Patreon fee structure

You may have heard that Patreon is changing their fee structure to charge the service fees to patrons instead of creators.

If I understand correctly, Patreon is actually using that change as a smokescreen for the change of charging each patron one service fee per donation, instead of one service fee per month. So a patron who gives 20 creators $1 each will now be paying 20 $0.35 minimum service fees, plus the 2.9% service charge on the whole $20. Patreon gets to keep the difference between (the service fees patrons pay to Patreon) and (the service fees Patreon pays to its bank), and that difference just got a lot bigger.

This is on top of the 5% of the total that Patreon takes from creators, which is not changing.


I'll sponsor my creators in other ways, or go back to Patreon if Patreon reverses this change, but for now I am on strike.

There is also a petition asking Patreon to change back here: https://www.change.org/p/patreon-patreon-drop-the-external-service-charge