Share Buttons for Shopify

Do you want your customers to be able to easily share your products with their friends and family? That’s what the Shopify Share Buttons do: they’re buttons that let your customers share your products on Facebook, tweet about them, Pin them on Pinterest, and much more.

There’s even an “Email” button so that visitors to your site can easily email a product to a friend – this is a particularly handy option if you sell products that people might want to ask for (and give!) as gifts. 

If you’re not already familiar with Shopify, here’s what you need to know:

Shopify is an ecommerce platform: it lets you create a website and sell products online, and it makes this process as smooth and straightforward as possible. Rather than having a site on a platform like WordPress that you then need to customize with third-party plugins in order to sell products, Shopify allows you to do everything in one place.

You can make your online shop look (almost) however you want. There are a whole bunch of different “themes” (designs) to pick from, and you can even customize these further using CSS and HTML code, if you want to.

You can set up as many “products” and “collections” (groups of products) as you want. As well as setting up manual collections – e.g., a group of products that you think would make great Christmas gifts – you can even create automatic collections that will include products that meet certain criteria – e.g., products within a certain price range. 

If you want to know more about Shopify and how to get started with it, WebsiteSetup has a great tutorial here. 

You’re not limited to just having the Shopify Share Buttons on one section of your online store; you can put them pretty much anywhere! This includes:

• On any of your Shopify pages or blog posts – You can copy your share buttons into any place within the blog post by adding the appropriate HTML code.
• On all your product pages – You can add share buttons to all your product pages at once (you don’t need to fiddle around doing it for each and every one individually) by editing your Shopify theme’s code to include the HTML code in the correct place.

Facebook is used by an estimated 2.8 billion people in the world, meaning it’s a particularly important social network for many ecommerce stores to focus on. After all, think of the traffic (and sales!) you might get if one of your products went viral on Facebook.

There are a couple of ways you can add a Facebook share button to your Shopify store:

By using Facebook’s own like button code. This is aimed at developers and involves creating and styling your own button, creating a code snippet in Shopify, and more. There are detailed instructions here. 

By using the ShareThis Share Buttons for Shopify. This means that most of the hard work is done for you. As well as the Facebook Share Button, you can also add several other share buttons that will fit into your Shopify store seamlessly.