If you are a business page holder on FB, you should know how to claim Facebook page ownership. This is a crucial step as you need to have all the authority over your page. To claim ownership of the page, you need to go to your Facebook profile and select the page you want to claim.
Meta has made the procedure to claim a page much easier, yet it can be tricky. But you do not have to worry about it. We have your back. Let’s see a detailed process on how to claim Facebook page ownership.
How To Claim Ownership Of Your Facebook Page?
Before we start, know that to claim ownership of the page, you need to be the admin of the page, and you also need to have an account in the meta business centre. Because your FB profile is your personal account, but through your Facebook page, you gain perks like running the Ad campaign for your online business and retargeting your potential customers.
Your Facebook page is an essential element to growing your FB business. You can only claim a Facebook Page through the desktop. Here’s how you can claim ownership of your Facebook page.
- In your Facebook feed, go to Pages in the left menu.
- Now go to your page.
- Select Settings. And click on Page Transparency.
- Under Assign Page Owner, select Assign.
- Now, select a verified Business Manager and click Assign.
How To Claim Ownership Of A Managed Facebook Page?
A managed Facebook page has a legitimate official representative behind the page who created the FB page and is now working on the page. If you wish to claim ownership of such a business page on Facebook, you need to contact the existing page owner.
You can search for them in the posts, comments, and About sections of the FB page. Now, if you think you are within the legal rights to claim ownership of a Facebook page, you can message them – asking them to hand over the page to you.
This method me not work for everyone because anyone would not hand over their page to you. In such cases, you can request access to the existing owner by following the steps below.
- Open the Meta Business Centre on your browser.
- Now select the ‘Settings’ icon account at the bottom left
- And go to the ‘Pages’ tab on the left.
- Click on the ‘Add’ button.
- Select ‘Request access‘ to Page.
- Now go to Facebook and copy the page URL you want.
- Paste the URL in the dialog box
- Once you paste the URL, you will see the page in the drop-down
- Select the page
- Turn on the tasks you would like to take over
- Then select ‘Request access.’
You must be patient and wait for the FB page admin to respond. And if they do not respond, consider it a NO on their side.
This feature is also helpful for service providers or if you have a client whose Facebook page you must handle. Once the FB page admin grants access to you, you will be the partial owner of the page. Now that’s out the way, let’s see how to claim ownership of an unmanaged page.
How To Request Ownership Of An Unmanaged Facebook Page?
The first criterion for claiming ownership of a Facebook page is that someone else shouldn’t manage it. The unmanaged Facebook page will have an indication on it citing ‘Unofficial Page,’ and next to that will be a button citing ‘Is this your business?’ If you find such a page, select the is this your business button and follow the instructions on the screen.
Facebook will then ask you if you have a verified page. In this case, you can merge this unofficial page with your previously owned verified one or claim and verify ownership of this unmanaged Facebook page by providing your phone number or valid documents. And You can also verify the ownership by using email. Here’s how you can do it.
Claim FB Page Ownership By Verifying The Email
Email verification is another method you may use. It’s possible that this choice isn’t offered in your nation. Your email address should be a professional one connected to the business domain name.
Please note that Facebook does not accept emails made with Yahoo or Gmail for this reason. You must use your business email to claim a Facebook page for your company.
That’s all there is to it; you can now handle the claimed Facebook company page yourself or hire a social media manager. Please be aware that Facebook takes a week to respond to all the apples. Now will be able to manage the Facebook page until the officials have accepted the appeal.
That was easy. Further, let’s see how we can assign roles to people on our Facebook page.
Assign Page Roles On Your Facebook Page
If you wish to transfer ownership of your Facebook business page to someone else or assign new page roles like appointing a new FB page administrator or editor, follow the below-mentioned steps.
- Open your Facebook home feed.
- Click Pages from the left side menu.
- Open the Facebook page you’d like to assign page roles to.
- Now click Page Settings from the right-side menu.
- Under page settings, search for Page Roles.
- Under ‘Page Roles,’ jump to the Page Owner section.
- Click Assign a new page role to assign new parts for your Facebook page.
- Type the name of the person
- From the drop-down menu,
- Select the Page Role you wish to assign. These roles vary from Admin to Editor, Moderator, etcetera.
- Click Add to confirm their access.
This will assign that page role to the attested Facebook account.
What To Do If Someone Else Claimed Your Facebook Page?
When someone hacks your page, it is considered a legal matter of Facebook dispute of page ownership. If you want to regain ownership of your hacked Facebook page, you must submit a form to FB with valid government Id proofs and the correct information about your page. Once you have submitted the notarization form, Facebook will legally transfer the page ownership back to you. That’s how you can recover the page admin role and claim ownership of your Facebook page.
How To Transfer Ownership OF the Facebook Page?
You cannot wholly transfer ownership to someone else. However, you can give partial access to your Facebook page to your friends by going to the Meta business centre, going to pages and selecting the FB page you want to provide access to others, and click on Assign Partners, now choose the tasks you want them to manage and document their business id.
These were some quick ways how to claim Facebook page ownership. We hope through this guide. You’ll be able to make grants for unmanaged FB pages while trying to access a verified FB business page. Also, do not forget you can always re kind of issues regarding your ownership of your FB page to Facebook support or FB business help. Make sure you have a Facebook Business account to create a FB Page. And be patient if you have requested access to someone else’s business page.