SpreeSocialMediaMarketing

Spree Social Media Marketing helps making regular marketing tasks a breeze.

It helps you with managing your Facebook and Twitter Marketing Accounts. You can post to Facebook and Twitter Accounts, right from the Spree Admin Console. It helps you create few Marketing Events which will trigger automatic posts to active Social Media Acconts.

A product selling fast will trigger a low stock marketing event which will post a low stock message on social accounts.
When you are receiving bumper orders, you can market that.
A new payment method addition will trigger a post about its availability.
A new product is available, gets posted automatically on your social accounts
A new promotion can be immediately announced on social accounts
You want to boast of 1000 users onboard, can be posted automatically on social accounts

You are more of a DIY type, use the manual posting for each social account :)

Pre-requisites

You should have account on Facebook Developers
- Create an App
- Create a Facebook Page in your account where you want to post updates
You should have account on Twitter Account
- Create an App

Installation

Add this extension to your Gemfile with this line:

gem 'spree_social_media_marketing', github: 'vinsol-spree-contrib/spree-social-media-marketing', branch: 'master'

For Spree version > 3-1, use 'master' branch For Spree version 3-1, use '3-1-stable' branch

The branch option is important: it must match the version of Spree you're using. For example, use 3-1-stable if you're using Spree 3-1-stable or any 3.1.x version.

Install the gem using Bundler:

bundle install

Add gem 'koala' with desired version in SpreeCommerce Store Rails App Gemfile to avoid undefined constant error :(

Copy & run migrations

bundle exec rails g spree_social_media_marketing:install

Set Social Accounts API key credentials in Rails secrets (config/secrets.yml)

Facebook

# config/secrets.yml
development:
  facebook_app_secret: 1234567
  facebook_app_key: abscdg

test:
  facebook_app_secret: 1234567
  facebook_app_key: abscdg

Twitter

# config/secrets.yml
development:
  twitter_consumer_key: 1234567
  twitter_consumer_secret: abscdg

test:
  twitter_consumer_key: 1234567
  twitter_consumer_secret: abscdg

NOTE : Use the key names same as above :)

Restart your server

If your server was running, restart it so that it can find the assets properly.

Testing

First bundle your dependencies, then run rake. rake will default to building the dummy app if it does not exist, then it will run specs. The dummy app can be regenerated by using rake test_app.

bundle
bundle exec rake

When testing your applications integration with this extension you may use it's factories. Simply add this require statement to your spec_helper:

require 'spree_social_media_marketing/factories'

Contributing

If you'd like to contribute, please take a look at the instructions for installing dependencies and crafting a good pull request.

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