Welcome to Patreon! In this guide, we’ll help you quickly get started with your creator page and then take you through additional settings and customizations you can make to your page before you launch 🥳
We’ll break this article up into two categories:
Basics
- Read first Before you get started
- Sign up: Account creation, name your page, and welcome!
Build your page
Before you get started
We recommend thinking about and gathering the following before you start your creator page on Patreon:
- What are 3 benefits you can offer your patrons?
- What will your Patreon page name be? This is generally what patrons will know you as
- Get a cover photo (1600px by 400px)
- Get a creator profile photo (1024px by 1024px)
- Get images for your tiers (460px by 200px)
- Here’s an example of a launched creator page
Sign up
If you don’t have a Patreon account:
- Visit patreon.com and click on the Create on Patreon button
- From here, you can sign up with your email and create a password, or you can sign up with Facebook or Google
- Introduce yourself: enter your First and Last name — this information is not shown publicly, and it's used to send you payouts and tax-related documents (if applicable), so be sure to use your legal name
- Name your page and let us know if your work contains or depicts explicit sexual situations, including nudity in sexual contexts
- Welcome to Patreon! Click the Get started button for a concierge page-building experience
If you have an existing Patreon account:
If you already have an account, you can log in, click the profile switcher with your name at the bottom left of the page and click on the Create on Patreon button.
Next steps:
- Name your page and let us know if your work contains or depicts explicit sexual situations, including nudity in sexual contexts
- Welcome to Patreon! Click the Get started button for a concierge page-building experience
Customize your page
Now that you’ve created your account, we’ll take you to your creator page editor, where you can start to build your page — making it your home base for you and your patrons. Below we list each page editor section with a description of what you can edit there:
| Tier editor subsection ⬇ | Description⬇ |
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You can use this section to add/update the following:
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| Merch |
Available for creators on our Pro and Premium plans, our Merch solution offers an easy way to deliver physical benefits backed by Patreon support. Interested in setting up Merch? Learn how to add Merch to your Patreon page to get started! |
| Getting paid |
In this section, you’ll be able to:
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| Page settings |
In your Page settings, you can update:
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| Welcome notes | You can use this section to set up a custom welcome note that appears after patrons pledge to your page and even add a thank you video to this section. This isn’t required to launch your page so you can come back to this again at any time. |
| Posts |
Once you’ve created some posts and have added tags to posts, you can come back to this section of your page editor to choose which tags you’d like to feature on your posts page. |
| Offers | Available to creators on our Pro and Premium plans, Special Offers are a way to set up a one-time deal for newly pledging patrons in specific tiers. |
Choose what to offer!
Your membership Tiers allow you to set the minimum prices for access to your benefits on Patreon. Here’s how you can edit and add tiers:
- While logged in to your creator page, click the My Page link from the left sidebar navigation
- Click on the Page control “...” button
- Select the Edit Tiers option
- From here, you can click on the Add tier or Edit tier button depending on what you’d like to do
Your tier (s) will include:
- A name
- The minimum price to join
- An image (optional)(460px by 200px)
- A short description
- A list of benefits for joining the tier. Not quite sure of what to offer? We’ve made a guide with ideas of what to offer patrons
- You can also connect a Discord server to your Patreon page to build community with your Patrons
Preview your page and Launch!
When you feel like your page is ready, click on the option to preview by clicking on the Preview link in the top right corner. If you’re feeling good about your page, click on the Launch button. Our Trust & Safety team will review your content to ensure it’s within our Community Guidelines before you launch. Click here to learn more about our Community Guidelines.
Once your page has been launched, you will receive an email letting you know that your page is live.
Now that your page is live send it to your friends, family, fans, neighbors, and anyone else you think would be interested in what you're creating.
If you need extra guidance with launching, we have many great resources for creators on our blog!
Welcome to Patreon — we're so happy to have you here!
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