Should my agency have access to my bank or billing?

Never your bank. For ad platforms, the clean pattern: YOUR card sits in YOUR ad accounts paying platforms directly; the agency gets manager access to operate campaigns without touching payment methods. You see every dollar of spend at the source.

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Never your bank. For ad platforms, the clean pattern: YOUR card sits in YOUR ad accounts paying platforms directly; the agency gets manager access to operate campaigns without touching payment methods. You see every dollar of spend at the source.

The arrangement to refuse: agency pays ad spend and rebills you. It hides the true spend-vs-fee split, adds their margin invisibly, and, worst, means the ad accounts and their history live under the agency's billing, which becomes hostage leverage at breakup time.

Same rule across every system: your accounts, your payment methods, their access-role. The ownership audit takes two minutes and tells you where this rule is currently broken.

This is the work. Want it done?

Everything here is free to use yourself. That’s the point. If you’d rather a senior marketer just handle it, in your accounts and your name: 20-minute call, no pitch deck.

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