Patron and Tea of the Month Benefits

If you are a Tea of the Month subscriber or a Patron (this applies to both the standard and curated Tea of the Month Clubs as well as to regular support whether it come through Patreon or through Ko-fi) there are a couple of benefits you receive.

The first is access to unreleased teas. You can request a custom order of anything I’ve sent out. This includes older teas that haven’t been re-released as well as newer ones sent as Tea of the Month Club selections. (There is one limitation to this, and it is that all of the tea’s ingredients need to currently be in the toolbox. There are teas that I know are missed that I cannot make at the present time. (Most of this has to do with working out the logistics of drying the things that I used to dry myself.)

The second is a 10% discount on all hot beverages in the shop that are not in the Sale Bin.

Regular supporters through Patreon and Ko-fi – called Patrons from here on out, for the sake of brevity – receive three more.

The first is early access to the test batches of new teas. There’s only so much tea that I, personally, can drink, and the process of figuring out and testing new teas leaves me with extra during the release process. Patrons will have an option to buy the extra at a significantly larger discount than the teas have when they go to the Sale Bin, which occurs after Patrons have had a week to decide whether or not they want them.

The second Patron benefit is the capacity to ask for a single Doodle Label per order. These are labels where I take the name of the tea and riff on it in a fashion similar to the doodles on the ink tests. I do not include the ingredients lists on these labels, though I may eventually work up a special back label to match up with them tea per tea.

The third Patron benefit is that you can request that one of the scratch pads be included with an order, same for any of the other stuff that ends up in the Scratch & Dent section because I abhor waste.

Eventually there may be tiers for Patrons that include additional benefits, in the before-times there were some fairly grand plans, but for the moment these are some small ways of saying thank you. My Patrons and my Tea of the Month Club humans are the reason I can keep the shop running easily even in months where there are fewer orders and I appreciate them greatly.

If you’d like to be a part of that awesomeness, you can test out the Tea of the Month here, or subscribe here, or take the leap of getting a chunk of months here. Then, of course, there is my Patreon and my Ko-fi.