain records with registry details, ie. to make sure that domain renewal/expiration dates are in sync. HostBill also provides a range of domain management options, such as contact management, DNS management, DNSSEC management, email forwarding, ID protection and more.

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Generate bulk-payment invoice from admin portal

This week we’re also happy to present new feature that allows to generate bulk payment invoice from admin panel. Bulk payments can be enabled in Settings -> Billing -> Client Balance -> Allow paying in bulk. If this option is enabled in invoice details, under “Actions” button there will be option to “Create bulk payment“. Using this option you can choose which unpaid invoices to add to the bulk payment invoice.

Bulk invoice can also be generated by the client, when the client wants to pay all due invoices at once.

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This week in HostBill we’re happy to present new CometBackup integration!

CometBackup module for HostBill

Comet is light-weight and fast backup software, available in 10 languages and in use in over 50+ countries. It provides a secure, encrypted backup system that allows to backup to storage destinations of your choosing.
HostBill integration is the perfect tool to sell Comet Backup space. Powerful billing options allow to charge for number of devices, protected items quota or storage vault quota. Thanks to HostBill automation you don’t have to worry about creating the account and managing account lifecycle as well as upgrades and downgrades. HostBill can also trigger pre-set automation rules on defined quota values.
HostBill provides end-clients with the opportunity to manage their backup space: display account quotas and usage, recent backup jobs, download clients, view login details and manage passwords – all within a simple to use and easy to navigate client area.

Check out the pricing and add the CometBackup module to your HostBill!

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This week in HostBill we’re happy to present new Pterodactyl.io integration and a number of new features!

Pterodacyl module

Pterodactyl is an open-source game server management panel designed with security in mind. Pterodactyl.io supports a huge variety of games by utilizing Docker containers to isolate each instance, giving users the power to host the games across the world without having to bloat each physical machine with additional dependencies.

Pterodactyl.io module for HostBill is the perfect tool to sell game servers hosting with plenty of billing models available, allowing to charge end users for CPU, disk space, memory, swap, dedicated IP or location. HostBill automation makes sure that users and servers are created automatically. HostBill also automatically handles the whole account management, including suspensions, unsuspensions  and terminations. Clients can view access details in HostBill client area, while admin can control account lifecycle and billing detail from admin panel.

New features

This week we’re also introducing a bunch of new features:

Domains

EPP Code can be sent over email or displayed on a dashboard (default) from now on. You can set this option in related client function settings. With this option on, when the client presses the “Get EPP code” button in client area, HostBill will get the email address of the registrant from domain contacts and will send an email (using a template) to this address with the code downloaded from API.

Orders

Admin can now override default order/estimate/invoice notification recipient list – you can simply select the list of recipients (from client contact list) that should get notification about given order / estimate and only selected contacts will receive notification.

Facebook Pixel

This week we’ve also added a simple helper module to inject Facebook Pixel tracking code into your HostBill client portal. Facebook Pixel collects data that helps you track conversions from your Facebook ads, optimize ads, build targeted audiences for future ads, and remarket to people who have already taken some kind of action on your website.

Settings

HostBill provides you with the opportunity to define how many certain products/services one customer is allowed to buy. With the new feature, when product ordered by client have limitation per client set you can select which service statuses goes into usage calculation:

2019 Theme

Clients can now use search feature to search their services by products/category names

Gateway Per Client

Gateway per Client module allows to define gateway availability rules and decide which payment gateways will be available for specific client, product, account billing cycle or customer country. New functionalities allow to define gateway per client group assignment rules.

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HostBill provides powerful automation of key areas of your business: billing, service provisioning and account management, that helps to increase productivity by reducing the time taken to perform repetitive tasks. And as increased productivity with less labour costs means increased profit, we can’t think of a better reason to automate your operations! But apart from standard automation features, with HostBill you can also create your own, custom automation rules for each client and per each product or service.

Flexible automation

HostBill automation is highly flexible and can be easily adapted to your needs and to each product, service and account individually. With tailor-made automation you can find solutions to your existing bottlenecks and instead of dealing with repetitive tasks, direct your efforts towards growing your business. What’s important – the automation is very intuitive and easily configurable from HostBill admin area.

Product automation

Each product in HostBill can have a set of dedicated automation rules. You can create rules for automatic service management: provisioning, suspensions and terminations (a certain number of days after the due date), upgrades and cancelation requests processing. In product automation settings, you can also decide if and when the renewal invoices should be generated, how to setup invoice due date, when to send payment reminder emails and whether or not to add late payment fee for overdue invoices. This way you can ensure the whole account management process runs smoothly without the need for staff intervention!

