BamSara
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Coutesy Monthly Unpledge Reminder! + Poll on Future Bill Schedule
🕑 Added 2024-04-01 00:39:16 +0000 UTCThis is your courtesy end of the month reminder to unpledge now if you do not wish to be charged for the month of April! Aint no one likes surprise charges.
Also: I have always stuck to the original default first-monthly format because it's what this page started with, but I think it would be a good idea to change it. This is non-reversible, and only affects new-patrons. (I think current patrons would have to unpledge, and then repledge(?) to have this effect apply to them, but that is just a guess. I am not sure if that itself becomes a double charge, so please take that with a grain of salt. If you are perfectly okay with being charged the 1st of the month, then these changes don't apply to you.)
Here's what info Patreon says in their article:
Text ID: New patrons are charged when they join and then monthly on that same date, instead of on the first of each month. For example, a patron who signs up on April 12 is charged again on May 12. Patrons will see their next charge date at checkout and in their Active Memberships tab. Nothing changes for your existing patrons. They’re still charged on the first of each month.
Please do not that if we switch to the 'subscription' format, I will no longer be able to post courtesy reminders to unpledge. Depending on the rate of how quickly I can make stickers/ship them out is also a factor in buffer time between sending out benefits. Please let me know what you guys think!
EDIT 9/4/24: Hi! It looks like we'll be sticking to original plan then. Monthly subscriptions will continue to process on the first of every month, and I'll be able to continue to post Unpledge Reminders at the end of every month
Comments
BamSara
You make a really good point. It looks like we'll be sticking to the original plan then!
TricksterKat
My only worry would be that it would become another chaotic thing that you have to keep track of. On the current schedule you know at the beginning of the month who is getting Patreon rewards, with the new schedule you wouldn't know who all paid for Month A until it was Month B. If you try to anticipate you could end up making and possibly sending out rewards to people who have unpleadged for the month.
