Configure Facebook access and announcements
Wish list owners and members can share links to products and invite friends via Facebook using their Facebook accounts.
To enable the Share Wish List on Facebook and Invite Facebook Friends features for your shoppers, do the following:
- Make sure you have a Facebook App ID. To obtain a Facebook App ID, you must have a Facebook account and register to become a Facebook developer.
Facebook provides information on how to set up your site to allow sharing to Facebook. For more information, visit
developers.facebook.com. - Once you obtain a Facebook App ID, log into the Commerce administration interface.
- Click the Settings icon, then select Social Settings.
- In the Facebook App ID field, enter your ID, and click Save.
- To configure your Facebook app as a Canvas app, log into your Facebook merchant account.
- Create or edit your Canvas app, and enter the URL—
https://[your storefront host name]/facebook/—as the Secure Canvas URL.
You can make changes to the content of the announcements your shoppers send to Facebook by editing the associated text snippets.
To view the editable text snippets:
- On the Design page, click the Developer tab.
- On the Text Snippets tab, select Social from the drop-down list.
You can change the values for the following keys by clicking the value and editing the new value field:
- socialFacebookInviteMessageText
- socialFacebookShareProductDescriptionText
- socialFacebookShareWishlistDescriptionText
- socialFacebookShareWishlistTitleText
The default text snippets are translated for all supported languages. If you make changes to the default text snippets, you must manually translate them into different languages your store supports. See Customize your web store's text for more information.