Patreon Fee Change for Apple Users of IoS App

[lb_lee]

Hey guys, if you're considering supporting me on Patreon, or are canceling and later renewing your membership, have you considered maybe paying me through LiberaPay instead? If you are set on using Patreon, and if you are using IoS/an Apple product, PLEASE use the Patreon website rather than the app!

Beginning in November Apple will be taking a 30% cut of subscriptions made through the app store. I got this email from Patreon today, which goes as follows:

Apple is requiring that Patreon use their in-app purchasing system and remove all other billing systems from the Patreon iOS app by November 2024. This means that starting in November, new memberships purchased in the iOS app will be subject to Apple's 30% App Store fee.

First, we want to be clear about one thing: this will not impact your existing memberships at all. Apple's App Store fee only applies to new memberships purchased in the iOS app beginning in November 2024.

You will have full control over how Apple's fee is applied. You can either maintain your earnings by setting a higher price for new memberships in the iOS app (default) or absorb the App Store fee yourself (not recommended). You can control how Apple's fee is applied in your settings.

You don't need to take any action to continue earning in the iOS app. By default, if you don't do anything, your tier prices displayed in the iOS app will automatically increase to offset the Apple App Store fee. Your prices on the web and the Android app will not be affected.

We know how much you depend on Patreon, and understand how disruptive this change is. We're working to find every possible way to give you the control and stability you deserve throughout this change.

For more information, read our full announcement, read the FAQ, or join us for a Q&A in Discord from August 12 - August 16.

- The Patreon team

Please, PLEASE if you don't like this policy, vote with your feet and give me money through LiberaPay instead. They have been blissfully boring the whole time I've been with them, I'm trying to make my Patreon stuff obsolete by replacing them with Dreamwidth polls, and I hate being the repeated bearer of bad news as Patreon enshittification really sets in.

In other business news, having some of our work in the Boston Public Library got us a sale! :D The person emailed us about it. How delightful! GO PUBLIC LIBRARIES!

Comments

[gingicat]

The Patreon thing is truly terrible.

[lb_lee]

30% is a nosebleeding sum, damn.