To use Instagram on uTip, the Instagram account must be a Business account and be linked to a Facebook page. So,because Instagram is from Facebook, we need to go through the social network to retrieve your account data.

When connecting the account on uTip, you must use a Facebook account which is allowed to manage the Facebook page and which is linked to the Instagram account.

To switch your Instagram account to a Business account:

1. Click on your profile icon at the top right to access the profile

2. Click again on the three small horizontal lines at the top right

3. Settings> Account> Switch to professional account

How do I link my Instagram account to a Facebook Page that I manage?

1. Go to your profile (on the little man) and press "..."
2. Tap Settings.
3. Tap Account> Linked Accounts, then select Facebook.
4. Enter your Facebook login information if you have not already done so.
5. By default, your Instagram account will be associated with your personal Facebook profile. To associate it with a Page, choose a Page that you manage under Share on.

Link an Instagram account to a Facebook Page

1. Go to your Facebook page.
2. Select Settings at the top of your Page.
3. Select Instagram.
4. To add an existing Instagram account to your Page, click Connect.
5. Enter your Instagram account username and password, then select Sign in.

⚠️ It is not possible yet to link a Creator Instagram account to the platform.

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From now on you can choose to receive messages by linking with your community and your Tips by email 💌, directly on uTip via the notifications 🔔 or via both communication channels ️. But let us introduce you to the notifications.

When you log in, you will normally be asked to activate the notifications in order to receive alerts on the news of the creators you follow. These notifications are also linked to your Tips 💳 and your community 💁‍♀️.

These notifications will warn you:

• When the encoding of a video is finished 🎞️
• When paying 💳
• Will provide you with a weekly summary 📈

If you accept, you can authorize your browser to display notifications in order to be notified even if you are not available on your uTip profile.

Your notifications will appear at the level of the small bell near your avatar.

By clicking on the small gear ⚙️ at the top right of your notifications you will have access to the settings.

You can decide whether or not to receive 🔔 notifications, whether or not to receive 💌 emails in addition to these notifications regarding the publication of your content.

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Connecting your networks to the platform will automatically retrieve and display on your profile the content you publish on Youtube, Instagram, Twitter and Twitch. This way, a person surfing on uTip will not only be able to discover your creations, but also to follow your latest news and know when you are live.

To connect one of your networks, nothing could be simpler:

1. Click on "connect my networks" found in "My profile" on your "Creator panel"

2. Then select the social network you want to add :

To connect Instagram to uTip, as we do here, it is necessary to have a professional Instragram account, and to log in via Facebook.

3. Allow the requested authorizations (just as a reminder, please note that we only import the strictly necessary data, and that we will NEVER publish on your behalf), then select the page to be imported, before clicking on "Save".

And voilà 🎉, your content is now displayed on your profile !

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When your balance reaches $10, you can request a transfer to your bank account, up to one request per month.

Transfers are triggered most often on the next Monday following your request and are credited to your bank account within 2 to 4 days depending on your bank.

To find out how to make a transfer, see our dedicated article.

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It is possible to transfer your uTip balance to bank accounts in more than 120 countries. The list of these countries can be found at the end of this article. However, our payment provider does not yet allow us to be available in some countries.

We do not accept creators living in these countries, cause they can't make a transfer.

⚠️ There are also specific documents to validate your identity, according to your country. The passport is accepted for all countries. For SEPA countries, identity cards and permits are also accepted in addition to your passport. For the USA and Canada, only the passport and driving license are accepted.

The accepted countries are:

Germany - DE

Andorra - AD

Austria - AT

Belgium - BE

Bulgaria - BG

Cyprus - CY

Croatia - HR

Denmark - DK

Spain - ES

Estonia - EE

Finland - FI

France - FR

Gibraltar - GI

Greece - GR

Hungary - HU

Ireland - IE

Iceland - IS

Italy - IT

Latvia - LV

Liechtenstein - LI

Lithuania - LT

Luxembourg - LU

Malta - MT

Man (Island) - IM

Monaco - MC

Norway - NO

Netherlands - NL

Poland - PL

Portugal - PT

Czech Republic - CZ

Romania - RO

United Kingdom - UK

San Marino - SM

Slovakia - SK

Slovenia - SI

Sweden - SE

Switzerland - CH

Vatican - VA

Canada - CA

United States - US

Australia - AU

New Zealand - NZ

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Have you changed banks? Are you the proud owner of a new bank account? Anyway, do you need to send us new information to receive your transfers? Follow the guide !

