Hello everyone!

As previously mentioned, the billing cycle has been changed by Patreon. It's official, and I can't do anything about it.

Billing schedule

You’re currently using subscription billing, which means members are charged on the day they join your membership, and then monthly on that same date. Members who joined before you started using subscription billing are charged on the 1st of each month.

This means that if you join on the 15th day of the month, you will be charged again next month on the same day.

The problem here is that the controls that were supposed to help are no longer available (or at least I cannot find them). This month there won't be a problem, but next month I will need to be more careful with the miniature release.

When say "I need to be more careful", means that every subscriber will (should) receive the miniature only after the payment for that month. This is to avoid people receiving 2 sets of miniatures while paying for 1 month.

If you don't want to work with the billing schedule, and would like to receive the miniatures as soon as they're available, and still wish to support me, I recommend that you subscribe to my Tribes.

https://www.myminifactory.com/profile/Imagine-Minis/tribe

MyMiniFactory has stated:

Rest assured that MyMiniFactory will never change the billing cycle from the 1st, as we recognize the importance of these for both Creators and subscribers.

THE GOOD SIDE

Apple Store

With this change, I got access to the Apple Store; you can now pay Patreon on your Apple device (or something like that), paying an additional Apple fee. I will still receive the same value while you pay more. YAY! This should be on the bad side (But according to Patreon, it's good)

Gift

Jokes aside, I got access to a new feature: Gift.

The content creator can now gift membership to people. Anyone can now also gift any of my memberships.

https://www.patreon.com/Imagineminis/gift

After clicking on this link, it will take you to a website where you can select what tier to be gifted, the number of months, and how many will be gifted.
If you gift my subscription, after payment, it will generate a code or something like that; you will then be able to distribute it however you like. After creating the code, stay sharp because it has an expiration date (Creating one today, it says 2027 february 10th, something around 3 months)

Gifting memberships is a great way to further support my work.

MEMBERSHIP CHANGES

Gentle Souls and Bannerman Tiers

With the addition of the Gift feature, I have unpublished the Bannerman Tier. This change does not affect anyone subscribed to this tier. However, after you leave, you won't be able to subscribe to the same tier again.

The Idea behind Gentle Soul was that you paid more so someone else could subscribe to a cheaper tier; with the gift function, anyone can gift my membership to anyone. This could support me the same way, but you now have more agency over who you want to give a membership to and how many you are willing to give away. The only downside is that it does not apply to the limited tier.

Starting next month, after the patron commission request post is created, I will gift memberships to free subscribers in a post. The number of gift memberships will be equivalent to the number of Gentle Souls currently subscribed.

If this proves to be ineffective, in a way that no one claims the Gift or no more Gentle Souls are available, I will eventually cancel this program.

Name Changes

I think that this is more cosmetic than anything, but I will be changing First Wave to Founding Member, and "Second Wave" will be removed (The name part; the Tier will remain the same).

When I created these, I expected to grow, and I planned to change the second wave to a limited tier after I hire more people to work with me or if I ever add a Sci-fi Counterpart in the same Patreon. That has not happened yet, and with the tools that were given, I can create new tiers as we evolve; no need to overcomplicate things.

That's it for now. Thank you for your time, patience, and support.

Best regards,

Ivo