How to Add a Tip Link to Your TikTok Bio in Australia
You can film a set on Bourke Street, get 40,000 views, and still walk home with an empty hat. The people who loved it were watching on a phone in Perth at 11pm, and nobody carries coins anymore.
A tip link closes the gap between "that was amazing" and actually being able to pay you something. This guide covers how to add a tip link to your TikTok bio in Australia, what to do if TikTok has not given you the website field yet, and what to write so the link actually gets tapped.
It is written for Australian creators and performers who already have an audience and just want to accept tips on TikTok without asking anyone to download an app. If you perform in public, the busker tipping pages are the closest fit for what you do.
Last updated: August 2026.
Key takeaways
- A TikTok tip jar link is just a normal web link on your profile that opens your tip page, where someone pays by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay without downloading anything.
- TikTok's Website field is not available on every account, so the reliable backup is putting the link in your bio text and saying it out loud in the video.
- On PocketTip, the median completed tip in Australia is $10, and the middle half of tips fall between $5 and $20 (based on 514 completed Australian tips).
- Tip recipients keep 100% of the tip amount. The person tipping covers a 3.5% PocketTip service fee plus 1.75% + $0.30 processing, shown at checkout before they confirm.
- Tips are income. The Australian Taxation Office treats tips as assessable income whether they arrive as cash or by card.
What's in this guide
- Can you add a tip link to your TikTok bio in Australia?
- How to add a tip link to your TikTok bio, step by step
- What to do if TikTok won't show you the website field
- What should your TikTok bio link for tips actually say?
- How much do people tip through a link?
- Where else to put the link besides your bio
- Do you pay tax on tips from TikTok in Australia?
- Frequently asked questions
- Final tips before you post
Can you add a tip link to your TikTok bio in Australia?
Yes. A tip link is an ordinary web address, so anywhere TikTok lets you put a link or type text, you can point people at your tip page. You are not relying on a TikTok feature, a coin balance, or a payout threshold inside the app.
That distinction matters. TikTok's own monetisation features come with eligibility rules that change and vary by country. Your own tip page sits outside all of that. You control the page, the wording, and where the money lands.
There are two ways the link can live on your profile. The tidy one is TikTok's tappable Website field, which sits under your bio. The universal one is plain text in your bio, which people copy or type in. Most Australian creators use both.
Here is the honest bit: whether the Website field appears on your profile depends on your account type and TikTok's current settings, and those settings have changed more than once. Open the app and check rather than trusting any blog, including this one, on what TikTok is showing today.
How to add a tip link to your TikTok bio, step by step
The whole setup is create a tip page, copy the link, paste it into TikTok, then say it in a video. Allow about ten minutes, most of which is choosing what your page says.
| Step | What you do | Where |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Create your tip page and set your suggested amounts | PocketTip |
| 2 | Connect your Australian bank account for payouts | PocketTip |
| 3 | Copy your tip page link | PocketTip |
| 4 | Open Profile, then Edit profile | TikTok |
| 5 | Paste the link into Website if the field is there | TikTok |
| 6 | Also write it as plain text in your bio as a fallback | TikTok |
| 7 | Save, then open your profile as a viewer would and tap it | TikTok |
A few notes on the steps that trip people up.
Step 2 is the one people skip. Your page can take tips before your bank details are in, but the money cannot reach you until they are. PocketTip pays out to Australian bank accounts, and the banks people use are all standard here, including CommBank, Westpac, NAB, ANZ, Bendigo, ING and Macquarie.
Steps 5 and 6 are not either/or. Even when the Website field works, plenty of viewers screenshot a profile rather than tapping through, so having the address readable as text is worth the characters it costs.
Step 7 catches typos. View your profile from a mate's phone and complete the tap yourself. A two second check saves a week of a broken link.
Set up your page first, then paste. Create your tip page and the link is ready before you open TikTok. Free to start, no contracts.
What to do if TikTok won't show you the website field
If there is no Website field in Edit profile, put the link in your bio text and point at it from inside your videos. This works on every account with no eligibility check at all.
Write the address in a form people can retype without errors. Short, no capitals to guess at, no tracking junk on the end.
Then do the thing most creators forget: say it out loud. A spoken "tip link's in my bio if you want to throw a couple of dollars at the next one" converts far better than a link nobody has been told about. On-screen text works too, held long enough to read.
The third option is a QR code. Print your tip page QR on your case, your sign, your merch table or your uniform, and film with it in shot. Someone watching on their phone cannot scan a code on that same phone, but someone standing in front of you can, so you cover both audiences at once.
What should your TikTok bio link for tips actually say?
The best-performing wording names the thing the tip is for, keeps it light, and never guilts anyone. "Tip the busker" beats "support my journey" because it is concrete.
Two small mechanics matter more than the phrasing. The first is suggested amounts, the preset buttons on your tip page. Every tip page on PocketTip shows them, and they do the awkward maths for the tipper so nobody has to decide what is normal.
The second is your welcome message, the line at the top of your tip page. About six in ten PocketTip pages carry one, and it is your only chance to connect the video someone just watched with the payment screen they are now looking at. One sentence in your own voice is enough.
Keep the bio itself doing one job. If it is trying to sell merch, promote a gig, plug a newsletter and take tips, the tip link is the one that loses. If you want the wording done for you, we have a set of tip page message ideas written for exactly this.
