Cash is no longer the only way an audience can leave a tip. Helios Song Requester Pro can place tipping directly alongside the audience experience, without making it the focus of the show.
Helios gives performers two distinct ways to offer tipping. Both are optional, and you decide which approach suits your act, your venue and your audience.
A clearly visible Tip Jar button can be placed on the audience page. Its wording can be personalised, allowing someone to leave a gratuity without making a song request.
It is a simple digital equivalent of the traditional tip jar, particularly useful where audiences increasingly carry little or no cash.
Where enabled, an audience member can add a tip while making a song request. The request and the gratuity remain part of the same straightforward audience interaction.
A tip does not promise that a song will be performed or determine the running order. The performer remains in control of the show.
The tipping system is designed around the performer's own Stripe connection. Helios provides the audience interface and payment route rather than acting as the holder of the gratuity.
Stripe's normal payment-processing arrangements and charges apply to the performer's connected account.
Tipping culture varies considerably between countries, venues and types of entertainment. Helios therefore treats tipping as a configurable part of the system rather than something every performer must use.
You can decide whether tipping is appropriate for your audience and how prominently you want to present it. The aim is to make leaving a gratuity convenient when someone wants to do it, without turning the performance into a payment exercise.
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