I don't get it. For 2 years at this point, I've been trying to grow my Patreon and get a following. My memberships are affordable, I'm relativity active, and I'm even promoting my Patreon a lot more now, but not a single paid membership at all. On the plus side, after 2 and a half years of trying, I have SOME following. But it's only 4. What am I doing wrong?

My first tier is $1 and my second tier is $3. I'm working on a third tier, which will be $2. I keep it super affordable to attract more customers. I already know how much people hate spending money these days, so I'm trying to not drown their wallets.

Could it also just be my content?

Hello guys,

Today i tried to buy brushes from an artist that i liked, so i went ahead and paid for it, and just after confirming it with the bank, the site open a really annoying pop up of the site and doesnt even register the fact that i paid AFTER TAKING MY MONEY, it was 4 dollars so i tried 3 times because it wasn't that bad but it still didn't work.

And then after looking at my bank i was charged 6 TIMES instead of 3 and i still didn't get my brushes it's outrageous.

Any solutions ? I already contacted the support but they haven't answered yet. I wanted to know if it was a common occurence.

(PS: here's a screenshot of the pop up.)

Recently amount of likes/comments begin to be always on screen when scrolling down any patreon post and even stays for 5 seconds after I stop. It covers fifth of the screen and incredibly annoying.

And for some unholy reason it is not showing when I scrolling up. Why it is not the other way around...

It is on chrome on android

I'm the type who wants my patrons to feel that they're getting a good value for their subscription, so aside from sharing full-res/uncompressed versions of my art, I also like to share a lot of WIPs as a reward for each tier.

I don't want my patrons to be fatigued by how often I post.

if not, how can I stop myself from being Billed? I look under membership and it just said this account has blocked you.

When I go into my Settings, I don’t see it there but would I see it there if I were blocked?

this wasn’t recent in my memory is bad, so I don’t remember if I did it or not

Hi,

i know this is the unofficial Patreon sub but maybe one of you guys has an idea to my problem.

My Patreon account is a couple of years old and i have a handful ongoing subscriptions (following other creators).

But i was never a content creator myself nor can i remember actually activating something in the likes.

Yet Patreon is asking or rather forcing me to merge my account; at this point i can only abort the merging-process or continue until the question about what content i provide (none!).

Meaning i'm stuck in a loop.

Any ideas or help would be more than welcome!

So it say existing members gonna be charge from 1st still? What stops them from creating new patreon account and join the new subscription thing and take 2 month worth of work for the price of 1 month :(

This sucks and withdraw gonna take longer this way... no more 1st of the month paid but 1st of the month(for current members) + other month for the other members if they joined on 15th they gonna get charge on next 15th.. is confusing and patreon should let people choose the billing plan and NOT FORCE IT on everyone!

From what i know the forced subscription bill was caused by Apple Store payments on patreon... making all creators suffer for few people that joined via apple store...

THEY SHOULD make an option where people CAN'T join your patreon if they try Apple Store Pay but they could JOIN if you have subscription billing on your patreon page.

"Compliance Deadline: To prevent Apple from pulling the Patreon app off the iOS App Store, Patreon required all creators on legacy billing to migrate to subscription billing (with a final deadline of November 1, 2026)."

Hi, I got my NSFW account suspended for nudity on a public post. I did read the community guideline.

In my defense, I just thought that as long as there weren't any genital showing, then it was ok. Now I know to not take any chance at all, lol.

I just want to know if it happened to someone else and if it's normal to lose in monthly earnings instantly during that process? (example: to go from 600$ monthly to 200$ that same day)

Thank you

Like is it related to tax form submission processing time or something? its was weekend past 2 days, so wonder if that's why its still held in queue or something. anyone had similar expereience?

Being a Creator for 2 years, I never had problems navigating NSFW content creation on Patreon until now. I have read the guidelines and previously single posts that requires editing do make sense with their guidelines. But now I'm getting wholesale post wipeouts despite adhering to Patreon's guidelines. Did something major change?

Hey!

Trying to gift a membership to someone - who also happens to be one of our admins - so that she can troubleshoot the user experience. When she tries to claim the gift, the claim button is greyed out. I’ve successfully gifted another membership to a ‘teammate’ before so I don’t think that’s the issue. Can anyone help? Thanks!

Anyone has recently transferred his/her money from Patreon to Lebanon?

I don't actually make money through Patreon: I TRIED a few years ago, when I was publishing online stories, but no one took the bait and I eventually stopped bothering.

I DID subscribe to a single patron, who does fiction I like. I just tried to go to her page, and I get told that my account is locked and I need to combine profiles to continue.

