Oct 2010 29

How to create your eStore on Facebook for free

Facebook has gone a long way now and has placed itself as a part of every netizen. I’ve heard people say I use my internet for checking email and Facebook! What else would show how big this social networking giant is?  Now, FB applications and its open-API have taken it to the next level introducing a huge list of Facebook apps that makes use of its huge user base of 500 million plus accounts!

Now the latest revolution is a Facebook application that lets you start your store on Facebook selling anything and everything like any other online store.

The key advantages of the Facebook store are:

  • It’s a free app and you could set up the entire store in a matter of few minutes
  • It has integrated payment gateway accepting all cards and PayPal
  • You could create your categories and add products to the same
  • It has extensive reporting modules to track your orders and sales
  • A dashboard to show your important stats
  • It could be linked to your Facebook page and marketed
  • Exposure to 500 million plus user base
  • Special discount options to FB page fans
  • Appears in Facebook search
  • Easy and fast Ajax based interface
  • You should try it yourself to find out more

How to set up a Facebook store

  • Browse to the vendor Facebook application link: here
  • Add the application to the Facebook account
  • Go through the simple wizard
  • Add the Facebook store to the Facebook fan page
  • There you would have the “store” icon and you are done!
  • Follow the screen shots below for the detailed features.

Creating categories on facebook eStore and listing products

Set Special price or rate for your fans

Below is your eStore Dashboard

This is how the eStore on Facebook would look like

Feel free to visit our fan page on FB here and see the store, if interested you could check out our services as well there or become an OC fan! Thank you and hope you enjoyed the article.

9 Comments

  1. Watson|DailyShopper says:

    Wow! I never thought I could set-up a Facebook e-store for free…

    Thanks to this very good guide…

  2. maria says:

    Can I have a store without a facebook fan page?

  3. Hey,

    Thanks for this wonderful article, now I have created a store of my own. Awesome!!

  4. Mindy says:

    Can I use this for affiliate sales?? I will not be handling the orders directly, I really just want a store setup, but when they click to 'buy'… it will be redirected to the site for purchase, and tracked as my sale. Is this an option for this?? Or is there anything that you can recommend for that? Since I cannot seem to post HTML on FB

  5. Buegle says:

    If you have a Facebook page, and you wish to sell your products in it, I highly recommend http://www.buegle.com for a quick and easy store set-up on your Facebook page.

  6. The great advantage of a Facebook store is that it provides another way to increase profit through generated sales. If you have Facebook store then users will now have the option to explore and purchase your products directly on Facebook. This will not only provide increased revenue streams, but encourages them to “like” your products.

  7. jiko says:

    LINK CAN NOT WORK.

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