ISPConfig – Hosting Control Panel

The ISPConfig Billing Module 1.1 for ISPConfig 3.0.4 has been released. The Billing Module is an extension for ISPConfig 3 to add billing and invoicing capabilities to the ISPConfig 3 Control Panel. The Billing Module is tightly integrated into ISPConfig and can be accessed from within the ISPConfig 3 administrator login.

What’s new in Billing Module version 1.1?

• New billing dashboard with revenue overview.
• Invoices and invoice drafts are now in separate lists.
• Added templates for PDF invoices.
• The PDF template creation script has been rewritten to make it clearer and easier to customize.
• Full UTF-8 support for PDF files.
• Added proforma invoices.
• Added Remote-API functions to integrate the invoice module with external applications.

Features

• Create invoices by invoice editor.
• Automatically create invoices based on recurring items / subscriptions (e.g. domains, websites, support contracts, etc.).
• Save invoices as PDF file.
• Creation of credits.
• Creation of proforma Invoices.
• Sending invoices via email.
• Sending payment reminders via email.
• Item templates
• Email templates
• Invoice templates for PDF invoices
• Support for multiple clients / companies with separate account number ranges.
• Providing client invoices in the ISPConfig login.
• Expansion of client attitudes from ISPConfig to specific details such as bill payment, e-mail of the billing and payment gateway.
• Automatic assignment of account numbers.
• Creating recurring items based on the ISPConfig client templates.
• The Billing Module is integrated in ISPConfig and ISPConfig can be accessed via the administrator login.
• The Billing Module is delivered in source code, so that individual adjustments are possible.
• Support for PayPal payments.
• Dashboard plugin to display invoices in the client login.
• External payment link landing page for automated payments from customers.
• Remote-API functions to integrate the invoice module with external applications.

Please visit ispconfig.org for details and test the ISPConfig 3 Billing Module in the online demo:

http://www.ispconfig.org/ispconfig-3/ispconfig-3-billing-module/

ISPConfig 3.0.4 is available for download. This release is a major update and introduces new functions like:

• Virtual server management module
• Full support for Nginx webserver
• Mailman mailinglist management
• IPv6 support
• FAQ section in Help module
• Website folder protection
• Assign IP addresses to clients
• SNI support for Apache/nginx SSL certificate
• New remote-API documentation and example scripts for all functions
• Added support for key based SSH logins

Please see the changelog section below for a complete list of features and bugfixes.

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*** New! The ISPConfig 3 manual is now available! ***

Version 1.3 for ISPConfig >= 3.0.4 (Date: 10/25/2011)
Author: Falko Timme

333 pages

The manual can be downloaded from these two links:

http://www.ispconfig.org/ispconfig-3/ispconfig-3-manual/
http://www.howtoforge.com/download-the-ispconfig-3-manual
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Download

The software can be downloaded here:

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/ispconfig/ISPConfig-3.0.4.tar.gz?use_mirror=

Changelog

http://bugtracker.ispconfig.org/index.php?do=index&tasks=&project=3&due=29&status[]=

Known Issues

Please take a look at the bugtracker:

http://bugtracker.ispconfig.org

BUG Reporting

Please report bugs to the ISPConfig bugtracking system:

http://bugtracker.ispconfig.org

Supported Linux Distributions

- Debian Etch (4.0) – Squeeze (6.0)
- Ubuntu 7.10 – 11.10
- OpenSuSE 11 – 11.4
- CentOS 5.2 – 6.0
- Fedora 9 – 15

Installation

The installation instructions for ISPConfig can be found here:

http://www.ispconfig.org/ispconfig-3/documentation/

or in the text files (named INSTALL_*.txt) which are inside the docs folder of the .tar.gz file.

Update

To update existing ISPConfig 3 installations, run this command on the shell:

ispconfig_update.sh

Select “stable” as the update resource. The script will check if an updated version of ISPConfig 3 is available and then download the tar.gz and start the setup script.

Detailed instructions for making a backup before you update can be found here:

http://www.faqforge.com/linux/controlpanels/ispconfig3/how-to-update-ispconfig-3/

If the ISPConfig version on your server does not have this script yet, follow the manual update instructions below.

Manual update instructions

cd /tmp
wget http://www.ispconfig.org/downloads/ISPConfig-3-stable.tar.gz
tar xvfz ISPConfig-3-stable.tar.gz
cd ispconfig3_install/install
php -q update.php