Tomas
posted this on August 24, 2010 17:23
We're pleased to offer our beta release of the Highwire Commerce application for Facebook. Embed your store directly on your Facebook profile or fan pages!
You can access this new feature from the Marketing/Facebook menu of your store admin.
Since this is a beta release, please post all bugs and issues here.
Don't forget to share your profile and fan page links so we can see your store on Facebook!
Updated 9/17: Highwires Social Store is now out of beta testing
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Tomas, you sir are a giant amongst men!
Nice work! :)
Here is a link to my profile shop - http://www.facebook.com/galacticstone?v=app_137036186323012
Will the full release have a way to tweak the default category view, item sort, etc?
Thanks again, this is a great app!
Galacticstone,
You must have set your Facebook Highwire app for friends or friends of friends. If so no one can see it except friends. I set mine up for everyone so everyone can go to it. Here is the link to my Personal Profile page: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#!/billydmabe.
Tomas, I had much rather have it on the business fan page for that is where people go to talk business. If you post too many comments on your personal page friends will block you for they are there to chit-chat and not talk business. I learned this when I first joined facebook. I filled the personal page with all kind of items and they complained and blocked me. So I just put a few items at a time so not to bother everyone. Besides when they are on your personal site they are either on the facebook page or home page and that is about it. Not many will go to the profile.
It loaded perfectly and works great. I have not attempted on a purchase or anything yet but will and let you know.
Thank you Tomas, you are the man,
Thanks
Billy
CNC Jewelry
http://www.cncjewelrystore.com
CNC Jewelry Facebook Page
http://www.facebook.com/cncsilverjewelry
CNC Jewelry Blog
http://cncjewelry.blogspot.com/
CNC Jewelry Twitter
http://twitter.com/CNCJewelryStore
CNC Jewelry MySpace
http://www.myspace.com/cncjewelry
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Very cool! I've got to get started on this right away.
Billy yours is working well, looks great! Galactic yours is hidden since I'm not your friend = (
Diana
You can add this to your pages as well.
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=137036186323012
Click on the "Add to my page" link on the left. Once you've added it to your page, edit your page, click edit under Highwire Commerce to assign the Facebook Key to your page.
Hi Billy (CNC),
Yes, my privacy settings are set to "friends only". I have over 2000 friends, so it's not much of an issue. I do this to keep a few nosy competitors from spying on my promotions. LOL
Send me a friend request and I would be happy to add you or anyone else reading this. :)
Best regards,
MikeG (Galactic Stone & Ironworks)
Tomas,
If we have more than one Facebook page (personal profile, fan/business page, group), is there any way we can add the tab to all of our pages? I'm the opposite of Billy with this one, I'd rather have it on my personal page because that is where I concentrate my time on FB. But it would be nice to also have it on my fan page and group page. But, if I could only pick one, I'd have it on my personal profile where it is now. :)
Best regards,
MikeG
Sure, you can add it to as many pages or profiles as you'd like :)
Hi Tomas,
When I try to add it to these two pages, it doesn't show up on the list of available tabs.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lutz-FL/Galactic-Stone-Ironworks-Mete...
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=126465291277
But those are just icing on the cake, it's up and working where it counts. :)
Best regards,
MikeG
PS - I changed my privacy settings to "everyone", to see if that had some effect, but it didn't.
I did it Tomas- Gee I feel like such a big girl now! I didn't even have to ask for your help this time. = )
Tomas,
On the Business Fan Page I have searched high and low for the highwire app. It is not showing up yet. But as soon as I find it on the Fan Page It will add it and then I can add the tab on the discussion. I will keep searching until it shows up.
Boy it looks great on the personal page. I will keep posting posting on my business page to go to the profile page to fiind it.
Billy,
CNC Jewelry
I may be a missing something, but I added my store to my personal page fine. Then when I added it to my business page it says this after clicking on the tab.
The Highwire Commerce store requested is not associated with the current Facebook profile or fan page. Please edit your application settings and update your Facebook key.
I'm having the same problem. Added it to my personal profile just fine. The tab is added to my business page but this is the message that displays when the tab is clicked:
The Highwire Commerce store requested is not associated with the current Facebook profile or fan page. Please edit your application settings and update your Facebook key.