Go to"My earnings" page from your Creator profile

2. Go to the "Transfer Request" section and click on "bank information"

3. Then click on "Delete my bank information"

4. Confirm your request to delete a bank account using the "OK" button:

5. Complete your information (here in red), then click on "Save" at the bottom of the page:

1) Enter your BIC and your IBAN by not including any space or dash (attention, sometimes a space slips before or after the sequence of characters)

2) Your BIC must contain 8 or 11 letters (if it has more or less, it is because you made a mistake!). If your BIC has only 8 letters, add 'XXX' at the end when you enter it in the form

3) Complete all the fields of your postal address (at least 'Address (line 1)', 'City' and 'Postal Code') without any accented character. Also remember to enter the full name of the account holder in the appropriate field.

4) if your bank is not European, please notify Brian in a small e-mail (brian@utip.io), specifying your name, first name, postal address, as well as your full bank details

Your new bank details are saved! 🎉

⚡️ We accept bank accounts in more than 120 countries but we are not yet available in some countries.

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We aim to provide you with the most secure transfer system possible. And for that, confirming your identity is as crucial as it is essential.

Your financial transactions and payments are taken very seriously by the uTip team. And that is why we attach great importance to this security during the transfers. In addition, these transfers also respond to legal constraints which require, in certain cases, to have validated your identity.

📌 In brief

In other words, it's a question of security 🛡️:

• The law requires us to verify that the creators of the platform are 18+
• This also allows us to strengthen your profile protection against attempts to usurp your Youtube channels and others
• We are required, under certain conditions, to know the identity of all individuals for whom we manage funds, within the framework of laws on money laundering or the financing of terrorism

As a reminder, we do not share your first and last name, and for security reasons we do not keep your ID after verification

📌 Less exhaustive

1️⃣ The law requires us to verify that the creators of the platform are 18+

With all the associated risks on the internet, and all that must be done to ensure that the person of legal age, designated as legal representative, truly exercises supervision over the activity of minors without this constituting an abuse, involves for us too many risk. That is why we decided that, on our platform, you would have to be of legal age to become a creator

For more information on working with minors, see the following legal texts:

• Soc., 13 November 1996, n ° 94-13187 (definition of the link of subordination)
• Article L4153-1 of the labor code (prohibition of employment of children under 16 years of age)
• Article L7124-1 of the labor code (an administrative authorization is compulsory to make work a child of less than 16 years of age as a model, or in cinema, radio, television or sound recordings)
• Articles R7124-1 and following of the labor code (procedure for requesting prior authorization) • Articles L7124-6, L7124-7, L7124-8, L7124-16.4 °, R7124-27 and following of the labor code ( limits on days and work hours of child models)
• Articles L7124-24 and L7124-30.4 ° of the labor code (sanction for non-compliance with the duration and working days of child models)
• Article L7124-9 of the labor code (part of the money earned must be paid to the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignation, which will manage this amount until the child is 18 years old)
• Article L7124-22 of the Labor Code (sanction for employment without authorization of a minor under 16 years old as a model or to work for cinema, radio, television or sound recording company)

2️⃣Under certain conditions, we are required to know the identity of all individuals for whom we manage funds, within the framework of laws on money laundering or the financing of terrorism.

Payment service providers, the concept of which was introduced by Directive 2007/64 / EC of November 13, 2007, are in particular obliged to implement the Know Your Customers (KYC) analysis.

This procedure, defined and framed by the 3rd Directive on money laundering and soon reinforced by the 4th Directive that is being transposed into the national base, is intended to obtain as complete understanding as possible of the client with whom the bank, financial institution or payment service provider is about to enter into a relationship.

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It is necessary to have confirmed your identity to request a transfer. To find out why, visit our dedicated article

To provide us with your ID, go to your "My earnings" > "Billing information"

At the bottom of your transfer page you will find a section dedicated to protecting your identity.

Click on "Add ID" and select the file of your choice.

