How to connect your Meta ads account
Connect your Meta ads account to publish ads through Cognizy and see how much each campaign spent alongside what it sold.
2 min readBasicUpdated on November 12, 2026
Where to find it in Cognizy
Video lesson coming soon. For now, follow the steps below.
With your ads account connected, Cognizy publishes the ads you build, reads the spend for each campaign, and shows you the sales results. It only changes a campaign when you click to pause, resume, or change the budget.
Where to find it in Cognizy
Before you start
- You'll need an ads account on Meta (the one in Ads Manager), with a payment method set up there.
- Log in with a Facebook profile that is an admin or advertiser on that account.
- Only the owner and admins can connect integrations.
- This takes about 3 minutes. Ad costs are charged by Meta, directly to the ads account.
Step by step
- Step 1:
In the menu, under Promote, click Ads.
- Step 2:
On the Connect your Meta ads account card, click Connect.
- Step 3:
On the Meta Ads screen, click Connect with Facebook.
- Step 4:
In the Meta window, log in with the profile that manages the ads account, leave the permissions turned on, select the Page and Instagram for the ads, and finish.
- Step 5:
Back in Cognizy, the screen shows the connected ads account. If the profile has more than one account, choose the one the business uses. The account in this screenshot is just an example.
How to know it worked
The Meta Ads screen shows the connected account, and in Promote › Ads the connect card disappears: ads can now be published.
If something goes wrong
The ads account doesn't show up to choose.
The profile you used doesn't have access to it. Ask the account admin, in Meta's Ads Manager, to add your profile, then connect again.
I connected it, but I can't publish.
A permission was missing, or the ads account has no payment method set up. Connect again with all permissions turned on and check the payment method in Ads Manager.
It shows that the connection expired.
Meta's authorization has an expiration date. Click Connect with Facebook again: your campaigns will stay as they are.
Next step
Create your first ad with AI's help, in Promote › Ads.
Sign in with your Cognizy account to save your progress.
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