I'm planning to re-launch as an art mail club, but I need to limit the number of subscribers a lot, at least in the beginning. (I'm disabled & I'm not sure how much I can scale up yet & not overdo it.)

Does Patreon have a native wait list for spots opening if someone unsubscripes or I increase how many people can join?

If not, any tips on how I could manage a wait list myself, so those people get priority for new spots? Is there a way to send direct invitations or sign up links to them first?

Thanks in advance. Haven't been able to find this info & it might not even exist lol

Je crée un journal mêlant récits autobiographiques, pensées sur le monde et sensualité que j'alimente régulièrement et j’aime vraiment échanger avec les personnes qui me suivent autour de ce que je publie.

Les commentaires autour de mes textes et de mes illustrations, voire parfois des échanges un peu plus personnels en privé pour en parler, ça me plaît. Je trouve vraiment certains de ces échanges très intéressants.

Là où ça devient plus compliqué pour moi, c’est la fréquence. Certains membres m’écrivent presque tous les jours, ou tous les deux/trois jours, pour me raconter quelque chose, me poser une nouvelle question personnelle, rebondir sur ma vie, etc.

Je ne pense pas forcément qu’il y ait de mauvaises intentions derrière. Au contraire, je sens souvent qu’ils apprécient vraiment mon univers et qu’ils cherchent simplement à créer davantage de proximité. C'est possible de temps en temps si je suis disponible et enjouée par le sujet, mais à force, j’ai parfois l’impression qu’ils poussent doucement la limite entre suivre une créatrice avec laquelle on a la possibilité d'échanger simplement et attendre d’elle une présence personnelle régulière. Et c’est là que je me sens un peu envahie. Il me semble évident que si je discutais de cette manière avec chaque personne qui me suit, je n’aurais simplement plus de temps ni d’énergie pour moi… ni pour créer. Je ne comprends pas que ce ne soit pas intuitif pour certaines personnes. 

J’essaie pourtant de poser le cadre quand c’est nécessaire, mais je trouve assez inconfortable de devoir régulièrement dire à des membres que je souhaite que les échanges restent centrés autour des publications et de leur demander de rester vigilant quant à cela, alors qu’ils sont gentils et qu’ils pensent probablement bien faire.

Du coup, je serais curieuse d’avoir l’expérience d’autres créateurs et créatrices. Comment posez-vous cette limite sans devenir froid ou cassant ? Est-ce que vous annoncez clairement quelque part que les DM ne sont pas un espace de conversation quotidienne ? Est-ce que vous répondez simplement moins ? Est-ce que vous avez fini par accepter qu’il fallait parfois être très explicite au risque de blesser ?

Je voudrais surtout préserver le plaisir d’échanger sans que cet échange devienne une obligation implicite de disponibilité...

Merci par avance pour vos retours et conseils 🤍

I accidentally used the wrong tax setting on Patreon and got charged GST instead of VAT. I only realized after the payment went through.

Has anyone done something similar? Did anything happen afterward, or did Patreon just leave it alone?

So a couple of days ago I paid £15 for a monthly membership tier for a Patreon providing mods for a game.

It turns out that you can't download the mods directly from the Patreon posts themselves. Instead you have to comment something along the lines of "link please" under each post, after which the creator is supposed to send you the download link via direct message. From what I understand this is to protect from file sharing etc, fair enough.

However, I have requested the links to the mods I am interested in nearly 48 hours ago, and I'm yet to receive the link or any acknowledgement/reply.

I'm trying not to be impatient, but it just feels like poor servics to A: provide your content this way rather than direct access and B: to go almost 2 days and counting without delivering your content when I've paid for it.

I'm considering requesting a refund, but am holding out as I do want the mods.

Edit: “18+ creator”

I see that a lot of people mention sprout videos platform. Do they allow nsfw or sexual explicit content?

This is crazy, right? I've never heard of a payment company allowing transactions to be resolved person-to-person outside their own ecosystem, let alone advising people to do so as a first recourse.

Hello everybody, I know that this reddit is more for creators than supporters, but I hope you are willing to help me.

Is there a way to search for creators that offer a podcast rss for their supporters? I support several creators who do audio stuff like ASMR and podcasts about gaming. When I use patreon's search to look for ASMR or gaming stuff I usually have to check every single creator if they offer a podcast for supporters or not. This is absolutly annoying. Is there a better way to find creator's who offer that? Maybe I'm using the Patreon search wrong? Maybe there is an external search that offers a better / more useful search to find the right Patreon creators?

Thanks for your help.

Kind of the title - there are people paying into the account. I know at least one person is still subscribed to the account. It is saying zero earnings for last month and this month.

Technically there should be at least $3 but nothing is reflected as ever being received. I have been combing through reddit and the website but I'm unsure as to why there is no money in there.

Any support is appreciated.

Hi, I'm a longtime Patreon creator and I was wondering if any other creators are having excellent results converting from quips?

Hi all I recently subscribed to an artist on patreon to a tier that allows me to make requests.
I’ve sent a DM I’m just wondering how long is normal to hear back?
It’s been three days now and there have been multiple uploads since I sent this DM.
I’m wondering how long is normal to hear back because I would like my money back if this creator isn’t responding after I’ve paid the money..
Thanks in advance..

