Facebook & Instagram

The app is basically useful to open ticket with Meta, because general support over messanger is very bad!
I do rate 1 because is not really an app and considering Facebook now Meta has so many years and so many billions is a shame they run a so buggy advertising software.

I live and operate my store from Nigeria. I don't know why up till now in 2023, I still cannot operate this sales channel just because of my country of residence. This has extremely limited my Shopify experience since I cannot connect Facebook or Instagram as a sales channel. Hopefully someday you get to trust and list my country so I can utilize this app.

I don’t understand. I try to verify my store and I am having problems. I connected with support and come to find out it was Facebook support, they told me that I need Shopify and they are saying the same for the opposite company. The only thing that is wrong is my business phone number. I can’t get help it is frustrating.

This app is very bad and a time suck. Once you get going, it is like you can't stop and the problems and connection/verification issues literally get worse the more you try to fix. I have been trying to get FB and IG shopping hooked up for over a year. Last week, I disconnected from shopify to start over. Now my catalog is completely disconnected and it wont allow me to reconnect. It is stating the asset is already connected and to go to my commerce manager. Commerce manager in one place is stating it is connected and in another that I have been rejected for the (who knows how many) times. I spend hours every week on this trying different things to connect and there is no one to contact and they do not message you back. It is frustrating, because I would really like to spend time elsewhere. I have an LLC and have been selling online for over 18 months with my website. I am still not authorized or verified on FB or IG. Do not waste your time on this and stick to your website and email list as much as you can.

I cannot get any kind of support from anyone to help me with the problem that my Facebook & Instagram Social Links on Shopify keep going to the "Manage Page" where customers can access all of my Facebook/Instagram settings etc. I have read all of the so called "advice" leads on how to stop this from happening, but it just doesn't work for me. I need to speak to an advisor at Facebook, not be offered endless confusing automated replies.
Can someone at Facebook please help me with this? (P.S. By 'help' I don't mean send me even more confusing links, I need to speak to an actual advisor!)
Many thanks in advance.

This is one of the grand examples not to use 3rd party apps.

The Instagram & Facebook integration for Shopify is incredibly complicated to use. There is basically no support - you can talk to Meta Pro Agents that work overseas, they're lovely and try their best but they don't have enough permissions to actually resolve any issues. They can only raise a case for follow up with what they call their "internal team".

It seems that this app requires a Meta Business verification, which takes up to 4 weeks to process. It needs a verified Instagram account and a verified Facebook page. The Shopify app asks for some business documents and states that shops are validated within 2 business days.

Our shop has been repeatedly rejected, even though the Meta Business Manager indicated that we check all the boxes to be approved for the Shopify integration. Contacting support renders the standard and equally useless info that we don't qualify to be approved. They don't tell you why, which is very frustrating. It took us weeks to figure out, that we have to verify our Meta Business Manager first.

One agent even told us our Instagram account didn't have enough posts and we should just keep posting and see what happens. Ridiculous.

Writing this we're still not approved even though the process is ongoing for quite some time now and we've been talking to five different agents.

What adds to the confusion is that Meta Business needs personal Facebook accounts to manage Facebook pages and Instagram accounts. If you're more than one manager it just messes everything up because different people end up with different permissions. Even once everyone has full permissions for everything they don't properly sync accounts. When logging in with our Instagram account the set cookie prevents us from logging into the business manager. We have to clear cache, use incognito mode or a different browser.

It's beyond comprehension that a company like Meta is unable to provide a smooth, SIMPLE integration with substantial support for their business customers.

GOOGLE is my baseline and I compare everything to them: simple integrations and if things don't work out an amazing, FAST and HELPFUL customer service.

GANZ SCHLECHT - BEI PROBLEMEN MIT META GIBT ES KEINE LÖSUNGEN UND KEINEN KUNDENSERVICE!

Meta - Facebook und Instagram - sind unerlässliche Tools. Obwohl ich jeglichen Anweisungen gefolgt bin, ist es mir bis heute nicht gelungen,
- dass ich Werbung schalten kann
- dass ich meine Zahlungsmittel verifizieren
- das die Werbeeinschränkungen auf meinen Konten aufgehoben wurden
- ein Ticket zu eröffnen
- das der Kundenservice reagiert und mir eine andere Lösung anbietet als Links, die ins Nirwana enden
- Shopify mit Meta zu verknüpfen

After your app update, all previously connected accounts were logged out, and since then, I've been unable to log in. I keep encountering error codes, and the connection with Shopify and your app has been severed. It's still not synchronized, and it's affecting our sales. Please resolve this issue quickly.

Troppo complicato

HORRIBLE support! If you contact Meta about an issue with the Facebook channel they blame the issue on Shopify and tell you to contact Shopify since the channel was downloaded on their platform. However, when you contact Shopify they re-direct you back to Meta because Meta developed, runs, and owns the app. Similar to every other app not developed by Shopify, it is Meta's responsibility to fix issues and provide app support, but they refuse to do this. It's a useless and endless circle with zero solutions.