Custom automation rules

For each product/service you can also create custom automation tasks to send custom emails, create tickets, change account details: billing cycle, recurring price, suspend or terminate account upon certain events. Each task can be scheduled to be executed automatically on certain events – you set number of days or hours before or after a certain event. The rules can apply to all accounts connected to the given product/service or selected account only.

Automation logic and conditions

For each custom automation task you can add conditions, under which the task should be scheduled or executed. The logic behind the custom automation task can include client-related conditions or account- related conditions. You can define whether the action (custom automation task) should be executed when one given condition is met (or not met), or define multiple set of conditions that must be met all at once.

Automation rules per client profile

Automation rules can also be set on a per client basis. In client profile you can override package settings and establish individual automation rules for specific client, that concern account provisioning and management and invoice creation. You can also override general billing settings including taxes, invoice merging, invoice delivery method, credit card settings and credit usage.

Save time and money and automate with HostBill!

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This week in HostBill we’re presenting new integration with intY Cascade that allows to resell Microsoft Cloud Products!

intY Cascade module for HostBill

intY is a company specializing in the distribution of cloud services from the biggest cloud software vendors in the world, including Microsoft, Acronis and Symantec. CASCADE, intY’s, self-service portal and the original cloud marketplace, enables partners to order and manage cloud services for their customers.

HostBill Inty module allows to resell Microsoft cloud products using intY Cascade platform.Thanks to HostBill integration you can automatically import product portfolio from intY Cascade with price overrides and existing accounts and licenses. Products are managed by HostBill automatically: created, terminated. HostBill also automatically handles and calculates upgrades and downgrades.

Client can display license details in client area: tenant domain, reference, login and password as well as the link to Microsoft login page. Admin area grants access to controlling account lifecycle, managing billing information, displaying subscription details and more.

You can find out more about the module here.

New features

This week we’re also introducing a couple of new features:

Knowledgebase. In HostBill, Knowledgebase articles can be divided into categories and each category can also have sub-categories. We’ve now added the possibility to restrict access to entire category only for registered customers.

Automation. Custom automation tasks is one of the most powerful HostBill features that helps to adapt automation options to your needs and to each product/service/account individually. New feature allows to create custom automation task that executes N-days after issued & still unpaid order.

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New HostBill integration allows to sell Slimsite Sitebuilder plans and services. Read more to find out what else is new this week in HostBill.

Slimsite module for HostBill

Drag, drop and… done! Building a professional-looking website is that easy, even for people with no coding experience whatsoever. Whether your customers want to start a personal blog, show off their best work in an online portfolio or create a stunning business website – Slimsite is designed to fit any purpose. And with the new Ecwid integration, adding an online store to Slimsite is easy. Since you know your customers best, we’ll leave it up to you to decide how to sell Slimsite: as a do-it-yourself solution, a web design service or as a freemium.

HostBill integration with Slimsite allows to resell Slimsite Sitebuilder and use HostBill automated billing features to bill for Slimsite services / plans. Thanks to powerful automation, HostBill automatically creates site and assigns plan and terminates Sites/Users in Slimsite. End-clients can manage their services in client area, where apart from managing billing and payment information and getting support, they can also display login details to Slimsite and site setup guide. Admin area allows resellers to control account lifecycle, client area functions access and appearance and manage clients billing details.

You can find out more about the integration here.

New features

In this week’s release we’re also happy to introduce a number of changes to some of our modules:

Acronis Baas module now supports recently introduced Account Metrics feature. Account Metrics feature allow to  download resource consumption information for certain account from connected hosting module. The information can be used to trigger certain automation task if the usage limit gets exceeded, for example to send a message to the client or open a ticket. You can read more about Account Metrics in this blog post. Acronis Bass module lets you define metrics such as storage, workstations, servers, VMs, mobiles, websites, office mailboxes, office OneDrive, office Sharepoint and office seats. Acronis Bass module now also supports metered billing.

Cloud Signup module  that enables fast client signup ss now equipped with configuration option to set default template. We’ve also added new template that is compatible with Theme 2019.

This week our Proxmox module has been added a confirmation popup to rebuild, shutdown and boot from iso. We have also improved cPanel Data Sync module.

