MONETIZATION
Tipping
Tipping gives you a single link to drop in your bio, panels, or chat. Viewers open it, pick an amount, and pay by card — no account needed on their end. Money lands in your bank through Stripe.
What you get
Once tipping is set up, you have a public page at landmark.stream/tip/<your-handle>. It shows your name, your suggested-amount buttons, and a short form for the tipper's name and message. Every completed tip shows up under Tipping in your dashboard, and fires an alert on your overlay.
Setting it up
Setup is a two-step checklist on the Tipping page. Your tip URL stays in “Setup needed” until both steps are done — then it flips to Live and starts taking real payments.
- Pick a public handle. Your tip URL is built from your handle, so you need one before the page goes live. Set it in Portal Setup. Once it's set, your page lives at
/tip/<handle>. - Connect a bank account. Tips pay out through Stripe Connect, so you onboard a bank account from Payments. Stripe collects your details and verifies you; when payouts are enabled, this step is marked done.
Both steps have to be green for the page to take real money. Until Stripe is connected, the page runs in preview — see below.
Suggested amounts
The buttons (“chips”) on your tip page are yours to edit. By default they're $5, $10, $25, and $50, plus a Custom field the tipper can type into. Edit the values from the chip editor on the Tipping page.
- You can set up to eight chips.
- You also set a minimum tip. Anything below it is rejected at checkout, with the floor shown to the tipper.
- Chip values are deduped and sorted automatically, so you don't have to enter them in order.
What the viewer sees
The public page is deliberately simple. There's no sign-up and no wallet — just a card payment:
- A big amount readout at the top, driven by whichever chip is selected or the custom value they type.
- Your suggested-amount chips, plus a
Customoption. - Optional name and message fields. Leave the name blank and the tip shows as Anonymous.
- A Tip $X button that opens Stripe Checkout for the card payment.
After paying, the tipper is sent back to your page with a thank-you message, and the tip is recorded once Stripe confirms it through the webhook.
Preview mode (before Stripe is connected)
You don't have to wait for bank verification to see your page. As soon as you have a handle, your tip page works in preview mode. It looks and behaves exactly like the live page — chips, custom amount, name, and message all work — but the Tip button shows a fake success instead of charging a card. A preview pill in the header makes the state obvious, so you can share the layout and test the flow before connecting Stripe.
If someone opens a tip page for a streamer who hasn't set up tipping at all, they see a short notice and a link to share the page — not a broken checkout.
Fees and payouts
Tips run through Stripe and carry both a Landmark cut and Stripe's processing fee, which come out before the money reaches your bank. We keep the exact breakdown in one place so it's always current — see Fees for the math and how payouts work.