How to install AccountLabPlus from Fantastico

March 4, 2011 / Content Management Systems

Fantastico is a one-click auto script installer library that performs the automatic installation task of a web application on your web server. In this auto-installer library, users will find too many valuable PHP-based scripts and each stands for different use. Users can run all these scripts from the administration area of a website control panel. Indeed, we are going to see the use of Account Lab Plus, which is one of the popular scripts in Fantastico.

The main intent of this application is to provide affordable billing solutions for web hosts. In terms of features and techniques, this is an easy, flexible, and powerful application. The advanced coding design allows you to carry out your customization work when you upgrade.

It supports up to 180 TLDs so it’s easy for web hosts to offer unlimited hosting plans. Also, it handles the Tax, FAQs, and support tickets. In the present situation, it supports twenty-one different payment gateways such as 2Checkout, Bank Transfer, Clickbank, Credit Card, Moneybookers, Paypal, Worldpay, and so forth…

According to users’ requirements, they can use AccountLab Plus with cPanel, Plesk(admin user), Ensim, DirectAdmin, and Lxadmin. However, this application installed by Fantastico as well as with  Softaculous, but for only cPanel servers.

For registering domain names users can also use AccountLab Plus, as it supports multiple domain name registrars such as Directi, Enom, OpenSRS, Registerfly, Planetdomain, and ResellerOne or users can include their own.

Key features of AccountLab Plus

  • Automatic account set up on cPanel, Plesk servers
  • Innovative Tax Scheme
  • Sub-domain hosting
  • Specials
  • Coupons
  • Credits
  • Customer’s Discount
  • Ample variety of graphical reports
  • FAQs
  • Multiple Admin with permissions set up
  • Multiple currencies for offline payments like wire transfers and Cheques
  • Support Tickets
  • You can monitor your servers
  • Function to see “Who is online”
  • Auto-Updates (via cron-job settings)
  • Protect your customization work when updating
  • Comes with four ready-made templates
  • You can include your own templates
  • You can include your own payment plug-ins
  • Multiple language support. Currently, available languages are Dutch, English, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish.

System Requirements

AccountLab Plus needs Linux or Windows server with PHP and MySQL. You should have PHP 4.2 or its above version and MySQL 3, 4, or 5 with the latest version of a web browser.

Dependent on :

  • allow_url_fopen must be set to On in your php.ini
  • cURL is required for Whois, Account Creation, Domain Registration, and some Payment Methods
  • allow_url_fopen must be set to On in your php.ini
  • mhash needed for Authorize.net
  • iconv and mastering is required for non-utf-8 characters, especially if you use non-English languages
  • OpenSSL is necessary for OpenSRS
  • GD2 and FreeType needed for Reports