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Shop Owner Tips: Widget in the Wild!

July 12, 2012

For this weeks Shop Owner Tip we’re pimping the [Widget](/content/labs#shop-embed "Shapeways Shop Embed"/index.html) and want to see it in the wild! The widget is our [Shop Embed tool](/content/labs#shop-embed "Shapeways shop embed"/index.html) that lets you create links for people to buy your Shapeways Shops products right from your own website.

You can easily curate a selection of your best products using [Shapeways Labs](/content/labs#shop-embed "Shapeways Labs"/index.html) Shop Embed tool. I suggest a row of three or a cluster of four. Users click the ‘Buy’ button to proceed directly to Shapeways checkout. You can use this to put up a few products on your homepage, or put up a whole shop on your website. See what looks best with your site’s design.

Here’s a selection of Jana the bear embedded on Cunicode.com – He’s used it to create his whole store.

Use the tool, snap a screen shot and post it to twitter! We’ve got a $50 voucher for printing for our favorite, so get embedding! Entries close Monday the 23rd July.

Comments

  1. TheMarchHare
    July 13, 2012 at 2:01 am
    Any updates on our feature request for the “Buy on Shapeways” button to enable specifying a material? That’s what’s keeping us from using (something very similar to) this more prominently on our site.

  2. Duann
    July 14, 2012 at 12:10 pm
    The buy button will add to cart in your default, specified material.

  3. Brad Dickason
    July 14, 2012 at 12:27 pm
    As Duann said, it will add the default material already, but we can look into adding an optional material selector if that would be useful.

  4. virtox
    July 15, 2012 at 2:38 pm
    I read somewhere that this was already possible? Just change the url to include material_id["]=
    http://www.shapeways.com/cart/addMultiple?model_id%5B%5D=36851&material_id%5B%5D=62

  5. Virtox
    July 15, 2012 at 3:33 pm
    Quick mockup (never mind the layout 😉
    http://shapeways.virtox.net/

  6. Anonymous
    July 15, 2012 at 3:35 pm
    It was Nancy here: [http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=msg&&th=9853&goto=49763#msg t=49763](/content/forum/index.php?t=msg&&th=9853&goto=49763#msg t=49763/index.html)

  7. Anonymous
    July 15, 2012 at 3:37 pm
    More details here: http://www.shapeways.com/tutorials/shoppingcart/index.html

  8. virtox
    July 15, 2012 at 6:43 pm
    Here are some more quickly hacked examples for people to play with:
    Select box for material: http://shapeways.virtox.net/index2.html

  9. TheMarchHare
    July 15, 2012 at 6:53 pm
    Thanks virtox and Anonymous for reminding me of this! I just went back through my notes and realized that we are actually using this already. This goes to show that I am getting old and confused… I guess what was lingering in my mind, and what I was actually meant to be referring to, is a way to link directly to a model page with the material already selected.

  10. virtox
    July 15, 2012 at 7:17 pm
    Anonymous is also me, the blog keeps calling me a spammer, so I post from a different browser sometimes and forget the fields 😉
    To preload a material on a model page use this syntax: http://www.shapeways.com/model/35861/?modelId=36851&materialId=45

  11. virtox
    July 15, 2012 at 7:19 pm
    typo: http://www.shapeways.com/model/36851/?modelId=36851&materialId=45

  12. Colors of Birch
    July 17, 2012 at 4:50 am
    Got it working : ) Loolks really good too! http://colorsofbirch.com/store/store/

  13. Natalia
    July 17, 2012 at 3:11 pm
    Wow! That looks great!