# Tips

Tips let fans send one-time payments to creators without buying a specific item.

## Enabling Tips

Tips are off by default. To turn them on:

1. Go to **Dashboard > Settings**
2. Enable **Accept Tips**
3. Stripe must be connected with charges enabled

Once enabled, a tip button appears on your public profile page.

## How Fans Tip

1. Fan visits your profile (`/u/yourusername`)
2. Clicks the tip button
3. Enters an amount ($1 - $10,000) and an optional message (up to 280 characters)
4. Completes payment through Stripe Checkout

The full amount minus Stripe's processing fee (~2.9% + $0.30) goes directly to your Stripe account. We take no cut.

## Viewing Tips

Your dashboard shows all tips received: who tipped, how much, any message they included, and when. Fans can see their tip history in their own account.

## Tips and Revenue Splits

If your project has collaborators with revenue splits configured, tips are split according to the same percentages as item sales.

## Notifications

When you receive a tip, you get an email notification (if enabled in your notification settings).

## See Also

- [Payments & Refunds](../legal/payments.md): How payments work
- [Payouts](./payouts.md): Receiving your earnings
- [Revenue Splits](./splits.md): Sharing revenue with collaborators