I have submitted our facebook app for App center review, but it has been in pending status for 10 days, according to facebook App center guideline http://developers.facebook.com/docs/appcenter/guidelines/ "Once it has enough positive ratings and engagement, we will automatically review your app detail page and contact you if any changes are needed before it appears in a category."
Could anyone please tell me after a facebook app submitted for review, how to get enough positive ratings and engagement? What is exact rating/engagement amount? Where can I see the progress? Any facebook app center contact email?
Any help is appreciated.
Not to disappoint you, but we had our app being reviewed for 4 months and 11 days before our patience ran out. We had 50K users and 400 5* ratings out of 450 total ratings. It is insane how irresponsible FB is regarding reviewing content. We resubmitted the app for review and it took several days before the app was live in App Center.
Positive ratings is when users that installed your app rate it from 1 to 5 stars. Engagement is basically how many users installed your app in total and how many did not remove it within short period of time (the more the better). There is no exact amount, but for example 10K new installs in first week is better than 10K installs in first year, yet the number is the same. Same goes for the progress bar - Facebook has its internal metrics. Good luck with review.
We are unable to submit the application page / details for review in the App Center, because
"Your app does not have high enough ratings and user engagement to be reviewed for the App Center at this time".
I asked some questions about this:
1) How can we improve ratings without being listed in the Facebook App Center?
2) Our user engagement is about the same level as other apps in the same category, which are published in the App Center. What is a critical mass to be eligible for review? Which numbers are relevant?
The response I got from a Facebook developer:
1) We randomly ask users that uses your app to rate it.
2) There are no specific number. Our algorithm takes in as much data as possible and try to figure out if it is a high quality app. But in general if you get bad review you need more active users, And if you have good reviews you need less.
Update:
In our case, we had to disable the web and mobile web implementation in the App details section, because they had too few users (so only Android/iOS was still enabled - our main applications). After that we got approved.
The process for submission app is very tough. We need to strictly follow the guidelines. We need to sure what type of App we are developing and list of permissions are needed. Due to spamming by many Facebook App developers, Facebook app center required exact reason to get approve the required permission.
Here is an example of submission guidelines.
Tags
There may be scenarios where your app's users want to tag a friend. This tagging capability comes in two forms. One scenario is if the user takes an action with the friend (i.e. cooks a pizza with someone), and the other scenario is when the user simply wants to mention a friend (i.e. "Hey John Smith, let's make a pizza next time"). If you choose to choose to support both action and mention tags, clearly distinguish the two different use cases in your submission.
Action tagging appends "- with Friend" to the story.
Mention tagging allows your app's users to tag friends names within their user messages.
App Center Guidelines App Center Guidelines link
Submission process https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/submission-process
Please go through the submission guidelines as well. I hope this will help anyone.
I could upload two of my apps to App Center but now as though I don't have the correct gaming type option to be able to upload one
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Facebook, a multi billion dollar organisation won't fork out for some live chat agents. Instead I'm stuck in a loop asking for approval, them not reviewing my app properly and giving me a cut/paste response. They say they monitor here, so here's hoping.
Nobody but me will ever use my app. It's a PHP page that posts to our radio station's Facebook page timeline www.facebook.com/BCnowplaying every hour or so, music that's playing on Budgie Collective.
We don't want to spam, this is why the nowplaying page is separate to our normal page.
The app works. All it does is grab a token, store it and post info to the page periodically.
I asked for permission to mention pages. And it was like I divided by zero. I only want this to mention pages of the DJ that compiled the mix that's on air (which is a sanctioned mention, as they have asked for this)... so that when their mix comes on, they are notified.
When I ask for the app to be granted this ability, I get told to show how the public will log in and use the app, and to give sample user accounts. Of course I have explained all this when requesting the permissions. But I keep getting knocked back. Nobody will talk to me directly and every time I re-explain and submit, I have to wait for several days to be given an answer that has nothing to do with how my app works. It's like they aren't even reading the submission.
What can I do next?
Since you're the only one using the application, there is no need to apply for approval. Owners of the application can already use the permission without going through the submission process.
By asking for approval you are basically telling Facebook that you want the public to use the mention feature as well.
So the solution here is to use the app as is and just change the settings to public in Settings > Status
Do you want to make this app and all its live features available to the general public?
Switch to yes.
My app free daily horoscope was disabled after almost one year. I didn't get any notice from facebook it's just wanish from my facebook developer account.
It didn't have negative feedback - I was regullary check it in apps insights. It has more than 10.000 active users and sudenly dissaper.
The only change I made was this week - I add ads from slovenian provider in it, but the adds has information that they are from someone other not facebook. I also has tos, privacy everything.
Where can I get information why this happened and is there any way to get my app back? I can't make appeal because there is no message from fb.
Grettings
Leo
Check out this page http://developers.facebook.com/policy/
I think you may have fallen fowl of one of the following passages, but you will need to do a little research.
III. Content > 3
"b. You can only utilize advertising or similar monetization related products or services from companies that appear on this list of Advertising Providers within Apps on Facebook.com."
http://developers.facebook.com/adproviders/
VIII. Branding and Promotion Policy
You must follow the guidelines set forth in the Facebook Brand Resource and Permissions Center.
Your app's description, display name and icons must adhere to our Advertising Guidelines.
I hope this is helpful.
Paul
We have all the details correct but still pending.
The message says: "Your App Detail page is live and available in search. Your app does not have enough high ratings and user engagement to be approved for listing in the App Center at this time."
So the question I need to know is: how do we get High Ratings? How can people vote/rate our game?
And is this all that's needed to be approved?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. :-)
It seems that this problem is wide known.
The Solution , as it wisorked for a friend, to have your App Live Up and Running.
Once it has enough engagement Facebook will review it for App Center listing.
Be aware of common Submission Mistakes, as those will keep your App unlisted.
A brief look at the App Center Guideline will enlighten you more.
Hope it Helps
The fairly new addition of the Facebook app center raises a question for me. I have a facebook connect site. App Center allows websites to be listed there as well as canvas apps. I see sites like Pinterest are there and they have ratings (1-5 stars). The app center listing process even requires that you have a certain rating and enough positive feedback before they will list your app publicly. I do not see any API or social plugin to allow my site visitors to rate the site. How do these other sites have a rating?
There is no API to rate an app at the moment, instead Facebook randomly ask users to rate apps they've used based on a variety of criteria.
The primary reason for this is to make it harder to manipulate the ratings so users can have confidence that the score they see is accurate.
I have an idea to develop a Facebook app which notifies the user through SMS when his/her friends come online. The user can pre-select the friends he/she wanted to get SMS notifications of.
This is my first attempt at developing for Facebook so I have zero experience and knowledge about the platform. I just want to know if my idea for such an app is possible? Does Facebook have an API for SMSes? Or do they let 3rd party messaging APIs (such as this one I came across) to work with them.
Thank you.
A Facebook app is actually ran off of your server and you can do anything that you want as long as you stay inside the limits of what you requested as far as information the app needs. As far and getting the information it is relatively easy. I made a extremely complicated app in 3 days. Once you read and get how to pull certain information, the rest is cake walk