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Donation Alerts Setup Guide — Step-by-Step Guide & Transcript

How to Set Up Donations Like a Pro Streamer: Donation Alerts on OBS in 2024

0h 18m video Published Aug 20, 2023 Transcribed Aug 8, 2026 @LILIVRLD Twitch @LILIVRLD Twitch
Beginner 10 min read For: Twitch streamers and content creators looking to set up donation alerts and interactive widgets in OBS.
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AI Summary

This video is a comprehensive tutorial on setting up Donation Alerts for Twitch streams using OBS. The creator walks through configuring donation notifications, free subscription alerts, fundraising goals, video requests, stickers, and a roulette wheel widget, all with step-by-step instructions.

[00:15]
Getting Started with Donation Alerts

Log in to the Donation Alerts website using your Twitch account. The main menu shows donation history, subscriber names, and active collections.

[01:27]
Configuring Donation Notifications

Set notification duration (e.g., 15-16 seconds), text display time, and speech synthesis options (male/female voice, language, speed). Choose the playback scenario where music plays first, then the message.

[03:50]
Customizing Sound and Text

Upload a custom sound for the donation alert, adjust its volume, and optionally change the font style of the displayed text.

[04:49]
Adding the Widget to OBS

Enable the widget, copy the embed link, and add it as a Browser source in OBS. Adjust the size and position to fit the stream layout.

[06:06]
Creating Multiple Notification Variations

Create new variations based on the default one to use different GIFs, sounds, and trigger amounts (e.g., a special notification for donations of 50 rubles or more).

[08:19]
Setting Up Free Subscription Alerts

Configure a separate notification for free Twitch subscriptions, including its own GIF, sound, and embed link, added as another Browser source in OBS.

[09:32]
Creating Fundraising Collections

Set up a collection goal with a title, date, and design. Customize the progress bar, text position, and colors, then add it to OBS as a Browser source.

[11:40]
Enabling Video Requests and Stickers

Allow viewers to request videos or clips for a minimum donation amount. Also, enable stickers (PNG format) that viewers can attach to their donations, with configurable duration and cost.

[13:48]
Setting Up the Roulette Widget

Configure a roulette with categories, rarities (e.g., normal, rare, epic), and tasks. Customize its design and set trigger amounts, increments, and discounts (e.g., 30% off every 25 minutes).

[17:42]
Conclusion and Additional Features

The video covers donation and subscription notifications, fundraising, video requests, stickers, and roulette. Other features like games, voting, and multichat are mentioned for future videos.

The video provides a comprehensive, practical guide to setting up Donation Alerts widgets in OBS, enabling streamers to engage their audience with donations, subscriptions, and interactive features.

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Tutorial Checklist

1 [00:15] Log in to Donation Alerts with your Twitch account.
2 [01:27] Configure the donation notification: set duration, text display time, speech synthesis, and voiceover language.
3 [03:50] Upload a custom sound file for the donation alert and adjust its volume.
4 [04:49] Enable the widget, copy the embed link, and add it as a Browser source in OBS.
5 [06:06] Create new variations for different donation amounts, changing GIFs and sounds as needed.
6 [08:19] Set up a separate notification for free subscriptions, including its own GIF and sound, and add it to OBS.
7 [09:32] Create a fundraising collection with a title, date, and design, then add it to OBS.
8 [11:40] Enable video requests and stickers, configuring minimum amounts and durations.
9 [13:48] Set up the roulette widget with categories, rarities, and design, then add it to OBS.

Study Flashcards (7)

What is the first step to setting up Donation Alerts?

easy Click to reveal answer

Log in to the Donation Alerts website using your Twitch account.

[00:24]

What is the recommended duration for a donation notification GIF?

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Start with 15-16 seconds and adjust as needed.

[01:44]

What are the two options for the text playback scenario?

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Music plays first, then the message, or everything happens simultaneously.

[02:57]

How do you add the donation widget to OBS?

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Copy the embed link and add it as a Browser source in OBS.

[04:49]

What is the purpose of creating variations in Donation Alerts?

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To use different GIFs, sounds, and trigger amounts for different donation levels.

[06:06]

What format must a sticker be in?

