Patreon apologizes for ‘overstepping’ on fees that everyone hated

After a lot of backlash from creators and patrons, Patreon has announced that it will no longer be implementing its new fee structure. It would have gone into effect on December 18.

The update would have shifted processing fees from the creators to the people who support them with monthly pledges, adding an extra 2.9 percent and $0.35 charge to each donation. In the current system, Patreon takes a 5 percent cut of donations and creators have to pay anywhere from 2 percent to 10 percent in transaction fees. The membership platform has said that it wanted to roll out a new system so that creators could reliably take home 95 percent of their pledges and no longer have to deal with unpredictable additional transaction costs.