PSA: Patreon Billing Issues (Patreon)

Hey everyone,

I figured I'd post this here as well, for those who may not be on the platform-I-will-continue-to-call-Twitter:

Patreon is currently having major billing issues, leading to your payments being declined or marked as fraud — and in some cases, cancelling all of your subscriptions.

From what I could gather:

• The problem seems to affect mainly U.S. users using cards.
• Patreon changed their billing address from California to Dublin, Ireland (probably for tax evasion purposes lol), causing many banks to decline the sudden international transaction.
• Some people are also getting hit by an additional international charge because of this.

It may also be Patreon's entire system breaking, as usual. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Patreon says they're working on this "slight" issue and is instructing us users to solve the problem by contacting our banks or switching to Paypal. But from what I can tell of people's replies in the twitter thread, doing so still gives you errors.

Patreon's also having big issues with Payoneer right now, so that's just peachy. :)

At the time of me writing this post, no solution has been found and both patrons and creators are left sitting in the dust twiddling our thumbs, hoping Patreon gets its shit together for once.

I'd keep an eye out on Patreon Support's twitter account for any updates.

Best,

hakei