# WooCommerce: your first steps

> What the one-click shop contains, your first login, updating, and what it is good for.

Source: https://veldhost.eu/docs/woocommerce-getting-started

Picked WooCommerce? Your site came with WordPress, WooCommerce and the Storefront theme installed and configured — no wizard to click through.

## What gets installed

- **WordPress** (latest) with object caching, image tooling and real cron, exactly like our WordPress install.
- **WooCommerce** (latest stable) and the **Storefront** theme, activated.
- The Shop, Cart, Checkout and My account pages, and pretty permalinks so product URLs read `/product/your-item/`.
- EU-friendly defaults: currency **EUR**, prices entered and shown **including VAT**, comma as decimal separator, kilograms and centimetres, guest checkout on, WooCommerce usage tracking and marketplace suggestions off.
- **No demo products** — the catalogue is empty and yours.

## First login

1. Your site page in the portal shows the admin address (`/wp-admin/`), the username and a generated password — we display it for 7 days, so save it now.
2. Log in, then go to **Users → Profile** and set your own password.
3. Add your first product under **Products → Add New**, and a payment method under **WooCommerce → Settings → Payments** (Mollie, Stripe and PayPal have free plugins).
4. Set your store address and tax rates under **WooCommerce → Settings → General** and **Tax** — we do not guess your country.

## Updating

- WordPress applies its own security releases. Update WooCommerce, Storefront and plugins from **Dashboard → Updates**; when WooCommerce asks for a database update afterwards, run it.
- Before a big update press **Back up now** on the Files tab — restoring takes one click. Or rehearse it on a [staging copy](https://veldhost.eu/docs/staging-copy).

## Limits

- The Starter plan (768 MB) runs a small shop comfortably; a large catalogue, many plugins or a page builder want Pro (2 GB).
- We keep the platform fast and patched; the plugins you add are yours to keep updated. Fewer is better.