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HostBill 3.6.0 release

By admin
on Jun 21, 2012
in New Versions

HostBill 3.6.0 is now available for download. Take a 5 min tour and learn what’s new in HostBill:

Bandwidth & Overage Billing
You can now measure bandwidth utilization for your Colocation/Dedicated customers, display graphs from Cacti, bill for overages using Total Transfer or 95th Percentile method.
Learn more at: http://hostbillapp.com/features/colocation.php

Remote Reboots trough PDU
Allow your clients to reboot their Dedicated servers directly from your client area! Staff members can assign PDU ports with SNMP support, turn them off/on directly from HostBill interface.
Learn more at: http://hostbillapp.com/features/colocation.php

Switch/Port control over SNMP/Telnet
When invoice for client’s dedicated server/colocation is due HostBill can automatically disable client’s port in switch using SNMP or Telnet. Staff member can assign switch interfaces, monitor link status through HostBill interface
Learn more at: http://hostbillapp.com/features/colocation.php

Reverse DNS management
IPAM module now allows for automated rDNS management – your client can edit rDNS records on your PowerDNS server directly from client area – no more support tickets or manual zone updates!
Learn more at: http://hostbillapp.com/features/colocation.php

New Admin area Order manager
Placing an order from admin area is now more powerful. Admin can create order for multiple products/services at once, configure forms, enable discounts, save drafts for later use & more.

New OrderPage: 3 plans comparison
Easy to configure comparison of 3 hosting packages with features listing:

Full changelog: http://hostbillapp.com/changelog/

HostBill 3.5.0 Release

By admin
on Jun 07, 2012
in Modules, New Versions

HostBill 3.5.0 is now available! Take a 5-minutes tour of new HostBill features:

Proxmox VE integration:
Now you can build cloud/vps platform on top of Proxmox + HostBill – with rich client area integration & multiple options!
Learn more at: http://hostbillapp.com/features/apps/proxmox.html

OnApp DNS integration:
Start managed DNS hosting or use OnApp Anycast DNS as a backend for your clients’ domains – fully automated through HostBill.
Learn more at: http://hostbillapp.com/features/apps/onappdns.html

Improved DNS management:
You can now use your own DNS servers and offer your clients ability to manage their domain DNS records, with automated zones creation on: cPanel DNS, PowerDNS & OnApp

TheSSLStore.com integration:
By popular demand – we’re introducing fully automated SSL Certificate provisioning trough The SSL Store platform.
Learn more at: http://hostbillapp.com/features/apps/thesslstore.html

Developers: new DevKit & documentation:
Creating modules for HostBill just get simpler & more powerful! Visit our new developer corner at http://dev.hostbillapp.com/ and learn how to introduce metered billing, cron function, hooks, widgets, client interface & much more to your modules!

Full changelog: http://hostbillapp.com/changelog/

Dont forget to check our two new order pages:

HostBill 3.4.1 Release – introducing ticket sharing

By admin
on May 05, 2012
in New Versions

HostBill is now compliant with NetworkedHelpdesk.org guidelines – an initiative that allows you to connect multiple communication streams together to provide great customer experience. You can now connect multiple HostBill installations to work with other brands or branches in your company on support issues. You can also outsource your support easily to other companies – share your tickets!

You can connect one or more HostBills to work on your tickets
Create training environment easily, without giving access to the main brand data to new employees
Connect other help desks in your company
Secure – shared ticket notifications are sent by HostBill master – source for ticket share
Easy to share – just click More actions->Share with #your_tag_name
Easy to aggregate – shared tickets are marked by ticket tag. Remove tag = remove share

Learn more about ticket sharing at http://hostbillapp.com/features/apps/support-system.html

Full changelog:
hostbillapp.com/changelog/

Order/ free trial:
hostbillapp.com/order/

HostBill 3.4.0 released – introducing new clientarea theme

By admin
on Apr 18, 2012
in New Versions

We’re happy to announce release of a brand new HostBill 3.4.0.
This time we’ve spent countless hours in client section of HostBill, and new client theme – “NextGen” – is result of this work.

