Shopializable Installation: Facebook Application for Magento and Prestashop

Introduction:

The new version of our Facebook application Has Seen daylight!
It allowded you to show your catalog shops from Any Magento or Prestashop Platform-through your Facebook's profile. (Available language: English, French, Spanish, German soon).

Which Makes it possible, for all your friends to discover your daily BASIS products were outside of the traditional e-commerce website, as well let friends know Which Their products THEY liked.

In Fact in this version we wanted to add new functions on the "I love it", Which Will Improve Your shop's hearing over the Facebook network.

We think in order for an e-commerce website to start up, using social networks Can Make a lot of difference, Specially with the running behind SEO. It allowded to Have a non negligible traffic Towards your e-commerce website.

Finally we had Gave name for this module, in order to record it Easily, Shop and Socializable were 2 important keywords to describe this application. So we Called it "Shopializable".

Take a look on our demo available on our Facebook profile (shop tab):

Summary:

• Magento Installation

• Prestashop Installation

• Add a theme

• Contribute Improve the module

• Acknowledgements!

Magento installation for

The link Between Facebook and your Magento shop is done using Magento's integrated web services.

In order for Shopializable to Work, You Need to create a role, a user and then assign the user to the role.

Magento Connect to your back office.

Navigate to System> Web Services> Roles.

Click on New Role.

In the field "Role Name" enter "Shopializable" then click on "Role Resources"

We're going to go though The Most delicate hand of the facility; Be cautious Forgetting is not gold Any check boxes Adding Unnecessary ones.

In front of "Resource Access", select the item "Custom" from the drop down list then check the Following items:

• Retrieve Data Products.
• Retrieve Attribute Data.
• Link: Link Only the checked box Should Be, all child items: "Remove, Update and Assign" should Be unchecked.
• Product Images: Product Images Only The Box Should Be checked, all child items: "Remove, Update and Create" should Be unchecked.
• Retrieve categories tree
• Retrieve data category
• Assigned Products: Only the Assigned Products Should Be checked, all child items "Remove, Update and Assign" should Be unchecked.
• Retrieve stock data (Towards the end of the page).

Should your selected items look Exactly like this one:

Do not forget to save the Role you just created by clicking will the Following button.

Now We Have to create the user and assign it to the role we just created.
Navigate to "System"> "Web services"> "Users".

Then click on "New User"

Fill the form while writing somewhere down the Username and API Key. These logins Will Be Asked During The Facebook application installation.

Then click on "User Role" (on the left pane).

Select "Shopializable" (or the name you just created Role) and click "Save User".

That's all you need to do on your Magento website.

Installation of Shopializable on Facebook (Magento)

Let's go-through the installation of Shopializable Facebook on your profile.
Connect with your Facebook account and then click here , to add the application.

Click on "Go to Application".

You Should land be a message like this:

Click on "Set up my shop", a window Should ask you for authorization Click on "Allow".

You're now on the settings page of Shopializable.
First we're going to configure the application to access the Magento Shop.
In front of "Which system are you using" select Magento, then click on "Submit!"

Do not click OK yet there, it's for the next step. "
Fill the form page DEPENDING ON what you want.
In order for the application to Communicate with your shop: you Have to fill in the login and password fields with the exact logins you Used For you created the User Earlier (Username and API KEY).

Enter the URL right address for your Magento shop. If the link is incorrect Entered the application Will not work. (The absolute address Should Be Entered without index.php at the end ".

Finally validate the form.

At this moment you-can-generation request a catalog of your products. (Think about whether the Verifying username and password You entered are correct)

The generation Is not done in order to Automatically Relieve our servers. The generation was done Will Be time interval of 24 hours maximum. (Once the generation is done, you will not Need to generate again, UNLESS you update your catalog).
To make the application available on your Facebook profile:
Navigate to your Profie, and click on the "+" button and then click on "Shop"

Shopializable is installed and in ict right place on your Facebook profile, think of Configuring the different settings.

For the best experience, we'd advise you to use a theme (template), thesis are available here . For more information, check the "Add a theme" part of this tutorial.

Prestashop Installation

The installation of the module only Takes A Few seconds.
Download the module from our shop .
Once the download is done, decompress the folder while Placing it in your "modules" folder in your source files Prestashop. (Verify That the files are in a folder "fb_link" and not in a child folder, the files Should Be in / modules / fb_link / * files).
This is it for the module installation. No need for installation in the year back office of prestashop.

Installation of Shopializable on Facebook (Prestashop)

Click on this link to add the application.

Click on "Go to Application".

You Should land be a message like this:

Click on "Set up my shop", a window Should ask you for authorization. Click on "Allow".

You Should Be now on the settings page of Shopializable.
Fill the different fields of the form.

Enter the URL address for your right prestahop shop. If the link is incorrect Entered the application Will not work.
You Can click on "Submit" (Bottom of the page) the fields are Entered oz.

Now to add the application to your Facebook profile, click on the "+" button and then click on "Shop" (when you're on your Facebook Profile page).

Shopializable is installed and in ict right place on your Facebook profile, well think of Configuring the different settings.
For the best experience, we'd advise you to use a theme (template), thesis are available here . For more information, check the "Add a theme" part of this tutorial.

Adding a theme

Adding a theme on your application is done with Shopializable A Few plays. Go to our shop and choose a theme. Be sure to link you could Provided The Same In The Facebook for your application to e-commerce website.

Why arent the free themes?

Most of our themes are going to be sold for 10 €. This Will you permit to Have a better looking, Desiring Shopializable application; Has The Same Time Will help us maintain to the application (Which is Taking more and more time) and contribute to the payment of our hosting providers.

We thank everyone That buys a theme, Permitting us to continue the adventure with you.

Contribute Shopializable is your application!

We're open for all suggestions and bug reports.

Do not Hesitate to contact us for more gold Functionalities new themes.

Acknowledgments:

The team Magavenue Would Like to say thank the People Who Helped Encouraged and the building of this application and Especially to:

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

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