Are you trying to link your Instagram account to your Facebook Page? You’re in the right place!
Brief Steps To Link Your Pages:
1. Create a Facebook Business Page if you don’t have one
2. Log into Instagram, click ‘Settings & Privacy’ in the ‘Settings’ menu by tapping the Gear Icon
3. In the Instagram Settings, switch your account to a ‘Professional Account’ and select ‘Digital Creator’
4. Return to Facebook, then Switch to the page from top right Profile Menu if you are logged into your personal Facebook Account
5. Go to your Facebook Business Page, then click ‘Settings’ in the left menu
4. Select ‘Linked Accounts’ in the left menu when looking at your Facebook Business Page, then ‘View’ under Instagram the header.
5. Connect the Facebook Business Page to your now Professional Instagram Account
6. Connect the page to Fedica
Frequently Asked Question:
Why do I have to connect my Facebook Page to Fedica and Link Instagram just to add Instagram to Fedica’s publisher?
Meta only wants businesses and professionals to use dashboards to make scheduling easier. They don’t let dashboards connect to personal accounts, so the only way to connect your Instagram to a scheduler is with a business page or Professional Account.
Why do I have to use a professional Instagram account and not my normal one, and why do I have to connect a Facebook page and not my regular Facebook account?
Meta prefers that businesses and professionals use dashboards to simplify their scheduling. This means people who use Fedica on Instagram and Facebook have done so with a business account or Facebook page. Unfortunately, if your Facebook account is a professional one, you will still have to create a business page to schedule with dashboards.
Luckily, for Instagram, you just need to turn your personal account into a professional one. You can just create a ‘Digital Creator’ Professional Instagram Account from the settings. But, to connect it to a dashboard like Fedica, you must link your Instagram to a Facebook business page to get Instagram scheduling capabilities.
Don’t worry… follow along to see how this is done with the images below:
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Create a Facebook Business Page
1. Sign into your Facebook account.
2. Select “Pages” on the left. You may need to click “See all” first if you don’t see it.
3. Click on your Page.
No Business page yet? Create a new page.
Name it “MyName’s Business Page” and select the “Digital Creator” Category if you’re more like a creator than a business, or a category relevant to your business.
Next, we will change your Instagram account a ‘Professional Account’ so it can link to your Facebook Business Page.
Switch Your Instagram Account to a Professional Account
1. Sign in to your Instagram account.
2. On Instagram, go to the settings page by clicking “Settings & Privacy”, then “Settings”.
3. Select “Switch to Professional Account” in the bottom-left corner of the settings page.
4. If you don’t know what to select for the account type, choose “Digital Creator“.
Now your Instagram account is a “Professional Account” and able to be linked.
Link Your Instagram Account to your Facebook Page
From Facebook, make sure your account is switched to the new Business Page ‘Account’ now connected to your personal Facebook account. That’s because we can only link a Facebook Business Page to a Professional Instagram Account:
1. To switch Facebook accounts, on the top right of your screen, click on your profile picture and then select “See all profiles”.
2. You should see your Page here; select the Business Page you want to link to Instagram, and ‘Switch’ to it.
3. Select “Settings” in the left menu when viewing your Business Page.
4. Select “Linked accounts” on the left menu.
5. Click “View” then “Connect account”.
6. It will guide you through the rest of the process.
Next, All we have to do is login to your Instagram account in Fedica, which will log you into your linked Facebook Page and your Instagram Account at the same time on Fedica!
Connecting Your Instagram Account to Fedica
1. Add a network in Fedica’s post composer
2. Select Instagram (If you want to connect Instagram, or Instagram and Facebook)
3. Continue with Facebook’s connection menu
4. Make sure you’re logged in…
5. Select your linked Business
5. Select your Facebook Business Page or skip this step.
6. Select your Instagram account.
7. In this example, I connected my Facebook Page and Instagram Account at the same time.
Connecting Your Facebook Page to Fedica
If you connect Instagram first, both your Facebook and Instagram accounts can connect at the same time!
1. On your Fedica Dashboard, add a new network and select Facebook.
2. If you’ve already added your Instagram account to Facebook, then you can quickly add your Facebook by continuing with previously linked credentials.
3. Confirm which page you’d like to add.
And just like that, you’ve added your Instagram and Facebook pages to Fedica!
We hope this guide has been helpful to you. Happy publishing!