⚠️ There are also specific documents to validate your identity, according to your country. The passport is accepted for all countries. For SEPA countries, identity cards and permits are also accepted in addition to your passport. For the USA and Canada, only the passport and driving license are accepted.

⚠️ Your photo must be visible and your first and last name must match those mentioned on your "My Account" page (see screenshot below). Also remember to fill in your date of birth. 💡 Without this information, your identity document cannot be verified.

As a reminder, we do not share your first and last name and for security reasons we do not keep your ID after verification.

You will then have to wait around 24 hours (excluding evenings and weekends) to obtain validation of your identity document.

If your identity document is validated, you will receive a message.

If you have any problems, please contact Brian at brian@utip.io

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You must have confirmed, at this point, your identity to request a transfer. To find out why, you can go to our dedicated article. To learn how to validate your identity another article is dedicated to this question.

Your ID may have been rejected during the validation process. Here are some ways to explain this:

• Your first and last name are not the same in your Personal information as in your "My Account" page. This sidebar is accessible by clicking on "Profile" in your menu, next to your avatar. Also remember to fill in your date of birth.

• Your part has been incorrectly scanned and cannot be read. (💡 Best tip: remember to scan your piece of ID in high resolution, by scanning them entirely, check that the texts are readable)
• There is a reflection on your photo. Since identity documents are often laminated, it is not uncommon for reflections to occur when using the flash. These reflections prevent the validation of the identity document by hiding important elements for identification. Remember to turn off your flash! 📸
• Your identity document is not complete
• ·Your first and last name are not legible
• Your photo is not complete
• You have not provided the front AND back of your ID
• You have provided a document that is not on the list of valid identity documents

If you are under 18, you do not respect the terms and conditions of the platform and your document will not be validated.

⚠️ There are also specificities concerning the documents making it possible to validate your identity according to your country. For SEPA countries, identity cards and permits are also accepted in addition to your passport. For the USA and Canada, only the passport and driving license are accepted.

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If you wish, you can add a goal 🎯 of tips to your profile. We noticed that a profile with a clear objective is more effective than the others.

This allows you to communicate to your TipRs why you are asking for their support and to indicate the monthly goal you would like to achieve. So this is an additional way to motivate your TipRs.

1. To modify your goal, in your profile, go to "Profile> Edit my profile" in you "Creator Panel"

2. Then fill in the following field in the "My profile" section:

Your goal: what your Tips will be used for

Sum to reach for your goal: your monthly goal

3. Click on "confirm" to save the changes

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Utip is not just compensation via direct payment 💳. It is also possible to offer products to your community, thanks to a Shop 🛍️. And here's how ...

Create and access your Shop

1. To create your first Shop, go to the menu at the top right:

2. Click on "Sell one of your products":

Then choose the type of product :

Create a product

Here is what the product creation interface looks like:

1.Enter the name and description of your product (limited to 150 characters):

2. .Add your visual:

3. Then define the minimum amount at which your product will be sold, and choose the address at which it will be available (choose a simple and concise name):

Good Tip: for a physical article, it is not necessary to count the shipping costs in the price. A specific module dedicated to shipping costs is available when creating the article.

4. Configure your shop

Stock available: do you have a limited number of items to sell? If yes, click on the cursor, then enter the available stock; if not, leave the cursor on "unlimited".

Product status: if you want your product to be visible on your profile, the status of your product must be "Public". If, on the contrary, you want only people with the link to your ShopLink to be able to order your item, leave the cursor on "Private".

Product status: Is your product available for sale? If so, leave it "on". If not, click on the slider to put it "deactivated".

5. Define the shipping fees

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In order to allow you to easily propose 👕 clothing to your TipRs we decided to work with Teezily, which allows you to create T-shirts, sweatshirts and tank tops, with your own designs.

Once ordered by a TipR, these items are directly printed and shipped by Teezily, so you don't have to worry about anything.

To create a clothing item, nothing could be more simple:

1. Click on "Manage my Shop"

2. Then click on "Create a product":

The uPrint creation interface is displayed.

3. Import your designs. To do this, click on the little extras and choose a good quality jpeg. We recommend 16 x 16 cm - 300 dpi - RGB images. Then click on "Generate"

Your products will then be created and this may take a few minutes.

