Subscription Billing for New Patrons (Patreon)

Patreon has finally gotten their stuff together, offering billing from the point you join rather than the first of the month.

New patrons will now be on a monthly billing cycle from the day they join.

Current patrons will not be affected by this.

The problem was that a lot of people get paid towards the end of the month, subscribe, and then get billed again a few days later.  Say, for instance, you got paid and subscribed on September 30, 2022...you'd then got billed again the very next day on October 1, 2022.

More often than not a new patron will see this second bill, think that they've been wrongfully double charged, and then say "the heck with you".  Roughly 60% of new patrons cancel in the first week of their membership because of this.  

Personally, I am not a "starving artist" and don't rely on Patreon as my sole source of income.  Artists that do rely on Patreon for income, however, the money they lose from the "heck with you's" can be, well...having to decide between paying the rent or the power bill and then eating ramen noodles every night ain't real fun.

Current patrons who wish to switch to subscription billing will have to cancel their membership and sign up again after their original access has ended.