Expand Your Reach by Selling Online with Facebook

As a small business owner, you want your products or services to be available everywhere your customers are. Given today’s prevalence of online shopping, setting up e-commerce capabilities on your website is a natural first step to extending the reach of your customer base. And now, social media sites are offering even more ways to find and engage with new and existing customers. With Americans now spending more than 50 billion minutes on Facebook a month, small businesses’ need to specifically leverage the platform to boost their sales. Does that mean you’ll need to set up another e-commerce solution to sell on Facebook? No!

With SimpleStore and Intuit Web Payment,you can have a store up and running on your website and on Facebook with just a few simple steps

1. Log-in to Facebook to quickly and easily create a Facebook page for your business. The process requires just a few short answers about your business.
2. SimpleStore will then automatically create a professional-looking store as a tab on your business page.
3. The checkout process is integrated with Facebook as well – the same Intuit Web Payment checkout you already have on your website will automatically run on Facebook too.

SimpleStore on Facebook is a free feature for all SimpleStore with Intuit Web Payment customers.

Here’s how it works:

Create a Facebook Business Page

You’ll need a Facebook business page – this is different from your personal page.  They are free and easy to setup on Facebook – our website guides you through the steps.

Here’s an example:

Adding SimpleStore to a Facebook Business Page

Once you are logged in to Facebook, SimpleStore will find your business page and ask your permission to install Intuit’s app to create your store on Facebook. It creates the Store tab and your SimpleStore shows up immediatelyas displayed below. From now on, any changes you make to your product catalog are automatically and immediately reflected on both your website and Facebook.

Transacting on Facebook

When customers purchase products from your SimpleStore on Facebook, they are able to checkout without ever having to leave Facebook or create a new log-in.  Intuit’s Web Payment checkout form will pop up within Facebook to confirm the transaction and get payment information from the customer. The money will be deposited directly into your bank account exactly as it does when people buy from SimpleStore on your website.

That’s it!  One store to manage, but two ways to reach customers.