# Installation - Depositline 1.x documentation

> Install Depositline from your purchase, activate the license and take your first deposit in a few minutes.

Depositline comes as a zip file with your purchase from extendiment.com.

## Install the plugin

1. Make sure WooCommerce is installed and active. Depositline won't activate without it.
2. Download `depositline.zip` from your purchase email or your account on extendiment.com.
3. Go to **Plugins → Add New Plugin → Upload Plugin**, choose the zip, then **Install Now** and **Activate**.
4. Enter your license key under Depositline on the Plugins screen, so updates arrive (see [Licenses and updates](licenses-and-updates)).

Activating adds **WooCommerce → Depositline**, the **Partially paid** order status and deposit fields on products, variations and product categories. Nothing changes for your customers yet: the store-wide deposit starts as **No deposit**, so no product takes one until you set it up.

> [!NOTE]
> If another deposits plugin is active (WooCommerce Deposits, Deposits & Partial Payments for WooCommerce by Acowebs or by Codeixer (Bayna), or YITH WooCommerce Deposits / Down Payments), Depositline pauses and shows a notice. Deactivate the other plugin first. Coming from WooCommerce Deposits (by WooCommerce or by Webtomizer), Depositline can then import its product settings and open balances: see [Importing from another deposits plugin](importing-from-another-deposits-plugin).

## Take your first deposit

1. Go to **WooCommerce → Depositline**. There's also a **Settings** link under Depositline on the Plugins screen.
2. Check that **Enable** has **Take deposits at checkout** ticked.
3. Set **Store-wide deposit** to **Deposit, or pay in full at checkout**, and **Deposit amount** to, say, `25%`.
4. Click **Save Changes**.
5. Open a product in your shop: it says "Pay a 25% deposit now and the rest later. You can also pay in full at checkout." Add it to the cart and go to the checkout.

The checkout shows a **Balance, paid later** line that takes the rest off the total, and a **Payment** choice between a deposit and paying in full.

![The Checkout block: choose a deposit or pay in full, see what's paid now and later, and have the balance charged to a saved card when it's due.](https://storage.extendiment.com/media/590/screenshot-1.png)

> [!TIP]
> To take deposits on just a few products, leave **Store-wide deposit** on **No deposit** and set the deposit on those products' **General** tab, or on their category, instead.

## What's next

- [Setting up deposits](setting-up-deposits): per product, variation, category or store-wide, and how the amount is worked out.
- [Deposits at checkout](deposits-at-checkout): what customers see, and how tax and shipping are split.
- [Collecting the balance](collecting-the-balance): payment links, My Account and saved cards.
- [Reminders and overdue balances](reminders-and-overdue-balances): what's sent when, and what happens when a balance stays unpaid.

Source: https://extendiment.com/plugins/depositline/docs/1.x/installation