Open source · MIT · Self-hostable

The tip jar for live performers,
owned by no one but you.

live.tips is a free, open-source alternative to Buy Me a Coffee and Ko-fi, built for bands, street performers, and service crews. Your audience scans a QR code, picks an amount, and the money lands in your Stripe account — no platform fee, no middleman.

View on GitHub Self-host it

Grab the code, run composer setup, and you have your own tipping platform.

How it works

Three steps between a great performance and a tip in your pocket.

Create your page

Your band or team gets a public page at a handle-style URL like /@yourband, with your profile, links, and a generated QR code to print or put on screen.

The audience scans

Fans scan the QR code, pick an amount, and pay by card, MobilePay, or Revolut. Mobile-first, no app, no account required.

You get paid directly

Payments flow through Stripe Connect straight into your own Stripe account. Every tip shows up in your dashboard in real time.

Everything a working band needs

Not a demo — a full platform that's already feature-complete and covered by an automated test suite.

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Live mode for the stage

A dedicated on-stage mode with live sessions and a public screen showing tip activity in real time — point a projector at it during the show.

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Stripe Connect payouts

Express onboarding gets a team from zero to accepting card payments in minutes. Webhook-driven, SCA-ready, with MobilePay and Revolut links as alternatives.

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Teams, roles & invitations

Multi-tenant from the ground up. Invite bandmates by email, assign Owner / Admin / Member roles, and manage fine-grained access rights.

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Full admin panel

A polished Filament admin panel for managing teams, pages, tips, and members — no database poking required.

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Transactional email

Invitations, verifications, notifications, and newsletter signup are wired up and ready — just plug in your mail provider.

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Multi-language

Ships with English, Finnish, and Lithuanian translations, and a structure that makes adding your language straightforward.

Run it yourself

The whole platform is MIT-licensed. Clone it, brand it, host it on anything that runs PHP — it's yours. 

$ git clone https://github.com/mekedron/platform.live.tips.git
$ cd platform.live.tips
$ composer setup   # installs deps, prepares DB, builds assets
$ composer run dev  # app + queue worker + Vite, all in one
Laravel 12 PHP 8.4+ Filament Livewire Alpine.js Tailwind CSS 4 Stripe Connect Pest + browser tests

Project status: maintained, not (yet) hosted

  • Feature-complete and working. Public pages, payments, live mode, admin, roles, emails — it all runs today.
  • Actively maintained. Found a bug? Open an issue and it gets fixed. Sent a pull request? It gets reviewed and merged.
  • No hosted service yet. Running it as a public platform costs money, so for now live.tips is self-host only. A hosted version at live.tips is planned once there's enough interest.
  • Free for any use. MIT license — use it for your band, your venue, your fundraiser, or your own product.