The alert overlay that reacts to every stream event.

01What is the TipDeck Tip Alert?

A small animated popup overlay that slides into your stream whenever something worth showing actually happens. Not just tips - every meaningful event across all your TipDeck games can be surfaced, acknowledged, and made visible to the whole room.

The Alert is the simplest overlay in TipDeck to understand: something fires, a card appears, the card fades out, repeat. But its scope is broader than it first looks. It covers 8 event types across all your TipDeck games - a tip landing, a wheel spinning, a Lucky Number win, a goal bar hitting 100%, a hype meter maxing out, a goal bar advancing, a Lucky Number attempt, and a menu order coming in. Toggle each one on or off individually.

Mechanically, it's a 600×220 floating OBS browser source - sized to sit in a corner without obscuring your camera. You position it wherever it fits your scene: bottom-right, bottom-left, top of a side panel. When an enabled event fires, the alert card animates in (slides up or fades), displays the event data (username, amount, result), then fades out after your configured duration. Between events: invisible. No permanent screen real estate consumed.

What it covers and what it doesn't

The Alert doesn't replace the Wheel overlay, the Timer overlay, or the Goal bar. Those games have their own overlays with their own visuals. What the Alert does is give every event a shared notification layer - a consistent visual language across all your games that viewers learn to read. When the purple card appears, something happened. They look up, they engage, they react.

Think of it as the toast notification system for your stream. The Wheel spins and resolves on its own overlay, but the Alert fires alongside it - separately, in the corner - to make sure viewers who glanced away get the signal. A goal hits 100% on the goal bar, and the alert fires too. Two different visual confirmations, same event.

Who runs an Alert

Streamers who run multiple TipDeck games simultaneously use the Alert as the central event feed. Instead of viewers having to watch every corner of the scene for which overlay activated, the Alert fires in a consistent location for every game. Streamers who run just the tip event type use it as a classic donation alert - name, amount, reaction. New streamers use it as their first overlay precisely because the setup is under a minute: one URL, one browser source, done.

The common case is a streamer who has the Wheel, the Timer, and the Lucky Number all running, and wants a single visible confirmation layer so nothing slips past without the room noticing. The Alert is that layer.

02How the Alert works - the rules

Six things happen between an event firing and the alert fading out. Six steps, every time, no exceptions. Knowing them lets you tune the Alert from a passive notification into an active part of your stream's energy.

03See the Alert running on a real stream

Sixty seconds of the Alert in action: tip arrives, card slides in, streamer reads the name out loud, card fades out. The fastest way to understand the mechanic is to watch one full cycle from outside the dashboard.

Once the video drops, the player above swaps to the embedded clip - same frame, same dimensions, no layout shift.

04Why a named alert changes how tippers behave

We're not going to throw a fake percentage at you. What we will tell you is the precise mechanism: why the Alert shifts viewer behaviour. Six reasons, all rooted in how public acknowledgement actually works.

05Configure your alert in 1 minute

One pass through the dashboard, one paste into OBS, and the alert is live. Below is exactly what you'll touch and what each setting does - bookmark this if you want a single reference for "how do I tweak X".

Trigger modules - 8 event types, individually enabled

Each event type can be toggled on or off independently. All 8 are listed here with a description of exactly when they fire:

• tip - any incoming tip from any linked platform. The most common trigger. Fires regardless of amount.
• lucky_number_try - a viewer tips a value as a guess in the Lucky Number game. Fires on every attempt, win or not.
• lucky_number_win - a viewer guesses the correct Lucky Number. High-signal event - worth its own alert tone and longer duration.
• wheel_spin - the Wheel spins after a qualifying tier tip. The alert shows the result slice. Fires alongside the Wheel overlay, not instead of it.
• goal_reached - the goal bar hits 100%. Major milestone event. Most streamers configure a longer display duration for this one.
• goal_advanced - the goal bar advances on any tip toward the active goal. Lower-signal than goal_reached, useful for feedback loops on slow streams.
• hype_reached - the hype meter hits 100%. Fires once per hype cycle. Same energy as goal_reached.
• menu_update - a viewer orders an item from the interactive Menu. Shows the username, item ordered, and amount paid.

Queue vs instant mode

Queue mode is the default. When an alert is already showing, incoming alerts line up and each plays in full for the configured duration before the next one appears. Nothing gets skipped - every event gets its moment. Best for streams where tip frequency is moderate and you want every tipper acknowledged.

Instant mode replaces the current alert immediately when a new event fires. No waiting, no queue. The newest event is always on screen. Best for high-energy streams where currency is current momentum, not individual acknowledgement.

Display duration - 1s to 10s presets

Six preset durations: 1s / 2s / 4s / 6s / 8s / 10s. The duration applies to every alert uniformly. Pick the duration that matches your stream pace. 4s is the practical sweet spot for most streams: long enough to read aloud, short enough not to block the scene.

Color themes - 5 themes + background controls

Five border-and-accent color themes for the alert card:

• Violet - #a855f7. Default. Purple glow, matches TipDeck's brand palette.
• Rose - #ec4899. Pink-magenta. Works well on dark overlays with warm-toned scenes.
• Gold - #f59e0b. Amber-gold. High visibility, pairs well with Casino or Retro Wheel skins.
• Emerald - #10b981. Green. Natural contrast on dark backgrounds, easy on the eye for long sessions.
• Crimson - #ef4444. Red. High urgency feel - good for goal_reached and hype_reached events.

Background is controlled separately via bg_color (hex) and bg_opacity (0–100%). Default is near-black at 92% opacity - enough transparency to feel overlaid, enough fill to stay readable over any scene.

Display options

Three toggles that affect what the alert card shows:

• show_username - display the tipper's handle on the card. On by default. Turn off if you want anonymous alerts with no names shown.
• show_tip_amount - display the tip amount or event value. On by default. Turn off for events where the amount is irrelevant.
• sound - play the notification chime when the alert animates in. Toggle independently of the visual. Useful to mute during scene transitions or when running a secondary audio input.

OBS integration - 600×220 floating zone

The Alert is a floating zone, not a full-scene overlay. Recommended placement: bottom-right or bottom-left corner of your camera feed.

• In OBS, right-click your scene → Add → Browser.
• Paste the overlay URL from your TipDeck dashboard.
• Set width 600, height 220, FPS 30.
• Position in a corner - the alert card appears at the bottom of the source zone and slides up.
• Check "Refresh browser when scene becomes active" if you switch scenes mid-stream.

The overlay is fully transparent between alerts. No permanent screen real estate consumed when nothing is happening.

Screenshots — configuration view

Preset & event modules8 event type toggles individually on/off, queue vs instant mode, display duration, and sound toggle.

Color theme & style5 color themes — Violet · Rose · Gold · Emerald · Crimson — with live preview of the alert card and bg controls.

06FAQ - Alert, answered straight

The questions creators actually ask in our Discord, with straight answers.