diff --git a/plugins/woocommerce-admin/client/task-lists/fills/index.ts b/plugins/woocommerce-admin/client/task-lists/fills/index.ts
index 06819e36081..da4ec370ce4 100644
--- a/plugins/woocommerce-admin/client/task-lists/fills/index.ts
+++ b/plugins/woocommerce-admin/client/task-lists/fills/index.ts
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ import './Marketing';
 import './appearance';
 import './tax';
 import './woocommerce-payments';
-import './purchase';
 import './deprecated-tasks';
 import './customize-store-tasklist-item';
 
diff --git a/plugins/woocommerce/changelog/remove-onboarding-purchase-task b/plugins/woocommerce/changelog/remove-onboarding-purchase-task
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..22d19ea136e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/woocommerce/changelog/remove-onboarding-purchase-task
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+Significance: patch
+Type: fix
+
+Removed references to the un-used Purchase task item in the onboarding task list.
diff --git a/plugins/woocommerce/src/Admin/Features/OnboardingTasks/TaskLists.php b/plugins/woocommerce/src/Admin/Features/OnboardingTasks/TaskLists.php
index 8f4fdec80c5..361d8dee1d7 100644
--- a/plugins/woocommerce/src/Admin/Features/OnboardingTasks/TaskLists.php
+++ b/plugins/woocommerce/src/Admin/Features/OnboardingTasks/TaskLists.php
@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ class TaskLists {
 	 */
 	const DEFAULT_TASKS = array(
 		'StoreDetails',
-		'Purchase',
 		'Products',
 		'WooCommercePayments',
 		'Payments',
@@ -112,7 +111,6 @@ class TaskLists {
 		$tasks = array(
 			'CustomizeStore',
 			'StoreDetails',
-			'Purchase',
 			'Products',
 			'WooCommercePayments',
 			'Payments',