I don't know what that means, nor why I need to do it.

I'm retaking YouTube video creations in my channel and I would like in the future to have a Patreon with a community of people that contributes.

I'm moving towards the electrotechnical and mecatronical niche, specially in maritime, and I see creators with a lot of Patreon collaborators in the same niche or similar ones.

However I don't quite understand the psychology behind it, how to invite my audience to collaborate and how to convert viewers to patrons.

Do you have experience with this? How do you do it? I would appreciate any insight about this matter. Thank you very much!

Hi everyone,
I have the feeling that Patreon just isn’t very user friendly for most people.

About two months ago I completely relaunched my Patreon with a very clear concept. I have a fairly engaged audience of around 10k Instagram followers, a newsletter with about 500 subscribers, and a few other channels. Whenever I run crowdfunding campaigns I usually reach my goals without much difficulty, but even my €5 tier barely attracts anyone.

Growth has been really slow, and I don’t get the impression that it’s because of the concept or the work itself. It feels more like there are simply too many practical barriers for people to sign up.
Has anyone else experienced this?

For context, I offer exclusive access to NSFW photo shoots and behind the scenes videos. I’m an award winning photographer, pretty wel known in my own country, especially in my niche (queer community).

Many creators are reporting a worrying trend since Patreon rolled out the new update that floods members' feeds with posts from random creators they don't follow.

From a member's perspective, this is effectively spam. People subscribe to support the creators they chose—not to receive a feed filled with unsolicited recommendations.

Unfortunately, the consequence seems to be that many paid members are cancelling their subscriptions altogether because of the poor user experience. That hurts creators directly, especially smaller ones who depend on Patreon as a stable source of income.

If Patreon wants to help users discover new creators, it should be an opt-in feature, not something forced into everyone's feed. Members should have full control over what they see.

Is anyone else seeing an increase in cancellations since this change?

Has Patreon acknowledged the impact this update is having on creators?

Cree mi cuenta recientemente, publico capítulos de libros, necesito alguna estrategia para conseguir miembros, dime que te ha servido a ti

I’ve been running my Patreon account for six months now, publishing a total of 80 chapters of my alternate history novel, yet my after-tax earnings are under $80. Is this level of revenue normal? Is it worth continuing? Also, how exactly are Patreon’s fees calculated? I often feel like my readers are paying far more than what I’m actually receiving.

I can't seem to figure out how to download these audio files into my files, I have access to them since I paid the membership, I'm on a phone btw.

is is just me or do you think some of the content locks on psots are stupid like WHY DO have I to pay to unlock JUST TO READ the DESCRIPTION about the product or service that is so STUPID like i want to know what it is before I pay

I tried withdrawing my funds (i do direct deposit as i am in a foreign country) and usually after a few hours i would receive. this time it was rejected saying payoneer needs a valid ID. Last i checked there was no option for submitting your ID, even when i tried to set it up again and it took me to the payoneer page where you state your full name, bank name and branch, there was no "submit ID" option and after of course patreon had to hold the account for 5 days.

I have reached out to patreon support just in case as i don't want to try again and be rejected but i thought payoneer was only a processor...why do they need your ID now?

According to Patreon I'm receiving 117 dollars per month but I did a manual count in where according to my active paid members I'm supposed to be receiving 170+ dollars per month. Why is it showing 117 dollars per month?

So I received this email today from Patreon:

Hi _____,

While reviewing your account, we noticed that you did not provide us with a legal name.

Your payouts are temporarily frozen until you complete this step.

To keep our creator community safe, Patreon requires that creators provide us with their legal name. Please note that this name will not be shared publicly.

Please visit your page settings to add your legal name to your account.

Please make sure to complete this by August 2, 2026, or we may suspend your account. Update Account Details

We appreciate you as a member of our creative community and welcome you to contact us if you have any questions or concerns.

Thanks, The Patreon Team

There is a link in the email to go to the place to update the name, but the link it gives me is honestly a little sus, and gives me a security warning, so I'm hesitant to use it in case this is actually a spam/scam email that's just doing a very good job at looking like the real deal.

So for security purposes, I'd like to navigate to the "page settings" it mentions and input my legal name manually, through the patreon.com website rather than by clicking the suspicious link.

Trouble is I've looked absolutely everywhere and I can't find anywhere that asks for my legal name. The closest I've found is Account Settings > Profile Basics, where it asks for "Your name", but this is the display name you show all over the site, not the private field for the legal name that only Patreon sees. Where the hell do I input my legal name?

Anyone know where to find it?