Upcoming Patreon subscription changes — anyone else following this?
Added 2025-05-02 11:48:52 +0000 UTCHi everyone,
Patreon is planning a big change to its subscription model by the end of the year. To support Apple Pay, they’ll be switching all creators to a system where each subscription lasts exactly one month from the date a supporter joins.
Until now, it didn’t matter when someone joined — everyone received the current month’s rewards, and the next billing happened on the 1st. With the new system, this becomes trickier, especially for creators who deliver rewards on a monthly basis.
In our case, it’s not a major issue, since we distribute rewards through our own website and can handle the change with a bit of extra coding.
But we know many of you support other creators too, so we wanted to ask:
👉 Have you heard any discussions about this in other communities?
👉 Are creators talking about possible solutions or workarounds?
Any info or experience you can share would be super helpful. Thanks so much, as always, for your support!
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Hola a todos,
Patreon va a realizar un cambio importante en su modelo de suscripción antes de que acabe el año. Para poder integrar Apple Pay, están migrando a un sistema donde cada suscripción dura un mes exacto desde el momento en que os unís.
Hasta ahora, daba igual el día que entrarais: todos los mecenas recibían las recompensas del mes en curso, y el siguiente cobro llegaba el día 1. Con el nuevo sistema, esto se complica bastante, sobre todo para quienes organizamos las entregas mensualmente.
En nuestro caso no es un gran problema, porque al gestionar las recompensas desde nuestra web, podemos adaptarnos con un poco de programación. Pero sabemos que muchos de vosotros participáis también en otros Patreon, y nos gustaría saber:
👉 ¿Se está comentando esto en otras comunidades?
👉 ¿Habéis visto que otros creadores estén buscando soluciones?
Cualquier información o experiencia será muy útil. ¡Gracias por estar siempre ahí!
— Óscar
LastSword Team
Comments
Thanks for your input! From our experience —and knowing MMF from the inside— we feel that relying on it is actually the least efficient option for most creators. It’s more expensive than other platforms, the site is often slow, and management is clunky, even for us, and we have auto-approval — we don’t need MMF to validate members or files. We’ve considered moving everything to our own site, including subscriptions, to have full control. But that would mean handling over a thousand invoices every month, and the administrative overhead would be a nightmare. For now, sticking with Patreon (despite its flaws) and using our website to manage rewards still feels like the most balanced solution for us. Always helpful to hear how others are dealing with it!
Last Sword Miniatures
2025-05-02 23:16:34 +0000 UTCThe creators I work for aren't making any changes at all - rewards are dealt with by monthly reward tracking on the back-end of Patreon and distribution via other websites (in mmf). MMF doesn't even need any code; just a staffer to spend a few minutes each day approving the days new members. No need to jump to other services nor change the reward structure of Patreon. The only ones I see having issues are either using it as an excuse to just push everyone to Tribes so they have one less site to manage; or they are used to using direct download links and are having to adapt to the change (eg starting a 3rd party website service like MMF, Printed Wargames etc)
Overread
2025-05-02 23:09:33 +0000 UTCSupongo que es el mejor camino.. al final todo esto son intermediarios
Last Sword Miniatures
2025-05-02 22:49:50 +0000 UTCYo lo había oído de manos de artistan guild. Ellos han creado su propia web y para fomentar la subscripción desde esta, están entregando un extra a la recompensa del mes
Carlos Fuster de Aguilar
2025-05-02 12:58:20 +0000 UTC
