Ad Accounts

As a business admin, you can claim ad accounts that belong to a business. This enables you to easily assign people to the ad accounts they should access. You can also assign Shared Funding Sources to your ad accounts.

Claim Accounts

If you manage ad accounts outside of a Business Manager with the Admin role, you can claim them for your business. This is a one-time procedure. Once claimed, you can only manage the ad accounts in that Business Manager.

Creative Accounts are not claimable.

To claim an ad account for your business, provide the ad account ID in the format act_###. Send a POST: \The requester needs to be an admin of the Business claiming the ad account

curl \
  -F "adaccount_id=act_<AD_ACCOUNT_ID>" \
  -F "access_token=<ACCESS_TOKEN>" \
 "https://graph.facebook.com/<API_VERSION>/<BUSINESS_ID>/owned_ad_accounts"

If you are an Admin of the ad account, we immediately approve this claim request. Facebook returns access_status set to CONFIRMED.

If you are a user who does not have the proper permissions on the ad account, we send an ownership request to the ad account's Admins. Once we send the request, the response contains access_status set to PENDING.

To accept an ownership request, you must be an ad account admin, and you should log in and accept the request in Ads Manager.

Request Account Access

Most marketing companies won't need to claim ad accounts from their clients. See Business-to-Business Functions to request access to assets owned by other business managers.

Create Ad Accounts

To use this API, you must have a valid business and page setup. If you have any incomplete ad accounts or pages unpublished by Facebook, you will not be able to create a new ad account.

Ad account creation using the API is limited to 5 ad accounts. To create more than 5 ad accounts, you must do so manually.

The fields available are:

To create a new ad account for a business, specify name, currency, timezone_id, end_advertiser, media_agency, and partner. Please see the following conditions:

• media_agency and partner must be a Facebook Page Alias, Facebook Page ID or a Facebook app ID.
• end_advertiser must be a Business ID.

If your ad account doesn't have an advertiser, Media Agency, or Partner, specify NONE. If your ad account has an advertiser, Media Agency, or Partner, but they are not on Facebook as a Page or an app, specify UNFOUND .

To create an ad account:

curl \
  -F "name=MyAdAccount" \
  -F "currency=USD" \
  -F "timezone_id=1" \
  -F "end_advertiser=<END_ADVERTISER_ID>" \
  -F "media_agency=<MEDIA_AGENCY_ID>" \
  -F "partner=NONE" \
  -F "access_token=<ACCESS_TOKEN>" \
  "https://graph.facebook.com/<API_VERSION>/<BUSINESS_ID>/adaccount"

If you already have an extended credit line with Facebook, you can set invoice to true. Then, we associate your new ad account with your extended credit line.

The response looks like this:

{
  "id": "act_<ADACCOUNT_ID>",
  "account_id": "<ADACCOUNT_ID>",
  "business_id": "<BUSINESS_ID>",
  "end_advertiser_id": "<END_ADVERTISER_ID>",
  "media_agency_id": "<MEDIA_AGENCY_ID>",
  "partner_id": "NONE"
}

View Owned Accounts

See all the ad accounts your business has access to with a GET call:

curl -G \
-d "access_token=<ACCESS_TOKEN>" \
"https://graph.facebook.com/<API_VERSION>/<BUSINESS_ID>/owned_ad_accounts"

This returns all ad accounts owned by a business. Some fields are specific to the business and ad account relationship.

• permitted_tasks is an array of the tasks you can assign for that particular ad account.
• access_type defines if your business is acting as an OWNER or an AGENCY of the ad account.

To see ad accounts where the access is still pending, make this GET call:

curl -G \
  -d "access_token=<ACCESS_TOKEN>" \
  "https://graph.facebook.com/<API_VERSION>/<BUSINESS_ID>/pending_owned_ad_accounts"

Remove Accounts

You cannot remove ad accounts from your business if you're OWNER and if the accounts are CONFIRMED. If you have a PENDING access request or you have AGENCY access to the ad account, you can make this DELETE call:

curl \
  -X DELETE \
  -F "adaccount_id=act_<AD_ACCOUNT_ID>" \
  -F "access_token=<ACCESS_TOKEN>" \
  "https://graph.facebook.com/<API_VERSION>/<BUSINESS_ID>/ad_accounts"

View Account Access

See the ad accounts that someone has permission on with this GET call:

curl -G \
  -d "access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN" \
"https://graph.facebook.com/<API_VERSION>/<BUSINESS_SCOPED_USER_ID>/assigned_ad_accounts"

To see permissions someone has for an ad account, make this GET call:

curl -G \
  -d "access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN" \
  "https://graph.facebook.com/<API_VERSION>/act_<AD_ACCOUNT_ID>/assigned_users"

Add People to Accounts

After your Business Manager is associated with an ad account, you can assign tasks to other business users. Possible tasks include:

You need:

• adaccount_id — Ad account ID, in act_123 form
• user_id — User ID to add
• Tasks to assign

To add a new user with the tasks ['MANAGE', 'ADVERTISE', 'ANALYZE'], make this POST call:

curl \
  -F "user=BUSINESS_SCOPED_USER_ID" \
  -F "tasks=['MANAGE', 'ADVERTISE', 'ANALYZE']" \
  -F "access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN" \
  "https://graph.facebook.com/<API_VERSION>/act_<AD_ACCOUNT_ID>/assigned_users"

Change Permissions on Accounts

Make the same POST call to change an existing user's tasks as you would to add a new user:

curl \
  -F "user=BUSINESS_SCOPED_USER_ID" \
  -F "tasks=['ANALYZE']" \
  -F "access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN" \
  "https://graph.facebook.com/<API_VERSION>/act_<AD_ACCOUNT_ID>/assigned_users"

Remove People from Ad Accounts

To remove someone from an account, you need:

• adaccount_id — Ad account ID, in act_123 form
• user_id — User ID to remove

The DELETE call is:

curl \
  -X DELETE \
  -F "user=<BUSINESS_SCOPED_USER_ID>" \
  -F "access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN" \
  "https://graph.facebook.com/<API_VERSION>/act_<AD_ACCOUNT_ID>/assigned_users"