“We see this appealing to other established streamers, so we decided to build this functionality into our settings so that any user can cap donations to a maximum amount,” Urs says. But once they heard from her, they realized other streamers might experience the same discomfort with large donations. Like, if I feel like I can’t meet their expectation, in terms of my reaction or what they’re expecting me to do…” She left it at that.Īshray Urs, head of product at Streamlabs, tells Tubefilter that Pokimane was the first creator to approach the company about a way to lower their earnings. “When people donate even more, I feel like they have a certain expectation. “Even when sometimes people donate like $20 to me, I feel guilty,” she said. The fact that donors might expect streamers to respond in a certain way on camera, or expect them to feel obligated to do something special in return for a big gift, is part of why Pokimane capped hers, she explained in a live stream. But unlike Twitch’s other fan-funded monetizer, Channel Subscriptions, donations don’t provide tangible rewards for givers–other than a brief projection of their user name in the receiving creator’s live stream. Donations that are in 'pending' status on your Paypal will NOT show up on your dashboard, only CLEARED transactions.Donations are one of several monetization tools on Twitch they, as you might expect, let viewers give a specific amount of money directly to a streamer. WARNING- if your donor has made a donation via bank account or eCheck it will take a few days for Paypal to clear the charge. Check the above, and be sure that the donation shows in your donation history to verify that it is a legitimate donation/tip. If it showed up in your chat as 'username donated $100.00' this may be someone faking a donation.

Make sure the person actually sent you the donation/tip. You can do this in your seller preferences or click here.Ĥ. Make sure your Paypal account is set to accept all currencies.

Paypal does not allow an unverified account to accept money.ģ. If they donate to you with DonationAlerts/Paypal direct link, you will not receive notifications using Streamlabs.Ģ.

If you prefer to use the word tip instead. You will only receive donations if viewers donate to you via the Streamlabs donation link. If you are not receiving donation/tip alerts, please read the article to make sure your account has been correctly set up.ġ.