💡 Take this opportunity to read our advice.

4. Then select the products you like from those offered to you.

Currently, the following products are offered in our Shop:

• T-shirt
• Sweatshirt
• Hoodies
• Posters
• Mugs
• Stickers

💡 New products will be regularly added to this basic range.

💡 The clothes are made of cotton and polyester. The type of printing is direct printing on the garment which provides excellent image quality. The mugs are ceramic and pass in the dishwasher and in the microwave.

Once all of your products have been chosen, click on "Validate my choice"

5. Personalize your products by

• Defining their name
• Choosing the colors you want to offer your TipRs
• Choosing the available sizes
• By defining your profit, i.e. the amount that will return to you after the sale

💡 The selling price is made up of the printing price, which is defined by Printful, and which corresponds to the production price of the product, and your profit.

Then click on "Send to Shop"

6. Once your product has been sent to your Shop, a message will appear

💡 In your Shop Printful products can take a little time to get a visual. Don't worry, it's completely normal.

7. Once in your Shop, the product can be modified by clicking on the "..." in the last column

8. All you have to do is enter the description of your product, check its selling price, the color(s) available and the sizes available, customize the link of the garment, then define the available stock, the display and the status of the Shop.

Once done, you just need to validate; your garment now appears in the list of your available products! 🎉

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It is possible for you to define shipping costs depending on the destination for your physical products, directly on your uTip Shop!

Something to delight your TipRs all over the world !

To define these shipping costs, nothing more simple, here is the procedure to follow:

1. From your profile go to your "Shop"

2. In the case of a new article, click on "Sell one of your products"

3. Select "physical product" and fill in the requested information.

4. At the bottom of the page you will find the section "Shipping costs management "

5. Add one or more destination countries. You can make groups of countries with the same shipping costs.

If you cannot find the country in the list, choose "other".

You can directly select several destination countries 🌍 with similar shipping costs. Here Germany and Albania will have the same shipping costs. It is therefore not useful to create a new tariff for each country independently!

6. Define the shipping costs.

To help you define these shipping costs, we advise you to use a shipping cost calculator

7. Add as many destinations as you want by clicking on "Add a new specific shipping fees"

Other countries, other prices! Group countries with the same shipping fees together.

8. To validate, click on "confirm"

In the case of a product already present in your shop, click on the 3 small dots then on "edit" to access the product page for which you want to add or modify the shipping costs. Resume the tutorial in step 4.

🚨 If your old prices took into account the shipping costs, don't forget to modify them! It would be a shame if your TipRs paid twice for the same thing!

For your country, set the shipping costs to 0 €.

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A new toolbar has appeared on your uTip profile page. With it comes a new tool, the function: ". « Create a support Link ».

As its name suggests, this function allows you to generate shortened links from any internet page. But of course, his use does not stop there!

These links allow:

1. Mainly, generate shortened links in order to offer internet users to support you on the platform!
2. These links are also: easier to share, especially on social networks like twitter, more aesthetic since the URL is more discreet
3. An interesting tool that allows you to count clicks, in particular to obtain detailed statistics on the interest of your community for your shares.

You can find the « Shorten a link » function on your profile page after logging in, in the new toolbar on the left side of the page.

Click on it to open the link shortener.

Paste the URL you want to shorten in the dedicated area. If the link does not generate automatically, click on shorten. You will get a new URL at http://utip.io/.

The different types of statutes.

You'll notice «Link Status» just below this URL. Here it says «Advanced link» but several statuses are available. Not all of them will be systematically offered to you, their availability depending mainly on the website from which you have generated a URL.

Generating a « Link only » allows you to generate a simple redirect link. Internet users will be sent directly to the page of your choice, without any mention of the uTip page.

The « Advanced link » allows you to display a landing page with a label with your name asking the user to support you on uTip.

The « Link with support step » allows the user to support your creations before accessing the site of interest. Of course this support step is not compulsory to access the final site!

Finally, the « Advanced link with support step » combines the « Advanced link», showing a label with your name on the landing page and the "Link with support step" offering the user to support you before access the site of interest.

Analytics

You can have access to all of your links generated via analytics. You'll find them in your toolbar on your profile.

Within analytics, you can change the status of your links and find out how many people have clicked on them after sharing.

