I'm slightly surprised by Patreon's pricing, given they're not a discovery platform - it's really just subscription payments and some simple CRM stuff...
It's pretty easy to make a simple facility for accepting subscription payments.
You can do this with any website, plus a tool like Trolley [1] - of which I'm the creator, btw - with no technical knowledge.
The fee structure (2% for Trolley, plus your Stripe fee of ~2%) comes out less than Patreon, and you're not inside a walled garden.
Use the webhooks to link to it a CRM of your choice - probably on a free plan - and you're golden (yeah ok, maybe this bit isn't entirely non technical)
I should probably write a blog post about this, tbh :)
It's pretty easy to make a simple facility for accepting subscription payments.
You can do this with any website, plus a tool like Trolley [1] - of which I'm the creator, btw - with no technical knowledge. The fee structure (2% for Trolley, plus your Stripe fee of ~2%) comes out less than Patreon, and you're not inside a walled garden.
Use the webhooks to link to it a CRM of your choice - probably on a free plan - and you're golden (yeah ok, maybe this bit isn't entirely non technical)
I should probably write a blog post about this, tbh :)
[1] - https://trolley.link