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Uses for Ko-fi
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Ko-fi Shop - Sell Digital & Physical Products With Just a Link
Ko-fi Shop is a Brand New Way to Make Money on Ko-fi Start selling digital downloads like game mods, wallp...
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Using Ko-fi for Commissions and Services
You can now use Ko-fi to take commissions and sell your services. Hooray! Ko-fi Commissions is a super sim...
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Offering Subscriptions and Supporter-Only Content
Creators who offer subscriptions and supporter-only content earn more than 10x the average Ko-fi page. Ko-...
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Ko-fi Stream Alerts
Ko-fi Stream Alerts are here! Unlike other services, Ko-fi lets you receive donations directly from your vi...
Getting Started
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Ko-fi: A Guide for Creators
👋 Welcome to Ko-fi, follow these steps to make the most of your page. 1. Complete Your Profile Make sure y...
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Pinning Ko-fi to Your Phone Home Screen (Like an App)
Pinning Ko-fi to Your Home Screen You can make Ko-fi an icon on your phone so it's quick and easy to access...
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How Do I Set and Edit a Goal?
Pages with a goal earn on average over 2x more! Your goal shows your audience what you're raising money f...
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Does Ko-fi Take a Fee?
Ko-fi Takes 0% Of Your Donations You deserve to keep more of your money! You’re doing the creative work, t...
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How Do I Edit My Cover Image?
Your cover image appears at the top of your page. Use it to make your page look more complete and showcase ...
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What is Ko-fi?
Ko-fi allows creators like you to receive money from fans of your content. Create your page and button a...
Promoting Your Ko-fi Page
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How to Use Ko-fi With Medium
If you’re a writer, journalist or blogger using Medium as your publishing platform, here are a few ways to...
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How to Use Ko-fi With Twitter
If you've got an audience on Twitter then there are so many creative ways to use Ko-fi to start making an ...
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How to Use Ko-fi With Instagram
If you use Instagram there are so many ways you can use Ko-fi to help make an income from your work. Here'...
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How to Use Ko-fi With Twitch
Create a Ko-fi info panel, receive stream alerts when you get donations and use Ko-fi to offer rewards to ...
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How to Use Ko-fi With YouTube
Calling all video creators! If you're looking to increase your income from your channel, even if you don't...
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How to Use Ko-fi With Facebook
If you have a following on Facebook you can use Ko-fi to help make an income from your followers. Here's s...
Features
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New: Direct Messages on Ko-fi
Creators and Supporters can now send messages to each other directly on Ko-fi. Use messages as a perk of s...
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GIF FAQ
Why is my GIF preview not animating? Though we allow GIF uploads up to our usual image size limit, the prev...
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Does Ko-fi Have an API or Webhook?
I Want to Use The Ko-fi API For My Page Ko-fi's API currently allows you to send transaction data to third ...
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How Do I Edit My Email Notification Settings?
We sometimes send you emails to keep you updated on the Creators you follow, the activity on your account a...
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How Do I Block/Limit Supporters?
Ko-fi is a friendly and supportive community and we want to keep it that way! If you've had a bad experienc...
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What is Ko-fi Gold?
Ko-fi doesn't take a cut of your donations ($2m+ each month is earned with 0% fees from us) and we don't sh...
Supporter Help
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Gift Ko-fi Gold
Thank you so much for considering gifting a creator Gold. Ko-fi doesn't take a cut of donations and we don'...
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Supporter Payments FAQ
What Fee Does Ko-fi Take From Donations? Unlike almost every other platform Ko-fi takes 0% cut of donations...
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Supporting a Creator: Private & Public Options
Making a Message Private on Ko-fi Ticking the Private message will mean only the creator will see your name...
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How Do I Cancel a Subscription to a Creator?
Find Your Active Subscriptions on Ko-fi To see your active subscriptions, Log in to Ko-fi, in the menu sele...
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I Supported Someone but My Payment Is Showing as Unclaimed, Pending or Declined
Ko-fi payments are made directly between supporters and creators on PayPal (or card if the creator has a St...
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I Supported a Creator but I Can't See Their Posts
Some creators add exclusive posts and gallery images that are only available to recent supporters (30 days)...
Payments
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How to Use Apple Pay
Apple Pay gives your supporters a super convenient way to donate, subscribe or buy products or commissions ...
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Can I Create Multiple Ko-fI Pages With the Same Paypal Account?
In short, yes you can! If you have multiple, separate online personas or projects it can make sense to have...
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I Don't Have a PayPal Account
All payments are made directly between supporters and creators using either PayPal or Stripe. Unlike most o...
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I've Used the Wrong PayPal Email Address
Changing Your Email Address If you've used the wrong PayPal email address on Ko-fi the first thing to do...
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What Personal Information Is Shared on Ko-fi?
How Payments on Ko-fi Work Ko-fi is a direct payments platform. At the payment stage, supporters see op...
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How do I Switch to a PayPal Business Account
Why Switch to a PayPal Business Account Upgrading your PayPal personal account to a free PayPal business a...