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Connect Square Online with Meta for Business

Connect your Square Online website to Meta for Business so you can run personalised targeted ads featuring your products, manage your Meta pixel for enhanced ad targeting, and manage all your eCommerce channels in one place.

Features

Connecting your Square Online site with Meta offers many features, including

  • Sync your product catalogue and run dynamic ads featuring top items

  • Enhance your ad targeting and measure effectiveness with the Meta pixel

  • Gain valuable data to understand your customers better

Meta for Business Glossary

Meta Feature Description
Facebook Pixel An analytics tool that helps you manage the effectiveness of your advertising.
Ads Manager A Meta tool where you can create and manage Facebook and Instagram ads.
Automatic Advanced Matching Advanced Matching can help you optimise your Facebook ads to drive better results. Toggle on this feature so you can use the information your customers have provided to your business, like an email address or phone number, to match your website’s visitors to people on Facebook.
Meta Catalogue A catalogue holds information about all the items you want to advertise or sell on Facebook Shops and Instagram Shopping. You can use your catalogue with different types of ads and sales channels to promote your items.
Facebook Shops A feature you can enable to make products visible to customers on your Facebook Page.
This is available via Meta Commerce Manager.
Instagram Shopping Allows customers to buy your items from the Instagram app.
This is available via Meta Commerce Manager.

Get Started

Custom domains

If you have a custom domain connected to your Square Online site, you can use DNS verification to verify your domain for Facebook Shops. This verification is typically done by adding a TXT record to your DNS. Learn how to manage records for Square Online domains for more information on how to add a record to your DNS.

Free subdomains

To verify your free Square subdomain with a meta tag to set up Facebook Shops:

  1. Sign in to your Square Dashboard and go to Sales channels > Online > Settings > Tracking Tools.
  2. Select Add new code.
  3. Enter the code’s name and the code in the corresponding fields in the pop-up window.
  4. Place the Facebook meta tag in the header by selecting the < head > option.
  5. Select Save when finished.
  6. Publish your site from the Square Online site editor to add the code to your website and complete the verification.

Manage your products synced to Meta

Once you’ve integrated your Facebook and Instagram accounts, you can manage items from your product catalogue within your Square account. Any future updates made to your Square product catalogue will automatically sync to Meta Commerce Manager.

To manage your product listings:

  1. Go to Items & orders > Items > Channels Listings from your online Square Dashboard.

  2. From here you can bulk edit, search or filter your listings so you can quickly view or edit the attributes of your listings.

  3. To manage channel assignment, go to Item Library > Item and use the Meta toggle under ‘Square Online Settings’ to assign or unassign that item to the channel.

    • To manage channel assignment, go to Item Library > Item and use the Meta toggle under ‘Square Online Settings’ to assign or unassign that item to the channel.

Troubleshooting products synced to Meta

To troubleshoot your listings, read the following support articles in the Meta Business Help Centre:

Run personalised Shops ads

To learn more about running Shops ads, read the following support articles in the Meta Business Help Centre:

Disconnect your Meta Account

To disconnect your Meta for Business account from Square Online:

  1. Go to eCommerce > Online sales channels from your online Square Dashboard.

  2. Next to "Meta for Business," click Manage.

  3. Click Remove Channel.

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