Timing Your Tier Changes: New Guidances for Subscription Billing!
Added 2025-05-24 02:21:50 +0000 UTCHello everybody,
Patreon is making everybody switch to subscription billing (because of Apple). For most of you who stick to the same tier, it will change nothing for you. However, if you like to change tiers month to month, we have important information on how tier changes work now.
Folks who joined this club before April 2025:
Patreon will still automatically bill you on the first of the month--but it ALSO now automatically charges you the difference when you upgrade tiers within one calendar month. So if you were charged $17 for a single fox pin on the first 1st of this month, and you upgrade to a $30 two-pin tier for the tigers this month, you would be immediately charged $13 ($30-$17=$13) towards the fox, and then $30 on the 1st of next month (for the tigers). Basically, you'd be overcharged, and likely would end up with 2 pins for both months.
So, here's how we'll handle this:
If you want to change to a tier of the same value, do it anytime before the 5th of next month.
If you want to downgrade your tier, do it before the 1st of the month.
If you want to upgrade your tier, please set yourself a reminder to do it between the 1st and 5th of next month.
For all of you who joined after April 26 2025:
Your monthly charge date matches the date you joined. For example, if somebody joined April 27th, their next charge date is automatically May 27th.
If you want to change to a tier of the same value, do it before your monthly charge date.
If you want to downgrade your tier, do it before your monthly charge date.
If you want to upgrade your tier, do it before the end of the month.
Here's hoping eventually they will let creators & backers choose a more streamlined system (We have left feedback and you should click here to do so too!) but for now we're going to make this work.
Thank you all for sticking with us through these changes! We're so lucky to have your support!
