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How Kofi Works | Practical Guide

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Ko-fi is a social platform to connect content creators with fans and admirers, and aims to generate income by promoting creative works online. The site works from direct donations on the profile page of the creators, whose amounts can be transferred through a PayPal or Stripe account.

Who is Ko-fi for?

The platform is aimed at streamers, podcasters, artists, writers, photographers, filmmakers, cosplayers, artisans and other creators who want to produce content and receive financial support from their audience.

Despite a similar footprint to Privacy and OnlyFans, Ko-fi does not allow content that features nudity, violence or hate speech.

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How to configure Kofi

Your Ko-fi account must be set up via the website ko-fi.com and personalized with username, profile picture and topics of interest. You are also invited to choose between two objectives: to be a content creator or to help other creators — an option that can be changed at any time.

Profile presentation on Ko-fi (Image: Screenshot/Guilherme Haas/Canaltech)

When choosing to use Ko-fi to make money, you can inform how you plan to raise funds on the platform:

You can choose one or all monetization alternatives. Ko-fi supports different currency systems, including the Brazilian real. To transfer the amounts received on the platform, you must connect your profile with a PayPal or Stripe account.

Ko-fi account setup (Image: Screenshot/Guilherme Haas/Canaltech)

With these settings in place, you can start publishing content, advertising products, and sharing your profile page with other users and social networks to attract followers.

How does KoFi work?

Ko-fi allows you to share content in the following formats:

In addition to promoting creative content, you can create a fundraising campaign (to develop a project, for example), add a recurring subscription option for your followers, list services or advertise products for sale.

List services and products for sale on the social platform (Image: Screenshot/Guilherme Haas/Canaltech)

Monetization options can be configured by accessing the main menu via the Ko-fi cup icon in the upper left corner of the platform. All products and services offered are displayed on your profile page for your followers.

buy a coffee

When accessing a user’s profile, you will also find a donation section to “pay a coffee” to the creator — an expression used to represent the minimum tip amount in the chosen currency. It is possible to pay or receive several “coffees” at once.

Pay a coffee to donate to content creators on Ko-fi (Image: Screenshot/Guilherme Haas/Canaltech)

In the free version of Ko-fi, there is no fee charged by the platform on amounts received for coffees (donations). However, there is a 5% fee on commissions, subscriptions and sales.

Better than Gold

There is a paid version of the platform called Ko-fi Gold in which there are no fees charged on commissions, sales or recurring subscriptions.

Ko-fi Gold also offers some additional benefits such as:

Subscribers can also change the name of “coffee” donations to other expressions of their choice.

The Ko-fi Gold monthly subscription costs $8, or $6 per month for the annual plan. To learn how to boost a Ko-fi account, check out tips for content creators to gain fans on social media.

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