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Add ad accounts in Meta Business Manager
In Meta Business Manager, you can add your ad accounts to your business portfolio and get access to other people's or businesses's ad accounts. In the Ad accounts section of Business settings, you'll see ad accounts that you own and ad accounts, which are owned by others and that you have access to. If an ad account is owned by another person or business, you'll see the name of the person or business who owns the ad account listed below the ad account name. If you own the ad account, you won't see additional information. You can filter by: Advertising for self, Advertising for partner, Owned by self, Owned by partner, Active, Disabled or Closed.
There are three ways to add ad accounts to your business portfolio:
- Add an ad account: Adding an ad account moves it permanently into a business portfolio. You must be both the owner of the ad account and have full control of the business portfolio to add the ad account. Remember, once you've added an ad account, and it's been moved into your business portfolio, this action can't be reversed. All management of your ad account must be completed within your business portfolio. You can't add an ad account that's part of another business portfolio. If you still want to work on an ad account that's part of a different business portfolio, you can request access to it.
- Request access to an ad account: If you request access to an ad account in a business portfolio, someone with full control of that portfolio can assign you access to work on it.
- Create a new ad account: If you create a new ad account in a business portfolio, it'll permanently be a part of that business portfolio. Once created, the ad account can't be transferred to an individual who doesn't have a business portfolio.
Before you begin
You can't add an ad account to a business portfolio if:
- The ad account you're trying to add has already been added by another business portfolio. An ad account can only be in one business portfolio. Instead, you can request access to the ad account.
- You have already added a personal ad account to a business portfolio. You can only add one ad account from your personal Facebook account into a business portfolio. Instead, you can create a new ad account in a business portfolio or you can request access to another ad account.
- You've reached your ad account limit for adding new ad accounts to your business portfolio. There's currently no available option to request more ad accounts. Your ad account limit increases based on your advertising spend. Learn how to view your ad account limit in Business Manager.
- The ad account is a prepaid ad account. Prepaid ad accounts can only be added to business portfolios if they're from certain locations.
- The ad account was previously or is currently linked to Facebook Pay.
Add an ad account in Business Manager
To add an ad account to a business portfolio in Business Manager:
- Go to Business settings.
- Click Accounts from the menu on the left-hand side menu. Then, click Ad accounts.
- Click the blue Add drop-down menu.
- Choose one of the three options: Add an ad account, Request access to an ad account or Create a new ad account.
- If you choose to request access or add an ad account, enter the ad account ID. Learn where to find the account ID.
- Follow the prompts to select people and access levels.
Deactivating an ad account doesn't delete the ad account from your business portfolio. A deactivated ad account still counts towards your ad account limit.
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