The contract between a creator and her manager, clause by clause

Why a contract, and why this one

The previous lesson set the starting point: the OnlyFans terms of service state that the platform’s relationship is with the creator, and not with a third party. Telegram, for its part, publishes in the terms of its internal currency that developers or creators see a separate balance on the pages of their bots or their channels, and that sales of Stars are final. In both cases, no platform knows the manager.

The contract between the creator and the manager is therefore the only document that organizes their relationship. If it is missing, each depends on the goodwill of the other, and the person who holds the access holds everything.

A services agreement is the simplest framework: the creator is the client, the manager is the contractor, and he invoices a commission. In France, an independent contractor may fall under the micro regime below the threshold published by the administration, 83,600 euros of revenue excluding tax for services and liberal activities, for income received in 2026. The next lesson and the site’s simulator come back to this threshold.

The fifteen clauses

The site’s generator produces an agreement in fifteen articles. Here is what each one settles, and the trap it avoids.

The parties. Name or pseudonym of the creator, name of the manager or his company. A pseudonym is enough in the body of the text if the real identity is verified separately and kept confidential.

The purpose. The manager provides services; the creator remains the holder of her accounts and responsible toward the platforms. That sentence prevents any reading of the contract as a transfer of the account or as a de facto partnership.

The term. A start date, a duration in months, an end date, and renewal in writing only. A contract without a term is not a services agreement, it is a commitment without an exit.

The commission and its basis of calculation. The percentage matters, but the basis matters just as much. Take 1,000 dollars paid by the fans and the 20% commission published by OnlyFans: 30% of the gross is 300 dollars, 30% of the net after the platform is 240 dollars. At the same percentage, the gap is 60 dollars per thousand. The contract must name the basis; the revenue split tool shows the effect of each choice.

The scope. Conversations, publishing, acquisition, editing, bookkeeping. What is checked is owed; what is not is subject to a separate agreement. A vague scope is the first source of disputes, before money itself.

Access. Who holds what. The contract may entrust operational access to the manager, but the email address, the phone number, the main password and the payment method remain the creator’s and are never changed. An access register, kept by both parties, completes the clause.

Content ownership and the license. The creator retains all rights. She grants a non-exclusive, non-transferable license, limited to the services and to the term. When the contract ends, the license lapses.

Confidentiality. Real identity, revenue, content, access credentials, methods. The obligation continues after the contract.

Exclusivity. It is not mandatory. If it exists, it covers the listed services and the accounts in the register, and it ends with the contract.

Platform rules. Each party reads the published terms and does not ask the other to act against them. The manager does not promise that his methods are compliant: that judgment belongs to the platform, and it changes with its rules.

Account suspension or closure by a platform. A decision by the platform is not, by itself, a fault of either party. The manager informs the creator within twenty-four hours and documents his steps, the commission is due only on revenue actually received, and if the account is not restored within thirty days, either party may leave with short notice, without penalty, the manager handing back content and data. Without this clause, the commission is still claimed on revenue that no longer exists.

Automated conversation tools. If the manager uses an AI to handle the conversations, the creator must know it and accept it in writing; otherwise, the contract forbids any use without prior consent. The clause says nothing about what the platforms allow, it only settles the information between the two parties.

Age of majority and consent. The creator certifies that she is of legal age and provides an identity document; she certifies that every person appearing in her content is of legal age and has consented in writing. Without this clause, the manager publishes content he knows nothing about.

Termination. A notice period in days for each party, and immediate termination in case of serious breach: unauthorized access, changing the credentials, publication outside the scope, non-payment, a breach on the age of majority.

Return and disputes. At the end, return of all access and data within a short time, deletion of copies, final statement. For disputes, an amicable phase, then the competent courts under the chosen law.

The three clauses that should make you refuse

The lesson Agency or solo drew them from a press investigation that documented real contracts. They serve as a test, in both directions: a creator should refuse them, a serious manager does not propose them.

Account access with the power to change the email address. A manager does not need that power to do the work. It has only one use: preventing the creator from taking her account back. The generated agreement explicitly forbids it in Article 5.

The penalty for renegotiating. Making a creator pay to agree to lower a percentage is not a business practice, it is a lock. Article 4 of the generated agreement states that no sum is owed for renegotiating or for leaving under the agreed conditions.

No term and no exit. Without a term, without notice, without a return clause, the relationship can only end in a conflict. Articles 2, 13 and 14 of the generated agreement set all three.

The principle sums up the lesson: a contract that would not survive being published in a newspaper should not be signed.

How to use the generator

The site’s contract generator turns your choices into a text of fifteen articles, in English, in lists, without jargon. It shows a complete agreement with default values, and the text updates with every change: term, notice, commission, basis of calculation, scope, access, exclusivity, information about automated tools.

That text is a working draft. It does not replace the review by a professional, who will adapt the governing law, the status of the parties, the mandatory mentions and the special cases. It serves one purpose: arriving at that review with clear choices, written down, and already discussed with the creator.