How to contact Meta Business Support in 2022
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If you are working with Facebook, Instagram or Whatsapp as a small business, advertiser or developer you either already wondered: how do I contact Facebook? If not, you certainly will at one point need to contact Facebook Business support.
There are a number of reasons for this:
- Your ads might not be delivering properly or were disapproved without a clear reason.
- Your profile or page has been disabled without warning.
- Your URL was marked as spam.
- A bug prevented you to do something that should’ve worked.
- …
In the following “No-Bullshit” article we want to provide small businesses and Facebook page owners with a few tips on how to get to Facebook Business contact.
The good news is, there are a few Facebook contact forms that claim to offer help.
The bad news is: You can’t just simply use a Facebook business live chat nor Facebook business email support.
Even worse news: if you are struggling with a real, unsolvable problem you can’t expect any decent help at all – unless you’re spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on Facebook advertising each month.
In other words: This is not a simple “how to contact Facebook business support” because, Facebook’s support for businesses is minimalistic.
Why is Facebook Business support so hard to reach?
If you’re looking for a Facebook Business support email address to contact we have to disappoint you: Facebook customer support for you will only work via designated forms. Once you fill out the appropriate form amidst over 100 contact forms, only then you will be contacted by a support agent via email. Back in the day, there was a possibility for a direct chat with a representative, but this functionality has been limited recently.
If you ever had the pleasure to be in touch with Facebook Business support, you might have noticed that these e-mails are signed by «Global Marketing Solutions». That’s because Facebook is outsourcing its support to a designated branch, namely Global Marketing Solutions (GMS). More information on this here.
The procedure up from this first step on is, quite frankly, a pain in the ass. Upon contacting Facebook Business support, a GMS team member will evaluate if your problem is relevant enough, and if so, forward it to Facebook directly. Once your case is submitted to Facebook, GMS will be back in touch with you once a higher-tier Facebook employee replied to them. This can take days or weeks and in some cases, you won’t even hear from them ever again.
Make sure to follow up on your issue multiple times a week or even a day, depending on how relevant it is to your business.
Facebook Business contact as “one fits all” contact form
In order to make the support odyssey a bit more bearable and increase your chances of reaching the right spokesperson, we put together a list of the relevant contact forms.
You can either visit the general Facebook business help center that combines the different contact forms into one ‘searchable’ and adjustable solution.
Or go to the marketing partners toolkit support page.
Here you will find a bunch of guides, tools, information, FAQ’s and only God knows what else… But if you pay close attention, you will find a live chat symbol in the bottom right corner (and underneath, the button shows an approximated waiting time).
This feature was re-introduced rather recently, as in the past this button only lead to a dropdown menu with different support e-mail addresses.
Side note: The live chat is not going to be available 24/7. So you might have to wait until later that day to get help.
Following the chat button, you will be redirected to a contact form.
To start the chat, you have to fill the form with information about you and your problem. Furthermore, you will have to answer multiple-choice questions such as:
– What is your relationship to this business?
– What is your question about?
Unfortunately, the operators of this support chat are most of the time only able to help you with very basic issues. Recovering hacked or disabled business accounts, resetting passwords, reset requests or problems with your pages for example.
If your problem is more sophisticated, you can only hope that they will be able to redirect you to the right department or person – which will vary based on your issue.
Keep in mind though, that this feature is only available to business accounts! You won’t find help with standard user accounts in the support chat.
Facebook Business support specific contact forms
For those that are looking for more specific support forms, please have a look below:
Ads support
Copyright and Trademark Support
- Content which you believe violates or infringes your copyright.
- Report a general copyright or trademark infringement.
- Content was mistakenly removed due to trademark infringement.
- Report content that violates your own trademark.
Payments Support
Private Account support
- Your account was disabled for violating Facebook’s Statement of Rights and Responsibilities.
- Your account was disabled and you need to submit your ID to reactivate.
- Somebody is pretending to be you or another person on Facebook.
Political Support
The Facebook Debugger
If you want to double-check what Facebook currently sees for your URLs, you can use the Facebook Debugger to analyze your links. This is especially helpful if one of your URLs got blocked.
What can you do to speed up the support process?
Unfortunately, we have not yet found a way to speed up the process manually. Sending multiple requests will underline the importance of your problem, however even if you keep enquiring at GMS for an update, they will always tell you, that they can’t do anything but wait for a Facebook employee to get back to you. The only additional tip we can give you here is to try multiple support channels instead of just relying on one person to solve your problem.
What about the Facebook Help Community?
Alternatively (and this is not applicable in most of the urgent problems or bugs) you can search Facebook groups or forums for people who have had similar problems and exchange solutions with them.
However, we don’t recommend posting in the Facebook Help Community for complex problems or Facebook bugs. The community will not be able to solve these for you.
The trump card – bring up a lawyer
Now, this paragraph is to be taken with a grain of salt, but here’s a real-world example: Our own marketing toolbox neontools.io was mistakenly blacklisted by Facebook shortly after its launch – without giving us any reason or troubleshooting possibility we tried every possible free step to get help. It looked bad – no answer at all from Facebook business support. A number of people reached out to us saying they experienced the same issue. Some even had to shut down their projects because they never got whitelisted again.
After week-long and almost daily attempts to reach a person with the authority to help actually us, we turned to our last resort: a lawyer. You can call it a coincidence, but less than a week after sending out a designated letter that formally requested clarification on our issue, all our domains suddenly worked again.
Conclusion
If you are looking for support from Facebook, you are going to need a lot of patience. Even if you spend thousands of Euros on their platform, you will have to repeatedly explain your problem to different support agents who, if they don’t send you generic copy-paste support responses, are going to submit your request to Facebook. Quite frankly, being in touch with Facebook Business support is a frustrating and unpleasant experience. Unfortunately, there is not really a way around it, but if you know which door to knock on and most importantly if you manage your expectations towards their support, it can save you a lot of time and frustration.
