Patreon fee structure

[boxofdelights]

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

Comments

[boxofdelights]

I love your writing, and I'd be glad to say that with Paypal if you PM me an email address. (I don't love Paypal, but I am not currently on strike against Paypal.)

[sovay]

I love your writing, and I'd be glad to say that with Paypal if you PM me an email address.

I'm honored. Thank you so much for the offer. I'll message you in a moment.

[pameladean]

This is a real nightmare. I utterly support anybody who has to delete pledges. I am hoping Patreon will rethink itself, but given how very much money they are going to get with this stupid scheme I'm not sure they will. I'm also not sure which creators and donors they really value, so I'm not sure how losing some will affect their attitude.

P.

[boxofdelights]

Yeah. As you know, I love your writing too, and I do want to continue to support it.