Facebook was built for collaboration and the diffusing of information. As a business, you have a great opportunity to connect with your audience and build a personality and voice for your brand.
Part of managing your business’s Facebook page sometimes requires you to add other users, teammates, or third parties to the page. For example, you might be currently giving Spotlight Digital a page role so that we can post on your Facebook and help manage your social media accounts!
If you’re trying to figure out how to add an admin to a Facebook business page, this guide will help you quickly and easily! We make sure to cover how to add new roles on the new Facebook Beta, Old Facebook, and Facebook Mobile.
New Facebook Beta 2020: How to Add Page Roles
This past year, Facebook has rolled out a new look that some of you may be already using. The new Facebook beta is more closely stylized to match mobile and features a light and dark mode, among many other changes.
Let’s go ahead and jump in on showing you how to add new page roles to your Facebook page if you’re using the platform’s redesigned version!
The first step is to navigate to your business page, it should look something like this:
Once you see this page, click the “Page Settings” button in the left hand menu.
Once you’ve done this, you will be taken to a secondary menu that replaces the one you were just on. Click the “Page Roles” button on this new menu.
After clicking “Page Roles,” you should see a screen like the one below:
Once you’re here, make your way to the section titled “Assign a New Page Role.” Below the section title, you’ll see a text box where you can add a name or email. Before doing this, go to the right side of the box and you’ll see a drop-down box. Click this to see all available Facebook business page roles you can assign.
Select the appropriate role you wish to assign. You can choose from the following roles:
- Admin
- Editor
- Moderator
- Advertiser
- Analyst
- Custom
Click here to learn what all of these different roles mean and what they do.
Once you’ve selected the role, type in the name or email of the person or organization you wish to assign the role to. You should see their name pop up while you type in the information. Select the person or organization you are adding, and then click “Add.”
In the picture below, you cannot see the profile pop up as we are already administrators of our own Spotlight Digital Facebook page!
You have now added and assigned a Facebook Page Role to a user! Now, all you have to do is wait for that user to accept the role assignment.
Add a Page Role to “Old” Facebook (the version of Facebook we’ve all used for years)
Most of us are likely still using regular ol’ Facebook – ya know, the one we’ve used for years now. Here’s how to add a page role to the “old” Facebook.
First, navigate to your Facebook business page and click the “Settings” button at the top of the page. We highlighted the “Settings” button in a red box below. It should look something like this:
Next up, you’ll want to select the “Page Roles” option on the following screen (again, we highlighted the button for you):
Once you’ve clicked “Page Roles,” you’ll see the following screen. In the section titled “Assign a New Page Role,” click the drop-down box next to the field that says “Type a name or email.” Select the role level you wish to add to your Facebook business page.
The roles you can choose from are:
- Admin
- Editor
- Moderator
- Advertiser
- Analyst
- Custom
Click here to learn what all of these different roles mean and what they do.
Now, type in the email or name of the person or organization you wish to add as a user to your Facebook page. You may see their name pop up as a suggestion; if you do, go ahead and click it, making sure you’re selecting the correct person or organization. Once they have been selected, click the “Add” button.
There you go! You’ve successfully added a new user to your business’s Facebook page. Now, you just have to wait for them to accept the role.
Adding a Page Role on Facebook Mobile
Sometimes you are on the go and have to do important business tasks from your phone. Luckily, you can still add an admin to Facebook with their mobile app! Here’s how you do it.
First, navigate to your Facebook business page on mobile, then tap the Settings wheel at the top right. We are using iOS, so it should look something like this (and yes, that IS the Facebook dating icon you see at the bottom of the screen, everyone deserves to find true love):
You’ll be taken to a screen like the one below. Select the “Page Roles” menu item.
The next screen will have two parts: a list of people who currently have roles on your business’s Facebook page and a button that says “Add Person to Page.” Go ahead and tab that button.
You’ll be taken to a page with a search bar. Type the name of the person you’d like to add. In this case, we are adding Ben to our page with the Editor role. When we type in his name, we are shown a list of people, select the right person here.
Finally, you’ll get to select what role you’d like to give the person you’re adding to your page. Once you’ve selected the correct role, tab the “Add” button, as highlighted below.
The roles you can choose from are:
- Admin
- Editor
- Moderator
- Advertiser
- Analyst
- Custom
Click here to learn what all of these different roles mean and what they do.
There you have it! You’ve successfully added a new Page Role to your Facebook page while using Facebook mobile.
Let’s Get Social!
As we said, there are a lot of reasons you may want to add another user to your business’s Facebook page. You could be adding your business partner, an employee who manages social media marketing, or a third party that posts on your behalf (such as Spotlight Digital).
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