Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

[wajake41]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

Leslie, the templates have been sent to you. Let me know if you don't receive them.
And thanks for the "Like"
Larry

[Datagg]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

So having a lower PHP version will result in the miva2fb.php page being "blank"? As in no code what so ever?

Sure does... Took Bill & i a few passes to figure that one out. I was in the same PHP main version, yet one upgrade below.. Once David updated, all good.

[wajake41]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

Hello fellow FB app users: Just wanted to report some results about our FB apps.
I've added a tracking email to our OCST page that notifies us when a customer has hit that page coming from one of our FB apps.
Surprise, we are getting significant traffic from our FB apps! Using FB as an entry portal was something I was very skeptical about and I actually never expected it to produce much.

While we are only presently tracking FB visits to the OCST page, we are going to put FB tracking on the rest of the checkout pages so we can get a feel for the conversions coming from FB.

I would be interested in hearing how FB has improved traffic and sales for any other Miva merchants. Is it working for you?

Once again, thanks to wcw for posting this FB app solution to the forum.

Regards, Larry

[Tom Gleason]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

I purchased Toolkit Monday, created my code and pages yesterday... and come to find out that MIVA Merchant servers are at 5.1.6 (at least where MIVA hosting our site). I've opened a ticket with them but I was wondering if there was a way to view and tweak my store for Facebook in the meantime while they upgrade their version of PHP to 5.3.6?

Using facebook.php and miva2fb.php per the tutorials/instructions.

Thanks!

[wcw]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

You can call your pages directly and will see what appears in the middle window (iframe) of FB. See http://www.emporiumplus.com/CTGYFB.html

[Tom Gleason]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

You can call your pages directly and will see what appears in the middle window (iframe) of FB. See http://www.emporiumplus.com/CTGYFB.html

Excellent! Thank you!

[wcw]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

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If you start the shopping in our Facebook integration of the store at http://www.facebook.com/EmporiumPlus you can even get an additional 5% off if you "like" our page. After putting the modules in the basket, view the basket to verify the 5% is taken off, then go to checkout. Use coupon code BESTSELL at checkout for the 30% more off.

[lesliekirk]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

I know Bill tweeted this and it's probably already been pointed out a dozen times over, but one more time for good measure. Make sure you have at LEAST version v5.178 of the Toolkit. It added the Simple Search which is also very crucial to making this work.

It's definitely taken me more than 25 minutes to get all the MMUI pieces of the puzzle put together, with many thanks to Dan.

Leslie

[wcw]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

In addition to the simplesearch function, in version 5.208 I added the discount function. That lets you put a discount in the basket if the conditions you specify are met. Several have asked how I am doing the discount if someone "likes" your facebook page. If you followed the "how to" at the beginning of this thread then you created a couple of affiliates using the built in affiliate program. Let's say you named the affiliate friends for those who have liked your page in Facebook. If they add items to the basket and then view the basket in your Facebook integration, the following code would run.

<mvt:item name="toolkit" param="affiliate|myaffil" />
<mvt:if expr="g.myaffil AND (l.settings:myaffiliate:code EQ 'friends')">
<mvt:item name="toolkit" param="discount|FaceBook Discount 5%|'5%'|0|" />
</mvt:if>

The code checks to see if an affilate url was used to go to the Facebook store. As discussed in the "how to" those who have liked the page will have affiliate "friends". Those who have not will have "notfriends" as an affiliate. So the second line of this code checks to see if the affiliate is called friends. If it is, it runs the tool kit discount function.

[Datagg]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

I know Bill tweeted this and it's probably already been pointed out a dozen times over, but one more time for good measure. Make sure you have at LEAST version v5.178 of the Toolkit. It added the Simple Search which is also very crucial to making this work.

It's definitely taken me more than 25 minutes to get all the MMUI pieces of the puzzle put together, with many thanks to Dan.

Leslie

Been a little bit of work, but we finally got it going. Always glad to help. Now I need a beer.LOL

[lesliekirk]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

I'm almost there - still working on the add to cart buttons - since they are different from the CSSUI (boy did that one bark at me). Dan, I should give you the tweak I used to get the two column before I get too far into matching the store layout.

Leslie

[Datagg]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

I'm almost there - still working on the add to cart buttons - since they are different from the CSSUI (boy did that one bark at me). Dan, I should give you the tweak I used to get the two column before I get too far into matching the store layout.

Leslie

Awesome... Thank ya

[Jimmie]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

Bill, Thank you so much for posting this! It looks like I have the app working on facebook. It displays the entire store just as if they were visiting it outside of Facebook. Is that how it should be?

http://www.facebook.com/CoffeeHouseE...40311702647758

[wcw]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

No. You were supposed to create the scaled down pages (500px wide) so they would fit in the screen. There is a complete "how to" with copy and paste code if your store is CSSUI. See the first post.

[Jimmie]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

Hi Bill, I did create the new pages just like the instructions, I have the facebook.php and miva2fb.php files in my /facebook directory. I might have to check the version of PHP I have. or

No. You were supposed to create the scaled down pages (500px wide) so they would fit in the screen. There is a complete "how to" with copy and paste code if your store is CSSUI. See the first post.