F.Connect - Online store and widgets on Facebook
F.Connect integrates your existing store with Facebook in a few steps. It not only lets you create complete Facebook store but also give you ability to post your products to your Fan Page wall. This allows you to reach your customers on Facebook directly from the wall. You can also run social campaigns to promote your products and engage customers. All of this can be done without writing a single line of code!
This extensions requires you to create an account on Froomerce F.Connect
Your Benefits
Easy porting of store to Facebook
You just need to install the extension and export the store to your Page.
Note:
This extension only support single store architecture.
Social sharing widgets
Your users can share and like products from your Fan Page.
Selling or redirecting to main store
Depending on what you require, you can let users add all products to their Facebook cart or you can redirect users to go to the main site.
Product widgets
You can create product widgets and post them directly on the wall.This will enable you to reach out to your Fans directly on their walls! When they like or share the widgets, their friends will also get exposure to your products.
Custom verbs support
You can choose to have new custom verbs apart from “like”. For example, you can configure the store to have “Want” and “Need” buttons.
Detailed Statistics
You get detailed statistics on not only the products but also demographics from Facebook Page e.g., how many males and females came on your page, what were their age groups etc. You receive weekly statistics E-Mails.
Custom campaigns
You can choose to have your own Welcome page. You can also choose to allow only users how like your page to view your store.
Customizations
You can have your own design for the stores and the product widgets.
Support
You get free email support for all packages. With Professional Pro packages you also get direct phone support.
Requirements
spree_froomerce_fconnect
requires Spree 0.70.x
.
And it is not compatible with Rails 2.x
Installation
spree_froomerce_fconnect is distributed as a gem, which is how it should be used in your application. Following steps are to be performed consecutively for this extension to work properly:
- Add following line to the Gemfile:
gem 'spree_froomerce_fconnect'
or - To use the latest version add
gem 'spree_froomerce_fconnect', :git => 'git@github.com:froomerce/spree_froomerce_fconnect.git'
in your Gemfile. - Then run
bundle install
to install the gem - Run
rails g spree_froomerce_fconnect:install
to add and run required migrations.
And you are ready to go!
Copyright (c) 2012 Ali Naqi, released under the New BSD License