How you go about adding Shop Local to your online business setup will depend on your current online business status. You will choose one of the options below.
- Visit this page to see the three general integration options:
https://www.shoplocal.org/add-to-website.cfm.
- On the above page, find which site/situation best describes your current situation (A, B, or C). Pick the answer below that applies to your business:
A. I have no business website. For example, I only have a Facebook page.
B. I have a business website, but it's only an informational site. My consists of a few informational pages. It does not have an e-commerce function.
C. I have a business website. It is has e-commerce functionality.
- Based upon your answer above, please choose the steps to link to your Shop Local.
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If you answered A:
Since you have no official website, you can use Shop Local as your business' official website. To your Facebook, Instagram and other social media accounts, add your Shop Local website as your official website (e.g. yourstorename.myshoplocal.com).
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If you answered B:
You will edit your existing website and add links from it to your Shop Local site.
Please learn more about adding links from your 'parent' / official site to your Shop Local site here:
https://www.shoplocal.org/help-center.cfm/171/add-a-link-to-your-bridge-account-and-or-add-the-bridge-logo-to-your-website
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If you answered C:
When you have own e-commerce store, you most likely will want to import Shop Local's product data into your e-commerce database.
This support doc shows you what data you'll receive in the data feed:
https://www.shoplocal.org/help-center.cfm/54/what-data-is-in-the-data-feed
Please contact Shop Local to get tips on how to export Shop Local data and import it into your website.
If you wish to use option C and yet use Shop Local's gift registry software, you can do this. You will add a link to your existing site saying "Gift Registry" and have this link lead to your Shop Local's gift registry home page.