[UPDATED 3.10.2010]
WHAT IT DOES
Presta Facebook Connect Affiliation v4.5 automatically integrates Facebook Connect functionality into your Prestashop store. Referral Program integration allows your customers to publish their shopping cart contents on their Facebook profile for everyone to see. The Referral functionality enables every user that comes from the customer's Facebook page to earn a discount voucher based on the Referral Program module settings (explained below). With the new "INSTANT SIGN-ON", the customer may now enjoy browsing the e-shop, adding products in the cart and perform login whenever he /she wants instantly without page refresh!!
The Facebook Connect Affiliation v4.5 module simulates an affiliate solution including the Single SIGN-ON Facebook Connect offers.
WHAT IS THE REFERRAL PROGRAM?
The Referral Program is a module already integrated into your PrestaShop package. It allows existing customers to win discount vouchers if they recommend others to buy from your store.
You can find the Referral Program module in [BackOffice]>Modules>Tools tab. This module has some configuration settings that you may modify as you wish, the following are relevant to Facebook Connect Affiliation v4.5:
-Number of orders required to earn a discount = the minimum orders a customer first needs to place on your shop to be able to send invitations to others;
-Voucher type = can be Amount or Percentage;
-Voucher value = how much you want to offer as a discount for the customer / friends (this is altered by the voucher ration in the Facebook Connect Affiliation module)
HOW IT WORKS?
Facebook Connect Affiliation v4.5 presents your customers with the option to publish the contents of their shopping cart on their Facebook page.
After publishing their shopping cart, every friend / contact in their Facebook network will see the contents they have published. When a user clicks the products in the list, they are directed to your website and are automatically assigned with a discount voucher (in the amount you have set in the Referral Program module and based on the voucher ratio). If they place an order on your shop, the "Sponsor" (customer that published his / her shopping cart) also gets a discount voucher.
WHY USE IT?
Facebook Connect enables Single Sign-On directly with a Facebook account for websites. The Referral Program is a very powerful marketing tool and Facebook's social network has a huge viral power - by combining both into the Facebook Connect Affiliation module - it becomes an unbeatable marketing asset for your PrestaShop website.
FEATURES
- Compatibility: Prestashop v1.1 - v1.3
- Module languages: English & French**
- Internationalized pop-ups from Facebook (v4.5)*
- "Publish on Facebook" displayed in two selectable sections (v4.5)
- Customizable texts in all module (v4.5)
- Special text tags available for customization (v4.5)***
- Customizable position of the FConnect button (v4.5)
- Customizable default country for new customers (v4.5)
- Customizable button size & text (v4.5)
- Fully Translatable (v4.5)
- SSL Support (v4.5)
- Customer e-mail address (v4.0)
- Voucher ratio - allows different voucher value for sponsor / friends (v4.0)
- Optional cart publish - customer may publish cart contents or not (v4.0)
- Direct e-mail communication (v4.0)
- Instant Sign-Off - no more page refresh on logout (v3.2)
- Back-end Configuration (v3.0)
- Log-in progress (v3.0)
- Instant Sign-ON - no more page refresh on login (v2.0)
- Fully automated install
- Referral Program integration with unbeatable marketing power
- Single Sign-ON with Facebook account
- Fully integrated into Prestashop (no other requirements)
*Some locales may need customization.
**French language is machine-translated and may not be accurate. Pop-ups are locale based and translated from Facebook.
***Tags are used for including contextual elements: voucher value, shop name, shopping list, etc.
INSTALLATION
1. Install as any other PrestaShop module from the 'Modules' tab in BackEnd.
2. Get Application ID from Facebook and set it up in configuration.
SUPPORT
Support is provided through the following methods:
1. Forum: Facebook Connect Support Forum
2. Email: support@endpulse.com
3. LiveSupport!
UPDATES
Free for existing customers.
DEMO
Here on our shop.
COMPARISON TO CLASSIC AFFILIATION:
NOTES & LIMITATIONS:
The module allows Facebook users to login in your shop by using their Facebook profile information.
The only actions a customer needs to take for login is clicking the Facebook Connect button and authenticating their Facebook account.
The module is dependent on the Facebook API, which, from the latest experience, changes from time to time. We will be updating the module to reflect the latest Facebook API every time it changes, but this will not happen instantly.
As of version v4.5, The Facebook Connect module does include a user manual with step by step guides for creating a Facebook application and configuration of the module.
The Facebook Connect Affiliation module is STAND-ALONE and does not require the Facebook Connect module to function.