Subscription Billing on Patreon (Patreon)

As of today, I've switched to subscription billing, a new option from Patreon. If you want to know what this changes for you (existing backers), it changes nothing. If the details of the change interest you, read on.

In the past (and since the beginning), Patreon's monthly billing was a profoundly flawed system: they only ever charged backers on the 1st of every month. If you joined on the 20th and left on the 25th, you could take all the content and walk away without compensating the creator.

With the new system, you are charged immediately, then at the same date every month (which is how standard billing systems work—like Netflix, for example). They have finally deployed that new system and I've switched to it. For all of you, if you were already a backer, your "join date" is treated as the first of the month and you'll continue being charged on that date. Any new backer, however, will always be charged on the date they have joined (including those that were once backers and have left).

So like said at the top, this doesn't change anything for you existing backers. It's just the next ones that will be impacted, and it'll be along the lines of what they'd expect anyway.

Now I have to go and change my welcome message, my advertising, and so on. :)

--Jaycee