Guides
Virtual gifting guides
Practical answers to the questions teams ask before they add virtual gifts to an app.
How to add live-stream gifts to your app
Coins, a gift tray, full-screen effects and live rooms, step by step, on web, React
Native, Flutter, Android and iOS.
How to add virtual gifts to Stream Chat
A system message from the gift.sent webhook, or a live gift row from the gift room,
with the gift tray next to the chat input.
How to add virtual gifts to Sendbird chat
An admin message from the gift.sent webhook, or a live gift row in an open channel's
stream chat.
How to add virtual gifts to a Firebase chat
A gift message your server writes to Firestore, or a live gift row from the gift
room, next to your own messages.
Virtual gifts without handling payments
How a gift economy works when you sell the coins through the App Store, Google Play
or your own checkout, and never pay anyone out.
Build your own gifting system or use an API?
Everything a production gifting system needs, what it costs to build, and when
building it yourself is the right call.