In admin area, we’ve added the option to enable WYSIWYG editor for email templates.  We’re also introducing new billing feature – peak scheme for metered billing model, allowing to charge for the highest measured value.

For the full list of changes please refer to our weekly changelog.

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This week we’ve added metered billing support for three of our modules: Plesk, cPanel and Direct Admin.

Metered Billing

Metered billing is one of multiple advanced billing modules available in HostBill and now we’re expanding metered billing support for other modules. Metered billing allows businesses to accurately charge their customers based on how much resources they use. HostBill tracks various resource usage level and automatically calculates the price for the resource consumption. Metered billing model has many advantages over other pricing models as it allows for a higher degree of agility and flexibility in resource use. What’s more, in HostBill metered billing can be used for both: pre-paid and post-paid billing type.

In HostBill, metered billing can be easily configured in product configuration – under General tab simply select Metered under Price options and configure your metered billing package.

cPanel module

In the cPanel module you can use metered billing to measure and bill for: Badwidth, Disk usage, Emails, Mailing Lists, Addon domains, Subdomains, Parked domains, FTP acconts and Databases.

Plesk module

Plesk module allows to use metered billing to bill for: Traffic, Subdomains, Emails, Redirects, Mail groups, Autoresponders, Mailing lists, Databases, Domains and Sites.

Direct Admin module

Direct Admin module has the support for metered billing for following resource usage: Badwidth, Disk usage, Domain Pointers, FTP Accounts, Databases, Email Forwarders. Mailing Lists, Autoresponders, Subdomains, and Domains. 

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In 2019 HostBill celebrates 10 years in business! As a token of appreciation we have prepared two special offers for our customers!

We’re more than happy to announce that HostBill is celebrating 10 years in business. Exactly 10 years from now the very first HostBill 1.0.0. was released. And after a decade of being in business we kept a position of innovation leaders among billing and automation software companies.

We would not be able to achieve this success without our clients. The whole HostBill team would like to thank all of our customers for giving us a wonderful opportunity to service you for the past 10 years. From the beginning it was our desire to keep you satisfied with our product and services. You are our inspiration in doing our very best, your satisfaction is our number one concern and we promise to stay reliable. We’re honoured to have such loyal customers like you.

As a token of appreciation we have prepared two special offers for our customers, to celebrate HostBill anniversary. The offers are personalized for each of our customers and depend on how long you’ve been using HostBill for – you can get up to 50% discount! To check what we’ve prepared for you, login to HostBill licensing portal and reveal your deal!

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This week new in HostBill: Swish payment module!

Swish payment module

Swish is a mobile payment company created by Nordic banks. Swish is used for transactions that used to be mostly cash-based. The service works through a smartphone application, through which the user’s phone number is connected to their bank account, and which makes it possible to transfer money in real time, a few seconds until confirmation is received by both parties. HostBill enables you to accept Swish payments out of the box. The integration, just as most of our 100 payment gateways, is free to all HostBill users – you can simply activate it and add to the payment methods available in your store!

New features

Apart from new payment method, this week we’re introducing a number of new features:

AD / LDAP Provisioning module, that allows to sell any AD/LDAP-Authenticated, has got two new features. The first one enables to require changing the password for new members after first login. The second one gives you the ability to create LDAP members directly from the admin area.

Credit Vouchers also have new functionalities. It’s now possible to generate reusable, fixed-code credit vouchers. You can also now control in settings if client needs to have paid invoice first before redeeming voucher.

In Client Groups you now have the ability to overwrite the “Allow client to control Invoice Delivery method” option.

We’ve also added DNS management support to Realtime Register module, Ability to remove addons when removing main licenses to Plesk Key Administrator and configuration option specifying whether to send a period attribute during domain transfer to Nask domain registrar.

For the full list of new features and bugs fixed please refer to our changelog.

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Although officially it’s not Black Friday yet, but our massive Black Friday sale starts now!

This year our Black Friday deal features a 20% discount on everything – all HostBill licenses and Software Development Kit, all plugins, hosting modules, domain registrars and themes available in our marketplace (including developer versions of the modules) and support tickets bundles.

To claim the discount simply use BLACKFRIDAY2019 code upon checkout. You can use the code as many times as you need – we don’t limit promotional code use per customer!

Catch this perfect opportunity and save some serious money on your HostBill shopping!

Terms & Conditions: Our Black Friday offer is valid from Thursday 28th November until Tuesday, 3rd December and applies to both new and existing customers. The offer can’t be combined with any other sale, promotion, discount, code, coupon and/or offer. The discount is not valid for single support tickets and upgrades.

