A tip needs no product
Nothing is uploaded, priced, delivered or unlocked. The fan picks an amount, the amount is checked against your minimum on the server, and the transaction exists. No work is waiting on the other side of it.
For creators
Let fans say thank you, with money
Fan tipping is the simplest way to earn on Velvet: fans send a tip from your page or in chat whenever they want to support you, and it is credited to your wallet with nothing to deliver.
Why tips clear faster than anything else you sell
Fans can tip without an account
A tip records the fan when there is one and settles when there is not, so the tip button on your public page works for someone who arrived from a post ninety seconds ago and has no intention of signing up yet.
Your own account cannot pay you
Velvet rejects a tip whose buyer is the creator being tipped. The check exists because a self-tip is both a laundering route and a way to mint closer commission on a sale that never happened.
How tipping works
Fans pick an amount on your Velvet page or in a conversation, add an optional message and pay in seconds through a secure checkout.
The tip appears in your dashboard instantly, with the fan's message attached, so you can thank them where it matters.
What you control
You choose whether tipping is enabled, set suggested amounts and can moderate or hide messages that come with tips.
Tips work alongside everything else: a fan who just bought a PPV link or subscribed can still tip on top.
The floor and the ceiling are both server-side
A tip below your minimum is refused with the minimum quoted back in your listing currency, and a tip above five hundred dollars is refused outright. Both checks run on the server, so no client, present or future, can send an amount you never agreed to.
That ceiling is the same one applied to every amount a closer can control. A tip button, a paid link and a chat offer therefore share one upper bound instead of three that drift apart over time.
What a tip does to a fan record
A tip from a signed-in fan is written to that fan’s activity history with the net amount, and it re-qualifies them against your segments. Tipping counts as monetary activity, which is why a generous tipper stops being filed next to someone who has never spent anything.
If a closer was working the conversation the tip closed in, their commission comes out of your share after Velvet’s platform fee, at the rate stored on your profile. That rate starts at 25% and is yours to change.
Getting paid
Every tip is processed by a secure payment provider and credited to your Velvet wallet with its own ledger entry.
Tips land in the same balance as every other sale and clear the same 7-day hold: small amounts add up into one withdrawal rather than a dozen.
How to set tipping up
- Leave tips on, or switch them back on. They are enabled by default and live with your other monetization settings.
- Set your minimum. Whatever you set replaces the five-dollar fallback, and a fan trying to send less is told your minimum in your own listing currency.
- Share the page, and work the chat. A tip can be sent from your public profile and from inside a conversation.
- Read the ledger. Every tip is its own entry against that fan’s record, with the split applied and the seven-day reserve already running.
The numbers around a tip
- Default minimum tip
- $5Applies only until you set your own; yours replaces it.
- Maximum tip
- $500The same ceiling that caps any closer-controlled amount.
- Withdrawal minimum
- $50The smallest available balance Velvet will process a withdrawal for.
- Withdrawal fee
- 1.5%Never less than $1 and never more than $15.
What creators want to know before switching tips on
Does a tip cost the fan more than other payments?
Less, as it happens. The seeded fan service fee on a tip is 8.9%, against 12.9% seeded on subscriptions, paid links, gifts and custom requests. The rate applied to a particular checkout is resolved per country and currency when it runs, so the seeded figure is a baseline rather than a promise.
What currency does a tip settle in?
Your listing currency is what the amount means, and Velvet crosses it into the settlement currency before the tip row is written at all. The exchange basis is stored on the row, so a tip is never stranded waiting for a rate that failed to resolve after the fact.
When can tip money leave the platform?
A tip credits your wallet and joins the seven-day pending reserve like any other sale. Once it has matured, a withdrawal needs an available balance of at least fifty dollars and carries a fee of 1.5% that is never below one dollar and never above fifteen.
Frequently asked questions
Is there a minimum or maximum tip?
Velvet supports small spontaneous tips up to generous one-off amounts. You can guide fans with suggested amounts on your page.
Can fans tip in chat?
Yes. Tipping is built into Velvet chat, so a great conversation can turn into support without leaving the thread.
Do I owe anything in return for a tip?
No. Tips are voluntary support with no delivery attached, though a thank-you message never hurts.
Can I set my own minimum tip?
Yes, per creator profile. Your figure replaces the five-dollar default entirely, and the fan sees it quoted in your listing currency rather than in something they have to translate back.
What is the largest tip a fan can send?
Five hundred dollars in one transaction. A fan who wants to give more sends more than one, which also keeps a single mistyped amount from turning into a chargeback conversation.
Does a closer earn commission on a tip?
When the tip closes inside a conversation assigned to them, yes. The commission comes out of your share after Velvet’s platform fee, at the rate stored on your profile, which starts at 25%.
Can I tip my own account to test the flow?
No. Velvet refuses a tip when the buyer and the creator are the same account, so a test has to run from a genuinely separate fan account.