Name the Facebook surface before asking for an API
For a local-commerce builder, “connect Facebook” can mean three different jobs: letting a customer sign in, maintaining business product information, or interacting with listings and transactions on Facebook Marketplace. Write the job first. Evidence for one of these does not establish access to the others.
Facebook Login documentation is the starting point for authentication. Catalog documentation is the starting point for product-catalog work. A Marketplace-specific operation needs documentation for that operation and evidence that the proposed business and app can use it; neither a Login configuration nor a catalog alone proves that authorization.
Turn the request into an object and an action
Compare these implementation questions before selecting a connector:
- Sign in to your own ordering site: identify the user information the app needs and the consent and account-completion flow. That task does not require assuming access to Marketplace listings.
- Maintain a merchant-owned product catalog: identify the business asset, item identifiers, product fields, price/availability authority, and intended distribution surface. A successful catalog update does not by itself demonstrate a published Marketplace listing.
- Read, publish, change, or remove a Marketplace listing: name the exact supported surface, object, action, territory, account, and documented access path. Treat each action as a separate eligibility question.
- Read an order, message a buyer, or update fulfillment: require documentation for that object and action too. Do not infer transaction or messaging permissions from the ability to upload product data.
For example, “update the price of SKU CUP-12 in this business catalog” is a bounded request. “Synchronize Facebook” hides ownership, direction, and the final destination of the update.
Build a permission and eligibility record
For each required operation, record the official document URL and version, supported object and action, business asset owner, account role, required permission or feature, token context, and access level shown for the app. Use Meta’s permissions reference to establish the actual identifier and allowed use. Do not copy a permission name from an unrelated tutorial just because the word catalog appears in both.
Check app/business verification and review conditions for that exact use case, territory, and access path. Distinguish a test performed by an app administrator on an owned asset from access by an unrelated merchant. Account eligibility, asset ownership, and the app’s permission are separate checks; a successful login establishes none of the other two by itself.
Prove the workflow before promising an integration
Use Meta’s App Review guidance for the submission that applies to your app. Prepare a clear explanation of why each operation is needed, reviewer instructions for the actual workflow, and any demonstration or test-access material the current process requests. An approval date or processing time should come from Meta’s actual process, not a project estimate.
A small acceptance test should identify the account and asset, perform one authorized action, read back the intended result, and capture the returned object reference. Test denied access, expired or revoked credentials, duplicate updates, invalid product data, and rate limiting. If the result is meant to appear on Marketplace, verify that final surface separately; a successful API response on another resource is not enough.
Keep credentials server-side according to the selected integration design, restrict access to the needed operations, and define who handles revoked permissions or a changed API version.
Keep Facebook access separate from the ordering operation
Ordering.co’s Facebook Login integration concerns customer sign-in to your website and apps. Do not use that feature as evidence of a native Marketplace importer, listing publisher, inventory synchronizer, or buyer-message connector.
If you are choosing where to list products rather than building a connector, start with the seller channel comparison. Once a customer reaches your owned channel, review catalog, checkout, payment and fulfillment as their own flow. Use the merchant channel guide to distinguish an external marketplace from direct ordering, and the demos to test the owned experience. Keep a connector proposal conditional until its exact Meta operation and account access have been demonstrated.