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This week in HostBill we’re adding RIPE toolkit for IPAM, new configuration options for Theme 2019 and new custom automation task!

RIPE toolkit for IPAM

HostBill IP Address Manager plugin already supports ARIN (through rWhois) and now, the latest IPAM update includes support for RIPE REST API integration! This way we’re allowing for automated creation, updates, deletion of inetnum, person, role objects in RIPE db.
To find out how to configure RIPE please see this documentation article.

2019 Theme

If you’re using 2019 Theme client panel theme, you now have the admin tool in configuration to edit basic theme options without editing files! This means that even if you don’t know html, css or js you can still edit the template and customize things such as logo, theme colours etc all by yourself! To be able to do so you need to update your HostBill and Theme 2019 (re-download the template). And just to give you the heads up, will be adding some further configuration options to Theme 2019 and other themes as well!

New custom automation task

Custom automation tasks is one of the most powerful HostBill features. Custom automation tasks help you to adapt automation options to your needs and to each product/service/account individually and make HostBill automation highly flexible. New automation task allows to change the billing type from Pre-paid to Post-paid! You can find out more about custom automation tasks in this article.

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This week we’re happy to introduce two new payment gateways added to our extensive list of payment modules!

Assist.ru payment gateway

ASSIST is one of the leading Russian internet payment service providers, that offers its partners convenient and high-quality service of the organization and maintenance of electronic payments. Assist supports card payments and digital wallets and guarantees high level of payment’s safety in virtue of unique anti-fraud system.

HostBill integration allows to accept payments using Assist.ru payment gateway out of the box. With this gateway payments are processed offsite – customers are redirected to Assist.ru frontend to finish payment. Our integration supports one-click refunds processing for your staff members, which means transaction can be easily refunded from invoice details. Assist.ru module for HostBill also supports automatic recurring payments.

Payson Checkout

Payson is the leading provider for P2P payments in Sweden. The company provides secure, fast and simple payments by credit card and Internet banking between persons, where neither buyer nor seller has to submit sensitive information such as account numbers to each other. The customers can pay with only one click – all payment methods are available with a single agreement. Payson Checkout payment gateway also processes payments offsite.

Both payment modules are free and available to all HostBill users!

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This week in HostBill we’re adding card tokenization support to eWay payment module and a new client status for even better client management!

eWay Token payment module

eWay is a leading global payment gateway, allowing businesses to accept secure credit card payments 24/7 from customers around the world. HostBill already provides integration with eWay payment gateway and now we’re adding a solution that supports card tokenization, which means HostBill will not store credit card details – eWay will do it for you. You can capture your customers details once, and securely store them on eWay’s PCI DSS compliant servers for any time they wish to make a purchase in the future. eWay will provide a token to securely use it for subsequent card charges!

Archived client status

To help you better manage your customers, all clients listed in your HostBill have one of the four statuses: active, closing, closed and pending removal. We’ve now added new client profile: archived. Archived clients, similar to clients with “closed” status are no longer able to login to your client area. It’s the admin who decides when to archive inactive client profiles . You can set it the General Settings -> Other -> GDPR, where you can not only choose after what time since the last payment to archive client profile, but also after what time to remove archived profiles. Archived clients can only be viewed by admins with relevant permission level – in admin ACL we’ve added new permission: “View archived clients”.

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The new year is just around the corner and it is time to sum up what has happened in 2019! For HostBill, as usual, 2019 was another year of growth, product development and driving innovative changes. But it was also a special year for us – in 2019 we celebrated 10 years in business!

Keep on developing

In 2019 we kept our pace with delivering new releases at least once a week. In fact, this year we’ve published 67 releases so our customers could enjoy a pack of new features, bug fixes and new modules even more often than usual! In total, this year our team of developers fixed impressive number of 1079 bugs, added 478 new features and made 72 other changes! 

As always, this year we strived to keep on improving HostBill to fulfill all the needs of our customers for a comprehensive billing, automation and client management solution. In 2019 we’ve introduced many new, advanced and innovative features into HostBill. Ability to override billing & automation settings per client brought huge change into client management. Adding logic and conditions for custom automation tasks made HostBill automation even more powerful. Client portal notifications (also in bulk) gave a new and efficient way of communicating with customers. Free products feature allows to upsell and strengthen relationships with current customers. New tax feature – tax per product and line item enables to apply different tax rates for various products and services, which turns out to be especially useful for EU businesses. We also focused on improving product management, adding Account Metrics feature which allows to set limits of resource usage, monitor it and trigger certain actions upon exceeding the limits. Another new feature allowed to import to import all current prices of all available TLDs from domain registrars. Based on that functionality we’ve also added new function to HostBill: importing products from app/servers.

