Have you added your existing Facebook pages to your Business Manager for better management? To expand the availability to manage various Facebook pages with your team members, Facebook launched Facebook Business Manager in April, 2014. This tool lets team members or advertisers manage all of your ad accounts, Pages, apps and permissions in one place.
In this article, we’re introducing how you can create a new or claim an existing Facebook page under Facebook business manager, and strengthen the permission management for your team.
- Open your Facebook Business Manager! //business.facebook.com. If you haven’t created yours yet, just follow the steps to create it.
- Go to your Business Manager Settings, and you will see the tab “Pages” under “Accounts”. If you have existing Facebook pages, please select “Add” and “Add a Page”.
3. Add a Facebook Page name or URL. Select your Facebook page you want to claim in the drop-down menu. Click “Add a Page” to finish.
Please note that you can add a Facebook Page if your business already owns the Page. If you work for an agency, you should request your client’s Pages.
Adding a Page means you’ll see it in your Business Manager. To add a Page, you must already be an admin of that Page.
How to create a new page?
If you haven’t created any Facebook page, you can start to create one for fun today!
- Click “Add New Pages”, and select “Create a New Page”.
2. Choose a category that best represents your page.
3. Type your Page Name, and select the Category. Click “Create Page”.
Done! Your Facebook Page has been successfully created in the Business Manager.
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Do you want to manage your Facebook page under a Facebook Business Manager account? First, you have to add the Facebook page to the Business Manager.
In this short Facebook Business Manager tutorial, we are going to show you how to add a page to Facebook Business Manager. We are also going to explain what you need to be able to do this and why you might not be able to add a FB page to the Business Manager.
If you prefer to watch a video tutorial on how to add a page to a Facebook Business Manager/suite, check out this one:
- Things you need to be able to add a page to Business Manager
- How to add a Facebook page to Business Manager/Business Suite?
- Can’t add page to Facebook Business Manager/Meta Business Suite
- Adding a Facebook page vs Claiming request to a Facebook page
- Related articles to adding a Facebook page to Business Manager
Things you need to be able to add a page to Business Manager
If you want to add a Facebook page to your a Facebook Business account, here is what you need to have/do:
- You have to have functioning a Facebook Business Manager.
- You have to be the admin of the Facebook page for at least seven days.
- You must be the admin of the Facebook Business Manager.
- The page can’t be owned by another Facebook Business Manager. A Facebook page can only be owned by one Business Manager.
Here is how to add a page to Business Manager:
- Open up the Facebook Business Manager where you want to add the page to.
- Click on the Hamburger menu in the top left corner
- Select the ‘Business Settings’
option
- On the left sidebar, under ‘Accounts’ click on
‘Pages’
- You will see the list of Facebook pages you have already added to your Business Manager account. You can also see the ‘Add’ button. Click on
it.
- Or f you haven’t added any Facebook page to the Business Manager, you will see the ‘Add’ button on the middle of the
screen. Click on it. From here, the process is the same.
- From the options that appear, choose ‘Add a
page’.
- A popup will appear where you can add the Facebook
page.
- You can either add the URL of the Facebook page or start typing the Facebook page name, and Facebook will recommend
- Choose the right one and click on ‘Add page’ button
- If you have successfully added the page to Business Manager, you will see something like this.
Congrats, you have managed to add a page to the Business Manager. Now you can add people to the page and manage Facebook page roles for the page within the Business Manager.
Can’t add page to Facebook Business Manager/Meta Business Suite
If you are unable to add a page to a Facebook Business Manager, here is how you can try to troubleshoot it:
As we said, you have to be the admin of the Facebook page. If you are not the admin, you can request admin access to a Facebook page, or ask the FB page admin to add the Facebook page to this Business Manager.
You also have to be an admin in the Business Manager to be able to add a Facebook business page. You can find more info on how you can add admin to a Business Manager:
- How to add someone to a Facebook Business Manager?
Last but not least, the Facebook page that you want to add can’t be owned by another Facebook Business Manager. Let’s explain this in the next paragraph.
Adding a Facebook page vs Claiming request to a Facebook page
It is important to be aware of the difference between adding a Facebook page vs requesting access to a Facebook page in a Facebook Business Manager.
You should be the owner of the Facebook business page, if you are the owner of the business or the brand the Facebook page represents. In this case, you should add the Facebook page to the Business Manager.
However, if you are an agency or a freelancer and run social media marketing or Facebook advertising for a business, then you should request access to a Facebook page in Business Manager as you are not the owner of the particular Facebook page.
Related articles to adding a Facebook page to Business Manager
Once you have added a Facebook page to a Business Manager, it is also good to know things explained in the following articles:
- How to remove a Facebook page from the Business Manager?
- How to request access to a Facebook page in Facebook Business Manager?
- Transfer ownership of a Facebook page
- How to make a primary Facebook page?