support for combining pledges to make a group

[charlie-sans]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

with resonite's Patreon tier's, say 2 or more people buy the $10 tier, you cannot merge them or combine them to get higher tier's based on how much your paying.

Describe the solution you'd like

support for combining pledges to upgrade a "merged" account or somethign to get higher tier's from the people who are paying. say 2 or more people spend enough to get a 10$ or even the 50$ tier, if they wanted to combine it, they could get the 60$ tier.

Describe alternatives you've considered

pretty much just giving the money to the other person for it.

Additional Context

No response

Requesters

charlie_san

[epicEaston197]

This isn't a financially good ideal you're basically Getting a higher tier from just paying for a lower tier
But if it's only to make a combined group then I think that might be fine

[Frooxius]

We'd have to discuss this internally, but even right I'm not sure if we'd really do this, since there are two big problems I can already see:

• This lets people potentially get benefits for less - you have multiple people getting a higher tier benefit while each paying less. E.g. if 4 people want $20 benefit each, that translates to $80 on our end if they all got it. With this, we'd only get $20, which is $60 less. That doesn't make sense economically for us.
• If the benefit is somehow "shared", this creates other complications - what happens if one of the people drops or changes their tier? Suddenly everyone loses the shared benefit, because now you don't have enough people. This creates logistical issues, which also make the engineering side of this a lot more complicated

It might be best to really pool your resources instead.

[charlie-sans]

well i was thinking about this because of support for stripe payments. even if it was just for a group then that would have been fine.

[charlie-sans]

because what i was thinking of was that people more so pooled the tier instead just to get group's then everything else could be gained based on what the user had but only for them like how they are now. it was more so that people could combine just for a group and nothing else .

[shiftyscales]

If your end-goal / desire is just wanting to purchase a group- I imagine that would be something we could possibly explore in the form of "perk add-ons" e.g. creation of additional groups, etc.

But as Frooxius also mentioned above- that'd be something we'd need to discuss internally to decide what makes sense to offer on our end.