Transform your Instagram Reels into shopping opportunities by tagging your products. Read on to learn how.
Instagram Reels are the perfect way to create short-form content that both entertains and creates quick conversion opportunities. With Reels, you can tag featured products so shoppers need only tap View Products at the bottom of the Reel to browse products.
Before You Get Tagging
Before you can tag products in your Reels, you'll need to ensure you've completed the below actions:
- Connect Your Instagram Account. If you haven't already, ensure you've connected your Instagram within CommentSold.
- Create a Meta (Facebook and Instagram) Shop. You will need a Meta shop, which works for both Facebook and Instagram, to sell products on Instagram.
- Create a Meta Product Catalog. Your product catalog will sync products from CommentSold to Instagram so you can tag them in Reels, posts, and stories.
Tag Products in a Reel
- Once you create your Reel, tap Tag Products to view approved products.
- Choose between the Products and Collections tab to view products. You can tag up to 30 products or one collection in a Reel.
- Tap Add to the right of each product (or collection) you wish to tag in the Reel.
- Tap Done in the top-right corner of the app once complete.
- Review your Reel captions, settings, and tagged products, then tap Share.
What Shoppers Experience
- Shoppers can tap View Products at the bottom of a Reel to view tagged products.
- To view a specific product, shoppers can tap a product tile.
- On the product details page, shoppers can tap Add to Bag or Buy Now.
Add Shopping Tags to Your Instagram Posts
- Tap + on the top right corner of your Instagram home page.
- Select a photo or video and add a caption, effects and filters. Tap (Android) or Next (iOS).
- Tap Tag products. Tap the products in the photo or video that you want to tag.
- Search for the products you want to tag, then select them as they appear in the search box.
- Tap (Android) or Done (iOS).
- Tap Share.
Edit Tagging Permissions
By default, anyone can tag products in a post.
To give access to product tagging:
- In the Instagram app, go to your profile.
- Tap Business.
- Tap Shopping.
- Tap Product tags.
- Choose a desired permission. For more info, go here.
Permission Types
- Don’t allow product tags - only you can tag products.
- Allow product tags from everyone - allow everyone on Instagram to tag products from your shop.
- Allow product tags from only your branded content partners - grant permission to your branded content partners only.
Learn More
- Go Live on Instagram. Learn how you can broadcast your live sale to your Instagram followers.
- Sell Products Using Shoppable Instagram Stories. Learn how to link products in Instagram stories so shoppers can comment to cart the product.
- Reduce Spam in Instagram Comments. Learn how you can filter out bot comments in posts and live broadcasts using keywords.