Codester demo · Business software

OwnStore — Online Store Platform

Your own online store, on your own hosting. No monthly platform fee.

$99 on CodesterTested: storefront live, sample catalog importedUS presets included

A working store, stocked from the sample catalog

During packaging, the store was installed for real and the included sample catalog — 10 fictional products from a made-up brand, Hartwell Supply Co. — was imported through the admin. This is the storefront category page afterwards: real products, real prices, add-to-cart working.

Storefront with the sample catalog imported. The products are fictional demo data, included in the package so a buyer sees a working store before adding their own.

A product page

Price, options, add to cart — the full product page from the same test store.

Product page from the test store, sample catalog data.

The import, finished

The admin screen at the end of the sample-catalog import: 10 products created, 0 errors. (The import links products to categories by name — the demo guide has the buyer create the three categories first, a step the packaging test caught and the guide now states up front.)

Admin import result from the packaging test. The admin panel carries the software's own built-in branding on its screens; the package is sold as OwnStore.

How it was tested

The packaging test installed the pinned store software from the exact production image the install kit names, on this machine, with the package's own settings.

Storefront answered HTTP 200 with the real shop pages; the admin signed in; the sample catalog went in through the admin's own import screen (first pass exposed the category step above — fixed in the guide and re-run clean: 10 updated, category pages listing the products with prices, product page answering 200). What was not tested: the shared-hosting install route end to end (this sandbox has no PHP 8.4 host — the platform needs PHP 8.4, the sandbox ships 8.3, which is exactly why the Docker route was used for the test), live card payments, and mail sending. The guides state the hosting requirements plainly.

Selling without a payment account: the store can take real orders on day one with its built-in Cash on Delivery and Money Transfer options. Card checkout needs the buyer's own Stripe or PayPal account — the launch checklist walks through adding it.

What it does

Full store built in: products, categories, cart, checkout, orders, invoices, and customer accounts in one install
US-ready presets: dollars, US English, US addresses, starter tax and shipping settings with the exact admin steps
Start taking orders with no paid service: Cash on Delivery and Money Transfer are built in; add your own Stripe or PayPal account later for cards
Sample catalog included: 10 fictional products you import in minutes to see a working store, then delete
Storefront style sheet in OwnStore colors — white store, brick-red buttons, square corners — applied from the admin, no theme files edited
Two install routes: normal PHP hosting with a browser installer, or one Docker command for a ready-made store