Prerequisites

Before you begin, please ensure you have the following:

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• A verified Facebook Business Manager account (business.facebook.com): This is the central hub for managing your Facebook Pages, ad accounts, and other business assets.
• A Published Facebook Page With Messenger Enabled: You should have already set up.
• Administrator access to your Facebook Business Manager: This is necessary to configure the app and link your Facebook Page.
• Administrator access in your Intaker dashboard: This is necessary to connect your Facebook Page to Intaker.
• A Facebook AI Agent: This is the AI Agent that will be used to interact with your leads. Be sure to select “Messenger AI Agent - Capture new leads” when configuring the AI Agent.
  

• One or more Facebook accounts for testing

Step-by-Step Connection Guide

Follow these steps to successfully connect your Facebook Business Account:

• Select the Facebook Business Integration in the Intaker Dashboard:
  
  • Click on “Integrations” on the left side menu
    

• Click the blue “Continue to set up” button in the “Facebook Business” section
• Click the green “Connect” button
  

• If you are not already logged into Facebook, you will be asked to login. Please use the Facebook account that has access to your Facebook Business Manager. You may be shown other screens, like two-factor authentication, depending on how your Facebook account is configured.
  

• Verify that you would like to continue as this user
  

• Select the pages you would like to connect to Intaker
  

• Select your business portfolio
  

• Review the changes that will be made once you connect your WABA to Intaker
  

• Click “Save” to complete the setup
  

• Link the connected account to the AI Agent:
  
  • Next to your newly connected account, click the three dots and select
    

• Select an AI Agent Nature
  

• Select the AI Agent you would like to link with this account
  

Click the button under “Agent Connection” to enable the connection

• Test your connection:
  
  • Using one of your test Facebook accounts, send a Messenger message from your Facebook Page, as if they were a lead
  • If your connection is successful, you should receive a response from the AI Agent
    

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