Custom Blesta Module Development
On This Page
- Why Custom Blesta Module Development
- What We Build For Blesta
- Blesta Plugins We’ve Already Shipped
- How A Project Works
- How We Build It
- Blesta Module Or Plugin: Which Do You Need?
- Common Blesta Module Development Projects
- What To Send With Your Quote Request
- Support After Launch
- FAQs
Why Custom Blesta Module Development
Blesta is a great billing platform with clean, readable code. That makes it easy to extend, but only if you know where everything lives.
Most hosts hit the same wall. The feature they need isn’t on the Marketplace, or the module they bought years ago stopped working after a PHP upgrade.
That’s where Blesta module development comes in. We build against Blesta‘s own plugin, module and gateway system, so your custom code survives Blesta updates instead of fighting them.
We’ve run a hosting business since 2005. We know what a billing system has to do on a busy Monday morning, not just in a demo.
What We Build For Blesta
Server & Provisioning Modules
Plugins & Client Area Tools
Payment Gateways
Domain Registrar Modules
Events & Integrations
Fixes, Upgrades & Ports
Blesta Plugins We’ve Already Shipped
The best way to judge a Blesta module development team is to look at what they’ve built. These are our own Blesta products, used by real hosting companies.
- Client Forum for Blesta: a support forum inside the client portal with single sign-on, moderation, tags, reports and Slack/Discord alerts. Free and Pro versions on the Blesta Marketplace.
- Sidekick for AMP: a server module that sells and provisions CubeCoders AMP game servers straight from Blesta.
- Caddie for Blesta: 31 website, DNS, email and monitoring tools inside the client area.
- Trial Products and Affiliates Extended: plugins that add free trials and a stronger affiliate program to Blesta.
See them all on our Blesta plugins page.
How A Blesta Module Development Project Works
- Tell us the problem. What should happen, who uses it, and what you do today without it.
- We scope it. You get a written scope, a fixed quote and a realistic delivery date before any work starts.
- We build and test it. All work is done and tested on our own Blesta install, not on your live site.
- You review it. Try it on a staging copy or your own test install and ask for changes.
- Go live. We help you install it, and bugs found after launch are fixed free.
How We Build It
Every Blesta module development project we take on follows the same rules:
- Blesta’s way. Native plugins, modules and gateways using Blesta’s own models, events, language files and permissions, so updates don’t break them.
- Current PHP. Built and tested for PHP 8.3 and 8.4.
- Secure by default. Form tokens on every action, escaped output, staff permission checks and prepared database queries. Our code is security-monitored.
- Looks like Blesta. Your new screens match the Blesta admin and client portal, in light and dark mode.
- Your code. You get the full source code for work built just for you.
- Translatable. Every word on screen lives in a language file, ready for other languages.
Blesta Module Or Plugin: Which Do You Need?
Blesta splits extensions into three types. Picking the right one is the first decision in any Blesta module development project, because it decides where your code lives and what it can do.
- Modules are tied to the services you sell. A module runs when a service is added, suspended, unsuspended, upgraded or cancelled, and it shows service details to the client. Pick a module when you sell something that has to be set up somewhere else, like a hosting account, a VPS, a game server or a software license.
- Plugins add features to Blesta itself. They can add admin pages, client pages, widgets, cron tasks, email templates and permissions. Pick a plugin when you want a new tool, like a forum, a report or a free trial system.
- Gateways take payments. Merchant gateways take card details on your site, and non-merchant gateways send the customer to the payment company and listen for the result.
Not sure which one fits? That’s normal. Tell us what you want to happen and we’ll recommend the right type in your quote. Some projects need two, like a module to set up the service plus a plugin for the admin reports.
Common Blesta Module Development Projects
Every host is different, but most requests we see fall into a few groups.
- A control panel or platform Blesta doesn’t support. A new VPS platform, a game server panel or your own internal API. A provisioning module removes the manual setup after each order.
- A payment method your customers keep asking for. A regional payment company, a crypto processor or a bank transfer flow with automatic matching.
- Moving from WHMCS. You switched to Blesta but still need a tool you had in WHMCS. Blesta module development lets you keep the workflow without staying on WHMCS.
- An old module that stopped working. A module written years ago that broke after a PHP or Blesta upgrade, often with the original developer long gone.
- Staff tools. Custom reports, admin widgets, automatic ticket routing or alerts to Slack and Discord.
What To Send With Your Quote Request
The more we know up front, the faster and more accurate your quote. You don’t need a technical spec. Plain answers to these questions are enough:
- What should happen, step by step, from the customer’s point of view?
- Which outside system does it talk to? Send a link to its API documentation if it has one.
- Which Blesta version and PHP version are you running?
- Who uses it: your staff, your customers, or both?
- Is there a deadline, like a product launch?
If you already have a module that needs fixing, send the files too, as long as they aren’t encoded.
Support After Launch
Good Blesta module development doesn’t stop on launch day. Bugs found after launch are fixed free. When Blesta or PHP releases a big update, we check our work against it, and we can update your module if anything it relies on has changed.
Need changes later, like a new feature or a second server type? Just ask. Because we built it, we already know the code, so small changes are quick.
Ready to talk about your Blesta module development project? Send us the details and we’ll get back to you with a free quote.
