AShop V cPanel Addon. Run your own eCommerce hosting service!

Integrates AShop V with the cPanel hosting control panel
This is an addon for AShop V that turns the Shopping Mall into a full fledged ecommerce hosting, where vendors will get a complete installation of the free ASHop GPL rather than just a subshop of your mall. It connects AShop V with the cPanel hosting control panel on your server to automatically install shopping carts when vendors sign up and pay for your service. Vendors will still be added to your Shopping Mall list for central promotion through your main website, but their shopping cart will be installed on a subdomain of your site.

Note that this requires an AShop V license, sold separately, and access to a server with the cPanel hosting control panel. You can usually get cPanel as part of the deal when you rent a dedicated server or a VPS from a hosting service. It can also be bought directly from the makers of the cPanel software if you want to run your own server in-house.

Easy setup
Just enter the cPanel API credentials for your server on the cPanel configuration page in the AShop V admin panel, set the fees (setup and/or monthly) for your service and new shopping carts will be automatically created for each new vendor that signs up with your Shopping Mall. Their shopping carts will be installed on subdomains of your website. For example, if you run a site with the domain: myspecialashop.com, vendors who sign up with your service could get their own shopping carts on: clothesshop.myspecialashop.com, superstore.myspecialashop.com and so on. Their shops will be listed in your mall along with links to their affiliate program for promotion and you can still use your own AShop V shopping cart to sell other products, for example web design services.

Each new vendor who signs up will be provided with the login details, including ftp login, for their new shopping cart automatically through email sent by the software. You can make their shopping carts install directly when they sign up and pay for the service or when you approve them.

Customizable
You can select the zip-file you want to install on new shops and this zip-file can be customized by you, for example to provide a predefined set of design themes for each shop, to add custom default content to the shops through your own install.php script or even to install additional software such as blogs, livechat systems or forums. Since AShop GPL is open source, you can customize the software itself by editing the scripts, for example the install.php script which sets up the database for a new AShop, but could be made to perform other tasks as well.

One-time license fee
The cPanel Addon is included when you buy a license for AShop V at a one-time license fee of $279, which means that you can start your own ecommerce hosting business for only $279. Since the AShop GPL shopping cart is a free open source software, you don't need to pay anything for each copy of the software you install for your customers!