ddwebb
patreon
Okay never mind
🕑 Added 2022-10-30 06:43:18 +0000 UTCSo I just tried to do the thing I just announced I was about to do and it appears I cannot. Patreon doesn't allow the price of a tier to be edited while people are subscribed to it. Which makes sense! I can see how that could be abused. Unfortunately I lacked the foresight to look into this ahead of time and was taken by surprise and now I'm not sure how to proceed.
I'll think about it. There's undoubtedly a workaround. The most obvious one I can think of is to simply make a new Nemitite tier and delete the old one. However, that'll kick out everybody who's currently pledged at that level and since I expect it'd take more than a couple of days for everybody to sign back up, that would wipe out a significant chunk of my support base right in time for the next billing cycle.
Well, maybe this works out for the best. I left it so long to post the previous update so as not to miss anybody, but the price of that was the risk that not everybody would have the time to make necessary changes before it went live. So that's one potential problem averted, anyway.
What'll most likely happen is that I'll make the switch and another announcement explaining it early next month, to give everyone time to adjust as needed. As a result, the long-awaited bump to $5 is going to wait another month.
Don't worry about me, please; I know I said I was having financial troubles previously, but at the moment I am okay. There's been a lot of growth here on Patreon recently, and I still have some leftover money from the GFM I posted, even after taking my cat to the vet. So I'll be fine for at least a while. Plenty of time to get this dealt with, at least.
It's always something, isn't it?
Comments
Del Spaig
Note from Webb on discord - chapter would be up but his internet is hard out. Will be up ASAP!
Interesting. Thanks for the tip! I will try that the next time I add a creator.
Mickey Phoenix
Oooh, I like that one! Assuming it'll let you edit the benefits on a tier while people are subscribed to it, which it *really* should let you do!
Too Much Sanity May Be Madness
It might be $5 in your local currency, which may be distinct from $5 in D.D. Webb's local currency.
General Corteau
Other solution — you leave everyone at the $3 tier but downgrade their benefits to the appropriate level. Then you create a new $5 tier that has the actual benefits of the $5 tier.
Devin J Russell
If you pick the 3$ tier initially, you can edit the amount and still get the rewards. If you just enter in a custom amount to start with I think that may be how you get the non tier.
Amusingly, the creation of a $5 tier will actually give me MORE than I had, because I specifically selected that amount for my level of support, and Patreon doesn't like amounts that aren't exactly matching a tier - it won't treat me as having the highest listed tier below my support amount, instead it treats me as a non-tier. This was fine with me because I'm not interested in the advance chapter(s). I don't know if the advance chapter will become visible when a new tier is CREATED with the exact amount we were already at - would agree on adding the new tier before people switch.
Devin J Russell
oof sorry to hear about the difficulties. In the meantime. I've increased my pledge to 5 dollars. I would suggest adding a new tier now, that's the same as the $3 dollar tier except for the price. so that people can start switching over now. Then you can delete the old one after the mentioned time frame. @Arillius. It will say whatever you're actually paying. but if you go to edit the payment. you'll see it says minimum $3 still
Marc Juul
Yeah this is definitely the right solution. You absolutely don't want to delete a support tier if if means people will be force-unsubscribed. There will always be a chunk of them who never re-subscribe and it could be more than you expect. Changing the rewards for a tier should be possible and creating a new tier should be possible so this solution makes sense.
George Martins
As long as there is a new tier available, i will upgrade.
giom
I'm surprised that by now patreon doesn't have a clean way to handle this common use case. But then again, it's been constant how little patreon improves over the years (they actually just manage to make their ui worse) so I shouldn't be that surprised
Arillius
I'm a bit confused. The nemitite level says that's it's 5 bucks for me. Not that I mind as that is what I want to pay but it's already 5 bucks.
Benjamin Lewis
Could hopefully just change the rewards at the $3 level to be the same as a donation, and then make the $5 one. Hopefully there'll be a simple answer. Have a great night!
