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title: Sub rewards
description: Give your Twitch subscribers free message credits - a thank-you their sub already earned.
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Sub rewards turn subscriptions into credits: when someone subs or resubs, they earn credits they can spend on your tip page - a free TTS message, or a free media request if you allow it. No payment involved; it's a perk of subscribing.

## Setting it up

Everything lives on the **Viewers** page:

- **Rewards** - the master toggle.
- **Credits per subscription tier** - how many credits a Tier 1, 2, and 3 sub earns.
- **Min account age (days)** - Twitch accounts younger than this can't redeem. Keeps freshly-made throwaways out.
- **Allow media requests** - whether credits can be spent on media as well as messages.

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## How viewers use it

They sign in with Twitch on your tip page and toggle **Use a free message** on the tip form. Their message (and media request, if allowed) goes through the same queue, filter, and overlay as a paid tip - the alert shows it as a sub reward, in Twitch purple. `!credits` in chat tells them their balance.

## Managing viewers

The **Signed-in viewers** table shows everyone who's signed in on your tip page, their sub tier, and their credits - available, used, and total. You can **Grant** or **Revoke** credits per viewer, so "the giveaway winner gets 5 free messages" is two clicks.

:::tip
You can also hand out credits through [channel points](/viewers/channel-points) - let viewers convert points into a free message.
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