How do I set up an early access post

Early access posts let you share work with your members before making it public on Patreon.

Early access isn’t available in the Patreon app post editor. To schedule one, use Patreon on desktop or mobile web. See the FAQ below for a mobile workaround.

Creating an early access post

1. Log in to your Creator account
    
2. Click Create from the left-hand menu
    
3. Draft your post as you usually would
    
4. If uploading video or audio, make sure Make this a Drop is turned off (otherwise you won’t be able to set early access). Learn more about drops
5. In the settings, select Paid access and set which tiers you’d like to have early access to the post
    
6. Click More options 
    
7. Toggle on the Early access option and set the date and time that the post will become public (must be 24 hours in the future)
8. Go < back and customize the rest of your post’s settings: emails and notifications, adding the post to a new or existing collection, setting a publish date if you are scheduling your post, and adjusting comment settings or tags (nested within More settings at the bottom of the panel)

Notifications

You can toggle email notifications on or off by clicking into the Email and notifications option in the post settings. If you’ve enabled email and notifications:

• Members with post email notifications enabled will receive an email when the early access post goes live (if they have access)
• When the post becomes available to everyone, followers and other members will also get an email notification (if enabled)

FAQ

• Early access posts can only go from certain tiers/all members access to available to everyone.

• You can release an early access post to the public ahead of the scheduled date and time by visiting your Library from the left navigation menu. In your library, select the post you want to make public > click Edit > choose Edit access > set the access to Public > click Next > confirm your change.

  Once you make an early access post visible to the everyone, you won’t be able to make the post early access again. So be sure that you're ready to have the post accessible to everyone.

• If you'd like to set up an early access post and are creating your post on the go, you can create your post on the Mobile web version (i.e. Chrome, or Firefox) of Patreon to schedule your early access post. Alternatively, draft your post in the app (we’ll autosave your edits), and revisit your post to add early access on Desktop or Mobile web at a later time. Learn more about scheduling your posts.
• While there is no set way to create recurring early access posts, you can duplicate a pre-existing early access post with the settings you want by going to the Library tab. You can then click the three dots ( . . . ) next to the post you want to duplicate and select Duplicate as draft.