How to take donations on Kick
Kick’s own way to tip is KICKs. To take donations in money, put a tip link on your Kick channel that pays straight into your own Stripe or PayPal account, and show each tip on stream as an alert.
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What Kick offers: KICKs
KICKs are Kick’s tipping currency. Viewers send them in your chat, and Kick says you receive 95% of their value, paid out through Stripe. To earn from subs and Kick’s other money tools you need to be a Kick Affiliate or Partner (Kick: revenue split, checked 2 November 2026).
For viewers, KICKs aren’t money: Kick’s policy says they “are not currency and have no cash or redemption value” (KICKs usage policy). Viewers who want to tip in euros, dollars or kroner need somewhere else to do it. That’s a tip page.
A tip page that pays you directly
A Layrs tip page takes cards and wallets through your own Stripe account, or PayPal through your own PayPal. The money goes from the viewer straight to your account and on to your bank: Layrs never holds it. Layrs keeps 3% of Stripe tips. PayPal tips, and tips that go to your mods, have no Layrs fee. Stripe and PayPal charge their own fees.
It works with a Kick account alone: Stripe’s sign-up lists your Kick channel as where the tips come from.
Sign in with Kick
On layrs.tv, click Sign in with Kick.
Connect Stripe or PayPal
Open Donations and connect one: Stripe for cards and wallets, PayPal for PayPal. Layrs may ask you to sign in again first, so someone who gets into your Layrs can’t send your tips elsewhere.
Make the page yours
Pick a theme, a banner and your links. Try the designer first, no account needed.
Copy your tip link
Under Share your tip link, copy your layrs.tv/tip/ link.
Put the link on your Kick channel
- About: add it to your channel’s About section, where viewers look for a tip link.
- Chat: in Donations, click Add !tip to your chat bot. Once the Layrs chat bot is on, it answers
!tipwith your link, in Kick chat too.
Kick’s Community Guidelines (updated 19 March 2026) don’t mention tip links. They do forbid asking for money by playing on personal distress, and links to illegal sites.
Show tips on stream
- Alerts: every Layrs alert box plays tips from your tip page with the viewer’s name, amount and message. KICKs play in the same alert box.
- Goal: a Goal that counts Tips this stream (money) fills with each tip.
- Subathon: the subathon timer adds time per €1, $1 or 1 kr of a tip (30 s until you change it).
- Leaderboard: a Leaderboard of your top Tippers.
A tip shows only after Stripe or PayPal confirmed it’s paid. Big tips, and tips with words you block, wait for your OK or a mod’s first. Click Send a test tip in Donations to see it in OBS: tests never count toward goals or the subathon.
FAQ
Does Kick allow donations?
Kick has KICKs built in, and its Community Guidelines don’t forbid a link to your own tip page. They forbid asking for money by playing on personal distress.
Does Kick take a cut of donations?
Of KICKs, Kick says you get 95%. A tip page isn’t paid through Kick: Layrs keeps 3% of Stripe tips and nothing of PayPal tips, and Stripe or PayPal charge their own fees.
Do I need to be a Kick Affiliate?
For KICKs and subs, Kick says yes. For a Layrs tip page, no: you need a Stripe or PayPal account.
Can I take donations without PayPal?
Yes. Connect Stripe and viewers pay with cards and wallets.
Who holds the money?
You do. It goes straight to your own Stripe or PayPal account; Layrs never holds it.
How do I show Kick donations on stream?
Add a Layrs alert box to OBS: it plays tips from your tip page and KICKs from Kick.