Understand the criteria
Notability, press coverage, a verified presence and a consistent brand across channels.
Nobody can sell you a green tick. Meta grants official business account status on notability and brand signals. What you can do is prepare properly, apply once you qualify, and stop wasting money on people who promise it.
Notability, press coverage, a verified presence and a consistent brand across channels.
A free checker scores six weighted signals and tells you what is missing.
Any provider promising a guaranteed tick for a fee is selling something they do not control.
What Meta looks at
Meta assesses whether your business is notable: coverage in credible publications you did not pay for, an established web presence, consistent naming across channels, and a legitimate business verification.
A display name that matches your legal or trading name, a live website with the same brand, and Business Manager verification are the groundwork. Press coverage is usually the deciding factor.
How it works
Documents and details matching your legal entity.
What Meta accepts and what gets rejected.
Press, search presence and brand consistency.
Paid placements, mismatched names, thin web presence.
What to change before a second attempt.
Score your readiness against six weighted signals.
Where rivals say no
Competitor entries are indicative, from public 2026 pages. See the full 89-row benchmark.
No. Meta grants it on notability and brand signals. Anyone selling a guarantee is misrepresenting what they control.
No. The API, templates, campaigns and calling all work without it. It affects how your name appears, not what you can do.
There is no published timeline. Some applications are decided in days, others take much longer or are declined.
Strengthen the weak signal, usually press coverage or web presence, then reapply later.
Independent press coverage in credible publications, alongside a verified business and consistent branding.
Meta's official business verification badge, the green checkmark next to your name, granted after review.
Meta does. No provider can grant or guarantee it.
Your brand's notability and public presence: press coverage, a real website and consistent public information.
No. The badge is about your display name and trust. Messaging limits scale with quality and usage.
Yes. If you are rejected you can strengthen your case and reapply later.
Yes. The display name is reviewed against Meta's rules before it shows.
We guide the request and get your account in the best shape, but Meta makes the call.
It builds trust with customers, which lifts opens and replies. It is not a delivery setting.
It varies from days to weeks depending on Meta's queue and your evidence.
Yes. Verification is not required to send on the API.
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