How to Install, activate and set up woocommerce plugin in wordpress?

WooCommerce is the world’s most popular eCommerce platform. It is super-flexible, cost-effective, and easy to manage even for beginners.

However, many beginners feel a bit intimidated by the idea of setting up WooCommerce themselves. Most users struggle to find out how to get started with WooCommerce and what’s the proper way to set up WooCommerce.
WooCommerce is an open-source eCommerce plugin designed for WordPress. It is a platform for both small and large online businesses. WooCommerce has a variety of tools, such as different shipping and payment methods, variable products, and much more.

1. Installing and Activating WooCommerce

Since WooCommerce is a free WordPress plugin, it can be installed from the official WordPress plugins directory. The first step is to log into the WordPress admin area.

Next, follow these steps to install the plugin:

From your WordPress dashboard, select Plugins from the left side menu.
Press Add New and type WooCommerce in the search bar.
Find WooCommerce from the search results and click on Install Now.
Once the installation is complete, click the Activate button.

2. Setting Up WooCommerce

You will then see a WooCommerce welcome message asking you to run the Setup Wizard. Press the purple Yes please button to set up the WooCommerce store.

Alternatively, you can also run the wizard from WooCommerce -> Help -> Setup Wizard section.

Follow the WooCommerce tutorial below to set it up:

Set up the Store Details, including your country, address, and zip code.

Move on to the Industry in which your WooCommerce store operates. Make sure to check all the apply.

Then, in Product Types select the type of products that will be listed. And again, make sure to check any that apply.

Include more Business Details such as, how many products you will display and if you are selling anywhere else.
For the next step, choose a Theme. These can be from Paid themes or Free themes but don’t worry, it can be changed later.
You will then be prompted to enhance your store with Jetpack. It’s necessary if you want to enable automated sales taxes and payment gateways. Jetpack also gives additional benefits such as better security, improved speed, store monitoring, product promotion, and management of your store from your phone. Click Yes please! to proceed.

Create a Jetpack account by entering your email address, username, and password. Or, you can make use of the one-click registration through your Google or Facebook account. Creating a new account will direct you to the Jetpack interface while signing in will move you to the final part of the setup process.
The next step will redirect you to your WooCommerce dashboard. Here you will see Finish setup, Stats overview, Inbox, and more.
In the Finish setup area, you can click and complete the following: Add my products, Personalize my store, Set up shipping, Set up tax, and Set up Payments.
Select Add my products to add your first product. It will give you the option to Add manually, Import larger CSV files, or Migrate your store from another location. (To know how to add products )

Then, Personalize your store by creating a custom homepage, uploading a logo, or changing the settings on a store notice.

Move on to Set up shipping. Here you can change the settings on how much customers pay to ship to your country and to the rest of the world.
Then, Set up tax, either connect your store to WordPress for automated sale tax calculation or set up tax rates manually.
Finally, Set up payments. You will have the option to choose direct bank transfers, cash on delivery, PayPal, or Credit Cards (by Stripe.)