Usually, these analytics are given to you for links generated in the last 30 days. It is possible to modify the period by clicking on "period" at the top right of the table.

Confirm the choice of the new period by clicking on «Apply».

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It is possible to generate a "Video Link" from your youtube videos even if they are published in unlisted. This feature allows you to generate a sharing link 🔗 to a video player offering users to support you.

You will find the functionality, "generate a Video Link" within the toolbar present on your uTip profile.

By clicking on "Generate a Video Link" you will open a dialog box allowing you to copy / paste the link of the video of interest.

You will get a "utip.io link" which you can share with your community.

This link will sent your community to a page allowing to view your video while offering support solutions to them:

The different link statuses:

There are different link statuses that you can choose by clicking on "link status".

Link only: Allows you to generate a single link which allows the user to view the video while having the possibility of supporting you.

Link + post (public): Allows you to generate a link to the video and post it directly on your Feed. Everyone can see it.

Link + Post (FireTipR): Generate a link to the video and post it directly on your Feed. Only your FireTipRs are allowed to see this post.

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This section also allows you to reply to these messages in order to thank your TipRs for this small gesture that makes such a difference! An essential act to create a bond between you and your community.

You can access these messages in the « message » tab (represented by a bubble 🗨) in your menu.

The conversation window will then open. You can see all your conversations by clicking on "Show All".

This will open your messaging interface. You can sort your messages according to the sender:

• My community matches the people you support and who support you
• My FireTipRs are the creators for whom you are FiretipRs or who are your FiretipRs
• My creators Correspond to the creators you supported

💡 By clicking on "Old mailbox" you can access your old messages.

You just have to respond to your TipRs, if you wish. However, we strongly advise you to do so.

First, your TipRs deserve it: they paid for your creation of their own free will. And a surfer who respects such a moral contract is to be cherished! ❤️

Then, you have to make your TipRs want to come back : the uTip model will be interesting for you if part of your audience takes the habit of paying for your creation once in a while. For this, it is necessary that the use of uTip leaves a positive and rewarding feeling.

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At uTip, we place particular importance on valuing the person who has agreed to support a creator. And for that, we have what is called the "feel good moment". In other words, once someone has supported you, we will post a message to reward them, while inviting them to repeat their gesture.

And to make this moment one more opportunity to tighten the bonds that unite you to your community, you can personalize this message.📜 Here's how ...

Once a person has supported you (via donation or Shop), they receive a message from you.

In the image above, you can see the message that a creator has chosen to leave to his TipR. It's up to you to customize it according to your community!

Here's how to do it:

1. Go to "Creator Panel" on the upper right, then click on "Edit profile" :

2. At the bottom of the screen, you will find an insert entitled "Thank you note":

3. Edit this message to enter what you want, add a ton of love and recognition ❤, then click on "confirm":

This "thank you" note is important for two reasons:

First, your TipR deserves it ❤️: they support your creation when nothing forces them to. And a person who respects such a moral contract deserve a "Thank you"! Don't feel like you have to be funny or particularly original! Your goal is to thank your TipRs first!

Then, you have to make your TipR want to come back: the uTip model will be interesting for you if part of your audience takes the habit of paying for your creation once in a while. For this, it is necessary that the use of TipLink leaves a positive and rewarding feeling.

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FireTipRs 🔥 are people who have agreed to support you for at least € 1 during the current month. In order to thank them (and encourage others to become FireTipRs too), you can reserve some of your content for FireTipRs only. And here's how ...

1. When you post a publication, click on "visible by: all", at the top right of the publication box:

2. Choose "FireTipR Exclusive" :

3. Write your publication

4. Then click on "Publish". Your publication then appears on your feed. The orange frame confirms that it is only accessible to FireTipR 🔥:

Here, you can see what non FireTipR 🔥 users will see:

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1. Go to your uTip profile and click on "Overlay Live" in your toolbar

2. Click on "Tips and Orders alerts" to generate a stream link to be included in OBS.

💡 You'll notice the "Advanced Use" button. It allows you to display all kinds of information to use as you wish on your live videos (Best TipR, Total amount collected, last recurring tip...).

