Scope

Social commerce is one of the biggest commerce trends from last few years. Now a days, social media is the biggest part of everyone's day-to-day life. They may not help e-commerce stores to get as many as sales, but they definitely influence their market positions: branding, online reputation, search engine rankings as well as social recommendations of products and sellers. Instagram is one the best ways to showcase store's collection and to convince with users with their collection.

With our Instagram Magento module, you will add a social media integration that might appeal to your users. Through this you can showcase different trends to use your store's collection and provide them new learning experience of fashion done by different customers using your store's collection.

Requirement

Major requirement for integrating Instagram in magento is to configure Instagram's API settings correctly. Make sure that your Instagram app should be in sandbox mode.
Instagram API requirement:

• Client Id
• Client Secret
• Redirect URL

You can get all this credentials by logging in Instagram developer's section. Follow our installation document to properly create user credentials.

How to use

Instagram Magento module enables you to showcase your instagram images by two ways :-

• By Username
• By Hashtags.

You can display your Instagram images on home page, category pages, product pages or everywhere simultaneously in both the ways. You can display images either in grid fashion or as a slider. Both grid view and slider are fully responsive irrespective of any bootstrap class or any other designing frameworks. And it contains high configurable options so that users can configure sliders according to their website design.

Features

• It provides options to fetch images by username or hashtag both simultaneously.
• It provides options to showcase images in slider or in grid view.
• It provides options to customize slider according to your theme.
• Fully responsive slider.
• It can be placed anywhere throughout the website.

Steps to collect INSTAGRAM API Details:

• Login Instagram if you are not already. Then go to Instagram Developer Page.
• Click on "Register your application".
• If you don't already have an application registered, you will now see a form to register a new one. If you instead see a list of "clients", click the "Register new client" at the top right.
• Now, fill the form fields as mention below:
• Application Name – Your store name (Do not use Instagram, IG, insta or gram in your app name.)
• Description – Enter a proper description. (define your app basic working details here)
• Company Name – Your company Name.

• Website URL – Your website URL. (//example.com)
• Valid Redirect URIs – http://example.com/instapic.php (Please enter the your website URL followed by instapic.php)
• Contact Email – provide your email address in this field
• ReCaptcha – enter the captcha code value in this field for secure registration procedure by Instagram.
• Disable implicit OAuth – Go to security tab above the page, and uncheck the disable implicit OAuth option.
• Register – Finally after filling all valid details in form click on the register button to complete registration.
• Copy client Id, client secret & redirect URL and paste it in magento admin section.