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title: Instagram Pre requisites
slug: instagram-pre-requisites
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createdAt: 2022-05-11T08:41:51.000Z
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## <font color="#ae1536">1. Introduction</font>

Instagram as a channel has a list of pre requisites that the Instagram page/business account owner has to complete in order to deploy the bot

## <font color="#ae1536">2. Pre requisite steps</font>

### Step 1: Ensure that your account is a Professional account

- Navigate to [Edit profile](https://www.instagram.com/accounts/edit/) on Instagram Web and check if you can see an option to – Switch to Personal Account
- Navigate to profile and ‘Settings’ on Instagram mobile app

If you see an option to ‘Switch to Personal account’ that means you already have an Instagram professional/business account and can jump to Step 3.

If not, follow the below steps to convert your account to a Professional Account

Instagram Web:

- Navigate to [Edit profile](https://www.instagram.com/accounts/edit/) on Instagram Web and click on ‘Switch to Professional Account’

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- Select your type of profession and click on the following steps

Instagram Mobile App:

- Navigate to bottom right to access profile
- Click on ‘Settings’ and ‘Switch to Professional Account’

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### Step 2: Connect your Instagram professional account to a facebook account and page

This setting can be completed only through Instagram Mobile App. Please follow the below steps on Instagram mobile application,

- Click on bottom right icon to access your profile and click on Settings

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- Click on Business setting and select option to ‘Connect or Create’

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- Login to the facebook account, with which you want to connect your instagram professional account

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- Connect to an existing facebook page or create a new facebook page

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- Click on back or done and you will no longer see an option to Connect or Create

### Step 3: Toggle message availability for external apps

This setting can be completed only through Instagram Mobile App. Please follow the below steps on Instagram mobile application,

- Navigate to Settings and click on ‘Privacy’ and then ‘Messages’

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- Toggle the option ‘Allow Access to Messages’ to ON

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After finishing the above steps, you can proceed to Engati portal and continue [connecting your chatbot to Instagram](https://docs.engati.ai/documentation/deploying-the-bot/instagram/)