The first step to setting up a brand new woocommerce online store is Domain Registration.
We have covered the best domain providers in this post, for ease of domain finalisation and registration.
Post domain registration, you would need hosting for your site. We have covered the best affordable VPS providers here.
The next step is setting up SSL on your website to secure transactions and data inflow/outflow taking place on your website.
In today’s world, it is not only important to protect your data and your visitors’ data, very few would choose to visit your site, if they see Google’s ‘Not Secure’ prompt instead of the little green lock in the address bar.
Also, since it’s an e-commerce store, there will be financial transactions taking place in and redirected from your site, and that simply cannot happen in an unsecured environment.