How to Quickly Add an Admin to Your Facebook Page [& What They’ll Have Access To]

Written by: Chenell Basilio
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Adding/Updating Page Admins on Facebook

In the age of an ever-growing requirement for your business to have a social media presence, you will likely be giving access to someone on your team to post on your page and create ads for you.

With Facebook, it’s really easy to add and remove people from being an admin (or other roles) on your page. Here are the steps to follow to update your current page roles:

1. Navigate to Facebook.com and click the drop-down arrow in the upper right-hand corner.

This will show you a list of your Facebook page(s). You may need to click “See More…” if you manage multiple pages.

You can also navigate to business.facebook.com and your page should show up there.

2. Select the Facebook page you want to add or remove someone from accessing.

This step will take you into the business manager of your account.

3. Click “Settings” in the top right-hand corner of the page.

4. Click on the “Page Roles” option in the left-hand navigation menu.

This will take you to the page seen below.

5. Type the name of the person you want to give page access to. 

It helps if you are already Friends on Facebook with them as those names appear more easily in the search.

6. Select the role you’d like this person to have and click “Add.”

Here Are Some Brief Descriptions of the Page Roles You Can Assign:

Facebook Page Admin

This person will be able to manage all parts of your page, and create ads for you. Choose this option (or the Editor option) if you are giving an advertiser access.

While there is the “advertiser” option, selecting that option means the person won’t be able to create and delete posts on the page organically, which does limit some options for them when implementing your marketing strategy. I would only give them this option if you trust them – but if you don’t trust them, why did you hire them? 🙂

Facebook Page Editor

This is the same as the Admin role, without the ability to add/remove people and change settings for the page.

The Facebook Page Editor can:

  • The Page Editor can go Live
  • Edit the page and apps
  • Create and delete posts as the Page
  • Send messages as the page
  • Respond to, and delete comments and posts as the Page
  • Remove and ban people from the Page
  • Create ads, promotions, or boosted posts
  • View page insights
  • View the Page quality tab
  • See who published as the page
  • Publish and Manage Jobs
  • Turn on job features for a post

Facebook Page Moderator

This person cannot go live, edit your page, or create organic posts. But they can create ads (although not new ads, they’ll only be able to boost existing posts).

The Facebook Page Moderator can:

  • Send messages as the page
  • Respond to, and delete comments and posts as the Page
  • Remove and ban people from the Page
  • Create ads, promotions, or boosted posts
  • View page insights
  • View the Page quality tab
  • See who published as the page

Facebook Page Advertiser

Such a misleading title in my opinion. Yes, they can create ads, but they can’t use your organic posts to create ads and they won’t be able to publish any organic posts for you if that’s what you wanted them to do.

The Facebook Page Advertiser can:

  • Create ads, promotions, or boosted posts
  • View page insights
  • View the Page quality tab
  • See who published as the page

Facebook Page Analyst

An extremely basic role, but great for people who are simply reporting out on your page’s performance.

The Facebook Page Analyst can:

  • View page insights
  • View the Page quality tab
  • See who published as the page

Facebook Jobs Manager

This is a “newer” role they’ve added. This one is essentially what it sounds like, but this person can also created ads (which is great if you’re doing paid promotions for your hiring campaigns).

The Facebook Jobs Manager can:

  • Create ads, promotions, or boosted posts
  • View page insights
  • View the Page quality tab
  • See who published as the page
  • Publish and Manage Jobs
  • Turn on job features for a post

Facebook Live Contributor

This person will only be able to go live from their phone as your page. They will be unable to post anything else for you.

Here is a chart Facebook created to give you a snapshot view of what each role can do:

Facebook Page Roles Chart

Updating Facebook page roles is a pretty easy task once you get the hang of what each one means. For most people this is a one-off task, but for larger teams it may need to be updated more often.

How Can I Give Someone Who Doesn’t Have a Facebook Profile Access to Your Page?

In short, you can’t.

Facebook requires each business/page manager to have a valid personal profile. This helps reduce the number of spam accounts as well as making it slightly easier to add someone to your account.

This also means that you can’t really deactivate your Facebook page if you’re managing a page or ad account – no social media hiatus for us marketers!

 

21 thoughts on “How to Quickly Add an Admin to Your Facebook Page [& What They’ll Have Access To]”

  1. One of my admins accidentally removed themselves as an admin. Now when I attempt to re add them under page roles Facebook says there is a problem adding this person. How do I go about re adding them as admin?

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    • Good question! It’s tough to tell without actually seeing the account, but in my experience it can usually be fixed by either adding them via email (if you were trying to add them using their profile) or adding them as a friend first if you were trying it with email. If you still can’t work it out, try using the Facebook support chat, I’m sure they can help.

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    • Facebook ad accounts are tied to your personal page. You cannot manage an account without having a personal page, so they will be able to see your name and photo along with basic profile information. They will not be able to see your entire profile unless you add them as a friend.

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  2. What do I do if the page’s admin deleted their Facebook and now the page only has editors? The page is for a band that I’m in and the editors are trying to add me on but without an admin, we can’t. What do I do?

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    • Each person needs to have a Facebook profile to become a Facebook page or ads manager. Also, if you deactivate your account you won’t be able to get into that ads account either – they’ve got you hooked! 🙂

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    • Unfortunately, without them giving you access directly, you’ll probably want to reach out to Facebook directly and see what they can do.

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  3. I’m stumped. I have an employee that I need to take over my social media. We are friends on our personal page. They have LIKED our business page. But I can’t seem to add them as an admin on my page. I’ve tried entering their email address but they never get an invite or notification from me. Help Please!! ??
    Thank you!!!

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  4. Facebook converted profile to business page, that’s fine, however when I sign in I’m asked to assign an admin, after I set the admin and the confirm page comes up, it always says “Could not add 100034406314620 as admin of 641536926305307”. I have no idea what to do. I’ve tried other admins, same message. I’ve seen this issue with a number of others, but no answers. Can you please help?

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  5. Good day
    What in the instance that the name does not appear on the drop-down list (i’m already friends with said person and they have liked the page)

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  6. I linked a group to my page on facebook. I have made another person admin to just the group. Do tjey have access to the linked page aswell?

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  7. Hello
    I am the admin to a couple of pages and I no longer want to be the admin and someone else is going to take of the business sight. How do I switch it over to them?

    Also I don’t have “page role” on my FB page so how can I had someone to a role on my page?

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  8. How do I set my FB page so all posts are shareable? People post articles and information but it on shows Like and Comment. Everyone is having to copy and paste postings they want to share.

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