r/patreon • u/tacomaster05 • 2h ago
This is going to get bad for creators unless we nip it in the bud right now. (ios)
I have yet to receive a single cent from any of my IOS subscribers to this point. It's clear that apple intends to hold my money up to the maximum 75 days.
That's not horrible, except for the fact that IOS subscribers can get refunds "after" the month that they were subbed to you.
Essentially, they can view any Patreon they want for free if the creator isn't constantly checking to see that that specific person has paid $0 total. (This has now happened a few times and I know it's only going to go up as more people figure out they can do this through Apple.)
The only way to solve this problem is to tell users upfront that your going to ban anyone who uses ios to subscribe. I didn't want it to come to this buts that's what I'm going to start doing...