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Is there a way to embed your storefront onto your site/blog?
ShadedAreas posted March 16, 2010 05:32 ago
Maybe this isn't developed here yet but.... I'd like to be able to set up a way to sell my items directly from my site. thoughts?
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The experts will answer this more thoroughly I'm sure, but my guess would be probably no.
Storenvy was not made to be independent individual site per se, but lots of stores all connected together. So you can shop at Suzy Q's and find something you like, and then go next door to Mary's store and find something else, but pay for both at the same time.
If your items were integrated to your blog, then it wouldn't work that way.
I'd suggest just linking your blog back to your storenvy store. You could even do product reviews with the photos etc, and link back which would also help your search engine ranking.
Well I meant more how like Etsy works where you can embed the grid of your items for sale but when they click on anything it takes them to Etsy as normal.
It would just make it easier if I could just transpose the item menu to my site for website visitors so they could window shop without leaving my site.
I would still want all the interconnectivity.
Oh, well, that I'm not sure about.. the experts will be along soon to let us both know.
I think I solved it manually for now.
I just cut and paste the base code for the linked images into my blog.
http://www.shadedareas.com/?page_id=181
However this means I have to manually update it every time I add an item.
When I update on etsy it automatically adds it to what pops up in my page. That would be neat. :-)
Thanks for trying to help though. Maybe the experts will solve it.
Hey guys!
We just launche our Facebook app last week that let's you do this same idea on your FB page or profile. We don't yet have a tool to embed on your website, but it's definitely on our roadmap. You might be able to get creative with the RSS feed though. There are several free tools that let you make a widget out of an RSS feed and your store has one of those feeds. Google can point you in the right direction.
Thanks for the question!
>We don't yet have a tool to embed on your website, but it's definitely on our roadmap.
Holy cow!
If you could pull this off, you would be able to OWN small business ecommerce.
There isn't anything that is cheap/free on the market that works without a hitch. I've been fighting this (OS-ecommerce, Zencart, wp-ecommerce, etc) for years.
One more voter for embedding!
Thank you!
+1 for embedding ^_^
My web guy was able to embed the store on my site with some success... not sure how he did it though (code makes my brain hurt).
check it out, maybe it will help: www.crossyourheartclothing.com
:-\ not really. it looks like he did the same thing I did. It works fine if you have a static product line but where I'll be constantly adding new prints to sell it's a nuisance to have to fabricate a new code mimic each time.
I love the stock tracking and paypal connectivity but I really would love something that I can drop in that will automatically generate a basic version of my store front that links back to the products here.
Or if I could at least open this page in an iframe I could have my sites navigation at the top and people could shop away without actually leaving my site.
But when I tried that it just auto-dominates the window directing away from my nav.
Oh well.... I'll just keep my fingers crossed.
It updates for me fine... just added a product on Storenvy and it automatically showed up on my site.
They might be reading the RSS feed of the store and parsing it into the storefront design. Fancy.
Delayed response... but.... how does one do that? :-D
I am not knowledgeable enough to be able to determine what in the code is breaking the frame, but I would simply like to add my store as a wrapper on a Joomla website.
Functionality of the Storenvy community would still exist, but my CMS would still be functional if the customer chose to browse away to a different portion of my website.
Any ideas?
YouSeeShirts-
I'm not sure I follow 100%, but the best way to make your store fit the style of your website is to customize the HTML and CSS of your store.
A good example of this is http://store.fashionlovespeople.com/ which perfectly matches the style of http://fashionlovespeople.com/.
Note: Fashion Loves People is currently testing the custom url beta feature.
Yeah that's the solution I used. It was a little tougher than I expected but after 3 tries I figured it out and now my site and store worke very well together.
ShadedAreas-
Looks good. The only suggestion I'd make would be the make the "selected" navigation item the word Store instead of About. Follow?
You know... I didn't even notice that. you're 100% correct. that is how it should be.
Oh, and upload a store avatar in your admin panel so your community page looks sexy. :-) http://www.storenvy.com/stores/2532-shaded-areas
Done. I also added a storenvy badge on my "communities" section of the menu that goes to my profile.
Thanks for the insight and advice. :-)
Well, not 100% perfect, but I'm pretty pleased with how I've managed to integrate my store into my site:
www.youseeshirts.com
I've tested in Chrome, IE, and Firefox - hopefully I've got all my bases covered.
Seeing as how the last post here is a year old, I'm curious if embedding was ever implemented fully. Or am I just missing something obvious?
Not yet. The best bet is to just match the style of the HTML and CSS to match your existing design. That seems to work really well for people.
Jon
Okay, thanks for the reply! This may not be an option for me right now though... is this still being worked on?
Embeddable stores aren't something we're actively working on.
Good to know, thanks. I assumed by "on our roadmap" it meant you guys were planning on adding this feature as was done with the Facebook app.
Yes, I also want to have place? Where we can go?
http://www.borsepradascarpe.com/
To everyone who's curious about this....
We've done a TON of customizations for storenvy shops (almost all the shopping sites in our portfolio are storenvy actually)
We can integrate storenvy with full sites/blogs with no problem. However you will have to continue using your normal storenvy shop, and we theme everything exactly the same....it definitely does the trick
Check out our work here http://awakendesigncompany.com and feel free to get in touch if you need anything at all.
@Jon are there instrutions that tell you how to match the HMTL and CSS codes?
Unfortunately, that's a pretty intense process, so there is no one-size-fits-all guide. You'll want to touch base with someone who knows HTML and CSS fairly well.
Hi, has there been any updates /solutions to embedding a store within a website at this point in time?
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