YouTube donation platform: accept donations during your livestream

Quick answer: you receive YouTube donations through Super Chat (once YouTube makes your channel eligible) or through your own donation link in your channel profile, live stream description and a pinned chat message. With DonoLink viewers pay by iDEAL, Bancontact, card or wallet without an account, every donation can appear as an OBS alert and a €10 iDEAL donation leaves you €9.36. With Super Chat you receive 70% after taxes and any app store fees.

YouTube offers Super Chat, Super Stickers and memberships to eligible channels. A direct donation page is separate: it works through your own link and can offer iDEAL to Dutch viewers, including on channels that do not yet have every YouTube monetisation feature.

DonoLink works as an independent YouTube donation platform: your donation page, payments and OBS overlays are separate from YouTube, and the same link keeps working if you also stream on Twitch, Kick or TikTok later.

A donation link alongside Super Chat and memberships

You do not have to choose only one route. Super Chat is visible inside YouTube, memberships support recurring community benefits, and direct donations offer a straightforward external payment. Explain the differences so viewers can choose knowingly.

DonoLink has no subscription. DonoLink charges 3.5% per donation. Stripe charges processing fees separately: at standard rates, €0.29 for iDEAL and €0.35 for Bancontact. Cards and wallets can have different rates. For a €10 iDEAL donation you keep €9.36; the pricing page calculates other amounts. How ads, Super Chat and memberships pay is covered in how to make money on YouTube.

Super Chat, Streamlabs, StreamElements or DonoLink?

Most YouTube guides mention Super Chat, Streamlabs and StreamElements. This is how they compare for a creator with Dutch viewers:

Super Chat and a donation link complement each other. Already using Streamlabs or StreamElements for overlays or a chatbot? Keep them and replace only the payment page.

Step 1: create your YouTube donation page

Match your channel name and artwork, add a short description and connect payouts. Choose which payment methods you offer, such as iDEAL, card, Bancontact, Apple Pay, Google Pay and Klarna, pick realistic amounts and verify the complete mobile checkout before sharing the URL.

Step 2: share the link around your livestream

Add it to the video description, channel links, pinned live-chat message and a bot command. Put the most important link above the description fold and label it as an external donation page.

Keep the label concrete, for example “Support the stream with iDEAL”: a Dutch viewer immediately knows what the link does, while a generic “support me” is skipped more often. For viewers on a TV or second screen, a QR code on screen is faster; DonoLink generates one for you.

Step 3: add YouTube donation alerts to OBS

In the overlay studio, create a donation alert with your own text, sound, animation and optional text to speech, add the DonoLink alerts browser source to OBS and send a test. You can also show a donation goal, recent donations and a leaderboard. Once a payment is confirmed, the alert appears and your goal updates, whether your stream is watched on YouTube alone or through a multistream. The OBS overlay guide covers the full setup.

Step 4: keep Super Chat and memberships on YouTube

Super Chats, Super Stickers and memberships remain YouTube features: YouTube processes the payment and the payout, and they currently do not appear as DonoLink alerts. Your DonoLink donation alerts work independently of them. Only direct payments through your DonoLink count in your DonoLink donation history and goal.

Use one donation platform when multistreaming

One creator link across YouTube, Twitch and Kick gives viewers a consistent page and keeps direct-donation records and alerts together. Platform-native subscriptions and messages still stay with their respective platforms.

In short

Keep YouTube monetisation enabled where it serves your community, add a direct link for flexible payments, make iDEAL easy to find for Dutch viewers and test both checkout and OBS before the broadcast begins.