In this article we’ll review:
Pricing 101
You pay for the ads that are being placed on publisher sites and networks and MNTN keeps a percentage of that for the service we provide. You can decide to spend as much or as little as you want on your campaign. Just know that a portion of it will be retained for our services.
What you pay
Remember you are paying for your ads to be placed, or "served," on publisher sites. The campaign budget you provide is the specific amount you want to spend on your campaign for the month. This means that your total monthly spend is the actual cost of buying ad space on publisher sites (or serving impressions).
All pricing is CPM-based (cost-per-thousand impressions) and, in this case, is called dynamic CPM. To learn more about CPM, review our article on Why CPM over CPC.
💡Note: We do not add sales tax to your bill.
How you are billed
Each month, your bill will be delivered to the email address you have provided in your account profile. Every bill will include the amount charged for the previous month's ad buying, the date it was generated, the card used, and a reference number.
💭Question: What happens if I miss a payment?
For clients billed by credit card, we understand that if an updated payment is not received within 3 days of the initial decline, campaigns will be automatically paused. For clients billed by invoice, unpaid invoices after 90 days will have their campaigns paused.
How to see what you're spending, and what we make
To view your campaign's month to date spend in a visual graph you can access this by visiting the Performance Tab within your campaign. In this view you will be able to see your campaigns month to date spend.
Or if you are more interested in the specific spend per day and would like to view this on a table of data points, you are able to view this in the Reporting Dashboard and selecting the 'Detail' tab in the Table widget to view a day by day breakdown
How to view your bill
Select Billing History from the drop-down menu on the nav bar. Here you can view a full list of previous invoices:
Invoice Status
Once you pay your invoice, the platform may still say 'Overdue' as this gets updated once a month at the end of the month (or the beginning of the next month depending on what day of the week the end of the month falls on).
For example, if you pay your invoice on the 25th, it will show overdue until the platform reports the payment between the 30th-3rd. At that time, it will be changed to "paid" or an email will go out to notify you of a missed payment.