Patronage

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So, does Patreon take a cut?  I put in my $3/month pledge and I notice the total only went up by $2.59.

Patreon takes a cut as the service provider, and the CC company takes a cut for payment processing.

Normally that would be invisible to the end customer (you), but awhile back people using Patreon lobbied to have the "real value" displayed on their pages rather than the gross donation value because they felt showing the gross donation value discouraged donations past a certain point.

I'm in favor of transparency. Processing fees suck, but this is the nature of the business.