We want and need your input on billing

[reyna]

Collecting previous feedback threads so those of you who have already shared don’t need to repeat yourself. Will add threads as I go:

Feature Request: Monthly Payments starting on Join Date

Hi, This is something that is really a frustration that I’ve been having with Patreon. As a creator, we have two options to bill monthly: Up Front ( regardless of the join date, patreons get charged, plus they get charged on 1st of the next month) - The problem with this model is that a lot of people who join my page near the end of the month, get charged “quickly” two times and they decide to quit being a Patreon because they were charged too often and almost all of them said that they exp…

Anniversary Billing

Nice to see the blog post about anniversary billing (and other upcoming changes). If we could, I’d like to keep this thread to concrete information, questions, and specific points of friction. If you want to speculate that this will cost you patrons, or just to be heard that you don’t like it, visit the other thread. If you can’t find the other thread, start it. The Name When I first saw, “Anniversary billing” I thought, “They’re billing once a year?!” Is this really the righ…

When was the last time any of the feedback was actioned on?

@reyna I can’t help but notice that the things we’ve been asking for are notably absent from this ‘update’. Where is the gallery view? Where is the improved API usage? Where is the improved site navigation? Where is the ‘next chapter’ function? With all due respect, unless you can demonstrate some example of progress towards the things we, the creators, your actual customers, are requesting, maybe stop with the platitudes. They’re condescending and insulting. I sure hope your new CPO look…