External Payments From the Patreon App
Creator platform Patreon has rolled out an updated version of its app that now allows users to make purchases via the web, in the wake of the Apple-Epic court ruling that forced Apple to allow app developers to include links to alternative forms of payment without being subject to Apple’s commission.
Previously, on version 125.4.1 of Patreon’s iOS app, users who wanted to subscribe to a creator’s membership plan would have to do so using Apple’s in-app purchases.
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The option to use Apple’s own in-app purchases method, meanwhile, is shown only in very small text below the larger, bold “Join” button.
The new Patreon web payment option supports Apple Pay, credit cards, Venmo, and PayPal. The alternative checkout options are currently limited to fans purchasing new memberships and creators using the subscription billing model, which charges fans based on their sign-up date, according to Patreon. The company is working to include alternative checkout options for one-time payments “in a future update.”
This post from last year remains relevant today. Apple’s logic around “safety and security” for allowed payment methods was:
- it’s safe enough to enter your credit card in an app to buy physical goods
- it’s safe enough to enter you card into an app to buy digital goods you enjoy on other devices
- it’s unsafe to enter your card in an app to buy digital goods you enjoy on that device
Not entering your card info and just using Apple Pay: also not allowed.
Via Nick Heer:
This nonsense remains true outside the U.S. and the other regions that have mandated, to varying degrees, a revision to Apple’s payment terms. It makes no sense at all — but, of course, nothing about this really does. It is all reverse justification — a way for Apple to absorb a slice of an economy it feels it is owed for little reason other than because.
It’s nonsensical!
If a purchase occurs in Safari—which is Apple’s app—then Apple is NOT owed a cut, but if a purchase is made in Amazon’s app, then Apple IS owed a cut???
Previously:
- External Purchasing From the Kindle App
- App Review Guidelines Updated for Epic Anti-Steering
- Court Orders Apple to Comply With Anti-Steering Injunction
- Creator Platforms and the App Store
- Apple Going After Patreon
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Safari is only "exempt" as a "quirk of history" to use a phrase that has been...abused.
