Monetize your Instagram

Place your Tpping link in your bio, share the QR in your Stories, or pin it in your comments. Fans will tap it to tip you.

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Monetize your YouTube

Drop your Tpping link in your channel bio, every video description, and pin a comment for maximum tips.

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Monetize your X (Twitter)

X lets you add a clickable website link, share your QR, and highlight it in replies. Turn followers into supporters.

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Monetize your Facebook

Add your Tpping link to your Page bio, share the QR, and highlight it in comments under your posts.

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Add your Tpping link under your profile bio, share the QR, and highlight it in comments to turn your network into supporters.

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Digital tipping platform in Kenya

Tpping is a Kenyan platform for sending and receiving digital tips with M-Pesa. Creators and service workers keep a public profile, share a link or QR code, and supporters complete a tip from their phone.

What digital tipping is

Digital tipping is a cashless thank-you. Instead of hunting for notes after a safari drive, a table service, a salon visit, or a livestream, the supporter pays a chosen amount through M-Pesa. The recipient sees it on their Tpping profile and wallet.

It is not a salary, not a bill, and not a donation campaign. It is optional appreciation on top of the work already done.

How digital tipping works in Kenya

Most people in Kenya already pay with M-Pesa. Tpping uses that habit. A recipient publishes one place to tip. A supporter opens that place, picks an amount, and confirms the payment on their own handset. Tpping does not ask the supporter to install an app for that step.

  1. Create a Tpping account and finish your public profile.
  2. Copy your profile link or download the QR code from your profile.
  3. Put the link in a social bio, WhatsApp status, or print the QR for a counter, badge, or table.
  4. A supporter opens the profile, chooses an amount, and follows the M-Pesa prompt shown at checkout.

Payment options and processing times are those shown during checkout. If a prompt fails, the supporter can try again or use another method listed on the page.

How M-Pesa tipping works

When checkout uses M-Pesa STK push, the supporter enters the phone number that should receive the Safaricom prompt, confirms the amount, and keys in their M-Pesa PIN on their own phone. Tpping does not ask for that PIN.

Successful tips land in the recipient’s Tpping wallet. From there they can withdraw to their registered M-Pesa number or use other wallet tools Tpping provides. This is an M-Pesa-powered flow, not a replacement for M-Pesa itself.

QR-code tipping

A Tpping QR code points to your public profile. A guest opens the camera app, scans the code, and lands on the same tip page they would reach from your link. That is useful where people will not type a URL: hotel desks, bars, salons, car parks, and tour vehicles.

Print the code large enough to scan in low light. Keep it next to your name so the guest knows who they are tipping. Replace a damaged print rather than taping over a faded one.

How creators can receive tips

If you make videos, music, photos, podcasts or livestreams, add your Tpping link to the bio on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X or Facebook. Tell viewers once, in the video or caption, that the link is for tips. You do not need a follower threshold on Tpping to publish a profile.

For a longer walkthrough aimed at creators, see Tpping for creators and service workers.

How service workers can receive tips

Guides, drivers, waiters, bartenders, stylists, porters and similar roles can keep a personal QR even when the guest pays the business on a company Till. The bill stays on the Till. The tip can go to the person who served them.

Agree with your employer how personal tipping is handled. Tpping does not split a house tip pool automatically. If a team wants one shared code, they can use a single profile and share the withdrawal access according to their own rules.

How businesses can introduce digital tipping

A restaurant, lodge, salon or tour desk can start small:

  • Let each consenting staff member create their own Tpping profile.
  • Print named QR cards instead of a shared cash tin where that fits your house policy.
  • Keep the company Till for meals, rooms and activities. Use Tpping only for optional tips.
  • Tell guests, briefly, that cashless tips are available if they want to leave one.

Tpping is not a hotel property-management system. If you need card tips from international guests pooled into a staff committee, that is a different product category.

Managing and withdrawing tips

Sign in, open your profile, and use the wallet tools to see available balances. Withdrawals go to the M-Pesa number on the account after you confirm the request. Keep that number current. For how the wallet also pays Till and Paybill numbers, see the Tpping smart wallet.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need the Tpping app to send a tip?

No. The person tipping can open a Tpping profile in a mobile browser, choose an amount, and complete the M-Pesa prompt on their phone.

Do I have to share my personal M-Pesa number?

You share your Tpping profile link or QR code instead of writing your personal number on a card or in a bio. Tips are paid through the checkout Tpping shows at the time.

Can hotels or restaurants use Tpping?

Staff can each have a personal profile and QR code. Tpping does not replace the business Till used to pay the bill. It is a way for a guest to tip a person after service.

How do I take money out?

After you have a Tpping account, available tip balances can be withdrawn to the M-Pesa number registered on your profile, subject to the withdrawal flow in the app or website.

Are games required to receive tips?

No. Competitive browser games are a separate Tpping product. You can receive tips without playing.

Related on Tpping

Set up your digital tip profile

Create a free account, then share your link or QR with people who already want to say thanks.

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