Facebook launches ‘Shops’ for Facebook and Instagram

Facebook on Tuesday launched Facebook shops, a new e-commerce venture to help small businesses.

The feature allows businesses to set up storefronts on Facebook and Instagram for free.

These will be powered by third-party eCommerce services such as Shopify, BigCommerce, and Woo.

“If you can’t physically open your store or restaurant, you can still take orders online and ship them to people,” he said. “We’re seeing a lot of small businesses that never had online businesses get online for the first time,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had said in a live stream.

The feature is to help small businesses amid the ongoing economic crisis due to the Covid-19 pandemic. According to a recent survey conducted by Facebook and the Small Business Roundtable,