I developed Facebook Page Tab App which has been up and running on my personal Facebook account for about a year now. I need to transfer this (if at all possible) to another Facebook account which is our company account. Can anyone advise if this is possible and if so where to start? Also would it cause any disruption to the users currently using the app?
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as you have been told, it's not possible for "business" accounts to create app. I guess you are talking about "fake" personal account to which multiple people from your company will have access to. If that's the case, then just add that account as admin to your app - and then remove yourself from admins. That's it - app belongs to another account now.
UPDATE: probably "fake account" is not the best word. I should have said "company owner will register personal account which will be used for business purposes". In this case you can transfer the app there.
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Can I create or manage a Facebook app via a 'business' account?
When I try to access https://developers.facebook.com/apps when logged in as a business account it redirects me back to my homepage and won't let me create an app.
Context: A business / advertising account (sometimes called a 'gray account') is a special, now-deprecated type of account Facebook provided to advertisers to manage their Ads and Pages before Business Manager launched - the primary reason people want to use a business account with an App is to link the existing App to the Ad account so Ads can be driven to the application.
Is there any way to manage or create a Facebook app using a business / gray account?
'Business' or advertising accounts can't manage apps - if at some point in the past you were able to create an app using a business account this was a bug or loophole and shouldn't have been possible - only real verified user accounts should be able to create and manage apps.
It's also possible to have a Business account which owns apps if you created a fake user account, created apps, and later converted your user account into a business account or had Facebook do it for you.
If you need to share ownership of the app between multiple people
You can do this by making all of the admins/developers working on the app developers or admins directly via the API or the 'Roles' tab of the App settings:
If you need to run ads for the app using a business account
You can specify which business accounts will manage the ads for an app in the app settings on the Advanced tab - add the email address used to manage the ads.
This is the only supported connection between apps and business accounts.
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Strictly speaking I'm not answering the specific question you have at the end about gray accounts, but answering the bigger overall question about business accounts in the new world.
Since the original question was asked, Facebook has introduced the Facebook Business Manager which enables businesses to have a single place to manage pages, ad accounts and apps.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/business-manager
You login to the business manager via your facebook login, but it can have a business email and name etc. associated with it. The administrators can add other people and modify their permissions, and it keeps peoples business identity and personal identity separate.
Significantly, if you have more than one app and they are associated with your business via business manager, you will get the same User ID for a given user whichever app they are using. If you don't do this, you won't, because the User Id is normally scoped to each app.
So this new world gives the benefits that
a) apps can be managed via a business identity
b) apps which belong to the same business can report the same User Id, which makes it easier to track and co-ordinate activity by users across several of your apps.
i have this problem..
I created account to develop facebook api for my apps..
I registered and created account and vertified with email and phone.
But when i try to create new app, i get this error:
You've been blocked from creating apps because we haven't been able to verify your account. You need to use your real name to maintain an account on Facebook
I dont get it, what do i have to do, to get my account vertified and working? I need this account only for development and i dont want to use account, cos other developers can see my password.
and when i try to ask this question anyware on facebook forums i get this message, so i dont know what to do:
This message contains blocked content that has previously been flagged as abusive or spammy
Btw, i added apps on my real facebook account, but i dont remember having any problems..
If i not understand wrongly, did you mean that you are creating another facebook account for your development purpose? actually you can use your own account to create the facebook application. After that, you can grant access to others developer from the app. They can have the access to edit your application configuration too.
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My company wants to include Facebook Connect into some of the web sites we sell. Getting the integrations to work properly isn't really the problem, the problem is creating the required app in a useful way.
I can create the app with my personal Facebook account, but that's no good if I quit a few years down the way, and since Facebook scrapped company accounts over Pages, it's not possible to make a company account where we can gather all the Facebook Connect apps we make.
Is there an official solution and/or working hack that will solve this problem for us?
Thanks in advance for all help!
No. You are going to have to use a "real" Facebook account for this. You also need to verify that account as a Facebook developer. This involves either submitting a phone number (SMS verification) or a credit card number.
If you are worried about using your own personal account, as your client to use his. There is no reason you should be forced to use your account - after all, its only a job right? :)
I strongly advise against opening a new "fake" account to manage your applications. Facebook is tightening their security and methods to find these fake users. Should Facebook close this "fake" account, you won't have access to your application's settings anymore.
I've spent the past few hours trying to figure this out but can't find anything.
Basically I've setup a website for a music festival, I'm trying to integrate Facebook with the site and whenever I create an app it keeps creating it under my personal account.
I am setup as an admin under the music site's Facebook but I still can't figure out how to create an app just for that music site completely separate from my personal account.
Anytime I try to access the developer section using the account it gives me this error:
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This is by design.
I'm assuming the music site is a Facebook page?
While you can log in and use Facebook as the page, rather than yourself, Facebook apps are always owned by a real Facebook user, not a page. So you either need to create the app yourself, or have someone else create the app and add you as a developer.
From what I understand, everything you do is associated with your personal account as the developer. However, you aren't supposed to be putting it on your personal page. As the developer, whenever I do anything it shows up in my personal account because I am set up as the developer and admin of all my pages. That's how Facebook wants it. Before, people were setting up different accounts for a business profile and it ended up with lots of businesses as personal accounts instead of business pages with an admin user.
Whenever I do anything with Facebook I have everything available to all the pages, but only one is actually using the app or whatever it is. Does anyone see anything different?
A Facebook canvas app can only access the Facebook Credits APIs if the app has been whitelisted. To get whitelisted you need to fill out an application that registers your company and links a bank account.
Obviously I don't test new code on my production app -- I have a staging app, but the staging app is not whitelisted to access Facebook Credits, and I am trying to figure out what I should be doing or have missed to allow me to test my work in progress. Surely I don't have to go through the application and company registration again for my staging app, do I?
Apparently, the person who fills out the company registration form has their account somehow linked to the company. That one person is able to set up credits on apps, but no one else. So the answer is to use a single, corporate login to do all your app setups and configs.
In my case, since this was not made clear or even implied by the signup process, one of our employees set that up under their personal account. The moral of the story is create a "company" account and do all app setups and configs under that login.