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title: Sub rewards
description: Give your subscribers free message credits - a thank-you their sub already earned.
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Sub rewards turn subscriptions into credits: when someone subs or resubs, they earn credits they can spend on your tip page - a free TTS message, or a free media request if you allow it. No payment involved; it's a perk of subscribing.

## Setting it up

Everything is on the **Viewers** page:

- **Rewards** - the master toggle.
- **Credits per subscription tier** - how many credits a Tier 1, 2, and 3 sub earns.
- **Min account age (days)** - accounts younger than this can't redeem. Keeps freshly-made throwaways out.
- **Allow media requests** - whether credits can be spent on media as well as messages.

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## How viewers use it

They sign in with Twitch or Kick on your tip page and toggle **Use a free message** on the tip form. Their message (and media request, if allowed) goes through the same queue, filter, and overlay as a paid tip - the alert shows it as a sub reward. `!credits` in chat tells them their balance.

Kick subscriptions have no tiers, so a Kick sub earns your **Tier 1** credits.

### Linked accounts

A viewer with both a Twitch and a Kick account can link them from the tip
page's account page. Credits earned on either account go into one balance
they can spend while signed in with either, and their tips and chat stats
count together. Unlinking always keeps at least one account. More in
[What viewers see](/tip-page/what-viewers-see#linked-accounts).

## Managing viewers

The **Signed-in viewers** table shows everyone who's signed in on your tip page, their sub tier, and their credits - available, used, and total. You can **Grant** or **Revoke** credits per viewer, so "the giveaway winner gets 5 free messages" is two clicks.

Each row is one platform account - the Twitch or Kick mark next to the name says which - and a grant lands on that account. If you've connected both platforms there's a filter above the table to show just one of them.

:::tip
You can also hand out credits through [channel points](/viewers/channel-points) - let viewers convert points into a free message.
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