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Connect your account

Open Marketing > Instagram feed. Choose one of the two ways.

Option A: paste an access token (fastest)

In the Meta App Dashboard (developers.facebook.com/apps), create an app of the Business type and add the Instagram product.
Open Instagram > API setup with Instagram login. Under Generate access tokens, add your Instagram professional account and log in.
Click Generate token, copy it and paste it into Access token. Click Connect.

The add-on checks the token with Instagram, shows your username and starts the first sync.

Option B: connect with your Meta app

In the same app, open Instagram > API setup with Instagram login > Set up Instagram business login.
Copy the Valid OAuth redirect URI shown on the add-on page into the redirect URI list of the app. It must match exactly and use https.
Copy the Instagram app ID and Instagram app secret into the add-on and click Connect with Instagram. Allow access on the Instagram page.

The add-on exchanges the code for a long-lived token. The app secret is stored encrypted and kept for later reconnects.

Token lifetime

Instagram tokens last 60 days. The add-on refreshes the token when it is older than 7 days (on a sync or the cron job), so it does not expire while the feed is synced. The card shows the expiry date. If a token is revoked or expires, the card turns red: connect again.

Settings (Add-ons > Manage > Instagram Shop Feed)

Setting	Default	What it does
Enable the Instagram feed	On	Off: no sync, the storefront block is empty. Posts and tags are kept.
Posts to sync	24	How many of your newest posts are kept in sync (12, 24, 36 or 50). Older pinned or tagged posts stay.
Sync every (hours)	1	Minimum time between two syncs (cron job or admin page visit).
Show new posts automatically	On	Off: new posts arrive hidden; you choose which ones the storefront shows.
Click on a post	Dialog	Open a dialog with the tagged products, or open the post on Instagram.

CS-Cart Ultimate

Select a storefront in the admin panel to connect an account for that storefront. An account connected in the “All storefronts” mode is shared: storefronts without their own account show it. With only one storefront, CS-Cart works in the shared mode.

Multi-Vendor

One account for the marketplace, managed by administrators. Vendors have no access to the page.