Sharing is Caring– the New Facebook Sharing Tool

This is great news for Shop Partners. You can now share products and designs in a much improved way on Facebook. Check out how you can showcase your products seasoned to taste. Read on!

The Sharing Tool allows you to customize your entire Facebook post. Have your say in choosing the teaser image caption, message text and destination link. Here you can see a much improved post. Discover the wealth of customization opportunities that the Sharing Tools offers! It’s like 1, 2, 3:

1. Register with your Facebook account

Here’s stating the obvious: those who want to post on Facebook need to log in first. This is done in a matter of mouse clicks on the sharing tool’s homepage.

2. Find your shop

In the next step, you need to enter your shop ID and then click “confirm”. The Shop ID can be found in your user account. Just hit the navigation bar and select “Shop settings“ in the “Shop overview” section.

3. Create a teaser image for your post

And now for the best part of The Sharing Tool: by clicking on a product, design, or both, you’ll be able to see a preview on the right. Here they are stacked in rather chaotically, but you can change size, position and layers to adjust them to your liking and thereby create a perfectly tailor-made post for Facebook.

Click on “Choose designs” to receive an overview of your designs and products. These can be selected by clicking on them, and they can be viewed on the right side in the preview of your Facebook post.

Tip – you can also go to the menu and choose “upload” here. There, you’ll also get the option to add images to your post that are not available in your shop already. It is always a good idea to have e.g. friends wear one of your T-shirts or other products.

Another very important feature is the Filter option that you can use to choose your designs and products. This function can be found in under the link “Show filter”. Here you can show your products according to their name, product type or user category. Based on these settings, designs and products meeting these criteria will be shown in the main window on top.

This is how you…

…remove the selected criteria again: if you want to remove any of the selected designs from your post, you need to click on the preview window. In the main window you will then have the possibility to click on the small X to remove the image from your post.

…change image size: mouse over to the preview and click on the image. A toggle will pop up to help you change the size of the object. Tip – if you select several designs or products, these are stacked in a way not allowing you to directly select any chosen image. In order to do that, you need to use the image overview panel above the toggle. Here you can click on the image you want to access.

…move image: on the preview or image overview, you can click on the image that you want to move. By holding on to the mouse button and moving the image, you can choose a position to put the image in place.

…put images into the foreground/background: click on the respective image in the image overview panel and use the arrows underneath to move up (arrow to left) or down (arrow to right).

…change background colour: transparent designs look great on a colourful background. Choose “Background“ in the menu and select a colour.

4. Adding a description

Choose a fitting few words to help people understand and like your post. It’s easily done by clicking on the pen symbol in the preview image underneath the teaser image or by choosing “Text & Labels” in the menu.

Next to a personal message, you can also add a headline and descriptive text for your post. Your website’s URL or name of your shop should not be missing either. Select “Link URL“ to exactly determine where your Facebook buddies should be directed to when clicking on your post.

5. Dandy and handy – The Link Creator

When linking to a product you have designed yourself, there’s no need putting a link in place manually any more. Now you can use the Link Creator. In its drop-down menu you’ll find a list of all of your products. Chose the one you’re looking for and select “Generate link“.

The link will appear in the text field below. Click on “Use this link“, and your URL will be automatically added in your post.

To save all the changes, click on “Save all“ and – BOOM – your customised post is done. Now you can click on “Share this post“ to get it out on Facebook.

What do you make of the Sharing Tool? Let us know what you dig and what you miss, and leave a comment below this article!