Heads up

I just received an email from Patreon stating that any new members who want to pledge to a creator after November this year through the iOS app will be subject to an additional 30% fee from Apple!

Hey,

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.

You're currently on a first-of-the-month billing model, but Apple's in-app purchase system only supports subscription billing. Apple has made clear that if creators on Patreon continue to use unsupported billing models or disable transactions in the iOS app, we will be at risk of having the entire app removed from their App Store.  

So, starting in November, your fans in the iOS app won't be able to purchase subscriptions to your membership until you switch to subscription billing. And, as a result of Apple's mandates and in order to make sure that you can continue getting new members in the iOS app, we've started a 16-month-long migration process to bring all creators onto subscription billing by November 2025. This means that your current billing model will be discontinued in November 2025.  

This will force creators to increase their prices on the iOS app in order to adjust for the Apple fee, because otherwise creators will have to pay for the cost ourselves. What I recommend is that you DO NOT use the iOS app to pledge to any creators, not just to me, to avoid the unnecessary price increase! Use Android or desktop only.

I've decided to stick with the first-of-the-month model for my Patreon (where you pay upfront and then get billed the first of every month after that) for as long as I can because it's just much easier for me to make my monthly budgets that way. But basically, starting from November, you won't be able to pledge to my Patreon using the iOS app until November 2025.

It's actually crazy how they managed to bully Patreon into this.

Anyway! Make sure to avoid using the iOS app for pledging and sign up using Android/desktop instead 🙏🏼