Store Setup – Dashboard
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After upgrading WooCommerce on dozens of my clients’ websites. I now see this message.
WooCommerce Setup
Step 1 of 6
You’re almost there! Once you complete store setup you can start receiving orders.This process is pretty much 100% about upselling clients, cloaked in some kind of must-do-list. So what then happens? Clients go through this process thinking their site is not set up correctly and completely screw a site that has been running for years on the Woo platform.
You should never (EVER) allow this to happen. Yes, I know the need for you to make more money, but you must realize what % of your customers will react in a way that screws them over and loses trust in your motives.
Make money by improving the product and creating must-have add ons. Not in this manner.
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You could use the disable widgets plugin to remove it.
Hi @peterricci,
Thanks for your report.
The issue is coming from a known bug that our developers are aware of and are still working to fix – https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce-admin/issues/7696
For now, there are two ways to make the setup widget disappear:
- Complete the setup checklist – You can open each one up, change a few settings, save changes so it’s detected and marked as completed. (Then revert the changes).
- Hide the tasklist – Go to WooCommerce > Home Screen and on the tasklist, click on the 3 dot menu and click the “Hide this” button:

Link to image: https://snipboard.io/HWAVnR.jpg
Kindly stay updated on the GitHub thread for updates on fixes.
Thanks.
For our shops the setup does not even work. Clicking the button “start selling” does not start the wizard and gives an error page “Sorry, you are not allowed to access this page.”
Since you may be experiencing a different issue, please open a new topic here: https://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/plugin/woocommerce/
Hi @peterricci
We’ve not heard back from you in a while, so I’m marking this thread as resolved. If you have further questions, please feel free to open a new topic.
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