Patreon Integration

Connect your Patreon campaign to FeatureVote and your patrons can log in with Patreon on your public board. Their votes carry the weight you give their tier, and you can close the board so only patrons take part.

What You'll Get

• Weighted votes — a vote from a higher tier counts for more. You set the multiplier per tier, from ×1 to ×100.
• Patrons only — an optional gate. When it's on, only active patrons can vote, suggest features and comment.
• Verified identity — patrons log in through Patreon, so a request or comment on a gated board carries their Patreon name instead of "Anonymous".
• Non-patrons hidden or visible — let anyone read the board, or show it only to patrons.

Connect Your Campaign

1. Connect Patreon

• Go to Settings → Integrations
• Click Connect Patreon
• Authorize FeatureVote on Patreon

Log in on Patreon as the account that owns the campaign. A Patreon account without a campaign has nothing to connect, and the page comes back with an error.

When it works you land back on the Integrations page with a Connected to badge naming your campaign, and a View campaign link.

2. Set your vote weights

Your published tiers appear under Vote weights, each with its price and a multiplier box.

Paid tiers start at ×1, ×2, ×3 by price, cheapest first. A free membership tier starts at ×1. Change any of them to whatever you want between 1 and 100.

3. Choose who can take part

Three settings sit above the weights:

4. Save

Unlike Board setup, this card doesn't save automatically. Make your changes and click Save.

Weight changes apply to patrons who are already logged in, so you don't have to ask anyone to sign in again. They apply to future votes only — votes already cast keep the weight they were cast at.

What Your Patrons See

On a board with Patrons only on, a visitor who isn't signed in gets a Patrons only panel with a Log in with Patreon button, and a Become a patron link to your campaign. They can still read the board behind it — unless you set Non-patrons to Cannot view the board, in which case the requests are replaced by a short lock screen and the same login button.

Once they're signed in, the panel is replaced by one quiet line: "Voting as a Gold patron. Your vote counts ×3."

A member on a free tier, on a board set to Same as non-patrons, gets the same panel with a different line: they're signed in, but the board is open to paying patrons only. There's no login button for them, since logging in again wouldn't change the answer — only upgrading on Patreon does.

A few things worth knowing:

• A Patreon login counts for 30 days on a gated board. After that the patron logs in again to keep taking part.
• On a gated board, patrons post under their Patreon name and aren't asked for an email. You won't collect submitter email addresses for those requests, because the Patreon identity replaces them.
• Your own team can suggest and comment on a gated board without being patrons. Voting has no team exemption — to vote on your own gated board, log in with Patreon like anyone else.
• A creator can always open their own board, even when it's hidden from non-patrons.
• With Patrons only off, the board looks and works exactly as it did before. Nobody is asked to log in, and patrons who linked their account earlier keep voting with their weight.

How the Numbers Read

The number on a feature card is points — the sum of the weights behind it. Three ×3 patrons make 9 points, not 3.

• When points and people differ, the card also says how many voters there are, so 9 shows with a 3 voters caption.
• Most Voted sorts by points, on your public board and in your admin list.
• Vote milestones in Slack still count people. "25 votes" in your Slack channel means 25 voters, not 25 points, so a milestone can arrive later than the board number suggests.

A board with no Patreon weighting reads exactly as it always did.

Keeping Things in Sync

FeatureVote checks Patreon at two moments, and no others:

• When a patron logs in — that's when their membership and tier are read.
• When you press Refresh from Patreon — that's how new, renamed or re-priced tiers arrive.

There's no live sync yet. If someone upgrades their pledge, their new weight applies the next time they log in with Patreon.

Refresh from Patreon keeps the weights you set. Tiers that still exist keep your multiplier, new tiers get a default, and removed tiers drop off the list.

Disconnecting

Click Disconnect on the Patreon card.

• Patron gating turns off.
• Tier weights stop applying to new votes.
• Votes already cast keep their weight.

Reconnecting to a different campaign clears the old campaign's patron logins, since those people aren't members of the new campaign.

Troubleshooting

• "Could not connect Patreon" — the Patreon account you authorized has no campaign, or you cancelled on Patreon's screen. Sign in to Patreon as the campaign owner and try again.
• "That Patreon account is not an active member of this campaign." — the patron's membership has lapsed, or they pledged to a different creator. The Become a patron link takes them to the right campaign.
• "This browser is already signed in as a different Patreon account." — one browser holds one patron identity. Ask them to use a different browser or a private window.
• "Your Patreon login has expired." — it's been more than 30 days. One click on Log in with Patreon fixes it.
• A patron upgraded but still votes at the old weight — they need to log in with Patreon again for the new tier to be read.
• A new tier isn't listed — press Refresh from Patreon. Unpublished draft tiers on Patreon are deliberately left out.

Security & Privacy

• When you connect, FeatureVote reads your Patreon identity, your campaign and its tiers, and your campaign's member list. That last one is how a patron's tier is recognized when they log in.
• When a patron logs in, FeatureVote reads only who they are and which campaigns they're a member of. Nothing about your campaign is asked for on their behalf.
• Access is read-only. FeatureVote never posts to Patreon, never sees card details, and never charges anyone.
• Access tokens are encrypted before they're stored.
• You can disconnect at any time.

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