Personally, I would be turned away by a flat fee, especially before I start making money on a project. I'm not very well known, so it's not like I have a huge follower base. I'd rather have a percentage taken out, at least until I reached a steady income and could have the option of "You can go with a flat-rate here, or continue having a percentage deducted from pledges."
One of my issues with Patreon is that, due to payment service rules, things with "adult" content are not vieweable to someone searching. This is all well and good to keep the kiddies away, but the project I have for funding on my Patreon right now is not adult, but will skirt to some mature themes later on. This is a case of "How do I mark this? Do I risk having it shut down or deal with less exposure?"
I would like to be able to, say, send something to someone who pledges X-amount right away, but then after they've been subbed for say 3 mos, I can move them into a different tier of stuff.
I do like the idea of payment taken right then, so they are not signing up, getting the tier stuff, then withdrawing support before they are charged.
One of the issues I've had with my Patreon is I wanted to have pledges per page, since my project is a webcomic. Patreon kept reverting to per week. But the idea of per page was to add extra pages each week, based on pledge tiers. I finally gave up and set everything as monthly, though that meant I changed the pledge tier prices.
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One of my issues with Patreon is that, due to payment service rules, things with "adult" content are not vieweable to someone searching. This is all well and good to keep the kiddies away, but the project I have for funding on my Patreon right now is not adult, but will skirt to some mature themes later on. This is a case of "How do I mark this? Do I risk having it shut down or deal with less exposure?"
I would like to be able to, say, send something to someone who pledges X-amount right away, but then after they've been subbed for say 3 mos, I can move them into a different tier of stuff.
I do like the idea of payment taken right then, so they are not signing up, getting the tier stuff, then withdrawing support before they are charged.
One of the issues I've had with my Patreon is I wanted to have pledges per page, since my project is a webcomic. Patreon kept reverting to per week. But the idea of per page was to add extra pages each week, based on pledge tiers. I finally gave up and set everything as monthly, though that meant I changed the pledge tier prices.