For many people, building a career from live streaming is the goal. It takes an enormous amount of time and a deep commitment to creating engaging content. It is possible to get there, but you’ll need some help along the way. Remember that live streaming should be something you do for the love of it first and foremost. You won’t become famous overnight, and that is okay.
Whether you want to turn this into a career, or you do it just for fun, enabling a tip page on Streamlabs can help you along the way. In this blog, we’ll talk about how to set up donations on Twitch and customize your tip page settings. Let’s get started.
How to Create a Streamlabs Tip Page
Setting up a Streamlabs Tip Page is one of the easiest ways to start earning an income from live streaming. We work with various payment processors, including PayPal, giving you more ways to monetize your channel. Most importantly, setting up a tip page is entirely free. What’s more, we work with payment processors to provide tipping with competitive fees.
Setting up your tip page only takes a few seconds, so let’s dive into it.
If you are logging into Streamlabs.com for the first time, the onboarding process will ask you to add your PayPal email address or other supported payment processor. Once you finish that step, your tip page is ready to go; this is the fastest way to set up your donation page, but if you’ve already logged in or skipped the onboarding, you can also set up your tip page from the settings. To do that:
Step 1: Log in to the dashboard on Streamlabs.com. Click on Tipping in the left navigation window under “Earn and Grow.”
Step 2: Click on Tip Methods and choose your preferred Payment Processor.
Step 3: Go through the necessary steps to connect your account.
After your account is connected, your tip page will be available at Streamlabs.com/USERNAME.
Managing Your Tip Page
You can manage a range of tip page settings right from the Streamlabs dashboard. Not based in the US? Under the Tip Page Design tab, you can choose which currency you’d like donations to appear in, set the minimum amount required to donate, and even adjust the recommended amount that appears for a user when they visit your tip page.
You can also edit the message that appears on your page when users visit, and even customize the image that appears as your donation page banner.
Under Tip History, you can check the history of all Tip-related transactions, including but not limited to monthly tippers, banned tippers, chargebacks, and more. You can also export to CSV if needed.
Lastly, under the Tip Settings tab, you can configure settings for month tips, profanity filter, and pro features such as Tip effects and gifs.
As you can see, setting up a Streamlabs tipping page only takes minutes and puts you many steps closer to earning income as a live streamer, even at the beginning of your journey.