Am preparing to merge 2 pages (am waiting for my ‘request for a name change’ to come through first with Facebook which is taking some time).

Would like to check with everyone out there that you CAN actually do this?

Right now when I go to ‘Update info’ and ‘Resources’ there is no option to merge the 2 pages and other than the names being a little different, wanted to make sure about the likes number affecting this – theoretically you should be able to merge any page into another regardless of the number if likes.

Thank you!

@moinshaikh

Hi Moin,

Thank you for your reply.

It has been amazing how complicated such a simple process should be and how much contradictory information there is out there – or lack of knowledge on this important topic. 

I have been told by other people that you can merge a page with more likes into one with less likes. Is this not true then?

I read Facebook’s statement and it also says (on one page but then something different again on another) that yes the page you want to keep (with all of its data/posts etc) MUST have more likes than the other page.

I would have though it didn’t matter as businesses have different reasons influencing the reasons to merge pages etc and it should be up to them.

Also, I have not been able to confirm that my data WILL be kept for certain on the page I am merging into. As if this is not the case and i will loose my existing data/posts then this whole conversation is redundant. Why would you bother merging at all in that case?

Lastly, if you know this, I am currently waiting on an approval for a name change on the second business page which I just converted from a personal page. Pending the name change approval, I should have two pages with identical names and was hoping, that this would then mean that the second page (the one just converted) will show up in my primary pages update info-resources-merge pages menu due to the name being the same.

This would mean that I COULD select it to merge even though right now it has more likes than my primary page.

Make sene?

@moinshaikh  I don’t think this is true anymore.  I think you can merge a Page that has more likes into one that has less – Facebook lets you select now from what I’ve seen.  cc:   @sheridanmills

I think at this point you need to get someone to look at what you are looking at  @sheridanmills   It’s very difficult to understand how everything is set up and know what you are seeing without seeing it.  

What I’ve seen is that I’m able to merge from a smaller page to a larger page.  The problem is Facebook can really be different for different users and it makes it frustrating!

Answer – Yes you can change your name (I did successfully) and yes you can merge a page with more likes into one with less likes via a special link at Facebook – and keep all of the data/posts on the page you are merging into.

I just did it successfully.