Setting up a storefront

[WebhouseUK]

Hi, I'm completely new to reseller hosting so please forgive me if I ask some boring questions.

I started web-design as a hobby & slowly but surely I have ended up doing it for a living so here I am now with a reseller account.

I'm reading through the reseller info page and I'm a bit confused as to how to set my site up. I want to use one of the templates which as I understand it is a script that will work with WHM for people who are not already my customers to sign up for hosting.
It tells me I need to set up my site within my own account which sounds straigh forward enough, so will my domain then point to the account within my site? How do I set that up?

[esl]

Originally Posted by WebhouseUK

I'm reading through the reseller info page and I'm a bit confused as to how to set my site up. I want to use one of the templates which as I understand it is a script that will work with WHM for people who are not already my customers to sign up for hosting.
It tells me I need to set up my site within my own account which sounds straigh forward enough, so will my domain then point to the account within my site? How do I set that up?

cPanel is your control panel to edit one specific domain.
http://www.cpanel.net/products/cPane...ux/cPWHMov.htm

WHM is your control panel to create/edit cPanel accounts.
http://www.cpanel.net/products/cPane...ux/cPWHMov.htm

WHM AutoPilot is a billing manager for account creation automation.
http://www.hostgator.com/whmautopilot.shtml

Your account should be created automatically when you sign up with HostGator, you will just need to create a package with storage and bandwidth limits etc. in WHM and change the package for you main website's account to the new package. Just have your domains point to your name servers, which should be provided to you in your welcome email and everything should work fine.
http://www.hostgator.com/resellerinfo.shtml

[gtgeorge]

The templates are not scripts, but rather pre-made web pages. You would have to set all links etc by normal HTML editing techniques.

If you want the accounts to be able to be ordered through a shopping cart type interphase and be able to set them up automaticly you can use WHMAP which is the free billing hosting manager HG will give you also. Or you can manually set up accounts through WHM. If you want to offer signup for the account through a website I would reccoment the billing manager. It also helps receive and track the payments

[ldearing]

if you are going to be low volume for a while i would suggest auto order, manual set up.... less vulnerable for fraud orders.... especially with domain registration.

[esl]

Originally Posted by ldearing

if you are going to be low volume for a while i would suggest auto order, manual set up.... less vulnerable for fraud orders.... especially with domain registration.

Yes, I agree. I have had several fraud orders and if I had auto domain registration, I would be out hundreds of dollars.

[gtgeorge]

Yes auto setup of domains could be costly even with good fraud protection. Even HG does not do auto setup of domains last time I asked.

[gwyneth]

Even GoDaddy requires verification you're a human...no matter how many previous transactions you've had with them, each time you do another they make you type the numbers in the graphic.

[slapshotw]

Even with making sure somebody is a human, if that human is using a stolen credit card you're going to get a chargeback from the original owner but still have just paid for the domain.

[gtgeorge]

Originally Posted by slapshotw

Even with making sure somebody is a human, if that human is using a stolen credit card you're going to get a chargeback from the original owner but still have just paid for the domain.

Exactly! We got stuck with one and decided it was better to examine the order before activating/ordering the domain since. I doubt there are many bots buying domains and completing the purchase