Requirements for Instagram Shopping
This page was printed on Sep 29, 2020. For the current version, visit https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/online-sales-channels/facebook/instagram/requirements.
To use the Instagram Shopping, you need to meet the following requirements:
- You need to be on the Basic Shopify plan or higher and have opened an online store.
- You need to remove the password from your online store.
- You need to connect your Instagram business profile to a Facebook catalog.
- You need to comply with Facebook's merchant agreement and commerce policies.
- You need to sell physical goods.
- You need to use the latest version of the Instagram app that is available in your country.
Product requirements
Products sold on Instagram need to follow Facebook commerce policies.
Convert an Instagram profile into a business profile
Steps:
- Using Instagram, open your profile and then go to your settings.
- Tap Switch to business profile and follow the steps to connect Instagram to your Facebook business page. Make sure that you connect to the Facebook page that you added to Shopify.
Learn more about converting to an Instagram profile to a business profile in the Facebook Help Center.
Set up Facebook Shop
Before you set up the Instagram Shopping channel, make sure that you have a Facebook Shop page and that you have added products to your Facebook catalog. If you aren't already selling on Facebook, then you can set up Facebook Shop and make products available to the channel to create a Facebook product catalog. If you have published products to Facebook by using Facebook Shop, then you meet this requirement.