Link Stripe
Take card, Apple Pay, and Google Pay tips through Stripe - with your balance and payouts inside the TipPage dashboard.
Card tips run through Stripe: cards, Apple Pay, and Google Pay, paid out to your bank. Setup happens inside the dashboard and takes a few minutes: you pick your country and how you want to be paid out, then do a one-time identity and bank check on a form loaded from Stripe. After that there is nothing to manage at Stripe and no Stripe login, ever - your balance and a Pay out button sit on the Overview, and your payouts, your schedule and your bank details live on the Payments tab. The only cost is a per-tip fee: Stripe’s transaction fee passed on at cost, plus TipPage’s own share of at most 1% + 3p - see the rates. Tippers only ever see TipPage on their statement - your name and address stay private, in a way PayPal can’t match.
Only the channel owner or a super admin can do this: set payouts up, see the balance and pay out. Nobody else on the team can, whatever permissions they hold - which is why making someone a super admin comes with a warning.
Open Settings, Payments
In the dashboard, go to Settings and pick the Payments tab. The Stripe panel asks you two things before anything loads from Stripe: your country and your payout schedule.
Pick your country
Choose the country you live in, or where your business is registered if you stream as one. Where your tip currency points at one country it’s pre-filled for you (pounds picks the United Kingdom, for example); euros don’t say which country, so you pick. Stripe needs it before it can open an account for you and it can’t be changed afterwards, so check it - it also sets your fee rate.
Choose how you want to be paid out
Nothing is pre-selected here: you pick, we never pick for you. Stripe bills TipPage for every payout it makes, so how often your money moves is your call. The four options:
- Manual - nothing moves until you press Pay out. A standard payout lands in a couple of days; an instant one in minutes, where instant payouts are on.
- Daily - whatever has cleared goes to your bank every business day.
- Weekly - once a week, on the day you pick.
- Monthly - once a month, on the date you pick. A date past the end of a short month lands on its last day.
Set up payouts stays greyed out until you’ve chosen. You can change your schedule at any time on Settings, Payments.
Verify with Stripe
Press Set up payouts. Stripe’s form loads inside the Payments tab, under a note with a lock: “This form is loaded from Stripe. Everything you enter goes straight to Stripe - TipPage never sees your details.” That is exactly how it works. The form asks who you are - name, date of birth, address, and an ID check where the law requires one - and for the bank account your payouts should go to. If the form won’t load in your browser, there’s a link under it to open the same form on a page hosted by Stripe; you’re brought back to the dashboard when you’re done.
Done
When Stripe has what it needs, the panel changes to Payouts and a Balance and payouts panel appears on your Overview. Tips can start straight away.
When Stripe needs something later
Stripe never emails you about a TipPage payout account - TipPage does the telling. If Stripe needs something else from you later (a document, say, or a new bank account after yours closed), you get an email at the address on your account, a banner appears at the top of the dashboard and a notification lands in your feed, and the Payments tab lists exactly what’s needed and lets you provide it there. Payouts pause if it isn’t provided by Stripe’s deadline, so sort it promptly - you’re emailed again if that happens. The same goes for the other things Stripe would have told you about: a returned payout, a change to your bank account, a dispute, money taken from your bank. Every email you’ll get.
Where your money shows up
- Overview - a Balance and payouts panel: what’s available, what’s still settling, a Pay out button, and an instant option where instant payouts are on. Hidden while you’re live until you reveal it.
- Settings, Payments - the full list of payouts with arrival dates and status, your payout schedule (change it here any time), and your bank details.
Both are for the owner or a super admin only.
On your bank statement a payout shows the reference TipPage.com LTD (your bank may print it in capitals). The payer name is Stripe’s own bank (Stripe Payments UK Ltd, in the UK), because that’s where the money is sent from - it can’t be changed.
While you’re on the Payments tab
Set your Amounts at the top:
- Currency - what viewers tip in.
- Minimum - the smallest tip you’ll accept. Default is 2.00. Smaller tips are refused. There’s a floor of one unit of your currency (£1, €1, $1 - higher where a unit is worth less, like ¥150 or 10 kr): below that your card processor won’t take the payment at all, and the fixed part of the processing fee would leave you nothing.
- Starts at - what the amount box is pre-filled with. Tippers can change it. Leave blank to start at your minimum.
- Maximum - the largest tip you’ll accept. Leave blank for no limit (TipPage caps every tip at 1,000,000 regardless).
- Preset buttons - up to 5 one-tap amounts shown above the amount box, plus an “Other” button that focuses the box. Switch them off to show just the box.
Then Message:
- Max message length - up to 255 characters.
And Donor identity, if you want tips tied to real Twitch or Kick accounts:
- Require sign-in to tip - the tip form stays locked until the viewer signs in with Twitch or Kick. A strong lever against anonymous ban evasion.
- Use the donor’s account name - the tip’s name comes from the Twitch or Kick account the viewer signed in with; the name field disappears from the form.
Hit Save changes when you’re done.
Disconnecting
Disconnect in the Stripe panel unlinks the account. Pay out your balance first - once it’s unlinked, TipPage can’t show it to you any more. If you also have PayPal connected, tips switch over to that; if not, tipping is off until you connect something.