A hosted shop is a store the vendor runs for you. You get an account on their service. FatLeon Commerce is the source of a shop you deploy yourself, version 1.2.0. You pay for the license once on this site. Paddle.com is the merchant of record for that purchase. Then the shop runs in an AWS account you control.

Side by side

	Hosted shop	FatLeon Commerce
Who runs the live store	The vendor	You
What you receive	An account on their service	Proprietary source. It is not open source
Where the shop runs	Their cloud	Your AWS Amplify
Shopper payments	Their setup	Mock, Stripe, or PayPal, off until you enable one
What you pay after launch	Usually a subscription to the vendor	Your AWS, your email, and your payment provider. The license itself is one-time

The services inside that AWS account are listed in what you run on AWS Amplify.

What the license puts in your hands

You get the storefront, checkout, orders, and admin in one codebase, plus a starter catalog in the same import format as a live shop, plus developer docs. You may modify the source and keep a private git. Changing the domain of the same store does not require a new purchase. Staging for a store you already run is included.

Standard and Agency ship that same code. They differ in who the store can be for. That choice is in Standard or Agency.

What stays an outside account

AWS, the SMTP provider, and Stripe or PayPal (if you turn one on) are still accounts you hold with those companies. A change to their rules can still affect the shop. The part the license covers is the FatLeon source and the right to run stores with it.

The license does not let you resell the source, publish it, or run a multi-tenant SaaS that hands out substantially the same product without a separate license for each store. The file in your zip (v2.2) governs. Terms of Service is the short version.