OnlyFans Agency Contracts
Most creators sign a management agreement having read it once, quickly, after a call in which they were already sold. This guide is a map of what is in one, so that you can read it slowly and know which clauses matter.
This is general information rather than legal advice. For a contract that will govern your primary income, pay a solicitor for an hour. It is the cheapest insurance available.
Parties
The first clause names who you are contracting with. Check that it is a registered company with a number, not a trading name or an individual.
Look the number up in the companies register for its jurisdiction before you sign. If the entity was incorporated three months ago, that is not disqualifying, but it changes what the promises are worth. If the agency will not tell you the entity at all, stop.
Note the governing law and jurisdiction, usually near the end. An agreement enforceable only in a country you cannot practically litigate in is, for most creators, an unenforceable agreement.
Term and renewal
Look for three things: the initial term, how renewal works, and the notice period.
Standard and acceptable: a short initial term, typically 30 to 90 days, renewing automatically month to month, with 30 days written notice from either side.
Negotiate hard: 12 months. This is common and not automatically abusive, but it is long for a service you can evaluate in 60 days.
Refuse: 24 or 36 month initial terms, automatic renewal for a further fixed term rather than month to month, and any clause where notice can only be given in a narrow window before renewal. That last one is the quiet killer. A 12 month term that can only be exited by giving notice between day 300 and day 330 will renew on most people.
Compensation
The percentage, the base it applies to, and the payment mechanics.
Confirm whether the share is taken from gross earnings or from what remains after the OnlyFans platform cut. Confirm who receives money first. The strong preference is that OnlyFans pays you directly and you remit the agency's share, rather than the agency receiving your money and forwarding a portion. Anything that routes your income through an agency's account introduces a counterparty risk you are not being paid to take.
Check whether the rate can change during the term. It should not. If there is an escalator, understand its trigger.
Check the clause covering revenue after termination. You want commission to stop when the contract stops. A tail provision, where the agency continues taking a share of earnings for months after you leave, is common in talent management generally and worth resisting here.
Access and credentials
This clause should say the agency receives the official OnlyFans co-manager role and nothing else.
If it requires you to share login credentials, refuse the contract. There is no negotiation available. Your login is bound to your identity verification and your payout details, and the platform's own terms make credential sharing your problem when it goes wrong.
Check that you can revoke access unilaterally without notice. Any clause requiring the agency's cooperation to remove its own access is a clause that will be used against you during a dispute.
Content ownership and licence
The most consequential clause in the document, and the one most often skimmed.
What you want: you retain all rights in all content, before, during and after. The agency receives a limited, non-exclusive, revocable licence to post and promote on your behalf, restricted to the term and terminating automatically on expiry.
What to refuse: assignment of copyright, joint or co-ownership, any perpetual licence, and any licence that survives the contract. Also refuse a licence broad enough to permit use in the agency's own marketing without separate consent, unless you specifically want that.
Language to search for: assign, transfer, work made for hire, in perpetuity, irrevocable, and worldwide royalty-free licence. None of these are automatically fatal, and some are ordinary in a narrow licence. All of them are worth a lawyer's eye.
Check what happens to the content archive on exit. You want a delivery obligation with a deadline, and a deletion obligation on their side with the right to ask for confirmation.
Exclusivity
Two different things get called exclusivity and only one is reasonable.
Reasonable: the agency is the only party managing the specific accounts named in the scope sheet. Two managers posting to one account is a real route to a ban, so this protects both sides.
Refuse: exclusivity over you as a person, over all current and future platforms, or over categories of work unrelated to the accounts being managed. A management agreement for an OnlyFans account should not capture brand deals, appearances, or a future business.
Check the geographic and temporal scope. Worldwide is fine for something inherently online. A term extending past the contract is not.
Scope of work
Many contracts leave this vague on purpose. Insist on a schedule or annex listing deliverables with frequencies.
Content volume per week. Chatting coverage in hours per day and who provides it. Which traffic channels and how often. Reporting cadence and format. Response time for your questions.
Without this, the agency owes you nothing specific, and you have no basis for saying the service was not delivered. A vague scope is not an oversight, it is a position.
Confidentiality
Should be mutual. Check that the agency cannot name you as a client, publish your figures, or use your content in its marketing without separate written consent, and that consent should be revocable.
If the confidentiality obligations run only one way, that tells you how the relationship is designed.
Indemnity and liability
Read this properly even though it is dull, because it is where risk is allocated.
You will normally indemnify the agency for the content you provide, which is reasonable. Watch for indemnities that make you liable for the agency's own conduct, such as its chatters' behaviour toward subscribers, or its compliance with advertising rules on channels it operates.
Look for a liability cap. A cap at the fees paid is standard. A clause disclaiming all liability for anything, while holding you liable for everything, is a one-sided document and a signal about the counterparty.
Termination
The clause you will care about most, at the point where you care most.
Map the exit sequence explicitly: how notice is given and to whom, when access is returned, when activity on the account stops, when the archive is delivered, when their copies are deleted, and how final amounts are settled.
Refuse: exit fees, penalties, liquidated damages for early termination, clawback of commission already earned by you, and any non-compete that restricts who you can work with afterwards. A non-solicitation preventing the agency from poaching your subscribers is fair and should be mutual.
Check whether termination for their breach exists as a right. Many agreements let the agency terminate for convenience while requiring you to demonstrate cause.
Practical process
Get the document before the first call. Read it once for shape and once with a highlighter. Take it to a solicitor. Send your questions in writing and keep the answers, because a written answer that contradicts the contract is useful later.
Then take a week. The pressure to sign quickly is not a coincidence and it is not about capacity.
If an agency withdraws an offer because you took a week to have a contract reviewed, it has saved you a great deal of trouble.
What ours says
Our agreement is summarised clause by clause, in plain English, on the Trust Standard page. Thirty days rolling, no exit fee, content and account ownership retained entirely by you, co-manager access only, and a licence that expires with the contract.
We send it before the call rather than after. If you would like to read it, the application takes ninety seconds.