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OnlyFans Welcome Message Examples, Ideas and a Generator That Checks Them Against the Rules
A welcome message on OnlyFans is one stored message, sent automatically and identically to every new subscriber. That single fact breaks most of the templates you can copy and paste, because they claim to be personal or refer to something the fan did. Here are examples that hold up, plus a generator that checks yours before you save it.
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What should an OnlyFans welcome message say?
Say what the page is, how often you post, what the subscription already includes, and one small thing you want them to reply with. Two to four sentences. That covers both jobs a welcome message has: setting expectations, so nobody cancels in week one feeling misled, and starting a conversation, because direct messages are where most creator revenue actually gets made.
What it should not say is anything that stops being true the moment it is delivered. This is the part every template list skips. OnlyFans stores one welcome message per account and sends it automatically. It cannot know who the fan is, whether they have subscribed before, or what they like. So a line like "I write to each of my fans personally, I promise" is false at the instant it arrives, and the Acceptable Use Policy prohibits, in its own words, "Inaccurate information including misleading descriptions of media or account information."
Nothing below is a guess about what performs. It is the list of what the published rules allow you to claim, and a set of examples written so that none of them can turn into a misleading statement six months from now when the same message is still going out.
OnlyFans welcome message generator
This builds a message from your own details and then audits it, which is the half no other generator does. The audit runs your text against the OnlyFans restricted word categories, the accuracy clause in the Acceptable Use Policy, and the published $3 to $100 price band for a paid attachment. Everything happens in your browser. Nothing is sent anywhere or stored.
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OnlyFans publishes a minimum of $3 and a maximum of $100 for a paid private message.
Or check a message you already wrote
Your message
characters. OnlyFans publishes no length limit, so this is a readability number, not a rule.
Rule check
Nothing flagged. No restricted word categories matched, no claim that an automatic message cannot support, and any price is inside the published band. This is not approval from OnlyFans, it is a check against what OnlyFans publishes.
The word list behind the audit is the same community-compiled list we publish and explain on our OnlyFans banned words checker, with the honest caveat that applies there too: OnlyFans does not publish an official restricted word list, so every list in circulation, including ours, is compiled from what the filter visibly refuses. What is quoted from OnlyFans on this page is quoted exactly and marked as such.
Why most copy and paste welcome messages break a published rule
We read the template lists that currently rank for this search and checked their actual wording against the Acceptable Use Policy, which runs to 3,085 characters and was last updated in September 2025. The problem is not that the templates are explicit. It is that a welcome message is static and the templates are written as though it is not. Below are real phrases from those lists, with the clause each one runs into.
| Phrase from a published template | The clause it runs into | Why it does not hold |
|---|---|---|
| I write to each of my fans personally. I promise. | "Inaccurate information including misleading descriptions of media or account information" | The message making this promise is the one message on OnlyFans that cannot be personal. It is a single stored string sent by the platform to every new subscriber without you touching it. |
| your last message said you dreamed of ... | "Inaccurate information including misleading descriptions of media or account information" | A welcome message fires the instant somebody subscribes. There is no last message. The fan has never written to you. |
| You are back. I noticed you left. | "Inaccurate information including misleading descriptions of media or account information" | Sent to first-time subscribers too, because there is only one welcome message and no way to branch it. Most people who receive this have never been to your page. |
| a little gift just for you / a video I shot for you | "Inaccurate information including misleading descriptions of media or account information" | The attachment on a welcome message is one fixed file. Describing it as made for the recipient is a misleading description of media, which is the exact wording the policy uses. |
| 9 minutes nobody has ever seen | "Inaccurate information including misleading descriptions of media or account information" | Every subscriber before them saw it. Scarcity claims are the easiest thing in a welcome message to say and the hardest to defend, because the file never changes. |
| reply within 48h or we will not see each other again | "Prohibited cyber activity including spamming" | Deadline pressure in an automated bulk message is the shape moderation systems are built to catch, and it is the single most common reason creators report their DMs being throttled. |
| like 15 of my posts to get a free vid | "refers to creators and fans meeting in person including raffles and competitions" | Incentivized engagement sits next to raffles and competitions in the moderation article. The reward-for-actions shape is what gets read, not the size of the reward. |
| tip me on Cash App / send it on Venmo | "Prohibited cyber activity including ... referencing to an off-platform site that violates our Terms of Service" | Naming an off-platform payment rail in a DM is among the fastest refusals on the platform, and it strips your own chargeback protection at the same time. |
To be fair about the risk: we have seen no evidence that OnlyFans is enforcing the accuracy clause against welcome messages at scale, and plenty of creators run these templates without incident. The reason to care is not that a ban is imminent. It is that the clause exists, it is written broadly, and enforcement on this platform is discretionary and unappealable in practice. Writing a message that is simply true costs nothing and removes the exposure entirely.
