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Secret Cleo! – (last post about patreon billing i swear)

Published: March 26th 2025, 9:42:33 pm

TL;DR: Your bill might look weird this month, but it'll fix itself in a month.

SO. I talked Patreon today, and they gave me some guidance on what everyone's billing will look like for this month.
First off, nobody will get double-charged for the 3 paid video posts this month on top of the new monthly bill, Patreon will switch you over at your next bill based on your personal Join Date. That's actually pretty straightforward and clean. Yay Patreon.

Now, if you're in the After After Show Show Tier Tier (henceforth "AASSTT" ) or Achilles' Blanket Fort, you might have noticed the new listed tier price is different from what your pledge level is. If you're in the AASSTT, the tier says $5, but your pledge is listed as just $2. If you're in Achilles Blanket Fort, the tier says $25 but your pledge is $20.
Don't panic about the discrepancy – You're still in the right tier, you'll still get the right rewards.

So why the hiccup?
Patreon informs me it's because of their "Price Lock" – where a change to any tier price goes into effect after one full month. On paper, smart way to stop bad actors from stealthily jacking up the price on their patrons, but in this specific scenario, super not what we needed right now.

Longer story short, patreon applies one uniform "multiplier" to all the tier prices based on how many posts we make per month, on average. However, we didn't want everybody getting slammed with the full 4X multiplier they suggested, especially at the higher tiers (hello trickster deities).
So we opted to do the lowest multiplier, 2X, and manually adjust the tier prices afterwards. Of course, we had no idea this would put us in Revenue-Jail as all the AASSTT patrons are at $2 for the next 30 days, which casually slashes our revenue for next month by a third, eek.
I say this not to earn any pity – no need to feel sorry for us, this is completely tolerable and we won't starve from it – but mainly to articulate why your bill will look weird, and to express one final "C'mon patreon, fuckin' really???"

To conclude, you're in the same tier as before, you'll get the same rewards, but if you're in the AASSTT or Achilles' Blanket Fort, enjoy your impromptu discount for the month. Consider the equivalent coffee or pastry our treat.

-B