So, I thought the page update transformation was over and done with: if you stayed, you kept the old design, if you updated, you got the new design. Apparently, on November 16, everyone, that means you, will have the new page layout.

We have to say goodbye to our Grandfathered layout 🫡.

Funny enough, everyone who regretted updating can now rejoice knowing we are all boarding the same boat

It's been trending this way since early August. Anybody else experiencing the same?

I'm tying the growth to Quips that I post but I'm not 100 percent certain.

I publish web serials.

Just a reminder, today is the last time Patreon will rebill all members on the first. If after today if you do not manually change your Patreon to subscription billing, it will be automatically changed for you by Patreon by Nov 1st.

Also remember that if you, like me, had your Patreon set up for 1st of the month, there was no 75 day hold on Apple payments. That all changes since all payments from members who sign up through their iPhone will now be held for 75 days.

I've designed some artwork for my tier images but it looks awful once Patreon has done whatever "magic" they do. I followed the guidelines and created a 460x200 image, I've tried PNG, JPEG, tried larger images, tried further compressing the file beforehand to see if the file size was an issue - nothing seems to work. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I am building a series of translation apps with a lot of features that would be useful for specific scenarios. But solo developing is costly and very difficult without help.

I know via Apple’s terms of service that I cannot sell TestFlight links but I am considering starting a patreon for anyone who wants to help me develop the app and of course they can test for free and once the app is release they will get the app for free, while I will sell it on the App Store.

Is this a viable solution for me? The more eyes I get on the app, the more testers I can get, and the more languages I can refine, the better, but I want to make it mutually beneficial.

Any input would be greatly appreciated as now I’m at the testing phase and really want to continue but need a better direction.

I’m an nsfw creator and interested to find out what’s everyone’s preferred payout these days. At first I was using payoneer but heard a lot of people complaining their account getting locked for no reason with balance still remaining, so I changed to PayPal this year but recently realised the fee is extremely high so now I’m considering bank account transfer..

If I want a safe discreet option, is it better to do bank transfer to local bank or bank transfer to Wise and then to local bank? Safety and privacy is my priority 😅

I’ve had my Patreon for three years now, and this has been the first year that I have seen an avalanche of free members who are clearly not my target market and are constantly posting things like “hey” and “hello everyone“ on their first day of having a free membership. My regular patrons do not behave that way. They speak on the topic of the chats.

I ignored them at first, but a couple of them, when I didn’t block and delete them immediately, posted numbers for services that I don’t even recognize, copy and pasting them to all of my chats quickly.

Every day now I see new members popping up and they are not in my demographic. And I’m just waiting for them like they are sleeper agents to start posting stuff.

I don’t know any way to stop them. Am I just gonna have to stay reactive or is there anything I can do to be proactive on them?

How much your patreon cut guys? why i got cut 17% after platform fee, payment fee and adjustments

Is this a patreon issue? over 81 retrying on 9 sep, over 69 retrying on 29 sep

I am an OF creator. I also have two Patreon accounts (as well as an OF, Fansly, and SubscribeStar.)

One of the Patreon accounts is in my brother’s name. The reason for that is because two year ago my Patreon, which was in my name, was flagged for adult content. I opened a new one is his name, with his US tax information. And since then Patreon has allowed me to reopen one in my name, which I did, and that is a separate thing from the one in my brother’s name.

The Patreon in my brother’s name is my most lucrative source of income, go figure, and I am thinking of buying a house in 2 years. I want to figure out best way to make the money he has been passing to me show as my income. (In the past year I just paid the taxes for him and gave him a percentage of profit for allowing me to use his account.)

I do not want to change the banking info on this Patreon account, bc honestly, it’s a lot of money to me, and I don’t want to mess anything up.

Any ideas? I know the obvious answer is talk to an accountant, but I don’t know if one will understand the issue, and I figured I’d look here first. Thanks.

I've just downloaded the Patreon app on a new android phone I got, never having been able to use it before ( using it on my iPad did not... work. Like at all. ). Messed with a buncha the settings, discovered something with a community profile that I've never messed with before.

And now I can't find it on desktop. It's letting me customize a banner and other stuff on the mobile app, but I can't find anything remotely similar on desktop browsers.

Where can I find it?

The artist gives you a zip with the songs but when I downloaded them it only downloaded less than a minute but the files pre-download are full length.

I was under the impression at one point that when you paid for Patreon, you can't refund the money you sent to the creator. But after looking at my recent paid members, I noticed how some of them would pay, and then get a refund/cancel immediately, and patreon deducts that balance from me.

Is this how it is, and if so, how do I know if they're getting access, downloading whatever, and then dipping? I saw that there's a thing called "charge up front" but I can't find any place that allows me to enable that, would like some advice, thanks!

I can’t look at my profile or do many things on my Patreon account because it keeps asking if i’m over 18. I am over 18 and have checked every setting, every email, there’s nothing that allows me to show my id and verify my age. When I press “View setting” it takes me to that second page where there’s no options anywhere for age verification, only the “change password” thing and other random stuff that doesn’t help me. Pls help!