Dis Patreon Business

AlpineBob

I wrote comments on a bunch of my creators post about this change, all of which have disappeared. Each (except the one here), contained a link to the petition Meg posted about above, and a link to the calculator that Dammit Ryan created (it can be found in his comment to "Isa and Meg, The Namesake Team", if you'd like to try it -I don't want to put any links in this comment, in case that was an issue). It showed that my $40 pledge to about 35 creators has been getting about $36 to the creators, with the rest going to admin costs. The new fee structure costs me about $13 more, and about $38 will go to the creators. So, over $10 in admin costs get piled on me. This is inequitable. And the disappearance of my posts does NOT make me feel much happier with Patreon.

Granny Smith

My understanding of how payment processing works is that the "processor" (whether Card company, PayPal, or whoever) takes their fee off the top before forwarding the balance. Patreon isn't responsible for remitting it after the fact. So whatever that processing fee is, is between the Patron and the Creator - NOT with Patreon. All Patreon has to do is charge their percentage of the original pledge.

Adrius Frostglare

I'm so sorry. I wish I could keep being a patron, but between this and my current financial situation... Maybe someday, I can come back.

My pledges are already affected by the exchange rate so I doubt this will change that much. I'm only patreon-ing this comic at the moment so I'm not going anywhere. ;P

Robert

I think it's per pledge. 35 cents plus 2.9%

Owen Smith

Exactly. The majority of my pledges are $1 (32 of them at the moment, to be exact). If Patreon goes ahead with their plan to charge each of those individually and hit me for an additional $12+ in service charges in the process, I will most certainly go out of my way to find other avenues to support those creators. If I'm going to be paying service charges anyway, the way this has been handled does not make me keen on giving them to Patreon.

Hmmm... for people who only have a few pledges, this new update shouldn't make much of a difference for how much they pay, but for people that have numerous small pledges, that flat $0.35 fee per pledge could add up pretty quick. I think that's where a lot of creators are gonna wind up actually losing some money, is the drop outs of smaller pleges. :(

JeanetteB

My $20 looks like it will become $20.93 or maybe $21.28, because it’s split between 2 accounts. Don’t know if Patreon will feel it’s worth it though. It wasn’t clear if the $.35 is per account, or just a flat fee on top of the 2.9%

Meg Syv

Shoot, yeah, good idea - I'll update the post with a link to how individual pledges will be affected. Thanks.

Robert

It looks like a $5 pledge gets about 50 cents added on, for reference.

peter allen

I feel discombobulated!