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Solving Facebook Permissions

How to fix the "you need permissions on Facebook to Access this Account" error

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Written by Carissa
Updated over 6 months ago

With Motion, in order to pull in report data, you need to connect a Facebook account to your Motion login. This account needs to also have permissions to the ad account on Facebook.
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If you are seeing this error message when viewing reports, this means you need to set up proper permissions.
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How to set up Facebook permissions

  • Head to the top left corner of your Motion dashboard, select the workspace dropdown, then select 'Workspace Settings'

  • Select the 'My Connections' tab in the pop-up

  • Connect a user under the Meta section

  • The user connected here will also need permissions to the ad account on Facebook's end. To set this up, head to the business manager on Facebook's end.

  • In your Facebook business manager, under the Users > People tab, ensure the user connected to Motion is also listed here.

  • Make sure this user has been given permissions to the Ad account

Once permissions have been given to the ad account for the user, reports should load in Motion.
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Reach out to us through the chat icon, in the bottom right corner of your Motion account if you are still having issues, and our support specialists can help!
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