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OnlyFans Tip Menu: Examples and Pricing That Work

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A working OnlyFans tip menu offers a few fully described options you can deliver on schedule — nothing open-ended — and the 20% fee applies to every menu amount. Label voluntary support as support and purchases as purchases, because a tip that silently becomes a promise is where disputes start. Review capacity weekly: a menu can quietly create more obligations than any other pricing on the page.

What makes a tip menu easy to fulfill?

A short list of options you can produce repeatedly, each with a fixed description and timing.

Choose permitted options — a requested theme poll, an approved personalized greeting, access to a described finished collection — wherever the platform allows that transaction. State exactly what happens after payment. Avoid open-ended wording such as "anything you want" or promises of unlimited attention, which are obligations without a price. The menu is a promise list, so write it as one: every entry either happens every time, or it does not belong on the list.

  • Five entries or fewer until fulfillment is proven.
  • One deliverable and one timing per entry.
  • Wording a stranger could not misread.
  • Nothing listed that depends on your best week.

Does OnlyFans take a cut of tips?

Yes — the same 20% taken from every fan payment, and tips are fan payments.

The terms define a Fan Payment as any payment related to a Creator Interaction and state that "Our Fee is calculated as 20% of the total Fan Payment" (OnlyFans Terms of Use). Menu prices are therefore gross numbers: an entry shown at $20 delivers $16. Build the menu on what the entries net, not on what they display.

Menu amounts after the platform fee
Entry shownFee (20%)You keep
$5$1$4
$20$4$16
$100$20$80

How do you separate a gift from an order?

By labeling: a voluntary tip buys nothing, and a priced entry buys exactly what the entry says.

In an illustrative menu, "support the next studio setup" does not imply the supporter owns the resulting photographs or can direct the shoot. The distinction sounds fussy until the first dispute, when it is the whole conversation. If an entry is simply support, label it that way; if it purchases an item, describe the item, its timing, and any approval needed.

  1. Step 1

    Write the entry

    The exact wording a fan sees.

  2. Step 2

    State the deliverable

    What the payment produces, in one sentence.

  3. Step 3

    State the timing

    When it happens, in days or posts.

  4. Step 4

    State the limits

    What the entry does not include.

What does a well-formed menu entry look like?

Name, deliverable, timing, and limits — four parts, one line each.

The examples below are fictional but show the grammar of a decidable entry: a buyer can tell what arrives, when, and what is not included. Entries that need a paragraph belong in the quote process for custom work, not on a menu. Finished collections sold as one-off purchases follow the same logic and belong on the price list (OnlyFans price list).

Illustrative entries and what they do not imply
EntryIt deliversIt does not imply
"Pick the next theme — $10"One named poll decides one postAny control beyond the theme
"Personalized greeting — $15"One approved greeting within 48 hoursAnything beyond the approved format
"Support the studio setup — any amount"Nothing; a labeled thank-youOwnership or direction of the shoot

How should menu items be priced?

From the same per-hour contribution math as everything else: net after the 20% fee, divided by real hours.

Illustrative: a $20 menu item delivers $16 after the platform deduction; if fulfillment plus inbox handling takes half an hour, the item earns $32 per hour before other costs and taxes. Price the entries you fulfill often with the honest version of that math, not a hopeful one — a menu item repeated fifty times is a production line, and production lines live or die on their per-hour number.

  1. Step 1

    Estimate fulfillment

    Minutes per instance, including messaging.

  2. Step 2

    Apply the fee

    The 20% off the shown amount.

  3. Step 3

    Compute per hour

    Net divided by hours.

  4. Step 4

    Adjust the list

    Rework or retire entries that price below your floor.

How do you keep the menu deliverable week after week?

Review capacity before featuring it, pause what you cannot fulfill, and reconcile fulfilled requests against inbox notes rather than memory.

A menu can create more obligations than the creator expects; set a process to pause unavailable items and record outstanding work, and remove choices that repeatedly require exceptions. Refunds have teeth, too: when a fan successfully seeks a refund or chargeback, the platform "may deduct an amount equal to the Creator Earnings portion" of that payment (OnlyFans Terms of Use). A menu that only lists what you can deliver is the cheapest insurance on the page, and the replies that hold that line are covered in the conversation strategy.

  • Outstanding requests logged with dates.
  • Unavailable items paused, not silently ignored.
  • Weekly reconciliation of menu sales against delivery.
  • Entries removed after repeated exceptions or confusion.

Frequently asked questions

How many items should a tip menu have?

As few as you can deliver on schedule — five or fewer until fulfillment is proven. Every entry you add is a promise to keep, and a short menu that always delivers beats a long one that drifts.

What makes a good tip menu?

A few permitted, fully described options you can deliver on schedule, with voluntary support clearly separated from purchases. Every entry names its deliverable and timing, and nothing on the list is open-ended.

Do you have to do what a tip asks for?

Only what a menu entry actually promises. A voluntary tip buys nothing specific, and no tip amount overrides your boundaries or the platform's rules — if a request is outside the menu, it goes through the quote process or is declined.

How much should tip menu items cost?

Work from hours: fulfillment minutes plus inbox handling, priced so the amount after the 20% fee pays your target rate. A $20 item delivers $16, so an entry that takes half an hour is earning $32 per hour before other costs.

Do tips count as income?

They are creator earnings, and for US creators that means self-employment income. The IRS filing trigger is $400 of net earnings from self-employment in a year, so records start with the first tip, not the first threshold crossed.

Can a tip menu cause problems?

Only when entries promise what boundaries or platform rules forbid, or what you cannot deliver on time. Both fail the same way — disputes and refunds, with your earnings portion deductible on successful chargebacks per the terms.

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Sources and further reading

  • OnlyFans Terms of Service— Check the current creator terms and account interface before changing prices or relying on a fee. Linked as the authoritative reference; this guide does not establish current feature limits.
  • IRS: Self-employed individuals tax center— Current US federal starting point; a qualified professional must assess your circumstances.

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