PLEDGES - FEES - WHAT LANDS
Patreon Income Tracker: Track Patreon Payouts, Earnings, and Fees in One Place
Your Patreon dashboard shows gross pledges for a month that has not finished billing. Your bank shows one deposit, days later, for a different number, after declined cards and cancellations have been netted out. Neither is wrong, and neither tells you what you earned. Earnly is the Patreon income tracker that reconciles the two and puts the result beside your YouTube, Twitch, Etsy, and brand deal money.
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In short
A Patreon income tracker records what your patrons pledged, what Patreon and its payment processor took, and what actually reached your bank account, so the number you plan around is take-home rather than gross. It matters on Patreon more than on most platforms because three separate deductions sit between the pledge and the deposit. The platform fee is a flat 10% for creators who joined after August 2025, or 5%, 8%, or around 12% on legacy plans. Payment processing then takes 2.9% plus $0.30 per pledge in the US, or 5% plus $0.10 on micropledges of $3 or less, which means small pledges lose a much larger share than large ones. Most creators end up keeping roughly 82% to 85% of gross. Timing adds a second gap: automatic payouts initiate on the 5th of the month and the bank transfer takes one to five business days, so money pledged on the 1st commonly lands between the 6th and the 12th. Earnly puts each Patreon payout on a row showing gross pledges, the platform cut, processing fees, and the net deposit, then adds it into the same monthly take-home total as every other place you earn. Earnly reads your numbers and never touches your money; it is not a bank, a payment processor, or a lender, and it does not provide financial, accounting, or tax advice. Plans start at $12 a month.
Why it matters
What this line of the statement buys you
Gross pledges against the real deposit
The two numbers never match, and the difference is not a rounding error. Earnly shows the platform fee and processing fee that explain the gap on every payout.
Patreon beside everywhere else you earn
A month can look flat on Patreon and strong overall. One board totals membership income, ad revenue, marketplace sales, and brand deals into a single take-home figure.
Small pledges cost more, and you can see it
A $3 pledge loses a far bigger share to the flat processing charge than a $25 one. Seeing the fee per payout is what tells you your tier pricing needs work.
A dated record before the 1099-K arrives
Patreon issues a 1099-K once you cross the reporting threshold, $5,000 for 2026. Your own record of what landed each month is how you check the form against reality.
How you use it
From connected to answered
Add Patreon as an income source
Set it up once alongside the other platforms you earn on. No card, no bank connection, nothing that touches your money.
Log each payout as it lands
Gross pledges, the platform fee, processing, and the net deposit. Each payout becomes one row you can read months later.
Watch the 5th, then the bank
Automatic payouts initiate on the 5th and take one to five business days to arrive. Anything still outstanding after that window stays visible instead of being forgotten.
Read the month, not the platform
Patreon income rolls into the same take-home total and the same reports as everything else, so you are planning against real money.
It works the same for every kind of seller: see it in action for freelancers, amazon sellers, youtubers or check the income tracker pricing.
Questions people actually ask
How do I track my Patreon income?
Track three numbers per payout rather than one: gross pledges, total fees, and the net deposit that reached your bank. Tracking gross alone overstates your income by 15% to 18%, and tracking only the deposit hides why it changed. Spreadsheets handle this until you are reconciling Patreon against two or three other platforms on different schedules, at which point the sheet stops being updated. Earnly keeps the three numbers on one row per payout and totals them beside your other sources on the creator revenue dashboard.
Why is my Patreon payout different from my earnings?
Because your dashboard shows gross pledges for the current billing period and your bank shows net proceeds from a period that has already settled. Between them sit the platform fee, payment processing, declined cards that never charged, and patrons who cancelled mid-cycle. A 15% to 18% gap between gross and deposit is normal on the 10% plan. A much larger gap usually means either a legacy plan at a higher rate or a lot of small pledges being hit by the flat per-transaction charge. Our Patreon fees breakdown walks through the arithmetic.
How much does Patreon take from creators?
Creators who joined after August 2025 pay a flat 10% platform fee. Legacy plans from the Lite, Pro, and Premium era run 5%, 8%, or around 12%. On top of that, US payment processing takes 2.9% plus $0.30 per pledge, or 5% plus $0.10 on micropledges of $3 or less. Most creators keep roughly 82% to 85% of gross once both come out. Patreon adjusts these rates periodically, so confirm the current figures in your creator dashboard.
When does Patreon pay you?
Automatic payouts initiate on the 5th of the month, and manual payouts can be requested roughly every 24 hours once funds have cleared. The bank transfer itself takes one to five business days in the US, so money pledged at the start of a month commonly lands between the 6th and the 12th. First payouts take longer while identity verification completes. The Patreon payout schedule covers the timing in full, and the creator payout calendar shows it beside every other platform you earn on.
Do I need to report Patreon income on my taxes?
In the US, Patreon income is self-employment income and is taxable whether or not a form arrives. Patreon issues a Form 1099-K to creators who cross the reporting threshold, which is $5,000 for 2026, and earnings below that are still reportable. Keeping your own dated record of each payout is how you check a form against what actually landed. See 1099 forms for content creators. Earnly is not a tax advisor and this is not tax advice.
Does Earnly connect to my Patreon account?
No. Earnly is a records tool, not a banking or payments product. It does not connect to your Patreon account, hold funds, move money, or ask for bank credentials. You log what each payout was and Earnly does the reconciling, the fee math, and the cross-platform totals. That boundary is deliberate: nothing on your Patreon page or in your bank account changes because you use it.