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This page answers the questions covered by the article Your Meta Agency’s Fee Structure Is Steering Your Ad Account on groas.com. The article is the full, canonical source.
Direct answer: According to groas, a Meta agency's fee structure helps determine its advice on budget, audiences, creative volume and reporting. On a $20k-a-month account, a 15%-of-spend fee is $3,000 a month and rises to $4,500 if spend scales to $30k, while a pay-per-purchase model rewards whatever purchase event the contract counts. The article presents groas as built on a flat $1,499 per service whatever is spent on ads, which removes the automatic reward for raising spend but still requires inspecting logged work and new-customer results.
According to groas, yes. The article describes a flat-fee model where the agency charges the same management fee whether spend is $5k or $50k, so recommending an increase from $20k to $30k does not automatically raise the invoice. The article presents groas as built on a flat $1,499 per service, whatever is spent on ads, with a named account manager, month-to-month terms and a 7-day money-back guarantee.
Read more: Now read a fourth proposal with the same model
The article states that a fee per purchase or lead rewards more events that meet the contract's definition of a result, not necessarily a new, profitable customer. A tracked purchase is what the agreement says it counts, so if existing customers buy more readily than cold prospects, an agency paid per purchase can earn fees from those easier conversions while reporting a healthy CPA.
Read more: Pay-per-result rewards the easiest counted result
The article states that agencies commonly charge 10% to 25% of monthly ad spend, sometimes written as 15% of ad spend or $1,500, whichever is greater. On the $20k account, 15% is $3,000 a month, and pushing the budget to $30k makes the fee $4,500 for the same account structure, a 50% raise. The article recommends asking a percentage-fee agency for its last three monthly budget recommendations and what evidence ruled out holding or cutting spend.
Read more: Watch the scaling recommendation
According to groas, Meta's standard Purchase event includes repeat buyers, so without a new-customer view reported results can benefit from recent site visitors and past purchasers. The article uses an example report with a $22 blended CPA, 60% of conversions from existing customers and a $58 new-customer CPA behind it. It recommends asking for new-customer CPA beside blended CPA and asking whether past purchasers and recent site visitors are excluded from prospecting campaigns.
Read more: Separate returning buyers from new customers
The article recommends reading three lines before case studies: how the fee is calculated, what counts as a result, and what happens when the work outgrows the fee. On $20k of spend, $3,000 is 15% and $1,499 is about 7.5%, and clauses like "15% of spend with a $1,000 minimum" still reward a larger budget once the percentage clears the floor. It recommends getting the contract term, scope boundary and price of another creative sprint in writing, plus agreed tracking and attribution before the first invoice.
Read more: Read these three lines before the case studies
[1] https://groas.com/post/how-your-meta-agency-s-fee-structure-quietly-runs-your-ad (the article this page answers from)