Ditch the spreadsheets and go create!

On a regular basis, we get up and pinch ourselves that we get to assist tens of 1000’s of you construct your artistic careers. By way of working with every kind of creators, we’ve discovered that a lot of you outline “success” in your artistic careers by having these three key components:

1. extra time to create
2. deeper connections along with your followers
3. dependable month-to-month paychecks

We would like this stuff for you. That’s why we’ve been creating methods that can assist you do excellent issues to your patrons and to develop a profitable membership enterprise with Patreon.

At this time, we’re introducing a better approach so that you can handle and monitor what you ship to your patrons. Goodbye, spreadsheets — see you by no means.

Spend much less time on the logistics.

Earlier than at the moment, fulfilling the advantages to your patrons was a really guide course of. The suggestions we acquired constantly was that it was too obscure “which patrons get what, and when.”

Now, the advantages you owe to patrons will robotically seem in a digital to-do checklist so you’ll be able to simply maintain monitor of all of your deliverables. This may assist win again the hours you used to spend in spreadsheets so you may get again to creating.

“Earlier than Patreon created a approach for me to handle and monitor the advantages I provide, I needed to depend on exterior applications or, worse, myself. It added an additional load of labor for me each month with the intention to be sure that my patrons felt like they had been getting all of the goodies promised to them. Having an in-house characteristic like this has been actually useful and I admire how a lot Patreon works for creators to innovate and discover methods to make operating a membership enterprise simpler so we will spend extra time on what we actually do: artwork!” – Kate Hackett

Ship a greater expertise to your patrons.

“I assumed being unhealthy at sending out advantages to my (ever affected person and loving) patrons was simply one thing I needed to maintain struggling by. With all the touring, reserving, performing, and creating, I lacked the time and group abilities to maintain monitor of which advantages had gone out to which patrons. I’d fall approach behind. This new characteristic is a GAME CHANGER. It retains monitor of the whole lot for me in simple lists, with names and addresses multi functional place. Now it’s really easy for me to remain on prime of fulfilling advantages and preserving guarantees to my superb patrons.” – Megan Slankard

This new, streamlined workflow will assist be sure that you delight your patrons and by no means maintain them ready. Working a extra reliable membership enterprise will assist retain long-term patrons who belief you and stay up for the particular issues that you simply ship them every month.

Arrange in minutes.

To begin monitoring advantages, navigate to the Advantages tab, which lives within the Patrons drop-down menu on the left-hand aspect of your creator web page.

To be taught extra about getting arrange, learn our Assist Middle article right here.

We’re extremely excited to construct instruments like this that automate your workflow and in the end make it much less work to receives a commission. Our hope is that this new functionality frees up extra time to concentrate on an important features of being a creator – creating issues and sharing them along with your followers.