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Due to changes Facebook has made to their API the Featured Listing tab will only be available to business pages with 2000 or more followers
IDX Broker offers Facebook integration right from your IDX Broker account. Through this feature, you can connect your IDX Broker account to a Facebook business page and show your featured listings right on Facebook.
To customize the settings for the IDX Broker Facebook page, click Design -> Website -> Page Templates in your IDX Broker dashboard.
Step 1 - Enter Business Page URL and ID
From this page you may select Edit Preferences in the Facebook page row. There are two tabs that offer customization. To link your IDX Broker account to Facebook, select the Facebook ID tab and enter both the URL and the Page ID of your Facebook Business Page in the provided areas.
If you are having trouble finding the Facebook Page ID, it can be found by doing the following:
- From News Feed, click Pages in the let side menu.
- Click your Page name to go to your Page.
- Click About in the left column. If you don't see About, click See More.
- Scroll down to find your Page ID below More Info.
If you do not have a Facebook business page, you can create one via the link "Create a Facebook page first" provided on the IDX Facebook preferences page or by clicking here.
NOTE:
- IDX Facebook integration will not work with a personal Facebook profile or any page that is not open to the public. A simple way to tell the difference is personal Facebook profiles have “friends” and business Facebook pages have “likes”.
- Your business page cannot use this feature if you have age, country, or other privacy restrictions.
Step 2 - Add the Facebook Page App
After setting your Facebook page ID, you will need to add this app. Simply click 'Link on FB' to enable the IDX Facebook app. You will need to be logged into your Facebook account for this step.
Step 3 - Customize the Facebook Page App
You can customize the Facebook tab icon and name in your Facebook page settings. Read this article on Facebook for instructions. Just like your other IDX Broker pages, Custom CSS and Sub-Headers are available. You can edit the CSS and sub-headers by navigating to Design -> Website in the menu. Facebook is a page level customization in the Other category of Custom CSS and Sub-headers sections.
On the settings tab you may select how many property listings you would like to show per page on Facebook.
Considerations
- Adding the Facebook app for IDX Broker creates a new tab on your Facebook business page. In order to use a new version of the Featured Listings tab, you must remove the previous version from your page or you will see 2 tabs for featured listings on Facebook. The previous version doesn't update its display to show the new template without being added to Facebook and adding it creates a separate app id.
- Facebook does not support custom app tabs on mobile, meaning the Featured Listings app tab will not be visible on your business page in the mobile app or mobile browser, but it will be visible on desktop.
Removing the Facebook Page App
If you'd like to remove the Featured Listings tab from your page you will have to use the hidden Apps Settings page within Facebook. To do this you'll have to navigate to https://facebook.com/PAGE_USERNAME/settings?tab=apps while logged in as an administrator for your page, making sure to replace PAGE_USERNAME with the username of your Facebook Page.
With the hidden settings page open, you'll see a list of third party apps that have been added to your Facebook Page. Click on the grey 'x' at the far right of the "Featured Listings" app to remove it.