3. You can customize your overlay by choosing :

• The minimum amount a Tip must have to trigger the alert (under this amount the alert is not triggered)
• The alert tone that goes with the Tip (3 alert tones are available). FYI: You can customize this alert tones by downloading your own mp3 files.
• The color of the texts so that they are as visible as possible on your stream
• The associated gif. You can customize this gif by uploading your own gif. Please note: it will be automatically resized.
• The length of the alert in seconds
• The volume of your alert 1 being the lowest sound and 10 being the loudest.

⚠️ Remember to refresh the OBS cache after each change made on your overlay

4. Once you have copied the URL, go to OBS. In the "Sources" panel, select "Browser".

5. Create a new source. It's time to copy/paste your URL in the area dedicated to this. Finally click ok.

⚠️️ To not appear constantly live on uTip check the following two boxes in your overlay options.

6. Your uTip overlay now appears on your Stream window. You can move it wherever you want! All you have to do now is stream as usual!

You can test your overlay thanks to the "🔔 Send a test alert" button which will invoke the Big DabUnicorn on your Live to verify that the alerts are displayed.

💡 This overlay will be triggered when a Tip or an Order equal to or greater than the minimum amount is made on your uTip profile. So, don't forget to mention it during your live.

⚠️ Remember to refresh the OBS cache after each change made on your overlay.

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When you start your stream, uTip shows you as live 🔴.

We indicate "live" from the moment one of the overlays is used in the active scene, even if the stream is not started. So, if OBS opens with a scene that contains an active overlay, the Live icon appears.

To not appear constantly online on uTip, check two boxes in your overlay options on OBS.

Make sure you have checked the boxes

• "Shutdown source when not visible"
• Refresh browser when scene becomes active

These boxes are present at the bottom of your overlay options.

💡 Remember to close your OBS when you stop live streaming.

💡 If you want to keep OBS open, then create another scene in which overlays are not present and, stay on this scene, when you are not live, .

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To take in account the modifications made to your overlays in OBS, you need to refresh the cache of your overlay.

To do this, double-click on your overlay in OBS (you will find them in "sources").

At the bottom of the options, there will be a button to "refresh the cache of this page", click on it:

The changes made to your overlay on your uTip interface will then be taken into account in OBS.

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If your overlays do not seem to work on your live, check first that you have integrated them into your stream software: OBS.

If you've integrated your overlays into OBS and they don't work, delete the source and recreate it.

You can also empty the cache of your overlays as follows:

Close OBS and delete the contents of the following folders

C: \ Users \ USER_NAME \ AppData \ Roaming \ obs-studio \ plugin_config \ obs-browser \ Cache

C: \ Users \ USER_NAME \ AppData \ Roaming \ obs-studio \ plugin_config \ obs-browser \ Code Cache

If you are using streamlab OBS, delete the contents of the following folder:

C: \ Users \ USER_NAME \ AppData \ Roaming \ slobs client \ plugin_config \ obs-browser \ Cache

If the problem is still not resolved, contact Brian at brian@utip.io

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We suggest that you give your FireTipRs a particular discord role. If you don't know what a FireTipR is, go to our dedicated article. This role can reward their support! 💪

To define this role, go to your "Creator Panel" and in "connect your networks"

A section is then dedicated to "Choosing the role of FireTipRs on your Discord"

Here, no discord is connected so it is not possible to define a role. So let's start by connecting our discord!

For this in the same tab click in "Add a new connection to a network" on the discord icon.

Select a server and allow permissions to the "uTip" role that will be created. You can change this name and its permissions later. Then click on "Authorize".

A new "uTip bot" member and a new "uTip" role will have been created on your server.

Then come back to the uTip site and in the "choose the role of FireTipRs" section define the role you want to give them. Here they will have the role "Fire Unicorn 🦄🔥".

⚠️ If you do not see all the roles of your server, it is because our bot can only manage those who are hierarchically below it. To change this, you can go to your server administration, in the Roles menu and drag / drop the uTip role higher than the role you want to use.

⚠️ If no role suits you, simply click on "create a new FireTipRs Role".

You will be able to modify this role by going to the server settings and then in the role section. You can change the name and the color of the role. Here, the "uTip" role becomes the "Fire Unicorn" role and takes on the pink color.

And there you go! Now your FiretipRs can display a beautiful role!

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