Hi!
Somewhat important post for all of my patrons today... Patreon take 8% of my earnings, of your money, and they can't keep getting away with this!
As I'm a budding web developer with a can-do attitude, I've decided to invest some time into integrating a payment handler, Stripe, directly into the app.
It's a frustratingly large task but it will literally save money from being wasted over time, and as I always say, every dollar helps.
Benefits:
- Tighter integration with the app and a far better API than that of Patreon: I waste so much time trying to make Patreon work properly every second day
- It's simpler and trusted: the current implementation redirects you to Stripe's website for all payment business
How do you move your support from Patreon to Stripe:
- You don't have to yet – Patreon will continue to operate as usual
- Just use the same email with Stripe during checkout as you have Patreon: if you can't, send me a message here on Patreon or email me at [email protected] to let me know what your email will be if you want to bring your Patron rewards with you
Post to be updated as I remember/realise important things to share – it's 5am and I've lost it but I wanted to share now and collect your feedback!
You can check it out at https://bray.tech/settings/subscriptions
Update: 18/12 (5 days later): it's been going well and I've teethed out a lot of the minor issues you'd expect from a new system. I've added Discord role support and built a small bot (this was surprisingly satisfying to do). Months ago, as a part of my efforts to support Patreon sucking, I added push notifications just for me that would immediately buzz me when it would break. It does this almost every day. I pray for the day it stops.