If your membership runs on Patreon's old per-creation billing, you have until the end of October to set your own monthly prices. After that, Patreon sets them.

Every creator still on legacy billing has to switch to subscription billing by November 1, 2026. Miss it and Patreon switches you automatically, pauses your billing, and migrates you using a "recommended multiplier" — and your billing stays paused until you log in to consent to that multiplier or set the prices yourself.

Read that last part twice. The default penalty for ignoring the emails isn't a bad price. It's a month where no money moves.

The math Patreon uses when you don't show up

Patreon calculates your new monthly tier price by multiplying your per-creation price by the highest number of paid posts you published in the last three months. The stated logic is that members shouldn't feel their payments were unfairly increased relative to what they were already paying.

So a coach who dropped four paid posts in one heavy month and one in each of the next two gets a maximum multiplier of four — not two.

You are not locked into that number. You can apply the maximum multiplier or choose any lower whole number; a multiplier of 1 keeps your tier price identical to your per-creation price, and Patreon's own advice is to pick the number that best represents the tier's value.

Why this is happening at all

It isn't a Patreon product whim. Apple reinstated a requirement first introduced in 2024: subscription billing is the only model supported for in-app purchases on iOS, and to keep the Patreon app on the App Store, legacy creators have to migrate. Patreon has said the change affects the 4% of creators still on legacy models, and has publicly criticised Apple's shifting terms.

The hard cutoff is October 31, 2026 at 11:59 pm PT.

The deadline inside the deadline

Per-creation is the messy one. Because per-creation and subscription billing work differently, that migration requires one-to-one support from Patreon's Product Support team. You start it in billing and payouts settings via a "Get started" button, after which Patreon follows up to help set monthly prices and message your members.

Watch the dates, because the help center isn't consistent. Several pages say you must contact Support via settings by September 30th, 2026 for one-to-one assistance — that's today. Others say per-creation creators needing one-to-one help must contact Support before October 15, 2026. Assume the earlier one applies to you.

The fee landmine while you're in there

Do not "clean up" your page by unpublishing it. Pages published after August 4, 2025 sit on the standard 10% plan; pages published on or before that date keep their old rate — but if your page is unpublished, by you or by Patreon, you move to the 10% plan plus applicable taxes and processing fees. Legacy plans went as low as 5% for Founders and 8% for Pro.

Five-figure annual membership, three points of margin, one avoidable click.

The four-minute version

1. Open Billing and payouts and confirm which model you're on. Subscription billing reads: members are charged on the day they join, then monthly on that date.
2. Write down every current per-creation tier price before anything changes.
3. Count your paid posts for the last three months. That highest month is your maximum multiplier.
4. Pick your own multiplier and tell your members before the switch, not after.
5. Leave your page published.