How much do people tip through a link?
On PocketTip, the median completed tip in Australia is $10, and the middle half of tips land between $5 and $20. Around nine in ten completed Australian tips sit in that band, and about 96% are round multiples of $5.
Methodology: these figures come from PocketTip's own platform data, covering 514 completed tips from Australian tippers between January and 30 August 2026. It is our vantage point as the operator, not independent research, and it reflects people already using PocketTip rather than Australians generally.
The practical read: set your preset buttons where the money actually is. Presets at $5, $10 and $20 match what people already choose. A lowest button of $20 asks people to jump past the amount most of them had in mind.
It also tells you what a tip link is and is not. It catches the $10 that used to go in the hat, from a person who no longer carries $10. The Reserve Bank of Australia's consumer payments research has tracked cash falling to a small minority of in-person payments, and street performers felt that before anyone else did. We will not tell you a link doubles anything. Your audience decides that.
Where else to put the link besides your bio
Your bio is the anchor, but most taps come from somewhere you pointed people from. The link is the same everywhere, so there is no extra setup.
- Pinned comment on a video that is performing. Costs nothing and sits where the enthusiasm is.
- On-screen text near the end of a video, held long enough to read.
- LIVE, where a spoken mention lands better than anything written.
- Your other profiles. Setting up an Instagram bio tip link uses the identical address.
- In person. Your QR code on a sign or case, for the audience standing in front of you.
One thing worth knowing about how the money moves: the tap takes seconds, but arrival in your account follows a payout cycle, the schedule on which collected tips are settled and transferred to your bank. That is bank settlement timing, not anything to do with TikTok. Our note on tip payout times in Australia sets out what to expect.
Operator note, since we get this more than any other question: setting up a page genuinely takes a few minutes, and what creators ask about next is almost always how quickly tips land in the bank rather than how the tipping itself works. The tipping side is the easy half.
Do you pay tax on tips from TikTok in Australia?
Yes. The Australian Taxation Office treats tips as assessable income, whether they come as cash, card or through a link. Getting them digitally does not change the obligation, though it does make them easier to track, because there is a record of every one.
That record cuts both ways and it is worth being straight about it. Digital tips are visible in a way a hat full of coins never was. The upside is that you are not reconstructing a year of takings from memory at tax time.
The Fair Work Ombudsman is the place to check where tips sit relative to your award wage if you are employed somewhere as well as posting. Tips sit on top of your minimum entitlements rather than counting towards them.
This is general information, not financial advice. Your circumstances decide what you actually owe, so check with the ATO or a registered tax agent. Our walk-through of tax on tips in Australia covers the common questions.
Frequently asked questions
Q: Do I need a certain number of followers to add a tip link to my TikTok bio?
A: Not for the link itself. A tip page is an ordinary web address, so you can put it in your bio text on day one with zero followers. What can depend on your account is TikTok's tappable Website field, which is not shown on every profile and whose availability has changed over time. Check Edit profile in the app to see whether the field is there for you. If it is not, plain text in your bio plus a spoken mention in your videos does the same job, and it is what many Australian creators use anyway, because viewers screenshot profiles as often as they tap them.
Q: Does the person tipping me need to download an app?
A: No, and this is what makes a bio link work at all. They tap or type your link, choose an amount, and pay by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay in their browser. There is no account to create and no sign-up wall between them and the tip. Every extra step between "I want to tip this person" and the payment going through costs you tips, especially at 11pm from someone who is not about to install anything.
Q: What does it cost to accept tips on TikTok this way?
A: Tip recipients keep 100% of the tip amount. The fees are paid by the person tipping and are shown at checkout before they confirm, so there are no surprises for either of you. On a $10 tip, the tipper pays a 3.5% PocketTip service fee of $0.35 plus 1.75% + $0.30 processing of $0.47, which is $0.82 in total, and you receive the full $10. Free to start, no contracts. The pricing page has the full breakdown.
Q: Can I use the same tip link on TikTok, Instagram and in person?
A: Yes. It is one page with one address, and the QR code points to the same place. That is the sensible way to run it, because you only update your wording or your suggested amounts once. Buskers in particular tend to run the link online and the QR code on a sign at the same time, which covers both the people watching a video and the people standing in front of them.
Q: Is a tip link available anywhere outside Australia?
A: PocketTip is Australia only. Your tip page pays out to an Australian bank account, so it is built for Australian creators and workers. Someone overseas can still tip you if they have your link and a card, but the account and the payouts sit in Australia.
Q: Should I make my tip page public or unlisted?
A: Public is the usual choice for anyone sharing the link on TikTok, and about nine in ten pages on the platform are set that way. There is no real reason to hide a page you are actively promoting in your bio. Unlisted makes more sense for a private group or a one-off event where you are handing the link to a specific set of people.
Final tips before you post
Do the boring three minutes first. Bank details connected, presets at $5, $10 and $20, one honest line as your welcome message. A link that opens onto a blank-looking page loses the tip you already earned with the video.
Then treat the link as something you mention, not something you hide. The bio field is where it lives, but the pinned comment, the last seconds of a video and a spoken line during a LIVE are where the taps come from.
Start taking tips from the audience you already have. Set up your tip page, paste the link in your TikTok bio, and let people tip by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay without downloading a thing. Free to start, no contracts.