Business Managers are a way for Meta to associate assets that include ad accounts, the Meta Pixel, business users, ad activity, and more to a business. Meta expects to use Business Managers as a container to represent a business.
The 2-Tier Business Manager solution is a scalable solution for a Business Manager to create and manage child businesses, and allows you to:
The 2-Tier Business Manager solution is an API-based solution to create and manage campaigns for their clients. These are some scenarios where 2-Tier may be a good solution:
The 2-Tier Business Manager solution provides the ability to own the full workflow of creating, managing, and deleting Business Managers via a single Parent Business Manager. (Newly created Business Managers are referred to as Child Business Managers).
To use this solution, your Business Manager (referred to as Parent Business Manager) creates a Child Business Manager on behalf of your client using a user access token and Facebook page. By default, the client does not have access to the Child Business Manager, but you have complete access to the Child Business Manager, and can choose to give permission to the client based on their use case.
In this framework, the Parent Business Manager pays for the Child Business Managers’ ad activity and bills their clients separately. This is meant to allow full control over ad activity and reduce friction of asking clients to approve of every modification. This means you must pay for the ads and then choose one of these options:
The purpose of using this framework is to manage the newly created/managed child Business Managers in a scalable, maintainable way.