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PNG format with a transparent background.

[13:09]

What is the 'increment' setting in the roulette widget?

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The amount the total roulette goal increases after each trigger.

[16:39]

💡 Key Takeaways

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Customizable Notification Settings

Provides a detailed breakdown of all notification parameters, from duration to speech synthesis, allowing full personalization.

[01:27]
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OBS Integration

Explains the exact process of adding the widget to OBS, a crucial step for any streamer.

[04:49]
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Variation System

Shows how to create multiple notifications for different donation amounts, enhancing viewer engagement.

[06:06]
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Fundraising Collections

Demonstrates how to set up and customize donation goals, a key feature for monetization.

[09:32]
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Interactive Roulette Widget

Introduces a gamified element to streams, showing how to increase viewer interaction and donations.

[13:48]

[00:03] Well, hello my dear viewer [music] setting up OBEES if you haven't watched the first one, be sure to watch the link will be the

[00:15] first in the description. Well, now let's not waste a minute and let's figure out how to set up donation Alex and all his notifications. I hope finding the site itself will not be a problem for you. Click on log in and log in to your

[00:33] Twitch account. By the way, if anyone is interested, you can subscribe to my Twitch channel. Click on Login via Twitch. Don't be afraid, no one is going to make your account with three subscribers redder. Congratulations. Now you are already on the site and ready to

[00:46] work with it. On the main menu, you can see where, when, and how many messages you were donated to and the names of people who sent you a Donation and subscribed to you, as well as active collections, if you have them

[01:01] or will have them. We, people who know our worth, are naturally not interested in all sorts of memes chaos and other crap that they sell us. Further Airs. We, as advanced people,

[01:14] Further Airs. We, as advanced people, immediately go to the widgets. The first donation widget is only Especially for you, so that it is clearer to you, you do not Confused, clearer to you, you do not Confused, Yacher erased everything I had and set

[01:27] everything to default, now you have the same. How should it be for me or for me, as for you? In short, to set up the first notification about a donation, click on the default variations to configure and start setting up the

[01:44] notification duration. You can configure it as you like. This is how long the gif that you put on the main screen will last. You can start with 16 and 15 seconds and see how convenient it is for you. The text display duration is this is how long the

[02:00] message that came with the donation will last. The maximum amount of time is naturally the same as the duration of the gif itself. The second section is speech synthesis, this is, of course, the voiceover of the donation itself. Choose male or female

[02:16] donation itself. Choose male or female randomly, and then you pay for it all. You can choose your brother, of course, having paid 26 rubles of your own hard-earned money. Do you need it or not? Choose yourself, of course. I don’t

[02:29] need it, I leave the male voiceover language. You can choose All. No one will hit you on the hand with a stick for this. You insert the speech speed yourself. If suddenly you have trouble learning speech, you yourself. If suddenly you have trouble learning speech, you can use a slow one so as

[02:43] not to miss a single word. If donations are pouring in, you can set it to fast so that donations don't form a kilometer-long queue. It's wiser to choose the first text playback scenario, where music plays first

[02:57] and your gif is shown off, and then the robot plays the message text itself. You can also choose to have everything happen simultaneously. But you yourself won't understand anything, so we choose the most logical first. You choose the speech volume

[03:14] yourself. Choose so that nothing bothers you and you feel comfortable, for example, 45 percent. And then you can change it yourself after trial and error. Also,

[03:26] set the minimum amount at your discretion. Let's move discretion. Let's move

[03:50] The sound is the sound accompaniment to the donation, be it a roar, fart, whiskey, or something else. For example, music, you can also set the volume as you like. Click on

[04:02] select file. I already had files selected, so they were also saved. You click on upload a file also from your computer here I have chosen a sound for myself, let's move on to the text, I chose not to change the text for myself, but if you are of course

[04:17] interested, you can change it by clicking on the font style and play around a little with all this goodness, but Personally, it seems to me that this is not particularly important and left everything as it was. Here we got to the last point, the audio message, where everything needs to be

[04:33] summarized, turn on, click the script that we have already selected initially, adjust the sound volume and save, the changes were successfully saved. Congratulations, but miraculously, our notification does not get to the Stream,

