Who Should Own Your Instagram Business Portfolio
Your business should own the Business Portfolio and connected Page; agencies and staff get access through it. Why ownership and access stay separate — and how to put it right.
The answer is short: your business should own the Business Portfolio and the connected Facebook Page, full stop. Everyone else — agencies, freelancers, employees — gets access through that ownership, never instead of it. Because portfolio ownership is the real control surface for a Professional Instagram, this is the foundation the rest of your governance sits on.
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Who owns what
A clean ownership model for any business running Instagram through Meta Business Suite.
- Principle 1
The legal business owns the portfolio
The Business Portfolio is created and owned under the business, with at least two trusted admins from the business — not an agency, not a single employee.
- Principle 2
The business owns the connected Page
Because the Page is part of the control surface for a Professional account, it must sit inside the business-owned portfolio too.
- Principle 3
Agencies are Partners
Agencies connect as Partners by their Business Portfolio ID and are granted specific assets — they operate, they do not own.
- Principle 4
Employees are scoped members
Staff are added to the business-owned portfolio with the narrowest access for their role, removed when they leave.
Review cadence: Verify ownership at setup and at every change of agency or key staff.
Get ownership right
Common questions
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Access issues are easier to prevent when roles, owners, and responsibilities are recorded clearly
Most access problems trace back to the same gap — no clear record of who has access, what role they hold, and what should happen when that changes. Delvia helps you keep that record so problems are visible before they become incidents.