How to Setup Facebook Product Feed for Magento 2?

## What is Facebook Product Feed? {#what-is-facebook-catalog} Facebook is an online social media with more than 1.55 billion users. People all around the world can join this network for sharing things, entertainment and communicating with others. These days, doing advertisement on Facebook is considered a key approach for e-commerce industry. **Facebook Product Feed** help online businesses serve targeted ads to people. Who have already shown interest in your business through dynamic Ads. Since the product data required in Facebook Catalog are fully compatible with Magento 2 data, store’ s admin can apply these parameters to their product data, which creates Product Feed. In default Magento 2, admins can not generate feeds by configuration, so we need to use [Facebook product feed](https://www.mageplaza.com/magento-2-product-feed-extension/). Using this module allows admins to export their product data from websites and synchronize them with Facebook catalog speedily. ### Countries using Facebook: - America - Australia - Europe - Asia - Middle East - Arabic ### Fields in Facebook Product Feed template - Required fields - id - availability - condition - description - image_link - link - title - price - brand - Optional fields - ios_url - ios_app_store_id - ios_app_name - iphone_url - iphone_app_store_id - iphone_app_name - ipad_url - ipad_app_store_id - ipad_app_name - android_url - android_package - android_app_name - windows_phone_url - windows_phone_app_id - windows_phone_app_name ## How to Create Facebook Product Feed for Magento 2? As Magento 2 does not support to generate product feed, in this article, we introduce the [Magento 2 Product Feed Module](https://www.mageplaza.com/magento-2-product-feed-extension/) by Mageplaza. ### Step 1: Create new Facebook product feed From the Admin Panel, go to `Products > Catalog > Product Feed > Manage Feeds > Add New Feed` ### Step 2: Insert information needed in General information  ### Step 3: Choose template: Facebook CSV  ### Step 4: Insert information in Google Analytic part  ### Step 5: Select the conditions to export files  ### Step 6: Choose the protocol to upload exported files (SFTP or FPT) Then select `Cron` to generate feed automatically, whereas choosing `Manual` allows admin to create feeds manually.  ### Step 7: Finish export Facebook product feed - Save the configuration - Click Generate to export and upload files to the server - Then download files from the server or Manage Feeds  And here is the result after generating product feed  ## How to Register and use Facebook Catalog Access to [https://www.facebook.com/products/catalogs/new](https://www.facebook.com/login.php?next=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fproducts%2Fcatalogs%2Fnew), log in by your Facebook account to use Facebook Catalog. #### Create a Facebook catalog Access to `Settings > Asset > Catalog`: - Choose your business catalog  - Name your catalog -> Click `Create` button - Choose `View catalog` to finish  ## How to Upload Facebook Product feed to Facebook Shop ### 1. Add a new primary product feed - Navigate to `Product` -> `Add` to add a new feed - Choose `Use data feeds` -> `Next` to select the approach of uploading feed  ### 2. Upload product feed file to Facebook In order to upload files from your computer, choose `Upload Once > Upload a data feed file > Start upload`  **Result** Access to `Products` to see your feed uploaded  ## Conclusion {#conclusion} This tutorial was built to instruct online stores to generate data feed using Magento 2 Product Feed extension and how to synchronize a feed with Facebook Catalog. As for full features of this extension, please visit [full features list](https://www.mageplaza.com/magento-2-product-feed-extension/#features-section). One more thing to remember is that admins should recheck the feed before uploading it because **Facebook Catalog** has some specific requirements for different product categories.