New modules

In 2019 we didn’t forget about expanding our integration portfolio. We launched 20 new provisioning modules giving our customers a chance to introduce new products and services to their clients and find new revenue stream. Our new integrations allow to sell SSL certificates (Realtime Register SSL, Namecheap SSL), Cloud and VPS Hosting (Hetzner Cloud, UpCloud, Virtuozzo Automator), Shared Hosting (ISP Config, Control Web Panel, VestaCP, Cyber Panel), backup (Rushfiles, CometBackup), various licenses (Immunify 360, Resello Microsfot CSP, iNTY Cascade), game and voice srevers (Mumble, Pterodactyl.io), VPN services (AD/LDAP provisioning) and website builders (Slimsite). Apart from new modules, we also kept on improving existing integrations. We added metered billing support to Plesk, DirectAdmin, cPanel and cPanel Manage2 modules.

Among 9 plugins added this year you can find two two-factor authentication plugins (Authy, U2F), notification plugins (SMS 77.io, ClickSend, SendInBlue), Client Active Directory / LDAP and simple but useful password generator widget. We’ve also released major upgrades to Colocation Manager and Support Fields modules.

The list of domain registrars supported by HostBill has also grown, since we’ve added 15 new integrations, with both direct and reseller registrars. We’ve also launched 16 new payment modules, what now makes HostBill support 100 payment gateways with multiple payment methods, to cater to the needs of customers all around the world.

Last but not least, this year we’ve introduced completely new, modern, fully responsive ‘2019′ client panel theme and order page.

What to expect next?

Having enjoyed another very successful year during 2019, all of us at HostBill are enthusiastic about continuing to develop and refine our product – ensuring that features and integrations requested by our customers are delivered in a timely manner, of high quality and finished to satisfaction. In 2020, we’re going to focus on new, more robust and transparent billing engine to give admin better control of recurring service prices. We’re also planning to release a refreshed client portal and we’re also working on improved domain and DNS management features. Besides, we want to keep on releasing new HostBill versions every week, with new features and integrations our clients are looking for. If you’re looking to have any integration or new feature added to HostBill – you can always drop us a hint – we’re always happy to hear our customers’ suggestions!

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2020 will be no different than 2019 in terms of HostBill releases! As usual, we’re going to start each week with a pack of new features!

Filter admin listings

In today’s release we’ve added the option to setup filter operators on numeric and date filters in admin listings. This way you can easier and faster find information you need, for example invoices older than X.

Point to custom mecached server host/port

By default HostBill uses file system to store its cache data. Primary use of cache in HostBill is performance/reduced page load times. If you plan to use HostBill in HA (High-availability) setup, you may want to consider using Memcache(d) as your cache driver in HostBill (which is default for HostBill installed with Enterprise installer). To find out more on how to configure HostBill to use Memcached for caching please refer to HostBill documentation.

DNS

This week we’re also adding new feature to DNS management. Enabling DNSSEC will now automatically update domain registry with DS/KEY records if related module has DNSSEC manage support.

OnApp 6 new client function

OnApp module has an extensive list of client function that can be managed by staff as you have full control over client area features access and appearance. New client function for OnApp Cloud v6 that can be toggled in product allows clients to change VM Hostname. For the full list of available client functions you can read related article in HostBill documentation.

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This week in HostBill we’re adding a new payment gateway: Checkout.fi and introducing new features to Private Products plugin and changed to Late Fee invoicing!

Checkout.fi payment gateway

Thanks to new integration you can now process your payments using Checkout.fi payment gateway! Checkout.fi is one of the leading internet based payment service providers in Finland, that proviced online payment tools and solutions for companies of all sizes. Checkout.fi enables to securely process credit card and bank account payments. With this payment module payments are processed offsite. Checkout.fi also supports recurring charges and easy one-click refunds! The gateway is free to all HostBill users – you can activate it in Plugins section in your admin area!

Private Products

Private Products module is simple in its concept, yet gives you new ways to sell your products. With this module you can sell certain products or services to a selected group of customers. The plugin allows you to hide products from general view and make them available only to specific clients. With today’s update you can now assign products not only to individual clients but also to client groups. This makes it a lot easier and faster to manage your special sales offers to certain customers!

