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title: Tip alerts
description: What plays on stream when someone tips - and where each part of it is configured.
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When a tip lands, your overlay pops the alert - name, amount, message - plays your alert sound, then reads the message out with TTS. The pieces are configured in three places, on purpose, so here's the map:

| What | Where |
| --- | --- |
| The look - style, animation, colours, font, position | The **Tip alert** widget in the [overlay editor](/overlay/edit-your-overlay) |
| The voice - language, speed, pitch, what gets read | The [TTS page](/queues/tts) |
| The chat announcement - bot message when someone tips | The **Chat** toggle on the tip row of the **Alerts** page |
| What's allowed through - filtered words, blocked donors | [Filter](/moderation/word-filter) and [Bans](/moderation/bans-and-refunds) |

## The flow of a tip alert

Tips queue up - alerts never talk over each other. If TTS is paused (from [Controls](/queues/controls)), tips stack in the queue until you resume. You can skip whatever's playing, and replay past tips from the TTS history or with the bot's `!tts replay` command.

## The chat announcement

If you want TipPageBot to post in chat when someone tips, flip the **Chat** toggle on the **Tip** row of the **Alerts** page. The [bot needs to be enabled](/chat-bot/tippage-bot) for messages to send.

:::tip
Style your alert once in the overlay editor and everything matches - the same panel style, animation, and font apply to your [Twitch alerts](/alerts/twitch-alerts) too.
:::