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Blesta

Mission control for your hosting business

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Blesta is a self-hosted billing, provisioning and support platform for hosting companies, handling the customer lifecycle from order through recurring invoicing, account creation and support tickets. It installs on your own server with a single command, which starts a 30-day free trial of the full product automatically.

Core modules cover billing and payments (recurring and pro forma invoices, proration, taxes, dunning, 30+ gateways), automation and provisioning (40+ modules for cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, VirtFusion and others), orders and checkout with anti-fraud screening, domains, and a support suite with tickets, knowledge base and email piping. Blesta AI, new in 6.0, handles ticket triage and replies, content generation and reporting through plain-English rules. A REST API, module and plugin SDKs, and importers for WHMCS and ClientExec support extension. Integrations include 78 first-party modules across control panels, registrars, gateways and anti-fraud providers.

It is aimed at hosting providers and related businesses wanting to run billing on their own infrastructure. Licenses are offered as monthly or one-time owned plans in Branded, Unbranded and Flex editions, with unlimited clients and staff; optional paid add-ons cover additional companies and Blesta AI. A 30-day trial requires no account or card.

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