Are there any reliable ways of getting paid as a freelance artist without having to divulge your identity to clients? I'm fine with letting the platform itself know obviously, just not every single person that commissions me (I'm doing SFW art) I've read some articles claiming you can do it with Gumroad but I don't see any artists I follow actually using it that way so I'm skeptical
>>7828279>I'm fine with letting the platform itself know obviouslyThat’s how leaks get out; by rogue employees. They use a million Jeets to handle Stripe payment errors. But you’re not important so it’s nothing to worry about.
>>7828279It also depends on your country's laws, like if you have to register as an independent business, and whether or not you have to divulge any business information to the client outside of names.For example, I know Australia requires all receipts to have an ABN (Australian Business Number) on them for tax purposes (I think?).Obviously, such a number can likely be traced back to who registered it, so no nom de plume is going to protect you from extra snoopy people there.
>>7828279patreon, open a tier that is "one time purchase" only and use that to sell commissions. On your side: clients make the payment to patreon, not you, so they can't later refund the shit, and once patreon take their part, they leave the money open for you to retire. On the client side: they are paying to patreon, so in their payment info it only says that is made to "patreon blablabla-patreon_page_name_", not your paypal email, not your real name, only your patreon page name, so they cant even know your email. Is the best option, only downside is that patreon will take their part. All of the other options... you must research that yourself because each country has his own things. In most of them paypal is the norm and they will see your email and real name if its a normal account, with a pro account i dont remember, i think they can't see your real name yes, but they will see your email. For SFW only faggots care of identity because you want the most people to know you and if they can associate your art to your iamge is even more money, unless you dont want to pay your taxes. For nsfw it's only somewhat understandable specially for people that are making illegal shit, but most people use PayPal anyway.So if you want the ultimate solution, Patreon, with one-time purchases, is the "shop" option they offer. This way, they only pay for one product (in this case, one commission) and they don't pay a subscription fee.
>>7828279>seller refuse to disclose their identityThis will open a floodgate for scammers and frauds. Businesses will have to reveal their identity in order to hold them accountable.
>>7828279i don't think USD country clients are willing to do transaction with some anonymous painter dude lmao
>>7828279I assume most middleman services like vgen or skeb don't give out your name
>>7828403Given the amount of twitter commissions go wrong, I don't think that's true.
