pbobp (free software billing panel)

perennate

We are currently developing a billing panel, pbobp, intended to eventually replace our WHMCS installation. pbobp is released as free (as in freedom) software under the GNU GPL v3. Currently it's in alpha stage, with it being generally usable but still missing a few key features. In particular it supports ticketing, invoices (with PayPal/CoinBase payments), product definition with groups/configurable fields/currencies (includes basic SolusVM module), shopping cart, automatic service activation/inactivation. Still missing product add-ons, WHMCS importation (username/password import is working; a plugin is needed if you don't want to force password reset, to support the password validation for WHMCS password type), invoice PDF.

The default template is a basic bootstrap layout. A plugin interface is working but needs more callable functions. A few things are defined as plugin interfaces: password storage, service interfaces, payment interfaces, captcha.

It is coded in PHP with modular design, might rewrite parts to some MVC framework. PDO is used for SQL backend.

If you're interested, see https://pbobp.lunanode.com/

serverian

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0xdragon

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enitan092

ME ME ME

iSky

Wanna too ^^

perennate

Updated OP with link.

perennate

Well, not sure how a general script to import services should work since each pbobp user (i.e., service provider) will have different products and options that they want to convert from/to.

perennate

Oh, apparently the repository wasn't updated recently, I've updated it and will look into why it isn't updating automatically.

Edit: well, I set up cron to do git update-server-info so should work now

jar

Well done! Some talk, you do!

rmlhhd

Do you have any screenshots of the software in action?

perennate

@rmlhhd said:
Do you have any screenshots of the software in action?

Ok -- https://pbobp.lunanode.com/screenshots/

It's still alpha.

rmlhhd

@perennate said:
It's still alpha.

Thanks

AnthonySmith

Nice one, one of the main things that is usually missing when people write these is the WHMCS import facility, I suspect and remotely functional panel with a lot of effort placed on a seamless import would absolutely dominate and destroy WHMCS.

jar

@AnthonySmith said:
Nice one, one of the main things that is usually missing when people write these is the WHMCS import facility, I suspect and remotely functional panel with a lot of effort placed on a seamless import would absolutely dominate and destroy WHMCS.

I'd settle for just making them sweat a little

Everyone needs good competition to keep them in line.

AnthonySmith

I think they will sweat a lot more if people can simply click, 'import WHMCS database' [Upload] select modules then map a few fields and be done. they will lose 5 - 10% after every new exploit imo.

Neoon

I gonna test it, thanks.

Kadar

Any chance for a virtualizor module?

perennate

@Kadar said:
Any chance for a virtualizor module?

Well, I added feature request for it.

Kadar

Thanks! @perennate

perennate

The import_whmcs.php script now supports importing users, products, services, configfields, and configoptions. Haven't made many updates to the rest of pbobp though recently.

comeback

I would like to translate it into French?

Is it easy to translate?

perennate

@comeback There are separate language files in the language directory. Each plugin also has it's own language file though. I'd wait until first beta is released, since there aren't really descriptions for pages yet but that's something that ought to be added. Thanks.

BuyCPanel_Alex

Just a quick suggestion, I would change the name for better SEO, try Googling "pbobp". But other than that it looks great!

Makkesk8

hopefully this wont be worse than WHMCS.

ultimatehostings

@perennate

You should list server side requirements as that will ease the installation process.

perennate

@ultimatehostings said:
perennate

You should list server side requirements as that will ease the installation process.

The INSTALL file covers most of it

• MySQL
• PHP >= 5.4
• mcrypt library for PHP
• OpenSSL linked with PHP recommended for random number generation

Also PDO extension, Mail_SMTP if you want to send through SMTP (instead of PHP mail function), probably some others.

JohnRoe

is there anyone installed it?? can give me screenshot?? or the link to demo?

perennate

I posted some screenshots earlier -- https://pbobp.lunanode.com/screenshots/

There isn't a demo.

Neoon

@perennate there are some erros in your sql files, i can't import some sql files.

Demo: http://46.22.208.219/pbobp/index.php but seems like some missing sql files broken register.

Jeffrey

Very nice!

perennate

@Infinity580 said:
perennate there are some erros in your sql files, i can't import some sql files.

Demo: http://46.22.208.219/pbobp/index.php but seems like some missing sql files broken register.

It seems like your SQL engine is cutting off the comment for the configuration because of the semicolon. That is strange;

mysql -u root -p pbobp < `cat sql/schema.sql sql/data_config.sql`

seems to work though. Anyway, you can try getting rid of the license information at the top of the SQL.