Magento with Facebook Connect
August 6, 2009
My brother wrote a Magento module recently – the Facebook Connect Module. It’s pretty straightforward, and allows you to make it easier for shoppers to enter in their information in to your Magento store. When checking out, they can connect their Facebook info, using the Facebook Connect process, and their information will be imported in to your Magento store. It’s not free – there is a charge for this, but the source code is included, not obfuscated or encrypted, so if you need to extend it or make customizations, you can.
Possibly one of the more interesting things it does: “Alerts users via Facebook notifications to changes in their order.” This sort of social networking integration with ecommerce sites will possibly be more common in the future – perhaps some other sites are doing it already that I don’t know about?
You can also just sign up for the mailing list to be notified about new features and such over at http://biz.metrofindings.com/main.page/facebook_connect_magento_module.html
What other sorts of Magento tie ins to social networks would you like to see?
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August 6th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
Very nice! That’s a very useful feature.
We’ve used Drupal as middleware for connecting Magento and external authentication services like Facebook Connect (and MySpace ID, Twitter, etc.) but haven’t done anything yet with Facebook alerts. Thanks for the inspiration!
February 16th, 2010 at 4:34 am
I purchase the Module, but I have being most disappointed a the help from the site. The Support forum has no support whatsoever, there is nothing to help build the “facebook Application” in order to get the API key.
Your MOD might be good, but what’s the use if we can’t use it because of missing support. I PAID A 100$ for god sake
February 16th, 2010 at 7:27 am
Hello Dan:
I’m not the support site, but do know people get support there. You need to register there and post questions there.
As far as “there is nothing to help build the “facebook Application” in order to get the API key” I’m not sure what you’d mean. You need to get a facebook api key from facebook, which is a separate process, and would have nothing specifically to do with magento or a plugin or anything else.