Subscription Billing!
Oh geez, I'm getting a lot of messages asking me to change to Subscription Billing, and looking into it I have to say that it makes a lot more sense.
What does this mean, you ask? It's pretty simple, actually! Basically, you don't get charged on the first of the month anymore, you'll get charged on the date that you joined. So if you join my Patreon on the 11th of the month, you'll be charged on the 11th of next month, and so on. It's um, how a lot of people already expect Patreon to work, because it frankly makes way more sense. So... that's happening now! I'm sorry I didn't make the change sooner!
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Patreon probly sent a mass email about it. Timing isn't that weird.
Macronomicon is the writer of ISM, right? Pretty sure the timing is a coincidence. The subscription billing program has only been around for a couple months, I expect most RR writers with Patreons have been considering it.
Are you and macronomicon the same person?
Thank you very much. I hope it doesn't make bookkeeping for you any harder.
Cannot make this up I just joined like last night coz I couldn't wait until the start of next month to binrg haha
Huh, this new chapter is written in a really weird style. Very avant-garde to switch to a second-person perspective.
It might mean that you get less money because the transactionion fees are payed on the transactions for each day you get a payment instead of being aggregated into one big transaction.
That's annoying, but likely true, at least if Patreon accurately passes on its transaction fees over to authors (As opposed to pretending they're all separate transactions, even though it does indeed merge them). Doesn't look like there's an option for users to choose to be billed on the first of the month, other than to subscribe on the first.
Just as a heads up, because I had an issue on another Patreon that switched to subscription billing previously, I wasn't able to use subscription billing because I'd previously signed up with them using monthly billing several months earlier, although only for a short duration. I actually found this out two days ago that that was how Patreon handled the switch in payment systems, unfortunately. Perhaps anyone affected like I was could talk to Patreon support about it, but my only experience with them was painful and slow.
I assure you, Patreon support doesn't seem to care about me any more than they care about you. I can help people cancel and refund any unwanted subscriptions, though. Just send me a message here on Patreon or, preferably, on my Discord. (The Patreon messenger is somehow even more terrible than their text editor.)