How to Create a Tip Menu: Step by Step (2026)
To create a tip menu, pick five to nine things you are genuinely happy to deliver, price them in a ladder that roughly doubles from a $5 entry item to a $100 top item, put it in a readable image, and pin it to your feed and your welcome message. It takes about an hour to build and it is the highest leverage hour most new creators spend.
This is the build guide. If what you want is the priced list of what other creators charge for each item, that lives on the OnlyFans tip menu ideas and templates page.
Step 1: list only what you will actually do
Start by writing down every item you would happily deliver on a bad day, not a good one. Every line on a menu is a promise, and the fastest way to damage your reputation is to advertise something, take the money, and then quietly stall because you never really wanted to make it. If an item makes you hesitate, leave it off. You can always add it later.
Aim to land on five to nine items. Fewer than five and the menu does not feel like a choice. More than nine and fans stop reading, which means they default to the cheapest line or to nothing at all.
Step 2: build the price ladder
Order your items cheapest to most expensive, then set prices that roughly double as you go rather than creeping up in small steps. A ladder like $5, $10, $25, $50, $100 is instantly legible. A ladder like $15, $18, $22, $27, $30 makes the fan do arithmetic, and a fan doing arithmetic is a fan not spending.
Two rules for the ends of the ladder. Make the cheapest item genuinely cheap, because the first tip is the hard one and every tip after it is much easier. And keep the top item at or under $100, since fans whose accounts are under four months old cannot send a single tip larger than that. The full breakdown is in our guide to OnlyFans tip limits.
Step 3: write each line so it is unambiguous
Specific beats clever. “Custom video, 5 minutes, $85” sells better than “Something special just for you.” The fan needs to know what arrives, roughly how big it is, and what it costs, without asking. Every question a menu forces someone to ask is a chance for them to close the app instead.
Where an item scales with your time, price it per unit. Sexting sold in 15 minute blocks and custom video sold per minute both protect you from a small payment attached to an enormous request.
Step 4: make it an image, not just text
A plain text menu works, but a readable graphic gets screenshotted, forwarded and reshared in a way plain text does not. Keep the type large enough to read on a phone, use one clear column, and put your name on it so it still makes sense when it turns up somewhere you did not post it.
Step 5: put it in four places
- Pinned to the top of your feed, so new subscribers see it first.
- In your welcome message, which is the moment a fan is most willing to spend and least sure what to ask for.
- In your live stream description, with a shorter instant items version.
- As a fresh feed post every couple of weeks, because a pinned post goes invisible to people who have scrolled past it fifty times.
Step 6: rebuild it every quarter
Once a quarter, look at what actually sold. Cut anything nobody ordered, keep what did, and raise the top item until it stops selling. That last part is the only reliable way to find your ceiling, and most creators discover it is higher than they assumed. Prices that were right at 200 subscribers are usually low at 2,000.
Pair the menu with getting more tips and steady fan engagement, since a menu only converts the attention you have already earned.