Are you looking to get your Facebook Business Verified, but stuck because the ‘Start Verification’ button is not enabled?
This is really common with most new Facebook Business accounts that are not using apps that require Facebook Business Verification.
How to enable ‘Start Verification’ button on Facebook Business Manager?
Here’s a step by step guide –
Step 1: Go to Facebook Developers page (https://developer.facebook.com)
Step 2: Click on ‘Get Started’ or ‘My Apps’ on the top-right corner
Step 3: Click on ‘Create an app’
Step 4: Choose any of the options from the next pop-up and click ‘Continue‘
Step 5: Add your app name, email address, purpose. Choose your Facebook Business account from the dropdown (this is important). Click on ‘Create App‘
Step 6: You’re done. You can come back to the Facebook Business Manager –> Security Center and the ‘Start Verification’ button shall be enabled
You can now complete your Facebook Business Verification.
To learn about Facebook Business Verification steps, you can visit this article
Facebook Business Verification is important to get WhatsApp Business API approval. WhatsApp API access is only granted to verified businesses.
Facebook Business Verification is usually very quick these days. It could take between a few hours to 3 days in most cases.
Pre-requisites:
Once you have these details, you can fill the details here to get WhatsApp API approval in less than 5 days. Apply for WhatsApp API approval by clicking here