While many other websites provide a tipping mean of engagement for their userbase like (Twitch, YouTube Live, Reddit and Twitter via 3rd party bots...) why don't photo sharing websites offer such feature giving them a huge potential to boost engagement and at the same time provide another stream of income for both the photographers and the platform 💡

Suggested implementation

• Each registered user is given an internal wallet within the website

• That wallet can be funded by either a debit or credit card/PayPal/Google or Apple Pay/Cryptocurrency

• A non registered user in the website can still be able to tip using a debit/credit or cryptocurrencies

• Tipping is done free of charge between users within the website

• Users are charged a percentage once they want to withdraw their wallet balance to an external destination (PayPal/Google or Apple Wallet/Cryptocurrency Address/Bank account etc...)

• Each tip should/can

  • Be accompanied with an optional note

  • Give the user the option to tip anonymously

• The tipping button can be placed next to the Like & Comment buttons using for example a 💲 sign

NB: Considering that such implementation requires months of backend work below i suggest an immediate alternative implementation using cryptocurrencies that can be installed within a week while waiting for the above implementation to take place

• users/photographers are asked to provide a cryptocurrency address that belongs to them for example (Bitcoin/Ethereum/Litecoin/Dogecoin/Pinkcoin etc..) that will be saved in the website settings

• Clicking on the tipping button next to the like & comment buttons automatically pops-up a QR code that points to that provided cryptocurrency address

• and that's it. All you have to do then is to use your mobile wallet to scan that QR and tip