Pass-through

Agency management software for paid media agencies

Paid media agencies look twice their real size on paper, because client ad spend runs through the same bank account as the fee. Verbial bills media as pass-through, keeps it out of revenue, and reports gross profit on the fee, which is the only number that pays your team.

Why it matters

Pass-through spend inflates revenue and hides how thin the fee margin actually is.

Revenue that is not yours.

A million in billings and a hundred thousand in fee, reported as if they were the same thing.

Cash flow risk on client spend.

You front the media, the client pays in thirty days, and one late payer takes the month with it.

Percentage-of-spend is hard to bill.

The fee changes every month and someone recalculates it by hand.

What changes

What changes for paid media agencies

Revenue reads true
Client ad spend stays out of it. You are measured on the fee you earn.
Fees keep up with spend
Percentage fees follow real spend, and go out with the statement attached.
Know what you keep
Gross profit after vendor and creator payouts, campaign by campaign.
Never bank the client's ad budget
Media is billed ahead with a pay link. Your cash stays yours.

Common questions

How does Verbial handle client ad spend?

As pass-through. It is invoiced and reconciled, but excluded from revenue and from profitability, so your margin is calculated on the fee. Media gross profit is reported separately per campaign.

Can I bill a percentage of spend?

Yes. Set the percentage on the client and the fee is calculated from actual spend for the period, invoiced with the statement that supports it.

What about influencer and vendor payments?

They sit against the campaign as cost, so campaign revenue minus those payments gives you media gross profit per project rather than per agency.

Built for how paid media agencies actually bill.

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