Bring your Patreon members with you

Give existing patrons access

Connecting Patreon lets you match your Patreon tiers to memberships on your site. Patrons who sign in with Patreon, or link it from their account on your site, get the membership their tier is matched to, until the time they’ve paid Patreon for runs out.

Open Integrations in your dashboard, choose Patreon, then Connect Patreon. Under Match your memberships, pick a membership for each paid tier and check that each grants the benefits you intend. Only the site’s owner can manage Patreon. If Patreon isn’t open to your site yet, contact us.

Bring tiers and patrons brings your paid tiers over as memberships to match, and lists your patrons so you can invite them. It doesn’t move or cancel anyone’s Patreon payments.

Patreon is for moving your members. Your posts, pictures, recordings and videos don’t come over through it, because Patreon only shares a post’s words with other apps. To bring them, use Import from Patreon in Content, where you sign in to Patreon and each post arrives as a draft. If you don’t see it, contact us.

Keep billing clear

Connecting Patreon does not move a patron’s recurring payment to Stripe. A patron can choose to move their billing to your site from their account there, starting when their paid Patreon time ends, and they must cancel Patreon themselves. You can offer direct memberships alongside Patreon; make it clear which option a member is choosing so they do not pay twice.

Invite your patrons

Publish your website, then share the member account link shown under Invite your existing members. Turn on Let patrons sign in with Patreon if you want them to sign in with Patreon directly.

If a patron cannot get in

Ask them to check that they linked the Patreon account that holds their active membership, and to choose Refresh access in their account on your site. Review your tier matching before asking them to make another purchase.

Contact Drate support if the account and tier look correct but access is still missing.