How did you two get the highwire commerce tab. I cannot find it in the fan page to add it to the tab. Personal profile is great but I want mine on the fan page.
Billy,
CNC Jewelry
I'm getting the same message when I try to add it to my Fan Page. "store requested is not associated with current Facebook profile or fan page..."
But the set up on my Personal page was EASY and it looks beautiful. Hope we can get this on our Fan pages soon.
Carolyn
I was able to add the tab to my Fan Page in addition to my Personal Page. Go to this link http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=137036186323012 and click on Add to my Page. Then go to your Facebook Fan Page and select Edit Page. Under Applications select "add this tab..". If you get the message referenced above go back to the BISI Marketing Tab and get your Facebook Key and reenter it.
I now have the shop tab active on both my personal and fan page. This is WONDERFUL...
Okay I got it! Wheee was it a lot of work too..... not really! You have to go to the highwire app, then click on add to page. Then you have to go to your page and click on edit page. Then you scroll down to the highwire app and click on edit. A page will pop up for you to enter you key, save it. Then go back to your edit page again and click on the application settings. It will say available, you need to add it. Then your done.
Not to shabby for me just poking around.
Whoops I was typing as you were csbsewsdollclothes. I think you directions are more clear.
I got my up and running without any trouble, great deal for all of us, Thanks
Jmart Store
http://www.jmartstore.com
Sweet! I got it. I now have it working on my personal and fan page! :)
I just wasn't going to the right place previously. I was trying to add it from my page itself, and not using the "add to my page" link from the application page. Now it works. :)
Well I finally got it. I was trying too hard and forgot too many steps. Once you get it done you reliaze how easy it was.
Tomas, you did good.
Thanks
Billy
CNC Jewelry
http://www.cncjewelrystore.com
CNC Jewelry Facebook Page
http://www.facebook.com/cncsilverjewelry
CNC Jewelry Blog
http://cncjewelry.blogspot.com/
CNC Jewelry Twitter
http://twitter.com/CNCJewelryStore
CNC Jewelry MySpace
http://www.myspace.com/cncjewelry
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I finally got both of them set up and running. They look good on both the personal page and business page. I will do some testing tomorrow to see if there are any problems. Personal profile page here: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#!/billydmabe and the link to the business page is here: http://www.facebook.com/CNCSilverJewelry Just click on shop on the tab and check them out.
Thanks
Billy
CNC Jewelry
http://www.cncjewelrystore.com
CNC Jewelry Facebook Page
http://www.facebook.com/cncsilverjewelry
CNC Jewelry Blog
http://cncjewelry.blogspot.com/
CNC Jewelry Twitter
http://twitter.com/CNCJewelryStore
CNC Jewelry MySpace
http://www.myspace.com/cncjewelry
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Up and running for me now too! Yippee!!!
The step that I missed was that after you add the application to your business page, you need to click on "edit your page" and then add the key again.
Here's mine:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Austiners-Kits-n-More/111865358837515...
Now, to set up some Facebook ads!
Wonderful new functionality!
Susan
www.austiners.com
CSBSews, thanks for the instructions on adding it to my fan page! Sooooo helpful and now I got it up. Yay! I'm soooo excited. Thank you Tomas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tomas this is great! Easy instructions for the main facebook profile, but was a little confusing getting the additional pages to show the Shop tab. We got it! Looks good. One problem I think I discovered. When I click on any of our items that have variants with options the photo will not change to show the option or style you are clicking on. It will allow you to select from different options, but you cannot see what it looks like. It stays with the default photo of the item and will not change. I have gone back and forth from our actual highwire store to the intgergrated facebook link and it works fine on the highwire page but just not on the facebook Shop page. Other than that this will be great. I will email you also. Mike MyAutoOutfitters.com
Ok! I am all site up and I eagerly await being able to add it to a facebook page where my fans are. I have not tested it out yet, but perhaps tomorrow.