[04:49] so we turn the slider up, click on show embed link and show embed link and copy it and go to our obsue in obs, create a source for our donation, that is, the foundation, click on the

[05:05] plus sign, select the first item, browser, name it whatever you want, save and paste what we copied earlier into this line, delete what was there, paste what you need, adjust the size, width and height if

[05:21] you need it and click OK. We have a source highlighted with a red line, you can drag it wherever you want, but I put it in the center a little I reduce it and leave it, but now to check what

[05:38] we actually clicked there, we make a test notification by clicking on the test notification by clicking on the gear to make a test notification

[06:06] perfectly. To make different notifications with different gifs and different music, we add a new variation in the line based on the variation, select the default variations, this is what we just

[06:22] set up, that is, this is what we have already set up, that is, based on the first notification already made, it will put together new ones for you. You only need to change the gifs, music and the donation amount. We can name the variation as, for

[06:38] example, 2. Select group 1, variation type paid messages, and the variation conditions can already be changed. The amount of variations is the amount of money for which this particular Donation will be triggered. For example, the amount is 50 and this Donation

[06:57] will only be triggered for an amount of 50. You can set an amount greater than or equal to that. That is, if we write 50 here, then it will need to be triggered on the number 50 or

[07:09] more. 50 rubles is the duration of the notification. If you were satisfied with the first time, you don't need to change it. Also, go to the image and change the GIF sound. I can also

[07:21] change it because Donat is different. The rest of the settings don't necessarily need to be clicked. settings don't necessarily need to be clicked. Save. Also, click on the gear and make a test notification to see what we're doing there. Now, on the salt hoard

[07:34] what we're doing there. Now, on the salt hoard [music]

[07:50] message is excellent. We also figured out how to do the second notification easily. also figured out how to do the second notification easily. 3, 4, 5, 6, and then further down the line, there's no need to show notifications. The procedure is the same. Group 1 also has a

[08:04] Group 1 also has a notification on the Twitch Hosts and Twitch Raids face. If you know that you will have them, you can also configure them. Let's move on to group 2. There are free Twitch subscriptions, which

[08:19] you will most likely really need in the early stages. So, let's configure them together. Group settings, leave the second type of notification. Make sure it's set to type of notification. Make sure it's set to free subscriptions. Click on

[08:32] the image, select the GIF, go to sounds, select the file. The rest of the settings are the same. You can also ignore them, save them, and do the same as with group number one in group number two. You need to

[08:47] one in group number two. You need to copy the link, copy it, go to your OBS, also create a source, click on the browser, write subscriptions and move the notification where you want. We will definitely double-check what we

[09:03] definitely double-check what we have done, it's amazing,

[09:17] free will be displayed on our screen, how to create collections, go to the fundraising item in

[09:32] the center, click on add collection goals, create a collection title,

[09:45] indicate the date. It is not necessary, but if you want, you can click on add, you can change the design of your collection here, for example, the

[09:57] collection title can be moved down, you can pick it inside or you can not display it at all, usually it is displayed at the top. So let me have the

[10:09] same Collection progress, namely, money and percentages will be displayed inside. You can put it below. You can put it on top or not display it at all. I will leave them inside. In my opinion, it looks more beautiful. Let's

[10:25] move on to the indicator view. In the first item, the height of this bar is configured, in the second, its roundness can be made square or rounded. At all and the thickness of the

[10:38] outline Set up all these design settings as you see fit to make them more attractive and to attract people to your collection and send you money. In the third and last, you can change the font if you don't mind

[10:54] doing all this, of course. But if you do mind using the same preset library, you can choose a ready-made one, for example, something horizontal or something vertical. Click "save changes." Once you've

[11:09] decided, select it. Move up. Click "show embed link" and copy it. Go to your OBS. Create a source in your browser. your OBS. Create a source in your browser. Paste what you need. Click "OK."

