Patron Referral Links

Patreon Feedback Feature Request
#1

It would be nice if my patrons could somehow get a referral link (or code) which give them a discount on their subscription when getting others to subscribe to my page.

I did a search here and see that someone requested this a few years ago. My guess is that this would be a natural feature for Patreon and could make it much easier to talk about these matters with ones subscribers.

My community is in a bit of a stand-still growth-wise at the moment and would love to give my subscribers a bit of extra incentive to share my page with their friends.

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#2

why patreon team. why? can’t you just do it. DM me, like u do for bogus spam messages. you are new to online forums, I was born before them.

#3

Whatever other reasons they may have, a discount reduces their ‘cut’, which means it will cost them money to operate, unless they take a larger cut from the discounted patronage.

#4

The whole point of it is to attract more subscribers which means more revenue for them in the long run.

And if one patron get a 5 euro discount when getting someone else to sign up for 5 euros per month, there is no loss of income.

#5

It depends on the discount offered and the retention rate, things which have to be considered. And Patreon would need to look at how this was structured as well. I suspect that this is in the same ‘bucket’ as gift codes, which are even more of a bet on retention and future business.

#6

I hear you @Michel. At the moment, we don’t have any plans to add gifting, promo codes, or referral links.

I know this isn’t exactly what you’re asking for, but we’ve just launched Annual Memberships where creators can offer up to 16% off an annual pledge for patrons (2 months free). This isn’t available for every creator just yet but we’re working on rolling it out to more creators soon.