If you have a HostMonster web hosting account and want to set up an online store for ecommerce? Dont worry with HostMonster you will be able to install a reliable shopping cart in no time at all. Here are some easy steps to setting this up through your HostMonster.com. Once you have an online store on your HostMonster site, you will be able to have customers purchase items and services online with PayPal or Credit cards like Visa and MasterCard. Cool!

HostMonster eCommerce Set Up Guide

1. Sign up with one of the HostMonster shared web hosting plans
2. Go to your HostMonster cPanel and click on Fantastico
3. Under “shopping carts” click on osCommerce.
4. Click on New Installation
5. Choose the domain name (yourdomain.com you have with Hostmonster) in which you want the store and choose a name for the folder (which can be anything like “store” or “shopping cart”)
6. Fill out Admin stuff like: store name, user name and password. Note: If you do not have SSL set this to “NO”
7. Next click on”Install OS Commerce”
8. A confirmation page will come up and now you just need to verify what you just did by clicking on “Finish Installation”
9. A page will come up with the URL of your store and the admin URL (ex: yourdomain.com/store/; yourdomain/store/admin/. Make a note of these for future use
10. Congratulate yourself for putting ecommerce on your Host Monster site

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