I am creating chat bot for facebook , my bot just answer me I think because this is not submitted for review yet , is it true ?
I made it in public mode but nothing changed!
so I asked review for the app but facebook needs Business verification that I don’t have because I’m just freelancer
so what can I do to make it public?
As facebook is fighting to gain their image back after being involved in some major data breaches recently, they are asking Chatbot developers to connect their Bots to real businesses.
The business verification process will take time from weeks to months, requiring appropriated documents proving the page business is real!
I see, therefore, there's no chance to publish your bot now, or even in the future, without having any serious business for the page! You, as developer of this Bot, can still have response from the Bot. Others, who want to connect with your Bot, must be gained a Role like Tester...
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I'm having trouble finding solution for my client's new web app - within this app, customers will be able to create ads for facebook, instagram and google (and others in future), all from 1 place. So, somehow I need to be able to manage ads for customers' Pages. For personal accounts it's "quite simple", through ads manager, big green button 'Add people', but I need this permission for Pages, not for personal accounts.
We already have approved "ads_management", "ads_read" and "manage_pages" (I'm not 100% sure if we'll need manage_pages permission) - we'll probably ask for "Ads Management Standard Access" too.
After some research, I think this whole thing might be possible through Business Manager (so we'll need "business_management" permission too, right?), then in app settings, there's business manager ID input (for linking business account with app).
Here's my proposed solution (simplified):
in our web app, customers will provide us with url/ID of their Page
api call to check whether logged-in user is administrator of provided Page
api call to add this Page to Business manager (send invitation)
api call to check if user/Page has accepted invitation - if so, we'll be able to manage their ads
Question is, is this (very simplified) solution possible? Will it work? There are dozens of APIs and I'm not sure I picked the right one.
Development is at early stage, so we don't have any in-depth research yet.
Something very similar might be here - Facebook ads, add customer page to business manager but it's 2 years old and after all scandals, there were a lot of changes in APIs, so I'm not sure whether it's still actual.
Thanks in advance
I created a chatbot using Dialogflow, hooked it up as a facebook messenger chatbot for my personal fan page (A fan page for my app).
I passed through the first review process and it got approved. The next step is to "verify my business".
I am not a business, I am just an individual developer, and I wanna allow my facebook fan page to have a chatbot that can interact with the users. I don't have a "bill" that shows my business cause I don't have on.
How do I go about that, how to enable the chatbot on a personal fan page without business verification?
In this case, I would go to Facebook Support and rise your question: https://developers.facebook.com/support.
Another approach would be to change of your solution provider. Dialogflow has the disadvantage that they force you to create a Facebook App. There are solutions which does it for you, you don't need to verify the business, go through App approval, etc.
If you need free hands with custom solutions or even hold the chatbot code, than I would recommend programmer tools like:
amio.io
botkit.ai
https://www.messagebird.com/en-gg/chat-api
recime.io
dev.botframework.com
If it's a simple chatbot you could take advantage of chat bot builders like:
chatfuel.com
motion.ai
botsify.com
there are many...
Disclaimer: I work at Amio.
Business verification step and acceptance of supplemental terms is mandatory for messenger apps.
However, for the business verification step if you are not an actual business you can instead submit your home utility bill (with your name). I had done the same and my app was approved recently.
I refer to a messenger bot (ChatPay) that we created and were seeking approval for. We noticed that the facebook team could not have a full experience on how the bot works as it is useful for registered users (as per the screen shot). The bot works with an application (ChatPay) from where registration is invoked and bank transaction interfaces are displayed from (for security purposes).
How do I go about getting the bot approved? We could provide test credentials to the facebook team. The app is at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.craft.chatpayenter image description here
Follow the regular review process, the Facebook users will test the bot and ask questions if need be. They tested my bot and asked a few questions.
I have the Pages application on my phone so I saw all the interaction with the bot immediately. You can type a personal message with Pages as well as have the bot respond. I spoke with the Facebook test team this way.
Another idea is to put some boilerplate text on the bot that tells the testers the requirements. You can make updates to the bot after the approval process to remove the instructions. Until approval the general public cannot access the bot so your clients will not see the instructions.
Here is my bot if you would like to play around. I'd be happy to help with your testing.
I want to develop an app where the customer could log in, pay, and receive some videos & pdfs.
I guess I have three options:
1) Make my own web app
2) Make a Facebook app (account creation will be with facebook)
3) Make a Messenger bot. A person would ask the bot what they want, the bot would send them payment link, they would pay and the bot would send them the download link for the content.
The reason I am thinking of this is that every customer will have to initiate conversation with my bot, so the bot will be able to e.g. send them messages afterwards (remarketing).
So I guess my question is: would this work from a technical point? And is there any other notes or recommendations somebody can give me? Just want to see what the internet thinks about this idea. Cheers!
Dominik,
Your general idea will work with a FB bot. FB has some restrictions however:
"The Send/Receive API must not be used to send marketing or promotional messages, such as sale or product announcements, brand advertising, branded content, newsletters or the up-selling or cross-selling of products or service."
https://developers.facebook.com/products/messenger/
I'm not quite sure where the line is for users that reach out to your Bot in terms of up-selling.
If you haven't started yet. See my article on getting your Facebook Bot up and running:
Facebook Bots for fun and profit
--Matt
As an update for anyone else reading this, Facebook have revised the clause on sending promotional / marketing messages, effectively allowing it, IIRC.
The restriction on promotional content has been removed for standard messaging.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/policy-overview
I've Google. I've Binged. I've posted on both the Facebook dev boards, as well as Payvment's discussion forum, and no one seems to be able to answer what I thought was a very simple, straight-forward question. So I figured it couldn't hurt to take my chances in here.
I am writing a Facebook app which will be performing a real-world service for the user. I would like it to implement a subscription-based model, where the user pays $x/month to use the service (the app).
So I hear about this thing called the Facebook Credits API, and it seems like it's exactly what I'm looking for. Facebook handles all the nasty ecom/PCI compliance stuff, users buy tokens for your app, you get the money, and then your biz logic hits the API to see if the user has sufficient credits to use your app. Sadly, I was mistaken.
According to their Credit Integration Guide, it seems like Facebook credits are only good for game tokens and virtual goods. Not for real-world products. But then I heard about Payvment...
Payvment is this new ecom platform for managing real-world storefronts on Facebook. Free public beta even, into perpetuity.
But, for the life of me, I can't seem to get an answer to this question: can one use Payvment to charge users for services, not physical products? If not, what Facebook integration (if any) exists to provide for such a thing?
Payvment uses PayPal for checkouts inside Facebook.
As you are writing a Facebook App, you are able to use any 3rd party payment solution within your canvas, even PayPal.