Important changes coming to Patreon (Patreon)

There are two important changes coming up to Patreon.

As you know, up until now I have been using a system of billing at the first of each month and have kept it ever since, as I feel it's an open model that allow people to not immediately engage themselves when they subscribe to my page and see first if they enjoy my work. A sort of sampling if you like.

Well with their partnership with Apple , Patreon will be required to remove that system entirely and adopt an universal subscription billing instead, where a subscriber pay as soon as they subscribe and are then charged onward at that same day next month.

I just received a mail explaining to me that every Patreon account will be automatically switched to subscription billing starting next November.

I'm not super thrilled with that change to be honest ^^; While it's not going to change anything for any current subscriber ( you are just going to be charged at the 1 of each month like before ), I preferred the previous more open system that worked just fine.

The second change is the one currently in the process of setting twitter on fire... a 30% fee applied by apple if you purchase a subscription through the IOS app..... 30%, just like that.

Now, from what I'm understanding of the situation it won't affect at all patrons already subscribed and only apply to new ones who purchases the subscription through the IOS app. I'm honestly not sure it will stands ^^; The numbers are a liiiitle bit crazy and the backlash promise to be pretty massive...

I guess we will see. The most important new of the two is the end of the first of each month billing starting November. I'll make sure to publish a reminder before the switch is made. .