FAQs

One of the easiest ways is to bring the Instagram content your customers already recognize directly into your storefront.

Mintt Instafeed lets you add Reels, UGC, photos and video galleries to product and collection pages, helping shoppers see products in real-life content without leaving your store. Mintt Instafeed is optimized with techniques such as lazy loading to minimize its impact on storefront performance.

You can use Mintt Instafeed to turn Instagram Reels, tagged UGC and uploaded videos into shoppable galleries on Shopify.

Tag Shopify products in your content and shoppers can discover products, view product information and shop while engaging with your photos and videos.

Connect your Instagram account to Mintt Instafeed and tag Shopify products or collections in your posts.

Your Instagram feed then becomes a shoppable gallery where customers can discover products and, depending on your setup, shop or add items to cart directly from your content.

Mintt Instafeed supports Instagram Reels, which can sync directly from your Instagram account and be used in shoppable galleries across your Shopify store, including product pages.

For TikTok content, Mintt Studio offers a separate app, Mintt TikTok Feed, designed specifically for displaying TikTok videos on Shopify. Learn more about Mintt TikTok Feed.

Yes. With Product and Collection Feeds on the Plus plan, Mintt Instafeed can automatically show content relevant to the product or collection a shopper is viewing.

You configure one feed, and Mintt Instafeed filters it automatically based on the products or collections tagged in each post. There’s no need to manually create a separate feed for every product page.

Yes. Mintt Instafeed Plus includes Analytics for measuring how shoppers interact with your feeds, including views, clicks, product clicks, influenced orders and influenced revenue.

An influenced order is an order placed during a visit where the shopper interacted with your Instafeed content, such as opening a post, viewing a product or adding a product to cart. This gives you a clearer picture of how your social content contributes to the shopping journey.

You can view performance across all feeds or filter the data by individual feed and date range.

Absolutely. You can customize Mintt Instafeed to fit the design of your Shopify store, including layouts such as grids and sliders, responsive columns, image formats, pop-up styles, colors and other display settings.

Feeds are responsive by default, and you can control how they appear on desktop and mobile. Available customization options vary by plan. Check our articles on how to customize your feed here.

You can display Mintt Instafeed across your Shopify store, including your homepage, product pages, collection pages and other content pages.

With Online Store 2.0 themes, you can add Instafeed through the Shopify theme editor as an app section. Product and Collection Feeds on the Plus plan can automatically show content relevant to the product or collection being viewed.

Mintt Instafeed is designed to minimize its impact on storefront performance. It uses techniques including lazy loading, optimized assets and lightweight JavaScript so content loads efficiently instead of blocking the rest of the page.

Mintt Instafeed is also Built for Shopify and is designed for high-traffic Shopify and Shopify Plus stores. As with any storefront feature, real-world performance can also depend on your theme, other apps, media and page configuration.

Learn more about how Mintt Instafeed is built for speed and security.

Mintt Instafeed works with modern Shopify themes, including Online Store 2.0 themes, and is designed to be responsive across desktop and mobile.

For most themes, you can add the feed directly from the Shopify theme editor without editing code. Legacy themes are also supported, although some may require a custom Liquid or HTML block. If you run into a theme-specific issue, the Mintt Studio support team can help.

No. Most merchants can install and configure Mintt Instafeed without writing any code.

Install the app, connect your Instagram account, customize your feed and click Add to theme to place it on your store. Most modern Shopify themes support the Mintt Instafeed app section directly in the theme editor.

Older or highly customized themes may occasionally require additional setup, and our support team can help if needed.

Mintt Instafeed connects to Instagram using Meta’s official APIs rather than scraping Instagram pages. Mintt Studio is an official Meta Business Partner and maintains the integration as Meta updates its platform.

Meta can still disconnect an account or restrict specific types of Instagram media. If your Instagram connection is lost, you can reconnect it from Mintt Instafeed, and connection notifications are available to help you catch disconnections quickly.

Mintt Instafeed connects through Meta’s official authentication and APIs. Mintt Studio is an official Meta Business Partner and does not rely on screen scraping or unofficial Instagram APIs to retrieve your content.

Mintt Instafeed is also Built for Shopify, meaning the app has met Shopify requirements for areas including performance, integration and merchant experience.

Learn more about Mintt Instafeed’s approach to performance and security.

Yes. The Mintt Instafeed Starter plan is free and does not add Mintt Studio branding or watermarks to your feed.

The free plan includes Instagram photo posts and Reels, responsive grid or slider layouts, unlimited views, customizable pop-ups, hourly auto-sync and API access.

See the latest Mintt Instafeed pricing.

The Pro plan is the starting point for shoppable feeds. It lets you tag Shopify products and collections, show product information and add Shop now or Add to cart actions to your content.

The Plus plan adds Product and Collection Feeds, which automatically show relevant tagged content on individual product and collection pages. Plus also includes features such as UGC, automatic product tagging, unlimited feeds, custom media and Analytics.

Compare all features on the pricing page.

Yes. Both the Pro and Plus plans currently include a 7-day free trial, so you can test paid features on your store before continuing with the subscription.

You can also start on the free Starter plan and upgrade when you need additional features.

Yes. Pro and Plus merchants can generate an email-friendly version of their Instagram feed and embed selected posts into marketing emails using HTML.

This lets you reuse current Instagram content in newsletters and campaigns while linking shoppers back to your store.

With Mintt Instafeed Plus you can send eligible shoppable videos to Shopify’s Shop app.

You upload a supported vertical video through Custom Media, tag at least one product and submit it to Shop. Shopify determines where and to whom submitted videos are displayed.

Performance for Shop videos can then be viewed through the Shop sales channel in Shopify.

Learn more about the Shop integration here.

Pro and Plus merchants can use Mintt Instafeed’s SEO and AI rich-snippet features to expose structured information about feed content to search engines and other systems that understand structured data.

This can make your social content easier for those systems to understand, although using structured data does not guarantee rankings, traffic or inclusion in AI-generated results.