Magento 2 Sell on Instagram

The Magento 2 Sell on Instagram module lets the store owners feature their product on Instagram sell to a larger and targeted audience by leveraging the features of Instagram Shop and Magento 2 With more than 1 billion monthly users, your customers are already on Instagram. Make it easy for them to discover and shop your brand with Instagram shoppable posts

• Synchronize the Magento 2 store product with the Instagram shop.
• By default, it redirects the customers directly to checkout except for grouped and bundle type products.
• The admin can redirect the customer to the product page of the store.
• The admin can manually generate the product feed CSV.
• It also allows the admin to generate the periodic CSV.
• Schedule product feeds CSV generation regularly by setting up the cron.
• Set the frequency of the cron for the periodic CSV generation.
• Set the start time of the CSV generation.
• The admin can set the prefix for Instagram products.
• Remove or include the out of stock products while generating product feed CSV.
• Set the default Google Product Category for Instagram products.
• Mass Assign Google Product Categories to the products which are enabled on Facebook.
• Manage the Facebook attribute mapping with the Magento 2 store attributes.
• It supports all product types: Simple, Configurable, Downloadable, Grouped, Virtual, and Bundle.
• It supports special price imports to the Instagram shop.

Note:

• To enable Instagram shop you must have a business account approved from Instagram.
• Your account must be approved for Instagram Shopping to feature products in posts and stories.

Firstly, customers will get a zip folder and they have to extract the contents of this zip folder on their system. Secondly, the extracted folder has an src folder, inside the src folder you have the app folder.

Further, the admin needs to transfer this app folder into the Magento2 root directory on the server as shown below.

After the successful installation you have to run these commands in the Magento2 root directory:

First command –

php bin/magento setup:upgrade

Second Command –

php bin/magento setup:di:compile

Third Command –

php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy

Fourth Command –

php bin/magento indexer:reindex

Right after that flush the cache from Magento admin panel by navigating through->System->Cache management as shown below.

Configuration of Multi-Lingual

The admin will navigate through Store > Configuration > General ->Locale Options and select the locale as German (the language into which admin wants to translate his store content).

Language Translation

If you need to do the module translation, please navigate the following path in your system. app/code/Webkul/FacebookShop/i18n. Open the file named en_US.CSV for editing as shown in below screenshot.

Once you have opened the file for editing, replace the words after the comma(,) on the right with your translated words.

After editing the CSV file, save it and then upload it to the same path app/code/Webkul/FacebookShop/i18n. The module will now get translated into your desired language. It supports both the LTR and RTL languages.

As you have the Facebook store live, you are automatically eligible for the Instagram Shopping feature. It allows you to tag your products with your Instagram posts.

So that when someone browses your Instagram posts can click the tagged products to get redirected to the website for purchase.
 

Open the Instagram app and go to settings.

Click on Business. This option will only show up here if your account is a business account.

Click on setup Instagram shopping and then Sign Up for Instagram Shopping. Follow the steps and hit submit. Review and approval may take a few days.

 

After the successful installation of the Sell on Instagram module for Magento 2, the admin can configure the module from the back-end.

For that, the admin needs to navigate through the Store > Configuration > Facebook Shop as shown below:

Allow Periodic CSV Generation :  Using this option the admin can generate the product feed CSV periodically.

The admin can set this field as Yes. Further, set the following.

Cron Frequency : The admin can set the frequency for the periodic CSV generation as Daily, Weekly, and Monthly from the dropdown.

Opening Time :

Rather, the admin can set this field as No. where,

Generate CSV Manually : The admin can click here to generate CSV manually having the product feed data.

Prefix for Fb Products – The admin can add the prefix to the products which are listed on the Instagram shop.

Allow Out of Stock products to appear on Facebook Shop – The admin can allow the out of stock store products to appear on Facebook and Instagram Shop.

Default Google Product brand for Products – Enter the default product brand name for the Instagram products.

Click here to see the google taxonomy sheet Google Taxonomy with Id(s).

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Allow On Facebook Shop – The admin has to enable this option for enabling the product on the Facebook Shop.

Redirect to Product Page – If the admin wants the customer to visit the product page before buying them, then they can enable this option else the customer gets redirected to the checkout page.

Product Condition – Select the product condition as New, Refurbished, Used, Used Fair, Used Good, or Used Like New.

Gender – Here the admin needs to select the gender as Male, Female, or Unisex.

Google Product Category – Here the admin can enter the related product id based on  Google Product Taxonomy.

By default, it fetches the Google Product Category for the product which is set by the admin under the configuration.

Brand – Enter the brand name of the product.

Note-

• Along with the above details, the product description is also required.
• The Redirect to Product Page option will not appear while creating or editing the Grouped or Bundle products. As in both the cases, the customer need to visit the product page to choose the associated products.

Once the admin has entered all the required details for the product, the product gets enabled to add on the Facebook Shop.

The admin can also enable the products in bulk for the Facebook Shop.

For that, the admin needs to select the products and click on the Change Facebook status as enable under the Action button.

Also, the admin can select the product in bulk to redirect Facebook products to the Product page of the store.

For the reference, check the below snapshot:

To manage Facebook Shop from the admin panel firstly, go to.

Moreover, the admin can mass assign the Google Product Categories to the products which are enabled on the Facebook shop.

For mass assignment of the category, the admin needs to select the enable products from the product list.

Once admin selects the product, then they need to enter the Google Product Category as shown below:

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Finally,

Some of the Facebook attributes are not available in default Magento 2. So, the admin can create those attributes from the back-end and map the same with the Facebook attributes.

For mapping those attributes, the admin needs to click on the Add Mapping button.

click on Save.

The admin can see all the product feed CSV file under the Catalog Feed CSV Logs. Under this list, they can see all the manual and scheduled generated CSV files.

The admin can see the log added every time the product CSV gets generated, with the details like Triggered By, Log Message, Created At, CSV path, Status, and the Added Products.

Note:

Images and additional images on a product can be only imported to Instagram shop feed via https URL. 
If the URL will be HTTP, then the product will appear on the shop with blank images (default FB image icon)

That’s all for the Magento 2 Sell on Instagram. If you still have any questions regarding the module please create a support ticket by clicking here or send an email to support@webkul.com.