What Is a Meta Business Portfolio? Ownership and Permissions
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What Is a Business Portfolio?

A Business Portfolio is Meta's business-management structure for assets, accounts and permissions.

In plain English

It holds the pages, ad accounts, pixels, catalogues and people, with permissions assigned per asset. It was previously called Business Manager, and Meta has renamed it more than once.

The important part is ownership. Assets created inside an agency's portfolio belong to the agency, and separating them later is difficult. The client should own the portfolio and grant access.

What to know

Holds the assets
Pages, ad accounts, pixels, catalogues, domains.
Permissions per asset
Rather than blanket account access.
Ownership matters
Whoever owns the portfolio owns the history.
Previously Business Manager
Renamed, same function.

Why it matters

Pixel and audience history cannot be recreated. A business that lets an agency own its portfolio can lose years of accumulated data when the relationship ends.

Common mistakes

×Letting an agency create and own the portfolio.
×Sharing personal login details instead of granting access.
×No domain verification, which limits event configuration.
×One portfolio shared across unrelated businesses.

FAQs

Who should own the Business Portfolio?

The business. Agencies should be granted access to it.

What happens if an agency owns it?

Losing access can mean losing pixel history and audiences.

WRITTEN BY TARIQ SALLAM
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