Connect your catalog to Meta
Upload customized Confect designs into a Meta catalogTable of Contents
Copy the Confect catalog URLGo to your Commerce Manager catalogChange the feed for the catalogFor Shopify and other platform catalogsPreview your Facebook catalogAfter you’ve created your first design and Confect catalog, the next step is to import them into your Facebook Commerce Manager so that you can start using the customizable designs instead of white-background packshots.
- Get a Product Feed URL from your Confect catalog.
- Go to the Meta Commerce Manager and your current catalog.
- Open the "Data sources" tab.
- Click on the data source under "Data feeds" (top of the screen).
- Inside the data feed, go to settings and replace the URL.
If your catalog has a Shopify or WooCommerce integration:
- Instead of replacing, add the Confect URL as a "Supplementary feed".
This guide will walk you through the Facebook Commerce Manager to ensure that your new creatives replace the old packshots without losing any valuable optimization data.
You can find a follow-along guide inside your Meta catalog. This gives you a tailored process, depending on whether you have:
- A normal catalog: includes a feed URL
- A Shopify catalog: "Syncing from partner platform"
Copy the Confect catalog URL
The catalog URL provided by Confect will update automatically if there are any changes in your data source, such as price or availability, and if you decide to change the design - and update this in Meta.
The first step is to go to "Catalogs" inside Confect.
Here, you have to click your "Meta" catalog and click on "Connect your catalog.".
- I'm not using Shopify: Your catalog inside the Commerce Manager includes a feed URL
- I'm using Shopify: Your catalog inside the Commerce Manager has "Syncing from partner platform" (also choose this if you have a WooCommerce or Magento app, not just Shopify)
The guide takes you through all the necessary steps.
If you're instead following along with this written article, you can go to step #4 (in either version) and copy the URL.
Go to your Commerce Manager catalog
First, go to your Ad Manager, either through the business.facebook.com link or any way you prefer.
Make sure you have the correct business selected at the top-left of the screen if you are managing more than one company account.
Click on the “All tools” menu, and click “Commerce Manager”. This is where you can see all the catalogs being used for this business.
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Scroll down to “Catalogs” and select the catalog you want to replace in case you have more than one.
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It is key to connect Confect to your existing main catalog in Meta. Creating and using multiple catalogs leads to worse performance.
Avoid creating a new Meta catalog at this step, which would lead to a loss of learning data. Meta will warn you when creating a new catalog:
Change the feed for the catalog
If you're using Shopify or other platform partners in Meta, go to section 3.1. of this guide.
Inside the Commerce Manager for the right business and catalog, click on “Data sources”.
Click on the “Data feed” this catalog is currently using.
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Go into “Settings”.
Click on the menu in “Replace schedule” (on the right side) and select “Edit”.
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Now, delete the current URL in the “URL” field, and paste in the Confect catalog URL you’ve copied in the first step.
We recommend you set the “Frequency and time” to “Hourly”.
Leave the username and password empty and click “Save”.
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For Shopify and other platform catalogs
If your catalog uses an integration (called "partner platform" in Facebook), like most Shopify shops do, there will be no URL in the data source for you to replace.
In that case, add the Confect URL as a "Supplementary feed" inside the catalog.
Here, just click "Add supplementary feed" and go through the steps that Facebook will show.
Preview your Facebook catalog
To get the images to update right now, click on “Request update now” under “Schedules”, and wait for the changes to load.
Depending on the number of products, this may take anywhere from 2 to 20 minutes.
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Go into “Items” and preview all your new, custom images. All the product information will be the same as in the data source you’ve entered into Confect.
Anytime you’d like to adjust the design, you can do this directly inside Confect, without changing the URL in Facebook Manager.
Congrats! You’re now ready to start running much better, and eye-catching Catalog Ad campaigns.