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Minor billing note (Patreon)

Published:
2024-01-08 15:14:52
Imported:
2026-11

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Patreon has been nudging me—and I assume all other creators—to switch to "subscription billing" for over a year, which just means that new members will get billed the moment they sign up for my Patreon and monthly going forward (e.g., if they sign up on January 8th, they'll pay then, then pay on February 8th, March 8th, etc., if they stick around.

While I've resisted doing this out of a vague obstinance, I just made the switch after one more "drive-by" of someone signing up and then cancelling almost immediately, I suspect to vacuum up anything behind the paywall for free. The only thing that's exclusive here is Saida & Autumn and the unfinished story about Kani, and I'm probably going to release S&A online soon one way or another, so this is extremely silly. But it's also irritating.

If you joined the Patreon before today, nothing is going to change for you. If you join today or later, it means you'll be charged when you sign up, which doesn't seem unreasonable. If you're just here to inexplicably vacuum stuff up and put it on a pirate site or whatever, well, you owe me at least $3 now, you dingus.

Comments

Jenora Feuer

Ugh. Twitch handles billing that way, and I hate it because I end up with separate charges for each subscription. I much prefer the method where all the subscriptions are handled in one charge on the same day; it's easier to expect and gives me a better feel for how much is going to Patreon rather than nickle-and-diming it. Granted I have no idea if this is handled differently between Patreon in the U.S. and the Patreon Ireland that my billing is going through because I have things set up in Canadian funds. (And in my experience it looked like I'd be charged for a month anyway even if I canceled immediately, so I'm not sure what use that would be? Maybe if you signed up on the last day of the month and it pro-rates the payment...)

Arilin

It doesn't prorate it. There are apparently folks—or bots—that sign up and suck down everything that's behind Patreon paywalls to release it on pirate sites; I'm not sure if that's what was going on a couple days ago, but I have suspicions. I'd prefer to have everything on one day, too, which is why I resisted making that change for over a year of nagging. But I think this is Patreon's replacement for their previous alternative of "charge on the first of the month *and* charge the day you sign up, even if you're signing up on the last day of the month", which I never switched to because I didn't like that, either—but "let someone sign up at any point during a month and don't charge them until the first of the next month" creates a hole that people unfortunately take advantage of.

Jenora Feuer

Ahh, I see. Yeah, 'charge for the full month even if you're signing up on the last day' is what I'd mostly been seeing, and I didn't realize you had it set up differently. That makes the actual issue here clearer, thanks.