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Facebook automation for your business Page, with approvals

For many local businesses, the Facebook Page is still where neighbors ask questions, check hours, and leave comments. It's also easy to let slide. TeamShift connects to your Facebook Page so the Content worker can draft posts from real jobs and announcements, Support can sort Messenger inquiries and comments and draft replies, and Sales can catch the messages that are really quote requests. Customer success can draft review requests to recent customers. Every post and reply waits for your approval. You choose in Company Brain what the team may read.

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Direct answer

Facebook: the short answers

What can you automate on a Facebook business Page?

Facebook automation for a business Page covers drafting posts, planning a posting schedule, sorting Messenger inquiries and comments, drafting replies, and reporting which posts brought calls or messages. Meta's own tools include scheduling in Meta Business Suite and AI features for businesses. TeamShift connects the Page to the rest of the business, so a Messenger quote request becomes a CRM record and a follow-up, with each reply waiting for approval.

Is it safe to let AI reply to Facebook comments?

Public replies speak for your business, so TeamShift drafts them and waits for your OK. That matters most for complaints, where tone and facts need a person. Routine questions such as hours or service areas get draft answers you can approve in a batch. Every approval is recorded, and the team learns from your edits.

How is TeamShift different from Meta Business Suite?

For scheduling posts and managing your inbox across Facebook and Instagram, use Meta Business Suite. TeamShift covers the work that leaves Meta: writing posts from the jobs in your files, turning Messenger inquiries into quotes and CRM records, and asking happy customers for reviews. Many businesses use both.

Who does what

The jobs your team takes

Support worker

  • Sorts Messenger inquiries and Page comments, answers routine questions as drafts, and flags complaints for you.

Customer success worker

  • Drafts review requests to recent customers that point them to your preferred review site.

Sales worker

  • Spots Messenger messages that are really quote requests, logs them in your CRM, and drafts a reply asking for job details.

Growth worker

  • Reports which Facebook posts led to messages, calls, or website visits each month.

Content worker

  • Drafts two or three Facebook Page posts a week from finished jobs, seasonal offers, and community events, for your approval.
  • Drafts Facebook event posts for open houses, classes, or holiday hours, plus updates if details change, for your OK.

Stays with you

What never runs without you

  • Approving every post, comment reply, and Messenger reply
  • Responding to complaints and negative reviews
  • Boosting posts or anything that spends money
  • Customer photos and permission to share them

Anything that sends, pays, publishes, or deletes waits for your OK, and every step is recorded. How approval works.

By the numbers

The numbers behind it

  • Messenger response policy: Meta's Messenger Platform policy encourages businesses to respond to people's messages as soon as possible, and using message tags outside their approved use cases may restrict a Page's ability to send messages.
  • Instant replies: In Meta Business Suite Inbox, an instant reply sends a customized response to the first message someone sends your business, and an away message can answer while you are away from Inbox.
  • Keyword automations: Custom keyword automated responses send a reply when a message contains chosen keywords or phrases; if the away message is also on, Meta sends the away message instead. Inbox suggestions never send automatically: you accept or decline them.
  • Preset FAQ answers: Meta recommends preset automated responses for up to 5 frequently asked questions, and custom keyword responses are only available on the Business Suite desktop experience for now.
  • Job application replies: Business Suite Inbox can also send a set message when someone applies for a job with your business.
  • Away status: Meta's Page communication tools include an away status, shown on your Page so people know you are unavailable to respond.
  • Messenger reply window: On Messenger, a Page's app has up to 24 hours to respond after a person messages the Page; promotional content is allowed inside that window, while messages sent outside it with a tag must be non-promotional and fit an approved use case.

Sources: Meta for Developers, Messenger Platform and IG Messaging API policy; Meta Business Help Center, About Automated Responses in Meta Business Suite Inbox; Meta Business Help Center, About Automated Responses in Meta Business Suite Inbox; Meta Business Help Center, About Automated Responses in Meta Business Suite Inbox; Meta Business Help Center, About Automated Responses in Meta Business Suite Inbox; Meta for Business, New Tools for Managing Communication on Your Page; Meta for Developers, Send a message - Messenger Platform.

FAQ

Questions owners ask

Does it work with Facebook Groups?

TeamShift works with your business Page. Posting in Groups stays with you.

Can it handle Facebook ads?

The Growth worker reports on Meta Ads, and any spend change waits for your OK. See the Meta Ads page for details.

Will it post the same thing to Instagram?

It can prepare matching posts for Instagram, adjusted for the format, each waiting for approval.

Does TeamShift write fake reviews?

No. It asks real customers for reviews and never writes or posts reviews itself.

Pricing

Pay by usage, not per seat

Creating your workspace is free. The work your team runs is billed at 3x its compute cost, quoted with a maximum before it starts. No subscription, no seats, no per-job products. See pricing.

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