Set up Meta ads billing in your name

Steps

1. In Meta Business Suite, open Settings › Billing & payments.

2. Click Payment methods.

   

3. To add a card that every ad account in your portfolio can use, click Add next to “Add business payment method”. To add one to a single ad account, choose it under Select account first.

4. Choose the type, click Next and follow the prompts.

Add a backup card in the same place, so a declined payment doesn’t pause your ads.

Our notes

• Who should pay: you. Meta saves the payment method to the ad account, so keep the account and the card in your business’s name. You then see every charge in Billing & payments.
• Agency fee vs ad spend: your ad spend goes straight to Meta. Our management fee is a separate invoice from us.
• Set a sensible threshold maximum. A lower threshold means more frequent, smaller charges, which some banks handle better.
• Common mistake: paying with the agency’s card “to get started”. The charges, receipts and payment history then belong to someone else.
• What happens next: we set budgets as agreed in our plan, and you approve any change to them.