A Throne wishlist is a gift list built for creators: you add items from Throne's Gift Store or almost any online shop, share one link, and fans buy gifts that Throne orders and has shipped to you without the buyer ever seeing your name or address. Throne's help article on how Throne works says your delivery details are used only to ship gifts, fans can gift anonymously and without an account, and items with no buy link can be listed as Cash Gifts whose value lands in your Throne Balance.
This guide covers Throne as a tool: setup, what stays private and what does not, fees, notifications, payouts and the settings worth checking. Whether gifts count as income is a tax question, handled in our guides for Australian creators, UK creators and US creators. Wider address protection, such as electoral roll and business register entries, is covered in keeping your address private in Australia.
How a gift travels from fan to doorstep
- You create an account and enter delivery details, which Throne keeps out of view of fans.
- You add items: Partner Store products from the Gift Store, products from other online shops, Cash Gifts for things without a link, gift cards and digital goods, or a crowdfunded item the community chips in on.
- You share your wishlist link in bios, on stream or through an integration.
- A fan checks out, as a guest if they like, under any gifter name or none, with an optional message they can make public.
- Throne emails you, orders the item from the merchant and has it shipped to you; payout items send their value to your Balance instead.
- You follow the order in your Orders dashboard and can send a thank-you message.
Throne's guide to what you can add to a wishlist sets one rule that shapes everything else: every item must be a gift. Throne cannot be used to exchange goods or services, including commissions, custom work or paid appearances, and it will not buy alcohol, tobacco, cannabis products, firearms, live animals or travel bookings. Gift cards and digital goods also require identity verification before you can receive and redeem them.
Is a Throne wishlist safe? What fans can and cannot see
On the address question, Throne's design is strong. Its article on how Throne protects your privacy says no fan will see your address, delivery name or other identifiable information, and that delivery details go only to the merchant, only to ship the gift. It works the other way too: fans' payment details and email are never shared with you.
The same article gives advice that surprises some creators. It recommends your full legal name rather than a creator name in delivery details, because carriers can refuse or return parcels when the name does not match the address, and it advises against P.O. boxes, which many merchants will not ship to. If you use a mail forwarding service anyway, Throne says it cannot help with lost or damaged parcels caused by the forwarder.
So the honest answer to “is it safe” is that Throne protects the checkout, and the remaining exposure is whatever you publish yourself. Fans see your profile, images, wishlist items and any public gift messages you display. Parcels arrive with real shipping labels and sometimes packing slips, which carry your legal name and address into any unboxing video you film. A wishlist full of local-shop Cash Gifts can hint at your suburb. The audit below is built around those gaps.
A wishlist privacy audit
Work through this table when you set the wishlist up, and again whenever you move house, change your name or start streaming somewhere new.
| Area | What to check | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Display name and username | Neither contains your legal name, an initial-and-surname combination or a family nickname | The public name is the one you choose; your delivery name stays hidden only if you keep it separate |
| Profile text and images | No street, suburb, workplace, school, gym or regular schedule, and nothing outside Throne's profile rules | Small location clues add up faster than people expect |
| Integrations | Only the stream, chat and social tools you are happy to link publicly to this wishlist | Connected tools can announce gifts on stream or post about them |
| Delivery details | Full legal name and a residential address, as Throne recommends | A mismatch can send parcels back, and forwarders fall outside Throne's help |
| Wishlist items | No local pick-up items, local services or products personalised with your real name | The list itself is public and can reveal more than the profile does |
| Cash Gift descriptions | Describe the product, not the shop or suburb you will buy it in | Cash Gifts must name a real physical product, so word them carefully |
| Public gift messages | Decide whether public messages appear as stream alerts, and moderate them | A fan's message can put unwanted text on your screen live |
| Surprise Gifts | Leave off, or allow only categories you are comfortable receiving | Fans pick the item within the categories you open |
| Unboxing content | Crop, cover or remove labels and packing slips before you film or photograph | Labels carry the details Throne kept hidden at checkout |
| Sign-in security | SMS codes switched on if you sign in with email and password | Anyone inside your account can see your delivery details |
Throne's two-factor authentication article explains that SMS codes are available for email-and-password accounts, while accounts that sign in through Google, Apple, Twitch, YouTube or X rely on that provider's security. Its rules on profile text and images welcome adult creators within limits, but ban explicit imagery, solicitation, selling access to content and offering content or services in exchange for gifts. A wishlist that promises anything back for a gift breaks those rules.
