We all know how powerful Facebook is in today’s world. People call it the King of social networks. Everyone has got their own impact with Facebook . At the time of its launch, the site was just a social network but now it has become a place where people can make businesses and shop online. With more than 750 million users, Facebook is now gaining popularity with online shopping and eCommerce . E-storers have concluded that with Facebook, online shopping is slowly shifting over to social shopping. With the introduction of Facebook online stores , FB’ians have finally found a way to excel their business needs and set up their online store on Facebook.
Being the current hottest style in social shopping, Facebook store is effective to create an online store both small and medium businesses. Whether it is a smaller business of a larger one, it is easy to set up a facebook store . Various brands, organizations, products, artists, celebrities, students, job seekers / providers, etc are relying on the benefits of Facebook store. As Facebook platform allows users to create, accomplish, sell and promote products and services, it is obvious that any online store owner can set up a Facebook version of his site by means of Facebook store.
Social Web, Mobile Internet and Online Retail are three trends that combine each other to assist you in bringing up a better result with Facebook stores . Setting up a Facebook store involves in handling few approaches, which will be explained below in detail.
Download the app
To begin with, you got to download the application which lets you to create a store on Facebook . There are a plenty of Facebook shopping apps which help you achieve this purpose. Research thoroughly and fix to the apt app that allows you to set up a Facebook store.
Create your Store
Once you’ve downloaded the app, then is setting up the store. On using ‘Fanpage Creator application’ which enables you to create either a single or multiple product pages in Facebook. You can simply create your fanpage by following the below steps:
- First select the template or theme you want, which can be selected from a plenty of pre designed templates.
- Next, fill in the contents to the selected template. You can also add the suitable images and links to on your business page.
- Select the sections of the fanpage you would like to customize and change the color, style and font for each section as you wish.
- Once the fanpage is created, it gets automatically published in your facebook account.
Setup Your Store
Setting up a Facebook store uses ‘Fcommerce’ app from the Fanpage tool kit. It offers a dashboard providing a graphical view of the total number of orders finished, those in progress and those which have been cancelled.
This involves five processes mentioned below:
- Merchant App Profiles
- Creating categories and load products
- Theme Library
- Shipping
- Manage Orders
Promoting your Facebook Store
Promoting your store can be done in simple steps which are mentioned below:
- First of all, select a template for the promotion landing page.
- Fill in the contents to the selected fanpage.
- Add appropriate names, contents and images for the promotion
- Choose a theme, which can be selected from three available designs and color schemes
- Select the sections of the promotion you would like to customize for color, style and font
- Once a promotion design is complete, add start and end dates for your promotion and the status of the promotion
However, with a easy to use readymade extension, it just takes few steps to configure your store on Facebook.
