I had contacted Godaddy since it is shared hosting and asked about global settings but they said it should run at 500M as set. I've since made some changes for local php.ini (even threw in a .user.ini) and phpinfo now shows (before it was just one column):

           Directive                   Local Value    Master Value
      post_max_size                        500M                 500M
      upload_max_filesize            500M                  500M

Since I just found it I also made sure that public_html/abantecart/php.ini matched too. Still same error.