Patreon Acquires Memberful | Patreon Weblog

At Patreon, we’re constructing a world-class membership platform that allows creators to personal the connection with their followers. We really feel that creators ought to determine how and after they have interaction with their followers, the place they construct their group, and the way they run their enterprise. And, for some creators, that additionally means managing a totally branded membership program on their very own web site. That’s why, at present, we’re thrilled to announce that now we have acquired Memberful, including a self-service white label membership resolution to our rising product portfolio.

Patreon and Memberful share a mission to fund the artistic class and we each perceive there are a selection of platforms and enterprise fashions out there to realize that purpose. Collectively, we’ll now be capable of provide a wider vary of choices for constructing and managing a profitable membership program.

About Memberful

Memberful is a service for impartial creators, educators, and publishers preferring to have full management over their membership program, together with constructing and sustaining their very own web site, offering customer support, and integrating with greatest at school third-party instruments like WordPress and MailChimp. Memberful creators retain full management of their model and keep a direct reference to their viewers.

“We constructed Memberful to make promoting memberships straightforward, whereas on the identical time giving creators full management of their model — to allow them to keep a direct relationship with their viewers,” mentioned Drew Strojny, Founder, Memberful. “Patreon deeply understands the significance of these direct relationships, and by becoming a member of forces, we’re in a position to present higher service, roll out a extra complete product, and faucet into a bigger ecosystem of instruments and providers.”

Choosing the proper platform

Patreon might be proper for creators who:

• Need an all-in-one membership program hosted on Patreon along with their very own web site
• Need a sturdy set of instruments for participating with their patrons
• Worth high-quality customer support for them and their patrons
• Worth group with different creators
• Need all cost processing, chargebacks, refunds and fraud prevention dealt with by Patreon

To be taught extra about Patreon’s product, e mail us at: creators@patreon.com

Memberful might be proper for creators who:

• Need 100% management over their model
• Need to construct and handle their very own web site or membership program completely by their very own web site, and have the technical sources to take action
• Need to handle their very own customer support for his or her members
• Need to use their very own cost processor account

To be taught extra about Memberful’s product, e mail us at: memberful@patreon.com

What’s going to alter for present Memberful creators?

The Memberful platform and model will stay impartial, the present product roadmap will proceed at a quicker tempo, and present creators utilizing Memberful won’t expertise any rapid modifications to the service. The Memberful workforce will proceed supporting impartial creators and constructing the Memberful service as a part of Patreon. As it can function as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Patreon, Memberful at the moment has a unique pricing mannequin than Patreon that’s constructed round three tiers which can stay unchanged for present clients.

Patreon is constructing a world class membership platform for creators who need independence. Creators who’re severe about their long-term artistic profession wish to personal the connection with their followers, not relinquish management to platforms with ulterior motives to please advertisers. Along with Memberful, we’re constructing know-how that may empower creators to take management of their profession.

Need to be a part of our rising workforce? Try our open roles.