Looks great and very easy to set up. Thanx so much!
http://www.facebook.com/oshunspirit1?v=app_137036186323012
http://www.facebook.com/gailsgoodthings?v=app_137036186323012
This was super easy to set up on my personal page! Will try to add to one of my business pages later. This gives me new motivation for the holiday season as I wasgoing to work on shutting this store down in Sept.
Thank you Tomas for such an awesome feature!
Dishes and Doodads
http://dishesanddoodads.highwire.com
Gail's Good Things at The Collectibles Store
http://www.collectibles-store.com/gailsgoodthings
Gail's Good Things at The Glass and Pottery Co-Op
http://www.glassandpotteryco-op.com/gailsgoodthings
Dishes and Doodads Blog
http://dishesanddoodads.blogspot.com
McGregor Inn Motel
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~mcgregorinnmotel
My page is here:
The page looks more spread out on my personal Facebook Page. On my Fan Page it appears in the middle between the two columns. This is probably a restraint by Facebook. When I looked at yours however it seemed spread out.
Carolyn
http://csbsews.com
http://www.facebook.com/csbsewsamericangirldollclothes (my Fan Page).
Susan,
I just checked your link and it looks perfect with IE8 and Firefox. It could be your screen settings such as 800x600 or 1024x800 or something like that. But on my computer it is perfect.
That is one thing people do not understand is what you see on your computer may not be what everybody else will see. To set a site up at it's best you should check it with different settings and different web browsers.
Thanks
Billy
CNC Jewelry
http://www.cncjewelrystore.com
CNC Jewelry Facebook Page
http://www.facebook.com/cncsilverjewelry
CNC Jewelry Blog
http://cncjewelry.blogspot.com/
CNC Jewelry Twitter
http://twitter.com/CNCJewelryStore
CNC Jewelry MySpace
http://www.myspace.com/cncjewelry
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Look at mine here: http://resources.cncjewelrystore.com/index.html
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http://onlinejewelry.gotop100.com/index.php
Here's mine:http://www.facebook.com/yourpetstorewithmore?v=app_137036186323012
Would love some new fans when you get there. :=)
Very nice. Love this addition. :-) here's my link http://www.facebook.com/MsKitty39?v=app_137036186323012
Hi.
I added it too. II do like it, thanks
Suggestions:
1. Since it really "should" be on business pages, perhaps you could add the directions for doing so to the instructions you have a link to in the initial post here. (Otherwise, lots of us will be going in the same circles trying to find how to do it)
And, add it as one of the FAQs on the application screen (those are very nice, BTW!)
#2 I'd love it if the catagories with nothing in them did not show in the browse catagories list.
#3 Id really like to see the wording "View Cart" stay on the page after an item is added to it. I know the way to get there is to click ....X Items in Cart.... But, a very good portion of my market is not as saavy as to realize that.
I see "View Cart" IS there, but is replaced once something is added to the cart. Maybe replace "You have" with "View" (So it would say "View 2 items in your cart" )
Thank you,
Cindy
Agreed. It needs to be easier to find the cart for those of us who are not so detail oriented. Otherwise it is nearly perfect! Thanks Tomas.
Wow!! Looks pretty nice the new app, and it is really easy to install.
Here it is at our FB page : http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nagoya-Japan/JapanTech/118652250614?v...
Once again, thanks Tomas for the big effort!!
Visit us at http://japantech.highwire.com/
Well I had no trouble at all setting it up on my personal facebook but for the life of me I cannot figure how to get it on my Jmart Store facebook page. I continue getting this message
The Highwire Commerce store requested is not associated with the current Facebook profile or fan page. Please edit your application settings and update your Facebook key.
Anyway I do have it on my personal page
jmart- I had the same problem at first. Go to your "pages" and click on "edit page". Then scroll down to find the highwire app and click edit again. You will have to enter your Highwire key again in this place as well.
Hi Jmart and Everyone!
Here is how to add the tab to all of your pages. Go to the Application's home page (not your home page), and click on the "add to my page" link. This will open a dialogue window that will allow you to add the app to all of your pages. Here is a direct link to it -.....well crud, I can't find the link now. Maybe someone can post it.