Cash Gifts, fees and who pays them
Throne's page on fees paid at checkout says all checkout fees are paid by the gifter, never the creator. The service fee depends on the item type:
| Item type | Service fee paid by the fan | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Partner Store products in supported countries | 0% | Throne checkout fees |
| Physical gifts that Throne orders and ships | 7% | Throne checkout fees |
| Cash Gifts, Direct Credit and payout items | 9.75% | Throne checkout fees |
| Crowdfunded payout items | 9.75%, charged once on the full goal | Throne checkout fees |
The same fees page adds a processing fee of 2.9% plus $0.30 USD on physical and non-payout items, a 1% currency conversion charge on payments not made in US dollars, and a possible PayPal fee on international orders. Creators pay in only a few cases, which Throne's payout fee notes and the fees page list as Instant Payouts, a $2 fee on withdrawals under $30, and a deduction if you cancel a crowdfund before it is fully funded.
Throne's Cash Gift rules are stricter than many creators assume. A Cash Gift must be tied to a real physical product; it is not a tip jar, so listings such as “cash” or “money” are not allowed, and adult items and several restricted categories are excluded. Throne's Balance article also warns against buying your own payout items with your Balance, which just moves money in a circle minus the service fee, and notes that a Balance can be frozen while Throne checks verification details or fixes an error.
Notifications and what fans see on stream
Throne's guide to which emails you get says you always receive an email when a gift arrives and whenever something is urgent, such as a balance or order issue. Everything else can be switched off from the Notifications tab in Settings or the Manage Preferences link in any email:
- Grouping several gifts sent close together into one email.
- An email at every order step, rather than progress shown only on your Orders page.
- Alerts when a connected tool, such as a Discord bot, stops working.
- Wishlist activity, covering gift suggestions and items going out of stock.
- Occasional marketing about tips, giveaways and seasonal campaigns.
On stream, public gift messages can appear as alerts if you have alerts set up, according to the how-it-works article. If you would rather not know what is coming, Throne's Secret Gift Mode hides the item and its value from you until it arrives; it applies to every gift, not a chosen few.
Payouts, identity checks and countries
Money in your Balance reaches your bank through payouts. Throne's article on payout timing describes three statuses, Processing, In transit and Completed, and says regular payouts arrive within 1 to 3 business days once in transit. Throne's note on identity verification says you may need to verify before withdrawing, and before receiving or redeeming gift cards and digital goods.
Where you live changes what works. Throne's country support page splits countries into full access and partial access. In partially supported countries, physical items cannot be shipped and arrive as cash in your Balance instead, Surprise Gifts are unavailable, and withdrawals depend on a payout provider covering your country. Throne's how-it-works page quotes two different country counts on the same page, so rely on the help-centre list.
Returns, chargebacks, pausing and leaving
Returns are narrow. Throne's returns article covers items that arrive damaged, incomplete or wrong, subject to the merchant's own policy, and not items you simply no longer want, so only list things you would keep. Its page on chargebacks says the fan's bank decides disputes, not Throne, and that a chargeback can freeze a creator's funds.
Moving or taking a break? Throne's guide to pausing your wishlist keeps every item while fans are blocked from ordering; update your delivery address before you switch it back on. Deleting the account is permanent, and Throne's deletion article asks you to clear outstanding orders and pending withdrawals first. For harassment or scams, Throne's safety reporting page points to its in-app report option and, if you are in immediate danger, your local emergency services first.
A gift log for your records
Throne's article on tax documents is blunt: Throne sends no tax forms of any kind. It points you to your Orders dashboard for gifts received and your Balance page for payout history, and the Balance article says the full activity list can be exported to CSV or Excel. Keep a log as gifts arrive, so your accountant sees facts rather than guesses.
| Column | What to record | Where it comes from |
|---|---|---|
| Date received | Delivery date for parcels, credit date for Balance items | Orders dashboard or Balance activity |
| Item | Product name, or the Cash Gift description | The order record |
| Value | The item price shown on the order, in its currency | The order record |
| Gifter shown as | The name the fan chose, or anonymous | The order record |
| Arrived as | Shipped item, or value credited to your Balance | Order type |
| Paid out | Date and amount if Balance money went to your bank | Balance payout history |
| Use | Kept for personal use, used for work, given away or resold | Your own note |
| Thank-you sent | Yes or no, and the date | Your own note |
The Use column is the one an accountant will ask about, because what you do with a gift can change how it is treated. For brand gifting rather than fan gifts, our guide to getting PR packages covers labels and logs for that side, and more platform guides sit in the Patreon and other platforms hub.
Limitations of this guide
Everything about Throne here comes from its help centre and how-it-works page as they read on 1 October 2026. Fees, supported countries and item rules change, and several articles say more countries or features are on the way, so check the live pages before relying on a figure. We have not tested Throne's systems ourselves, and nothing here is a guarantee that a parcel, label or merchant will behave a particular way.
Privacy advice has limits too: no setting protects against details you share elsewhere, and a determined person can piece together clues across platforms. If someone is threatening or tracking you, contact local police, and in Australia you can also use the eSafety Commissioner's reporting service. Tax treatment of gifts is for a registered tax agent or accountant where you live.