--- title: Accounts, teams and platforms description: How TipPage is put together - tenants, users and their sign-in accounts, connected channels - and what "both Twitch and Kick" means feature by feature and in the API. --- TipPage works with Twitch and Kick, and one streamer can use both at once. To make sense of the settings - and of the ids you see in the API - it helps to know that there are three separate things, and none of them is "your Twitch account": - **Your TipPage** - the thing you created at signup. It owns your tip page, overlays, queues, chat bot, settings, tip history and team. There is one per streamer. - **People** - everyone who can sign in to a TipPage: you, and any team members you add. Each person is one TipPage user with one or more **sign-in accounts** (a Twitch account, a Kick account, or both). - **Channels** - the platform channels your TipPage streams on. TipPage reads chat and events from a channel and posts there as the bot. A TipPage can have a Twitch channel, a Kick channel, or both. Keeping these apart is what lets you sign up with Kick and add Twitch later, sign in with whichever account is handy, or run a two-platform stream from one dashboard. ## Your TipPage A TipPage has exactly one **owner** - the person who created it - and any number of **team members**. The owner is the only one who can manage members, payments and the platform connections. Everything else is granted per member with [permissions](/team/permissions). The tip page, overlays and queues belong to the TipPage, not to a platform. A tip is a tip whether the viewer found you on Twitch or Kick; the same overlay plays alerts from both. ## People and sign-in accounts When you sign up or accept an invite, TipPage creates a user for you and links the account you used. That user is what a TipPage remembers: the owner, a team member's permissions, who approved a refund, who created an API key - all of it points at the person, not at a Twitch id. - **Link another account** in **Settings -> Platforms**. With Twitch and Kick both linked you can sign in with either and land in the same place. - A platform account can be linked to **one** TipPage user. If the account is already someone else's, the link is refused - accounts are never merged. - You can't unlink your last account, because then you couldn't sign in. - One person can be on more than one TipPage: owner of their own, team member on a friend's. Switch between them from the account menu in the dashboard header. ## Channels **Settings -> Platforms** is where channels are connected. Each row is one platform: the channel this TipPage streams on there, and the account you sign in with there. - A channel belongs to one TipPage. If a channel is already connected somewhere else, connecting it is refused. - Connecting a channel means authorising TipPage with the account that owns it, so that account is also linked as a sign-in account for you. - **Disconnecting** a channel stops alerts, chat commands and the bot for that platform. Tips, history and settings are kept, and you can still sign in with the account. A TipPage needs at least one channel, so the last one can't be disconnected. - "Needs reconnect" means the platform revoked or expired TipPage's permissions - click through to authorise again and everything resumes. The owner connects channels. Team members link their own sign-in accounts, but linking never connects a channel. ## What "both platforms" means, feature by feature Where a feature exists on both platforms it is one setting that applies to both. Where a feature only exists on one, TipPage says so rather than pretending. | Area | Twitch | Kick | | --- | --- | --- | | **Alerts** | Follows, subs, gift subs, resubs, cheers, raids, channel points | Follows, subs, gift subs, renewals, Kicks | | **Alert box** | Same rows for both. Per box you can turn a platform off, and switch on a platform badge. Kick subs have no tiers. | | | **Chat widget** | Twitch, Kick, or both in one box, from your linked channels. Each platform's own badges and emotes; a platform mark per message when showing both. | | | **Goal, viewer count, total-followers label** | Both (added together), Twitch, or Kick per widget. Kick publishes no sub count, so sub figures are Twitch's. | | | **Activity feed, celebration, emote rain, custom widgets** | Events from both platforms; custom-widget events carry `platform`. | | | **Chat announcements** | Post in the chat the event came from, with the same template. Tips post in every connected chat. | | | **Chat bot** | On/off per platform. Appears as TipPageBot, or your custom bot account (TipPage+) | On/off per platform. Appears as TipPage - no custom bot accounts yet | | **Chat bot commands** | Work in both chats. Each command and timer has a platform switch (shown once both are connected). | | | **Variables** | Everything | Everything except `{accountage}`, `{emote}`, `{emotes}` and the `{user.*}` stats, which render empty on Kick for now. `{followage}` works best-effort. `{uptime}`, `{title}`, `{game}` and `{viewers}` read the channel the message came from, or any channel you name (`{viewers:kick}`, `{game:twitch:somebody}`) | | **Chat moderation**, `!permit` | Yes | Not yet | | **Timers' live check** | Yes | Yes | | **Timers' chat-activity minimum** | Yes | Counts Twitch chat only; not applied on a Kick-only TipPage | | **Stream info** (title, category) | Yes | Not yet | | **Sub rewards** (free message credits) | Yes | Not yet | | **Tip page viewer sign-in** | Twitch | Not yet | In the API the same split shows as ids and fields: a TipPage is the `t_...` tenant id every key belongs to, a person is a `u_...` user id (the `actor` on events carries it, plus the platform account they acted through), and channels appear as `platform` on payloads - alerts are `twitch.*` and `kick.*` events, chat events carry `platform`, and `POST /v1/chat/messages` can be told which chat to speak in. See the [webhooks catalog](/api/webhooks#events) and [realtime groups](/api/realtime#channels-and-scopes). ## Teams in practice - The **Members** page is owner-only. Members join through a [single-use invite link](/team/invite-team-members) or the quick-add from your Twitch mods. - Invites are accepted with a Twitch account today. Once someone is in, they can link their Kick account under Settings -> Platforms and sign in with either from then on. - **Super Admin** members can do everything except the owner-only things above. See [Permissions](/team/permissions).