Late fees

Among many billing and invoicing options in HostBill you can add “late fees” – a fee that client needs to pay X days after the due date for given service/product. The fee can be set either as a percentage of the order value or as a fix price, and it can be determined in product automation configuration. New option allows you to decide whether the late fee should be added as a line to original invoice or a separate invoice with the late fee should be issued. This can be specified in General Settings -> Billing section in your admin panel:

free Radius

FreeRADIUS is the most popular and the most widely deployed open source RADIUS server in the world. With HostBill FreeRadius module you can automatically provision user accounts in RADIUS and sell any RADIUS-Authenticated service, giving you countless possibilities. New option introduced this week to this module enables to use forms values as attribute values, allowing much more product flexibility!

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We’re happy to present new HostBill 2020 licenses! As 2019 brought many changes to HostBill software, especially a number of new integrations, we’re now presenting new HostBill editions. 

With HostBill, you can choose one of our four plans: Startup, Enterprise, Data Center and All Inclusive, that differ by the number and type of integrations included. The pricing of all licenses remains the same as last year, but we’re happy to announce we’re adding some new modules to each edition! HostBill 2020 licenses by default include new payment gateways, domain registrars and free plugins added to HostBill in 2019. Additionally, when buying HostBill Startup, Enterprise or Data Center Edition you can now choose one of 12 currently available SSL modules to add to your license!

HostBill Startup Edition

Startup Edition is perfect for small and new businesses. With this license for just $599 one time fee you get core HostBill features (automated billing and invoicing, hosting and domain automation, client management and support system), 10 support cases, 9 hosting integrations, +100 payment gateways, 46 domain registrars, +40 plugins, 2 client portal and 2 order pages.

HostBill Enterprise Edition

HostBill Enterprise Edition is an all-embracing solution to cater for the needs of businesses with diversified product and services portfolio. It’s perfect for cloud hosting, VPS and managed service providers, telcos and ISPs and more. Apart from modules included in Startup Edition, Enterprise license also contains Proxmox, OnApp, Openstack, Cloudstack, PowerDNS, SolusVM and vSphere as well as IP Address Manager. From now on HostBill Enterprise Edition also includes Virtualizor module. With this license you also get 15 support tickets.

HostBill Data Center Edition

HostBill Data Center Edition is aimed at Data Center industry, as it includes a range of modules designed specifically for data centres to improve the efficiency in managing the infrastructure. This license includes IP Address Manager, Inventory Manager and Colocation Manager – extremely rich-featured plugins for complex Datacenter management, as well as integrations with DCI Manager (a DCIM and dedicated server provisioning software), monitoring modules: Observium and Cacti to measure and bill for bandwidth usage, Ahsay Backup, R1 Softand and freeRadius modules. New addition to Data Center Edition is Acronis Bass module. Data Center Edition includes 20 support tickets.

HostBill All Inclusive

The most powerful All Inclusive license includes all available HostBill integrations: hosting modules, plugins, domain registrars, payment gateways and templates, making it the best value for money. Compared to 2019, All Inclusive 2020 contains 18 new provisioning modules, with total value  $1584 when purchased separately, 12 new premium domain registrar modules worth $1188 and 3 premium plugins worth $297. All Inclusive license comes with additional license for testing and 100 support tickets!

All HostBill licenses are white label and lifetime valid! Choose your license and buy it here.

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This year we’ve got a little treat for you! Each month we’ll release Deal of the Month – a special offer featuring discounts on selected modules and plugins.

We don’t want you to keep on waiting so we’re starting right now. Our first Deal Of the Month includes a 20% discount on one of HostBill’s most powerful and most popular modules: Multi-Brand. Now you can get it 20% off! To claim your discount use code HBMULTI2020 during checkout. The offer is valid until 30th January 2020.

Why use HostBill MultiBrand module?

HostBill Multi-brand module allows to handle unlimited brands to sell your products or services on one HostBill backend. This means you can use one HostBill license to manage multiple brands! With HostBill Multi-brand module each of your brands can use separate domain name, different order pages, have different support departments assigned to them and different product categories – yet all of them will be managed from single admin area. You can easily customize client area and invoice templates, emails and notifications sent to clients to fit the style of the selected brand. You can also set different settings for each brad: select client area languages, limit the choice of payment gateways or define plugins access. Managing different brands could not be easier!

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