[11:24] Paste what you need. Click "OK." Voila, the collection is ready. motivate your viewers to send you their hard-earned money, you can set up this widget. Viewers on your stream will be able to turn on any video,

[11:40] for example, how popular it is, or a music video. Click "turn on" and set it up the way you want. For example, the minimum amount for which they will turn on the video. Will this happen automatically or if you

[11:56] want it, the volume of this video and the minimum number of views. This is done to prevent viewers from sending you all sorts of garbage. and only those videos that have already been checked and watched one by one, click

[12:10] save, copy the embed link, do the same thing as before, put the source where

[12:23] these so- called videos of yours will be played and check, make a called videos of yours will be played and check, make a test placement

[12:52] Well, everything is pretty. As we can see, it works great, the stickers, viewers can stick them along with a donation, click on turn on and choose a sticker from what is available or upload it from your PC, it is important that the

[13:09] upload it from your PC, it is important that the sticker itself is in png format, that is, PS background, set the amount for which one sticker will be sent, the duration of its stay on your screen, click save,

[13:22] show the embed link, copy it and paste your OBS, stretch the red stripe to fill the entire screen, stick a test sticker, and here it

[13:35] stick a test sticker, and here it appears. Voila, how to work with this is appears. Voila, how to work with this is your business. If you are going to litter your Stream with any widgets, then you shouldn’t discount the roulette. It’s

[13:48] quite interactive, interesting, unexpected, and most importantly, attractive. Attention for the viewer, the budget, how it works, probably does not need to be explained, this is a regular roulette and setting it up is quite simple,

[14:04] setting it up is quite simple, select categories, for example, the name of the category can be set to one to make it easier to navigate the cards, this is what you will do if the roulette falls on this cell, for

[14:19] the roulette falls on this cell, for example, select the rarity of the category, that is, how often it will fall out

[14:31] if you want to complete this task more often, then you can set it to normal. If you want it to fall out less often, you can set the artifact to legendary or epic, which falls out quite rarely. The rest fall out much more often, just like

[14:48] all widgets, it has design settings that you can set to your taste and color, or choose presets, ready-made designs for your cards, hover over the preset you like and click apply,

[15:05] then save, Voila, the cards have already changed, but you need to Voila, the cards have already changed, but you need to add something else, for example,

[15:21] naturally, we save and add tasks. You can do a lot, not forgetting to choose the rarity of the category so that your viewers will be rarity of the category so that your viewers will be interested, for example, unusual, rare

[15:37] interested, for example, unusual, rare and epic, too Here you can change and epic, too Here you can change the design of the roulette itself, change the frame, decor, pin, or write a title. Great,

[15:50] Great, save, go to the widget tab, and copy this link. Go to your OBS, create a source browser, put your

[16:03] roulette where you want. The roulette will spin when it is launched. The rest of the time, it will not bother you in any way. The roulette itself also has a collection that can be displayed on your OBS.

[16:27] shown constantly so that people can see how much money is left before the roulette. And to configure the amount at which your roulette will react, go here,

[16:39] your roulette will react, go here, widgets, collection settings, and set the parameters. For example, the trigger amount is 100 rubles, increment. This is how much the total amount of the roulette will increase after each time.

[16:55] For example, the first roulette will trigger at 100 rubles, and the second at 120, and the third at 140, and so on. It is also possible to set a discount, for example, the

[17:09] discount amount is 30 percent, the discount interval is 25 minutes, the discount will be triggered every 25 minutes. It will take 6 minutes to cast. You can configure these parameters as you wish. Or if it was just a dick floating there and you didn't find it in the trash, then you don't have to

[17:26] put a discount at all. Yeah, screw them, we're saving today. We learned how to set up today. We learned how to set up notifications for donations for subscriptions. How to withdraw and set up fundraising. How to give your subscribers the opportunity to

[17:42] display a video or clip on your Stream, put a sticker on it, and spin a roulette wheel on your stream. Of course, the capabilities of donation alerts are not limited to this.

[17:54] Thanks to it, you can host games on your stream, conduct voting, enable automation, a timer, and also multichat and much more. But that's a completely different video. Besides

[18:10] donation alerts, there are other sites that provide many interesting provide many interesting games on your stream. If you want to know this and much more, then let me know in the comments below.

[18:25] Like and subscribe to the channel. In the meantime, I say goodbye to you. Enjoy meantime, I say goodbye to you. Enjoy streaming, dear friends.

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