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Should I Change to Subscription Billing?

  • 1st of the Month Billing 52
  • Subscription Billing (Same date as when you joined) 151
  • 2024-04-05
  • 203 votes
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Hi folks, I'm wondering if I should change to Subscription Billing instead of 1st of each month. Here are the details:

  • If you join on April 15th, you'll get charged again on May 15th instead of May 1st.

  • If you join creators with Subscription Billing enabled after the 1st of the month, you'll get a separate processing fee for each Join Date. This is because Patreon handles fees to multiple Creators as a single transaction if they occur on the same day. Read Patreon's article on Creator Fees for details.

  • This would only affect new patrons. If you're a current patron, your Join Date is already set to the 1st so that's when you'll be charged regardless.

Personally when I support other people, I like 1st of each month because I don't need to remember the billing date. But some people don't like being double-charged near the end of the month, also pretty much every other service in the world uses subscription billing lol

Which do you prefer?

Comments

SirDavleon

I like 1st of month, easier to remember the date for when I'm keep tabs on budget.