I'm probably one of the few, but I don't have an actual profile, just the 'fan' page. It won't let me add this via the instructions provided because I don't have the the same links as shown. It won't show up via the 'Edit Page' like jubilee mentioned either after entering the code.
Very nice!
Got it to work pretty easily: http://www.facebook.com/CraftCycler?ref=ts#!/CraftCycler?v=app_1370...
A few suggextions:
I do realize that some of these things may be Facebook constraints that cannot be changed, but thought they were all worth mentioning.
Loretta
http://craftcycler.com
Pretty cool Tomas!! Here is the link to mine~!
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=514649550&v=app_137036186323012
Hi Tomas....LOVE this....wonderful job.
Quick question. I have a custom site built by Jennifer at BISI. Since my business is wholesale, we have a wholesale access side that allows the pricing to be shown once you log in. When I turned on the Facebook app...the pricing showed up. I'm sure she/we are tricking the system to make this happen but I was curious if you new of anything I could do to get the pricing to NOT show up. Here my site.... http://cannamera.mybisi.com/
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Thanks galacticstone and all for the info. I do not have it set for my personal facebook and my store facebook. Didn't know I was so smart, lol just trying to be funny, I am not computer smart at all
Thanks Jubilee, that did work just like you described.
Here is the link to my site
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jmart-Store/242590016919?v=app_137036186323012&ref=ts
Here is the link to my personal facebook -- jmart store site
http://www.facebook.com/jerry.e.osborne?v=app_137036186323012
Just want to say, "Love it! Love it!"
http://www.onlinebargainscollectibles.com
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Online-Bargains-Collectibles/110789448952006?v=app_137036186323012
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000987755643&v=app_137036186323012
So sorry. I forgot to say, "THANK YOU THOMAS!"
http://www.onlinebargainscollectibles.com
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Online-Bargains-Collectibles/110789448952006?v=app_137036186323012#!/pages/Online-Bargains-Collectibles/110789448952006?v=wall
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000987755643&v=app_137036186323012
Sweet! Thanks a bunch!
Great, I got mine up and running!
Thanks a lot!
Here is one of my stores on Facebook...
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rochester-NY/LeicaMagazines/221113870...
Question: will there be anyway to tell in our admin if a sale came from facebook?
Lee
www.LeicaMagazines.com
www.MovieFanCollectibles.com
Everyone keeps asking me about the new app! I tell them they need to sign up with Highwire!
Here's my page: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/Oklahoma-City-OK/Gone-Fun...
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/ravenspiritsong
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cheraw-SC/Earthsong-Soaps-BathBodySpirit/124387520302
loaded on both my pages!!!!! LUV IT!!!!! wahhhhh whooooooo!!! d <*)
I had to go and edit my pages and click on the app and add my key in again as suggested in this thread. I've only had my fan page for a couple of weeks now and still learning facebook --- here we go to my fanpage.... http://www.facebook.com/toptobottomchildrensstore
Worked great! I did however had to go the the highwire app page that Thomas gave above. Once I did that I clicked on add to my page and got it on my business page. When I did it through highwire, it wanted to go on my personal profile. So, going to the fb page for highwire app worked great!
Thank you for doing this! I had been doing it all manually by using payvment. This is so much better and a TIME SAVER by having it link to our googlebase feed and Highwire account.
Shop Metro Now
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Metropolis-IL/Shop-Metro-Now/18726273...
Listed a new item and it was almost instantly on my Shop TAB. Thanks again for the great job with this application.
Carolyn
http://csbsews.com
http://www.facebook.com/csbsewsamericangirldollclothes
Ok added it to my profile page and fan page. But when I click on my fan page shop tab I get this
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cheris-Organics/200361766413?v=app_137036186323012
When you get this message "The Highwire Commerce store requested is not associated with the current Facebook profile or fan page. Please edit your application settings and update your Facebook key."
If you already have your page for everyone... then you will need to click on "edit your page" and then add the key again.
