Hey everyone! Robin from Patreon’s Product Marketing team here. Thank you for all your comments and sharing your ideas here. This thread, and some others on this forum, shows us that there are very strong preferences on multiple sides of this issue. Some creators have built their businesses around the current billing model and don’t want it to change. Yet we are very aware of the drawbacks of the current system that many of you are super frustrated by. I feel your frustration and I’m sorry! We don’t have a clear path forward yet. We know that we don’t want to introduce a change that causes patrons to have multiple charges throughout the month instead of one bill. And we don’t want to make a change that increases costs for patrons or creators.
We would like to find a way to solve the double billing issue, and make Patreon simpler for new patrons to understand. We’re looking for a way forward that doesn’t have drawbacks, and that is a challenge! We appreciate all of your concerns and hope to make things better for everyone. I’m going to close this thread now as part of this initiative, but want to let you know that we’re thinking about this!