Facebook Shops

[Jay]

https://www.facebook.com/business/news/announcing-facebook-shops

Amanda started this convo on another thread, but I wanted to restart here. Anyone know more about how these Facebook shops will work? Is it just for new items?

[MyCottage]

Jay, I haven’t had a chance o really look into it, but I’m pretty sure it’s for anything you want to sell (Although FB does prohibit some things, if I’m not mistaken.).

It has the potential to be a real game changer. Especially since they’ll be bringing it to Instagram in the summer (which I think FB owns?). A lot of vintage sellers already use Instagram to sell directly.

I have a FB “business” page which I don’t really do much with, but I will have to see if I can turn that into a FB shop….

[ChristineR]

I’d like to hear from people who start using this. Once I decided to open a FB business page to claim my store name. I didn’t realize that it would link to my personal insta with pictures of my daughter, etc. and wound up closing it. I couldn’t seem to shut that off. I don’t really have a handle on how the whole privacy thing works.

[almasty]

In order to set up a facebook business page without linking back to your personal info, you’ll want to start off by creating a second instagram account just for your business. In the settings of your new instagram account, you can change it from a personal account to a business account. In one of the set-up options during this process, it asks if you would like to create a facebook business page.

[MDC Galleries & Fine Art]

Wonder how to go about interfacing an already existing FBBP [facebook bznz page]. Some while back I added a business page to my personal FB page. Never really used it. Only a few posts of an incorrectly sized MDC Galleries logo and that’s about it.

I wonder if we will be able to break that old FB bznz page away from our personal page and just open a regular FB Store page and break all ties with the personal page stuff.

Then if so, is the new FB Shop going to auto linked to the FaceBook Market Place and also linked back to a Shopify Store?

Just don’t know anything about this because never been a fan of FB and never really used it and only have 3 or 4 linked people. But guess times are a changing.

mike – mdcgfa

• This reply was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by MDC Galleries & Fine Art.

[mnhynes]

Here is how you make your page a shop:

https://www.facebook.com/business/help/912190892201033?id=206236483305742

Mike

[MDC Galleries & Fine Art]

Thanks. Seems simple enough. Will have to read over everything more in depth tomorrow and see how far I get.

If they will run truly like a shop, wonder how we will be able to create “a catalog” they speak about. We have about 1,200 items in our Ebay store, so wonder what is going to be the rpocess of getting all of those over and into the FB Shop area. Even wonder if there is a limit to number of items, etc.

So more questions to dig into tomorrow.

Thanks agagin for the link.

Mike – MDCGFA in Atl.

[Jay]

Cool. Thanks for the link.

Be interesting to see how much Facebook provides vs requiring the use of third party platforms (like Shopify)

[MDC Galleries & Fine Art]

I just thought of something.

We use SixBit a third party app to do our listings. We create one listing in SB and it auto uploads and synchs with Ebay, Etsy and Shopify. I bet SB is also on top of how to have the Shopify module interface with FB Shops because FB Shops interfaces and synchs with Shopify. So we may be able to have SB take the whole Shopify store and do a mass inventory move over to FB which in turn will also place on Instgram. All of which will maybe use the Shopify gateway for purchases on those 3 platforms.

All just a guess but think I will contact SixBit Tues. and see what they have to say about all of this. It would be great to have all 5 platforms being controlled from one central hub within SixBit.

Mike at MDC Galleries and Fine Art in Atl.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by MDC Galleries & Fine Art.

[AnElementofFun]

Hi all. Wanted to share my experience so far with FB selling (shipping). On marketplace, not a store or anything yet though.
Anyway-quick background- So newbie to the forums, been listening for years….love love love listening and being apart of this community. PT seller (SAHM/WAHM)… for over 5 years as a business, longer casually. (Used to manage a Sbux for almost 10 years…so also loving your latest path J/R).

I had barely done much selling on Fb for years, mostly using it like craigslist, for quick movement of bulky things, or lots of kids clothes I didn’t feel like selling on eBay. Then, about 2 months ago, I saw an option to upgrade my listing to being able to ship it, and I clicked it. And I eventually sold some puzzles. I printed out my own label for that, shipped, and got paid, no complaints… easy peasy. I then sold some kids clothes similarly. I then wanted to test it out- so I looked for something I’d want to buy. Saw a used lego set to buy. Had problems contacting the seller with a question (I looked for a link EVERYWHERE, and I didn’t find one, so I went through with it anyway, bought the set, and finally saw a spot to ask question to FB (not seller) after checkout. I asked if the pieces were all there. Got auto reply from FB, nothing from seller. Seller BTW appears to be a store, larger store called Kidizen. Never heard a peep from them. Legos came, we built them and didn’t have a problem…. but I kinda wish we did have a problem, just to see how FB or the seller would handle it… so no info to share on problem-solving abilities. But the lack of communication in the beginning leads me to think it won’t be good. Selling on FB was soooo easy. I don’t have a store, and don’t know anything about the new stuff coming out with all that. But currently- it is like in-between ebay and yardsale/craiglist… the tech was intuitive and I had no problems. I shipped some kids clothes very quickly, printed a label (through the current free shipping promo). So far I have only done used stuff I don’t perceive to have too much value if I have any problems with FB or buyers… that is how I am starting off with it. I figure ebay is worth the extra fees to have that 3rd party protection especially.
I took some screenshots of the process… walking through how it is to ship from FB, using my phone. If anyone finds that helpful I can share… just don’t know if and how to include photos here. Lol.

Not sure if that is helpful… sharing just in case.
From a small potatoes p-timer ($5469-90day-Gross-kinda-eBayer) (80-130 active at a time).
-Natalie

[Jay]

This is good info to hear from your experience so far. We’ll see is Facebook Shops is more streamlined. Sounds like they may just be connecting with Shopify and other e-commerce sites.

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