Add product feeds to Facebook Business
Feed creation is complicated and error-prone. However, with ShopBase built-in features, you can create product feeds with just a few clicks. Once you've set up your feed, you can upload it to your Facebook product catalog. In this section, we'll show you how to add your product feed to Facebook Business so you can make the most of this popular platform for sales.
A. Create a catalogue
B. Upload a product feed to the catalogue
In case you haven't created a product catalog yet, please do so before you start adding your feed to Facebook Business.
Go to Catalogue Manager.
Select E-Commerce category for your online products. Click Next.
Choose Upload Product Info. Click Create.
Click View Catalog, the system will lead you to a product list they've just created for you.
From ShopBase admin site, go to Products > Product feeds. Click on the copy icon next to any Other product feed to copy the link you want to add to Facebook.
Login your Catalogue Manager. Select your catalogue in Catalogs.
Go to Catalogs > Data Sources.
Click Add Items.
Choose Use Bulk Upload and click Next.
Choose Scheduled feed and click Next.
Paste the product feed link you copied in step 1 to the field as in the image below and click Next.
Select the time length Facebook updates the feed from ShopBase under the Plan your update schedule section. Select the time of updating data every hour, every day in the Repeat section. Schedule feed creation under From. Turn on Add automatic updates mode if you want Facebook to update your feed whenever Facebook detects that your feed has new updates (without waiting for periodic update times installed before). Click Next
Name the feed for easy management under Name your data source, set the currency of the products in the feed under Default Currency. Then click Upload.
After uploading your feed to Facebook Business is complete, Facebook will list feed-related information as shown below.
Overview of Product Feeds
Understand product feeds
Create product feeds
In this section
A. Create a catalogue
B. Upload a product feed to the catalogue
A. Create a catalogue
In case you haven't created a product catalog yet, please do so before you start adding your feed to Facebook Business.
Go to Catalogue Manager.
Select E-Commerce category for your online products. Click Next.
Choose Upload Product Info. Click Create.
Click View Catalog, the system will lead you to a product list they've just created for you.
B. Upload a data feed to the catalogue
From ShopBase admin site, go to Products > Product feeds. Click on the copy icon next to any Other product feed to copy the link you want to add to Facebook.
Login your Catalogue Manager. Select your catalogue in Catalogs.
Go to Catalogs > Data Sources.
Click Add Items.
Choose Use Bulk Upload and click Next.
Choose Scheduled feed and click Next.
Paste the product feed link you copied in step 1 to the field as in the image below and click Next.
Select the time length Facebook updates the feed from ShopBase under the Plan your update schedule section. Select the time of updating data every hour, every day in the Repeat section. Schedule feed creation under From. Turn on Add automatic updates mode if you want Facebook to update your feed whenever Facebook detects that your feed has new updates (without waiting for periodic update times installed before). Click Next
Name the feed for easy management under Name your data source, set the currency of the products in the feed under Default Currency. Then click Upload.
After uploading your feed to Facebook Business is complete, Facebook will list feed-related information as shown below.
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Updated on: 22/08/2022
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