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Patreon Powers Membership Throughout the Internet
Introducing Our New Creator App Listing and Developer Portal
You creators are a tech-savvy bunch. From content material distribution to electronic mail advertising to neighborhood engagement, nobody is aware of what works on your followers higher than you. And if there’s one factor we’ve realized from watching you use, it’s that you simply want selections about the perfect methods to attach your membership enterprise throughout the net.
That’s why, immediately, we’re launching a brand new dimension to the Patreon platform. With our new App Listing for creators and Developer Portal, we’re making it simple to attach all your communities and favourite instruments with Patreon in an effort to run one streamlined membership enterprise.
The App Listing makes it simple for creators to attach instruments that assist them develop their membership companies, and energize patrons.
Our Developer Portal presents all the main points that technical creators and companions must construct wonderful instruments that assist creators run their membership enterprise.
The App Listing
The App Listing is the go-to useful resource for locating integrations which you can join along with your Patreon web page. Listed here are some methods creators are extending membership throughout the net:
Generate revenue by way of your WordPress web site
Now, any publication that’s powered by WordPress could be changed into a membership web site that will get you paid. Australian comedy podcast Sanspants Radio is utilizing Patreon’s WordPress plugin to provide their followers the advantages of paid membership. Followers can select from numerous Patreon-powered membership tiers to obtain entry to patron-only content material. This plugin can even present patrons with an ad-free expertise.
Joel of Sanspants Radio explains, “Having the ability to join Patreon with WordPress enabled us to supply our supporters the convenience of Patreon signup and membership with the comfort of RSS feeds served from our personal web site.”
Creating patron-only content material to develop your membership enterprise is straightforward with our new WordPress plugin. Inside every submit or web page you may have the choice to pick the membership tiers granted entry to your content material.
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Mechanically join apps to your Patreon with Zapier**
Zapier is a no-code-needed option to join your Patreon with apps you employ every single day – automating workflows and decreasing time-sucking administrative duties. You may make your personal automations by connecting Patreon with Zapier’s 750+ apps, similar to MailChimp, Google Sheets, Twitter, Crowdcast, and extra.
Patreon creator Fraser Cain of Universe At the moment makes use of Zapier to robotically add new patrons to his electronic mail listing service, Nimble. Zapier additionally helps him robotically phase his electronic mail listing into numerous patron pledge ranges, which makes it simpler for him to ship patrons their particular rewards.
Give patrons particular entry on Discourse
Discourse is trendy discussion board software program on your neighborhood. The Discourse-Patreon integration permits creators to supply particular neighborhood perks to patrons. For instance, creator FunFunFunction presents a patron-only discussion board known as FunFunForum, the place their Patreon followers are robotically granted entry to this personal group.
One other instance from The Fantasy Footballers reveals how one can provide particular badging to acknowledge patrons. Their Discourse discussion board is open to the general public however patrons obtain entry to non-public discussions.
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Supply patron-only chat rooms and options on Discord
Discord is a free voice and textual content chat app for players that works on each your desktop and cellphone. The Discord-Patreon integration launched in 2016 and is now utilized by 1000’s of Patreon creators. Discord is now a part of the App Listing, making it even simpler for creators to launch Discord rooms and options to their patrons. This integration robotically inputs new patrons’ emails into Discord in order that no handbook work is required.
Gamer & Videographer Danny O’Dwyer makes use of this integration to supply Discord perks to his patrons at completely different reward tiers, like particular roles or entry to unique chat rooms. It helps him keep up a correspondence together with his patrons — “the individuals who matter probably the most to this undertaking” — and it even encourages his patrons to speak with one another. Which means his Patreon neighborhood is flourishing even when he’s away on a shoot or quick asleep after a protracted day streaming.
Coming Quickly: Immediately add patrons to Slack
Slack is a number one messaging app that’s already supplied by many creators on Patreon as a membership reward. The Slack-Patreon integration, which is able to go dwell later this 12 months, will robotically add patrons to non-public channels in Slack, making it simple for patrons and creators to keep up a correspondence in actual time.
Patreon creator Tom Merritt of Each day Tech Information Present makes use of Slack to shortly join together with his most supportive neighborhood members. His Slack neighborhood is as necessary to him as it’s for his followers. He says, “I can go into Slack with a loopy thought and in a couple of minutes know whether it is in actual fact good, not loopy, or completely as loopy as I believed. The parents in our Slack actually really feel like prolonged members of the crew.”
Even when Tom is busy engaged on new initiatives, the members of his Slack neighborhood can meet and change concepts with each other.
The Developer Portal
Are you a creator with technical chops? Are you a developer who’s keen about constructing for creators? Our new developer portal presents APIs and documentation that make it simple for builders to create instruments for Patreon in every single place throughout the net.
Some third-party builders are already constructing on the Patreon API. Patreon creator The Nice Battle impressed a lot World Battle I curiosity from their followers that they wanted a customized resolution to handle the questions they acquired throughout all of their neighborhood channels — Fb, YouTube, Patreon, and extra. The Nice Battle teamed up with developer Yukka Software program Options who constructed a customized Q&A software that prioritized questions primarily based on reputation. It even gave particular recognition to patrons, whose questions obtained greater precedence and tagged with the Patreon brand.
We invite builders who’re taken with constructing options for creators to hitch our neighborhood – test it out right here.
We’re excited to make it doable for Patreon to attach a whole lot of builders and apps, extending the ability of membership throughout the net.
Our imaginative and prescient is that, by connecting your favourite on-line instruments to Patreon, you’ll have extra locations to attach on a deeper stage along with your patrons. Increasing your membership enterprise with these new apps will make it easier to generate extra revenue and provide you with extra time to create.
And that is simply the beginning. Our new App Listing and developer portal are the automobiles for membership throughout the net, however you maintain the important thing. Let’s begin this engine up and proceed the journey to a brand new net. An online that correctly values creativity. An online that will get creators paid.