It’s been a week – so time for another updrade from HostBill team!
Lets take a glimpse of today-released, all new, HostBill 3.1.4:

Further OnApp improvements

Our already great integration with OnApp Cloud just get better! Your client will now have access to new backup-related features, including:

Backup->Template conversion
If you offer cloud/vps backup space, you can now add them ability to convert their backups into re-usable OS Templates from HostBill interface with just few mouse-cliks – simple as that!

Backup Schedule
If you enable Schedules in related OnApp user roles your clients will see new option in their clientarea interface – Schedule Backup. With this option your customers will be able to manage their automated backup schedules, allowing them to create daily/weekly/monthly/yearly backups.

New ticket department permissions

Now you can use additional settings in your Ticket departments including:
- Allowing staff member to reply using email
- Prevent customers from closing ticket opened by staff member
- Prevent customers from re-open ticket closed by staff member

Of course there is lot more in new version For full list of changes/fixes go to hostbillapp.com/changelog/

I’d like to take the opportunity and wish our valued customers and friends Happy Holidays and a New Year from HostBill team. Its been amazing year for us, full of great integrations, major HostBill improvements and number of great new customers to work with.
See you in 2012!

What we’ve recently been up to? Its been a while since last post here, in case you haven’t noticed already we’re posting updates and plugins more often on our second blog – extras.hostbillapp.com. So whats new in HostBill?

1. HostBill 3.0 has been released few days ago, featuring major domain management updates
2. We’ve introduced OnApp:LoadBalancers integration as only billing system on the market!
3. Security has been significantly improved + we’ve added built-in security manager
4. Languages are no longer kept in database, you can easily manage them through Admin: Language manager
5. I could go on like this for a long time…

…but why not develop something now? OK!

Introducing: Direct Order Link Plugin

If you’re using HostBill already you probably know that you can use Direct order link for services, so client can add product to cart without selecting one from list by visiting certain URL. Now with Direct Order Links plugin you can do much more! How to use it:

- Log in as administrator & activate Direct Order Link plugin

- While logged in, visit your clientarea->cart

- select product, configure it the way you want (add addons, set forms elements, set values, billing cycles, discounts etc.)

- click on Generate Now

- you will receive direct order link that will contain your current cart configuration – send it to customer for rapid checkout process!

See how it works:

…has just been released. Make sure to check out new features

Next version of HostBill is coming up and we’ve decided to show you a little sneak preview of what you can expect.

Click on image below to open video.

In this video you’ll be able to see how easy is to start selling SSL Certificates from Enom using HostBill – all certificates can be automatically configured and ready to sell with your reseller prices under 40 seconds!

Stay tuned for next updates – version 2.2 will be released later today! What to expect from new version? Major cPanel focus! Just take a look how your shared hosting client section might look like:

What else to expect? Mmake sure to check http://extras.hostbillapp.com/ as using it we will inform you about new contributions for HostBill – there are just dozens of tasks in hosting industry that we’re going to automate with HostBill! Make sure to subscribe for future updates.

It’s been 3 hard working weeks since last version was announced and its about time to release brand new, shiny HostBill version 2.1!

Don’t waste time and check out what’s its all about:

Quick Tour: http://hostbillapp.com/2/index2.1.html

Release Info: http://forum.hostbillapp.com/showthread.php?t=554

Order Now: http://hostbillapp.com/order/

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New Order Pages:
1. Dedicated Servers – Please stop looking like a company from 1999. Please STOP!
2. Collocation – Allow clients to customize Rack Unit, Amps, Network Port and more.
3. Bulk domain registration – Add several domains to a single order.
4. OnApp – First commercial Cloud platform. Now you can compete with big companies too!
5. One Step Order Page – Quick and attractive order page.

See all details at: http://hostbillapp.com/2/index.html

Improvements:
New Domain Management, Pricing Groups
Client Area – New look and feel
Email templates – new look and great functionality
…and much much more!
See Demo of new version: http://demo.hostbillapp.com

New Domain Registrars:
NicDirect
RegDom
IntaServe
dotTK
co.za registrar

New Hosting Modules:
VMWare
ResellerClub Hosting
OnApp

New Payment Modules:
Dineromail
iDeal
USA ePay
iTransact
Amazon Payment
SMSWS

It’s a matter of single days now until the next version of HostBill is released. With this version we will introduce an add-on especially for hosting company owners. If you own or resell a few dedicated servers spread across different collocations, you probably know the pain of managing contacts for them, or going through dozens of emails to find login details or hardware specifications. Well, worry no more, as now you can have all that information in one place – in HostBill!

With our add-on you’ll be able to manage collocations where you host your servers, contacts to them, and keep information about racks, servers, switches, labels etc. Just take a look at the screenshots:

HostBill 1.2.6 coming up – release is scheduled on tommorow, so exactly after two weeks from previous release. I think we will win our own time-challange, because we’ve done A LOT during this two weeks of development.

I’d like to share with you another new exciting HostBill feature – OS Template choose for clients. This is dedicated for VPS hosts who wants to fully automate their business – VPS can now be automatically created with OS template that client picked during order. But the most amazing part is that you as administrator dont need to type in every offered template by hand – just click “Get values from server” and HostBill will fetch all available templates for you automatically! No more complex custom fields, and updating them everytime new OS arrives.

Add this to our other new feature – daily / weekly billing, sit back, relax and enjoy new signups – VPS Hosting rocks!

Admin area – product configuration.

Clientarea – OS available to pick during order

Free integrated Live Chat, Affiliates system, Downloads support, Servers monitor, Multilanguage Admin area, Graphical system statistics – these are just few features that HostBill 1.2.0 can offer for you! Go ahead and grab fresh copy from clientarea – if you dont have your license already remember that you can try out HostBill for 3 months free!

Visit our online demo and experience HostBill in Spanish, try out live chat features, and find out if affiliates system can
make your hosting grow! Don’t forget to leave feedback, so together we can make HostBill best billing/support software
for you, your clients and your staff. For full release information visit our forums at: http://forum.hostbillapp.com/showthread.php?t=98