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Meta business portfolio partner access

Access granted automatically

Meta's business portfolio (still called Business Manager by most people) is how businesses share ad accounts, Pages and other assets with an agency without sharing a login. Your agency is added as a partner by its Business ID. Agency Pilot's onboarding link does that assignment for your client, for every asset on the link, in one Meta dialog.

Meta business portfolio at a glance

What partner access is
The client's portfolio shares specific assets with your portfolio. You then decide which of your people can use them.
What you need
Your agency's Business ID. Agency Pilot detects it when you connect your own Meta login under Your Meta setup.
Assets the link can share
Ad accounts and Facebook Pages, in the same dialog.
Several portfolios
List more than one Business ID and each is assigned as a partner.

Why partner access beats adding people

When a client adds individual people from your agency to their portfolio, access follows those people. Someone leaves, someone new joins, and the client has to do it all again — often through the one person who knows where the menu is.

Partner access is granted to your portfolio instead. The client shares the asset once; inside your portfolio you assign and remove your own team as needed. The client keeps ownership and can end the partnership at any time.

Finding your agency's Business ID

Your Business ID is the long number on the Business info page of your portfolio's settings. In Agency Pilot you rarely need to copy it: connect your own Meta login under Onboarding → Connected accounts → Your Meta setup and click Detect, and every link uses it.

Adding a partner to a portfolio by hand

  1. 1

    The client opens Business settings for their portfolio.

  2. 2

    Under Users, chooses Partners and clicks Add.

  3. 3

    Chooses Give a partner access to your assets and enters the agency's Business ID.

  4. 4

    Selects the assets (ad accounts, Pages) and the permissions for each, and saves.

Ending a partnership

  1. 1

    Business settings → Users → Partners → the agency → remove, or remove individual assets from the partner.

Meta business portfolio: common questions

Is business portfolio the same as Business Manager?
Yes. Meta renamed Business Manager to business portfolio inside Meta Business Suite; the partner mechanics are the same.
Does the client need to accept anything from us?
No. Partner access takes effect as soon as the client shares the asset. There's no invitation to accept on your side.
Can a personal ad account be shared with a partner?
No. It has to be in a business portfolio first. The link tells the client when that's the problem.

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