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Connect Buy Me a Coffee to your stream.
Turn Buy Me a Coffee support and memberships into thank-you overlays, sounds, OBS scenes and reactions without watching a dashboard.
- $5 coffee
TipLink
- Show the supporter's name
- Play a sound
What Buy Me a Coffee can trigger.
One-time support
Each coffee starts a chain, scaled by the amount.
Memberships
Celebrate new members with a scene or sound.
Supporter message
Show the supporter's name and note on screen.
Anything else
Combine with OBS, hardware and chat actions.
A coffee, turned into a thank-you.
One event starts a chain of actions. Build it once without code, and it runs every stream.
$5 coffee
Show the supporter's name
Play a soundalert.mp3
Set up in minutes.
Read the setup guide- 1
Connect your account.
Buy Me a CoffeeConnect - 2
Pick an event.
When: $5 coffee - 3
Choose what happens.
Play a soundSwitch the OBS scene
Connect through your Stream alerts URL.
Buy Me a Coffee support is in beta. TipLink reads your Stream alerts overlay, so setup takes your username and one URL from your Buttons and Graphics settings.
- Account name
- Enter your Buy Me a Coffee username.
- Stream overlay URL
- Copy the overlay URL from Stream alerts in your Buy Me a Coffee Buttons and Graphics settings.
- One-time and membership events
- TipLink receives one-time support and membership events from the account.
- Excluded events
- Choose event types you never want recorded and TipLink ignores them.
- Beta
- Events can occasionally be missed and more event types are still being added.
Ideas to try with Buy Me a Coffee.
Coffee counter
Add each coffee to a global variable and show the running total on stream.
Member welcome
A new membership plays a sound and shows a welcome overlay.
Big supporter scene
A large coffee switches to a celebration scene in OBS.
TipLinkfor Stream Deck
A key for every alert.
Anything you have built in TipLink already runs from the deck. Sounds, overlays, scenes, hardware.
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See everything TipLink can do.
Alerts, overlays, combined chat, hardware control and avatar tools, all in one app.
Good to know.
Does TipLink work with Buy Me a Coffee?
Yes. TipLink relays one-time support and membership events from Buy Me a Coffee into your alerts. The integration is in beta.
What do I need from Buy Me a Coffee?
Your username and the overlay URL from Stream alerts in your Buttons and Graphics settings.
Can I keep a running total on stream?
Yes. Add each coffee to a global variable and show it with a text widget.
Do I need to write code?
No. You build alerts in the app by choosing an event and the actions that follow.
Can I try it first?
Yes. There is a 7-day free trial.
Help is close.
Ask in our Discord community or read the docs.
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