To do this:
1. log into your page
2. Under your Avatar/picture on the left side click on"Edit Page"
3. Scroll down your page till you get to the applications settings and then find "highwire" and click on "edit"
4. Re-enter your key that you got off your highwire admin and then click save key
Hope this helps - Becky
Ha got it working (at least I hope)
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cheris-Organics/200361766413?v=app_137036186323012
Here is mine!
http://www.facebook.com/shoplolarox?v=app_137036186323012
I am also wondering about variant pictures, only one photo shows for an item that should have multiple views/photos. Will that be fixed?
THANKS! This is great!
NICEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!! Tomas, can I add you as a friend?
Thanks! Finally got it working!! I love it!! Check it out!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Glitterful-Felt-Stories/60026673280?v=app_137036186323012&ref=ts#!/pages/Glitterful-Felt-Stories/60026673280?v=wall&ref=ts
I am a bit confused on this. Once we get our page set up, then only our added friends will see our products?
Hi,
love this new feature! just having issues when i click on checkout. for some reason it seems to be leaving off a "/" when redirecting to the store. For example, below is what happens when i click on check out and it leads to an error
Oops! Google Chrome could not find www.exclusivevines.com.aufacebook
my page is at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Exclusive-Vines/202973179241?v=app_137036186323012&ref=ts
thanks for your help!!
Exclusivevines, this is something strange happening with your domain redirect. This is caused by your domain registrar. I would contact them to resolve this.
http://exclusivevines.com.au/facebook/cartredirect/?cartid=test
HappyShopperShack,
You can use the privacy settings on your Facebook Pages to determine who can see you apps.
Carolyn
http://csbsews.com
http://www.facebook.com/csbsewsamericangirldollclothes.
The Highwire Facebook Social Store has now out of beta and released for full production.
We've made several bug fixes and adjusted some layout settings to correct product titles, and increased "view cart" visibility.
Please take the time post a review of the Highwire Social Store here and start any discussions on our Application page:
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=137036186323012&...
Don't forget to share with your friends! ;)
I must say this is awesome. Nice work Tomas.
Here is mine
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Inside-the-Rock-Poster-Frame/33067934...
Let me know if you all can see it
MY STORE TAB IS EMPTY on both profile and fan page. I have followed the tutorial to the letter and get no error messages. My privacy settings are set to share with everyone. Maybe it's just me but I also could not see glitterfelts.com items on facebook store tab nor could I see insidetherockposter items 9they're the only ones I tried). Maybe it's just me or is there an issue with this app?
Also I cannot see Cheris Organics. Something is def wrong with this app. Would be cool though.. oh well
My shop tab was working perfectly until today. I have put in a support ticket. Perhaps the "disappearance" of the items is related to the new announcement from Tomas re URL Changes.
Carolyn
http://csbsews.com
http://www.facebook.com/csbsewsamericangirldollclothes
The items are now appearing on the Shop Tab. If you tried earlier and couldn't see them, try again.
Carolyn
http://csbsews.com
http://www.facebook.com/csbsewsamericangirldollclothes
Since this plug-in is tied to Facebook, it's bound to have a few glitches every now and then, and it probably won't be Highwire's fault. Facebook is a mess sometimes and it runs glitchy from time to time all on it's own.
Profile seems to work perfect. But on my page not so much. I don't even see some of the stuff people are talking about. When I go to the Highwire page to click on "Add to my page" that isn't there. All I see is "Go to Application". If i click on that i enter my Key. It only says key saved. So I go to my page and look for the App, but its not there in the list at all. The directions for this are really bad. Since some things in the directions are left out or are in " " and called something else. Or maybe i'm doing it wrong.
Anyone know what i'm doing wrong on this? Why isn't the App adding to my page?
I took the shop tab of my profile page while doing some editing to the page. Now I can't get it back. I have 2 fan pages and am able to add the shop tab to those pages no problem. Anyone have any suggestions?
According to Tomas, Facebook is taking App tabs (including our Shop Page) off the personal profile pages. These tabs will remain on the business page. If true, Facebook is probably not letting you add the application to your personal page.
Carolyn
http://csbsews.com
http://www.facebook.com/csbsewsamericangirldollclothes
ok. thank you so much cscsews... I've been going back and forth with customer support. Apparently they don't know this, so Ill forward it to them. Thanks again.