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It is 5% on top of payment processing, and averages around 10% for content publishers. I keep telling people just to use a PayPal Donate button. Unless you're
by buro9 9y ago
It is 5% on top of payment processing, and averages around 10% for content publishers.
I keep telling people just to use a PayPal Donate button.
Unless you're in the top 1% of people on Patreon, you would do better just ensuring that more of the donations that exist ends up in your pocket.
If Patreon isn't delivering more donors than your content and self-marketing can attract... you are losing out.
- mdorazio 9y agoIf you don't have your own website (like the many, many YouTube content creators), it's much easier to promote a Patreon link and get people to support you on a regular basis than it is to drive people to donate with PayPal. Patreon also offers novel ways to support creators, like tiered donations and per-creation donations. This level of nuance (and the management that comes with it) is hard to replicate on your own.
- dmix 9y agoThere's a lot more to Patreon that simply being a payment platform...
- Anderkent 9y agoHowever, a paypal donation gets you a one-off payment, whereas a patreon gets you regular money.
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- wpietri 9y agoI'm a relatively heavy Patreon user; I donate ~$100/month to ~12 different people. The PayPal donate button doesn't solve the problems that Patreon solves for me. Those include: providing long-term support, managing my ongoing support in one place, finding out what the people I support are up to, and getting a notion of how much support they're receiving. I still do an occasional one-off donation to somebody who doesn't use Patreon, but as far as recurring billing for long-term support, this is all I use now.