What a contract should say

Who signs

The contract should be between you, personally, and a company you can identify: a registered name, number and address. Nobody else should sign for you, whether that’s a partner, a friend or someone calling themselves your manager. If the agency’s details are vague, that’s the first thing to fix.

What they’ll actually do

“Full management” can mean anything. The contract should list the services: chatting, growth, content planning, leak protection, reporting. It should also say how you’ll be kept informed, for example a weekly report and a named contact. If a service you were promised on the call isn’t written down, ask for it to be added.

Rate, fees and payment

• The rate, and what it’s taken from. It should say “gross” or “net” in plain words. See gross vs net.
• Every other fee. If the contract allows fees that aren’t listed, ask for that wording to be removed.
• How money moves. Ideally OnlyFans pays you directly and the agency invoices you for its share, with a statement showing how it was calculated.
• Refunds and chargebacks. Commission should be worked out after these are taken off, not before.
• When rates can change. A rate that the agency can change without your agreement isn’t really a rate.

Length and leaving

This is the section that matters most if things go wrong.

• Length. Rolling monthly, or a short first term, is reasonable. Multi-year terms with no way out are not.
• Notice. You should be able to leave for any reason with a short notice period, such as 30 days.
• Exit fees. There shouldn’t be one.
• Commission after you leave. Sometimes called a “tail”. Push for none. Your fans subscribed to you.
• What happens on the last day. The agency’s access ends, your login stays yours, and they hand back anything they hold, such as your content plans and data.

Content and your account

• Ownership. The contract should say your content belongs to you. The agency should get only a limited permission to use it for running your page, which ends when you leave.
• Account access. It should describe how the team accesses your account and confirm that the account, email and payouts stay in your name.
• Your limits. Good contracts say you can refuse any content or request, and that no quotas apply beyond what you agree to in writing.
• Chatting. If they’ll message fans for you, it should say you can see those messages and that your boundaries apply.

The small print that causes trouble

• Non-disclosure clauses that stop you talking about how you were treated, rather than just protecting genuine business secrets.
• Exclusivity that stops you using other platforms without a good reason.
• Assignment clauses that let the agency sell or transfer your contract to someone else. Ask for these to be removed.
• Penalties for leaving early, missing content targets or “damaging the brand”.
• Disputes that must be settled in a country far from where you live.

Before you sign

1. Get the full contract in writing and take your time with it.
2. Ask for anything promised on the call to be written in.
3. Run it through our contract checklist.
4. Have a lawyer read it. It’s a small cost against a contract that affects your income.
5. Keep a signed copy somewhere the agency can’t access.

A good agency won’t mind any of this. If an agency resists you reading its contract carefully, that tells you what you need to know.