Take a tour of new client area at https://hostbillapp.com/features/client-portals/nextgen_clean/

If you’re used to old client area theme (“default”) – don’t worry, it’s also included in this release 😉

Full changelog:
hostbillapp.com/changelog/

Install/upgrade:
https://hostbill.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DOCS/pages/491526/HostBill+Install+Upgrade

Order/ free trial:
hostbillapp.com/order/

HostBill 3.2.6 Release

By admin
on Apr 02, 2012
in Modules, New Versions

In a glance: New Orderpage, Affiliate Vouchers, Improved Order manager & much more!

We’re happy to announce that HostBill version 3.2.6 has just been released!
This time with minor iteration come major improvements!

Introducing: Affiliate Vouchers and Commission Plans

Now you can set different commission rates for different products & billing cycles. Additionally your affiliates will be able to generate coupon codes (vouchers) that will give discount to referred signups.
Learn more at: https://hostbillapp.com/feature/affiliate-system/

New OrderPage: Bootstrap Sliders

You will love new HostBill order page! Built with OnApp and Cloudstack in mind this orderpage will allow your clients to adjust their basic vps/cloud details easily during order.

Improved order processing

Now you can define which steps of order processing should be automated, and which require staff review.
Staff members get detailed information about order progress

Improved Credit Card management

Now selected Credit Cards processing modules support separated authorization and capture, which will give your staff additional opportunity to perform fraud check before capturing payment. Client is now prompted to provide his credit card during order, to reduce steps necessary to complete it.

Full changelog:
hostbillapp.com/changelog/

Install/upgrade:
https://hostbill.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DOCS/pages/491526/HostBill+Install+Upgrade

Order/ free trial:
hostbillapp.com/order/

HostBill 3.2.4 Released

By admin
on Mar 12, 2012
in Modules, New Versions

Cloudstack and XenServer integrations – brand new HostBill is here!

What’s new in HostBill?

CloudStack – build your cloud hosting on top of CloudStack infrastructure and automated billing with HostBill – fully featured client area and multiple provisioning possibilities – learn more at: http://hostbillapp.com/features/apps/cloudstack.html

Citrix XenServer – Automated VM provisioning on popular XenServer hypervisor with HostBill http://hostbillapp.com/features/apps/xenserver.html

OnApp CDN Metered Billing – You can now sell CDN service with Pay-as-you-go model – clients will pay only for CDN traffic consumed http://hostbillapp.com/features/apps/onappcdn.html

And much more, including Coupon code upgrades, Client area IP restrictions and ticketing system improvements.

Full changelog:
hostbillapp.com/changelog/

Install/upgrade:
https://hostbill.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DOCS/pages/491526/HostBill+Install+Upgrade

Order/ free trial:
hostbillapp.com/order/

HostBill 3.2.1 – Introducing OnApp Reseller

By admin
on Feb 09, 2012
in New Versions

New HostBill version has just been released!
If you’re using OnApp you can now offer reseller program thanks to our OnApp Reseller module – we can build dedicated custom module for you that will allow your reseller to use it on your cloud only, to sell VPS packages he will define in his HostBill.

Learn more about OnApp Reseller at: http://hostbillapp.com/features/apps/onappreseller.html

Another exciting new feature is ticket tags – watch them in action at http://hostbillapp.com/features/apps/support-system.html

Full changelog:
hostbillapp.com/changelog/

Install/upgrade:
https://hostbill.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DOCS/pages/491526/HostBill+Install+Upgrade

Order/ free trial:
hostbillapp.com/order/

HostBill 3.2.0 is out – Introducing New Live Chat

By admin
on Jan 26, 2012
in New Versions

We’ve been working lately on major improvements of our built-in live chat – and it’s finally out!

Quick list of what’s new in 3.2.0:
– Live Chat with Real-Time visitor tracking, invitations, GeoIP & more – https://hostbillapp.com/feature/livechat-overview/
– Domain suggestion plugin for OpenSRS – learn more
– New orderpage – full screen, one-step order – learn more

New version preview:
http://hostbillapp.com/2/index3.2.0.html

Full changelog:
hostbillapp.com/changelog/

Install/upgrade:
https://hostbill.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DOCS/pages/491526/HostBill+Install+Upgrade

Order/ free trial:
hostbillapp.com/order/