Install Shopializable: Facebook Application for Magento and Prestashop

Introduction:

The new version of our Facebook application is available. It allows you to sell your products to your store Magento or Prestashop on your Facebook profile. (Available languages: English, French, Spanish, German soon).

And all your friends can discover your products in a different setting from the usual store of e-commerce and also indicate the products they liked their knowledge ...

We wanted, in this new application, involving the visitor through the "I Love It". To increase the visibility of your shop and your products on your network. We believe it is important for an e-commerce site to stand out. Use social networks to get out of the usual paths referencing allows you to generate significant new traffic for your online store .

Finally we gave a name for this module in order to recognize it more easily. Shop and Socialize We seemed to be two relevant keywords to describe this application. So we named "Shopializable".

You can see a demonstration of the application on our Facebook account (shop tab):

Summary:

• Installation for Magento

• Installation for Prestashop

• Add a topic

• Participate, improve the module!

• Thanks!

Installation for Magento

The link between Facebook and your Magento store is built using the WebService in the platform.

For Shopializable works, we just need to create a role and a user for this role.

Login to your party administrator of your Magento store.



Go to "System> Web Services> Roles."

Then click on "New Role".



For the "Name of the role", enter "Shopializable" and click on "Resources of the role."



We will go to the most delicate part of the installation, be careful not to forget options, or check one in too.

Before "Access to resources", choose "Custom" and check the following resources:

• Recover data products
• Retrieve attribute data
• Link. You should have only box "Link" checked, uncheck the "Delete", "Update" and "Assign".
• Images of product. You should have only box "Product Images" checked, uncheck the "Delete", "Update" and "Create".
• Recover the category tree
• Recover data from class
• Products assigned. You should have only box "products assigned" checked, uncheck the "Delete", "Update" and "Assign".
• Retrieve stock data (to the end of the page).

Your tree selection should be exactly like this:

Remember to save the role by clicking the appropriate button.

Now we must create the user for this role:
Go to "System> Web Services> Users".

Then click "New User".



Complete the form noting many fields "name" and "API Key". Indeed they will be required to install the Facebook application.
Finally click on "Role of the user."



Select "Shopializable" (or the name of the role you just created) and click "Save user".

That's all we need to add to your Magento store.

Installing Shopializable on Facebook

Now to install Shopializable on your Facebook profile.
Login to your Facebook account, then go here , to add the application.

Click on "Go to application".



You should see a message like this:

Click "Set up my shop", a window should ask permission to access. Click "Allow".

So you are now on the configuration page Shopializable.
Initially, we will configure the application to use your Magento store.
Opposite "Which System are you using", select "Magento", then click "Submit".

Do not click "OK" just below, this step is for later.

Complete the page according to your wishes (you can also choose French as the language).
For the application to communicate with your store, you must fill carefully the fields login and password (with ID you entered when creating the user "User Name" and "key to API ").
Enter the correct address of your Magento store for the "The address of your Magento store." If the address is incorrect, the module will not function properly. (Enter the absolute address of your shop without index.php at the end, example: www.magavenue.com / store).

Finally to validate your form.

At this point, you can apply for building your catalog (remember to check your username and password are correct API).

Generation is not done immediately, to relieve our servers. This will be made up to 24 hours after the application generation. But once you've made, you no longer need to do it again (except when you need to update your catalog).

Your shop is now available on Facebook, we will add the application to your profile.
Go to your Facebook profile.

At the top, next to your profile picture, click the small "+", then click on "Shop".

Shopializable is in place on your Facebook profile, be sure to properly configure the various settings available in the configuration.

For the display of your store more enjoyable, you can use a theme (template) for your shop Shopializable. These are available at this address for more information, see the " Add Theme "of this tutorial.

Installing Shopializable for Prestashop

The module takes a few seconds.
Download the module on our shop .

Once you have downloaded, unzip the folder "modules" of your tree Prestashop. (Remember to make sure the files are located in the folder "fb_link" and not in a sub folder, the files must be located in / modules / fb_link /).

That's it for installing your module, it does not require installation to the administration of PrestaShop.

Installing the application on your Facebook profile Shopializable

Now to install Shopializable on your Facebook profile.
Login to your Facebook account, then go here , to add the application.

Click on "Go to application".



You should see a message like this:

Click "Set up my shop", a window should ask permission to access. Click "Allow".

So you are now on the configuration page Shopializable.

Fill out the different elements of the form. You must precisely define the address of your shop Prestashop in the "address of your online store Prestashop." Enter the exact address of your shop (eg www.magavenue.com / store), otherwise the module will not work.

Once you have properly configured all the elements of the administration page you can click on "Submit" bottom of the page.

Your shop is now available on Facebook, we will add the application to your profile.
Go to your Facebook profile. At the top, next to your profile picture, click the small "+" and choose "Shop".

Shopializable is now in place on your Facebook profile, be sure to properly configure the various settings available in the configuration.

For the display of your store more enjoyable, you can use a theme (template) for your shop Shopializable. These are available at this address for more information, see the " Add Theme "of this tutorial.

Add a topic

See the various topics on our previous article
Adding a theme for your shop Shopializable takes a few clicks. Visit our shop and choose a theme. When ordering, be sure to specify us the address of your shop, as you specify in the configuration Shopializable.

Why are the themes I have to pay?

All of our themes will be sold and costs € 10. These allow one hand to make your shop Shopializable much more aesthetic, and other parts, help us to maintain the application, which asks us more and more time, and participate in hosting fees.
We thank everyone choosing one of our themes so that we can continue the adventure with you.

Participate Shopializable is your application!

We are at your disposal for any problems you may encounter.

Feel free also to ask for new features or new themes. To do so contact us !

Acknowledgments:

Team Magavenue want to say a big thank you to those who helped and encouraged us to implement the module and above:

• Rodrigue Hajjar (development)
• Rafael Rivera (Spanish translation)

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