SolidState is a web-based billing solution created for web hosting companies to offer efficient customer management services.
SolidState is a web-based Customer Management and Billing solution that targets Web Hosting companies. Developed in PHP, it uses MySQL as the backend database. It is licensed under the GPL, which means that the source code is available for free, and allows you to modify, improve, secure, and submit your changes back to the project.
With Solid-State, you can efficiently manage your customer base through features such as tracking active, pending, and inactive accounts, creating and tracking invoices that can be printed or emailed to your customers, specifying your own recurring web hosting and domain registration services, and setting up one-time purchases, such as add-on services or special fees. Moreover, you can register domains through a reseller API, if supported (currently Directi/Reseller Club only).
SolidState was started by John Diamond in November 2005 and sponsored by Solid Internet Systems, Inc. The current and first public release is v0.2. The goal of this project is to offer a complete open source alternative to the existing commercial solutions for web host customer management. Although the current state of the project might not be as feature-rich as its commercial counterparts, it is hoped that many will contribute their skills to produce a more affordable, useful, secure, and intuitive solution for the entire Web Hosting industry.
Installation is relatively easy, and you can find the most up-to-date installation documentation on the Solid-State Homepage. It involves copying the source tree to your web root directory, creating a new MySQL database, granting privileges for the solidstate database, activating your new privileges, importing the Solid-State DB scheme, and configuring the application.conf file to set your company name and email address, configure your database, name servers, and any modules with your company-specific information.
Once you have installed SolidState, you can log in as an admin with password: temp, and start efficiently managing your web hosting business.
The latest release of SolidState comes with new features and bug fixes, including a remote file inclusion vulnerability fixed in most class files, translations in French and Bosnian for the order interface, a bug fix preventing services that recur once a month from showing up on invoices, a check added to the "generate invoice" page, preventing invoices from being generated for inactive or non-billable accounts, and a bug fix preventing order line-items from being executed on PHP 4 installs.
With Solid-State, you can efficiently manage your customer base through features such as tracking active, pending, and inactive accounts, creating and tracking invoices that can be printed or emailed to your customers, specifying your own recurring web hosting and domain registration services, and setting up one-time purchases, such as add-on services or special fees. Moreover, you can register domains through a reseller API, if supported (currently Directi/Reseller Club only).
SolidState was started by John Diamond in November 2005 and sponsored by Solid Internet Systems, Inc. The current and first public release is v0.2. The goal of this project is to offer a complete open source alternative to the existing commercial solutions for web host customer management. Although the current state of the project might not be as feature-rich as its commercial counterparts, it is hoped that many will contribute their skills to produce a more affordable, useful, secure, and intuitive solution for the entire Web Hosting industry.
Installation is relatively easy, and you can find the most up-to-date installation documentation on the Solid-State Homepage. It involves copying the source tree to your web root directory, creating a new MySQL database, granting privileges for the solidstate database, activating your new privileges, importing the Solid-State DB scheme, and configuring the application.conf file to set your company name and email address, configure your database, name servers, and any modules with your company-specific information.
Once you have installed SolidState, you can log in as an admin with password: temp, and start efficiently managing your web hosting business.
The latest release of SolidState comes with new features and bug fixes, including a remote file inclusion vulnerability fixed in most class files, translations in French and Bosnian for the order interface, a bug fix preventing services that recur once a month from showing up on invoices, a check added to the "generate invoice" page, preventing invoices from being generated for inactive or non-billable accounts, and a bug fix preventing order line-items from being executed on PHP 4 installs.
What's New
Version 0.4.1: N/A