# Installation - Giftline 1.x documentation

> Install Giftline from your purchase, activate the license and sell your first gift card in a few minutes.

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

## Install the plugin

1. Make sure WooCommerce is installed and active. Giftline won't activate without it.
2. Download `giftline.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 Giftline on the Plugins screen, so updates arrive (see [Licenses and updates](licenses-and-updates)).

Activating Giftline adds:

- **WooCommerce → Gift cards**, where staff see every gift card and store credit balance, create cards and credit, and find the liability report and CSV import and export.
- **WooCommerce → Giftline**, the settings.
- A **Gift card** product type in the product editor.
- A **Gift card** field and the customer's store credit at checkout, in the Checkout block and the classic checkout.
- **Gift cards & credit** in My Account, and four emails under **WooCommerce → Settings → Emails**.

Nothing changes for shoppers until you publish a gift card product or give someone a card or credit. Your products, orders and coupons aren't touched.

## Sell your first gift card

1. Go to **Products → Add New Product** and name it, for example "Gift card".
2. In the **Product data** box, choose **Gift card** as the product type and tick **Virtual**, so the card is emailed.
3. On the **Gift card** tab, type the **Amounts** customers can choose from, such as `25, 50, 100`. Tick **Any amount** if they may type their own.
4. **Publish** the product.

Customers now pick an amount, a recipient and a message on the product page. Once the order is paid, Giftline creates the card and emails it with its code. The code works at checkout straight away.

![The gift card product page](https://storage.extendiment.com/media/596/screenshot-1.png)

The settings under **WooCommerce → Giftline** start from safe defaults: gift cards don't expire, aren't taxed when sold, and customers' store credit is used at checkout automatically. Look them over before you sell your first card.

## What's next

- [Selling gift cards](selling-gift-cards): amounts, designs, delivery dates and the email.
- [Paying with gift cards and store credit](paying-with-gift-cards-and-store-credit): what customers see at checkout.
- [Store credit and refunds](store-credit-and-refunds): giving credit and refunding orders to it.
- [Managing gift cards](managing-gift-cards): the staff screens.
- [Settings and emails](settings-and-emails): every setting.

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