Nop Facebook Shop plugin released for nopCommerce 3.60 (Nop-Templates.com)

Build your store on Facebook in seconds and start selling today on the number one social media with the new Nop Facebook Shop plugin for nopCommerce 3.60. This powerful and easy to manage plugin will allow your customers to browse your nopCommerce catalog and search for the right products directly on Facebook.

FACEBOOK SHOP PLUGIN SPECIFICATIONS
1. Each product in your facebook shop has a share button and an add to cart button (which will redirect you to the online store, where you will be able to purchase the product).
2. You can select which products to be displayed on the home page.
3. You can choose to display three or four number of items per row.
4. You can select a banner image to appear on the home page only or on all pages in your facebook shop.
5. You can select which categories to be shown in the main menu and the number of categories to be shown as top level items.
6. You can include manufacturer items in the main menu.
7. You can select how many products to be shown on the category/manufacturer or search pages.
8. On the product page - you can choose to show full description, short description and the number of related products.

To see the plugin in action, please check out its Live Demo.

The Nop Facebook Shop plugin is part of our best value Nop Ultimate Plugin Collection now including 23 premium plugins.

Your feedback is appreciated!

Nop-Templates.com Team

Good job!

Great!
Can you please comment on the differences/advantages of your plugin with the one that is included in Nop

Hi,

Plugin looks great. Hope to use it in some new projects! :) +1

Tecnofin wrote:

Any difference?

Nice job!!!

Tecnofin wrote:

Hi,

Thank you all for your feedback.

Although it may sound that both of the plugins are the same, in fact they have little in common. We have given a list of the plugin’s features in the post above, but I will elaborate further on the topic.

Our goal was to create a plugin that gives you the control over what information from your nopCommerce catalog is shown in your Facebook shop depending on your business strategy. This is important because in many cases you would not want your whole product catalog being exported to Facebook. The social media is a channel used mostly to feature your business, and featuring a certain set of your products is what you would want to do 90% of the time. Unless of course, you have 20 – 30 products in your store.
For example you might want to show only your newest products or only your products on sale or only your best sellers. The possibilities are infinite and it would depend on your business and your social media strategy.

Having said that I would go ahead and compare the nopCommerce Facebook shop and our Facebook Shop plugin.

What nopCommerce Facebook shop does?
It embeds your online store categories into Facebook. The disadvantages of this are:

1. No control over what part of your catalog is shown on Facebook.
2. No control over how your Facebook shop looks like in Facebook. It looks the same as your online store but embedded in the Facebook iframe.
3. No detailed product information directly in Facebook.
4. No manufacturer pages.

What our Facebook Shop plugin does?

1. It allows you to select which categories are shown in your Facebook store. This means that you can create categories in your nopCommerce store which are hidden from the public store but visible in the Facebook store. In other words you can have categories just for your Facebook store.
2. You can control how your Facebook store menu is built. You can choose which categories to be shown in the main menu and the number of categories to be shown as top level items. All non-top-level categories are grouped under a common menu item, which label you can control (for example “More Products”).
3. You can control what products are shown on your Facebook store home page. These products can be a different set from the featured products in the online shop.
4. You can have manufacturer pages in your Facebook store just like category pages.
5. You have product details page directly in Facebook, which include more pictures, short and full description, and related products.
6. The look and feel of your Facebook is native to Facebook itself and does not stick out like a website which is just embedded in an iframe.
7. For marketing needs, you can upload a banner and choose whether to include it on the home page only or on all pages. This is perfect if you want to run a promo for your Facebook customers.
8. All products in your Facebook shop can be shared, thus reaching a bigger number of potential customers.

In our next release we plan to implement a shopping cart within the plugin so that when a product is added to the Facebook shopping cart, it can be then automatically added to the online shop's shopping cart for quicker checkout.

I hope this information will be useful.

For a more detailed overview of the plugin’s features you can visit the plugin's page on our site.

Nop-Templates.com Team

Hi Guys,

We would like to share our blog How the new Nop Facebook Shop plugin differs from the nopCommerce facebook shop?
It is more or less the same as the explanation we gave above, but in the blog post we have included pictures to illustrate better the features of the plugin.

We hope you will find it useful!

Nop-Templatec.com Team