PD Notes for Blesta

PD Notes turns Blesta's single plain notes box into a proper notes system for your support and billing team. Attach rich notes to a client, a service or a domain, pin and colour the important ones, set a due date so a follow-up chases you instead of the other way round, and drop reusable templates into a new note in one click. It is free, with every feature included.

It is built for hosting companies where more than one person talks to the same customer, and where "I'll deal with it later" keeps turning into a lost renewal or an unanswered migration.

Why hosts choose PD Notes

Notes where the context is. Notes attach to a client, a service or a domain, and each client's admin profile shows their notes together with their services' and domains', with Add note pre-filled. A colleague opening the account sees the history straight away.

Follow-ups that cannot slip. Give a note a due date and an assignee. The Reminders tab lists everything due, overdue highlighted, and each reminder is emailed once when it falls due, to its assignee, to your fallback addresses or to every active admin if there is no assignee.

Quiet when you want it. Receive each reminder as it falls due, or as one daily digest per person. Turning emails off stops only the emails: the Reminders tab still shows what is due.

Say it once. Note templates pre-fill new notes: an incident follow-up, a renewal chase, an onboarding call.

Safe by default. Notes are staff-only until you decide otherwise. Domain notes are never shown to or emailed to the client. HTML typed into a note is shown as text and never run.

Tell the customer without a ticket. When a note is worth sharing, email it to the client straight from the note, or send a colleague a copy with a short message. The note records when it was last shared, so nobody sends it twice by accident.

Nothing extra to run. Reminders use the cron your Blesta already runs. Nothing is metered, and the module is free and never lapses.

How it works

1. Install PD Notes from PD Modules. It adds a Notes section to your admin and a PD Notes panel on each client's profile.
2. Write a note. Choose the client, service or domain, add a title and Markdown body, then pick a colour, tags and, if needed, a due date and assignee.
3. Let reminders do the chasing. Due items appear on the Reminders tab and arrive by email.
4. Close the loop. Snooze a reminder for a week, or mark it done to drop it off the dashboard.

What you get in Blesta

Writing notes

• Markdown bodies with headings, lists, bold, italics, code and links, rendered safely
• Pin a note to the top, colour it from a fixed palette (General, Info, VIP, Watch, At-risk, Billing) and tag it
• An All Notes view to search and filter every note by text, scope, colour or tag
• Templates for the messages you write every week, picked from the All Notes tab

Reminders

• A Reminders tab with everything due now, overdue highlighted, and what is coming
• Snooze pushes a reminder back a week and re-arms its email; Done removes it from the dashboard
• Changing a reminder's date re-arms it so it emails again on the new date
• A reminder with no assignee goes to your fallback addresses, or to all active admins when there are none
• Reminder emails need no extra cron: the cron your install already runs sends them
• A default lead time pre-fills new reminder dates that many days ahead (0 for none)
• A reminder is emailed once: overlapping cron runs cannot send it twice, and a failed send is retried on the next run
• Daily digest option, with fallback recipients for reminders that have no assignee

Sharing a note

• Email it to the client: sends the note through an editable "PD Notes Shared Note" email template and makes it visible to them
• Email it to a colleague: sends another admin a copy with an optional message
• A note shows when it was last shared with the client, so it is not sent twice by accident

Day to day

• Notes you do not mark visible stay internal, so the same note can hold both the history your team needs and the one message the customer should see
• The assistant tools, with PD MCP Hub, read notes for a client, service or domain
• Uninstalling removes the notes tables and settings; the shared-note email template is kept

What your customers get

• Notes you choose to show them. Notes are staff-only by default and showing notes to clients is off until you enable it. A note marked visible appears read-only, to that client only: client notes and service notes on their home page, with a service note shown under its service
• A message they can keep. "Email it to the client" sends the note by email from your own template
• While the master switch is off, no note is shown to any client, including notes already marked visible

Free for good

PD Notes is free, includes every feature and never lapses. There is no paid tier and nothing to upgrade to.

Requirements

• Blesta 6 or later on PHP 8.2 or later, with the ionCube Loader
• PD Modules, the free control panel every PD module installs into