There is a second reason, which is that fans notice. A message claiming to be handwritten, arriving two seconds after payment, is the most common thing subscribers cite when they describe a page as feeling like a call centre. The templates that pretend hardest tend to convert worst after the first week, because the second message has to keep the promise the first one made.
OnlyFans welcome message examples you can copy and paste
Five, one per tone, all written so that nothing in them becomes false when the same message goes out to the ten thousandth subscriber. Swap the specifics for yours. The structure is what matters: what the page is, the rhythm, what is included, one ask.
Straightforward, no attachment
"Thanks for subscribing. Here is how my page works: full scenes go up Tuesday and Friday, everything is included in your subscription unless it says otherwise, and my inbox is open. Tell me what you came here for and I will point you at the right posts."
The safest default and the one that ages best. Nothing in it can become untrue.
Warm, asks one question
"Hi, glad you are here. I post long-form scenes rather than clips, usually twice a week. One question so I know what to send you first: what brought you to my page? Answer with a word or two and I will reply properly."
Highest reply rate of anything here, because it asks for something small and specific.
Direct, with a paid unlock
"Welcome. There is a locked video attached to this message: it is a 14 minute scene, it is the one I would start people on, and it costs $12. Everything else on the page is included in what you already paid. Unlock it or ignore it, both are fine."
Describe the file honestly. Priced inside the published $3 to $100 band.
Dominant tone
"You subscribed, so you already know what this page is. One rule while you are here: ask for what you want plainly. I do not guess and I do not do hints. Start by telling me which of my scenes brought you in."
Tone without false claims. It sets a rule instead of inventing a history.
Sets expectations for a free trial
"You are in. The feed goes back about a year, so start at the pinned post rather than the top. New scenes twice a week, paid unlocks are always priced in the message so nothing is a surprise, and if something is not working just message me."
Works whether the person paid or came in on a trial, because it assumes neither.
Notice what none of them do. None claim the attachment was made for the reader. None reference a history that does not exist. None set a deadline. The one with a price says what the file is and what it costs, which is both more honest and, in our reading of how these pages perform, more effective than a locked mystery, because a fan who unlocks something disappointing does not unlock a second one. Pricing that unlock is its own decision, and the published ceilings are on our page about OnlyFans PPV pricing and the published price limits.
How to set or change your OnlyFans welcome message
Open Settings, then Chats, then Welcome messages, enable the option to send a welcome message to new fans, and type it into the text box. You can attach media, and a paid attachment must be priced between $3 and $100. Changing it later means overwriting the same field, and the new version only reaches subscribers who arrive after you save.
One honesty note about that path, because this page quotes OnlyFans exactly everywhere else. OnlyFans publishes no help article on welcome messages. We checked the full creator Help Center index: there are articles on paid messages, on unsending a message, on free trials and on promotional campaigns, and none on this feature. The settings path above is creator-reported and consistent across sources, but it is not something OnlyFans has written down, so menu labels can move between app versions without notice.
What OnlyFans does publish is what happens when you want a message back. Verbatim: "if the message was a paid message it will disappear for any Fan who has not paid to view this message." Unsending works on the unpaid. Anybody who already paid keeps the file, which is worth knowing before you attach something you might regret to a message that sends itself while you sleep.
The published rules that actually govern a welcome message
Six questions creators ask about this feature, answered from what OnlyFans publishes rather than from what the agency blogs assert. Where nothing is published, this table says so.
| Question | Short answer | What is published |
|---|---|---|
| Can the welcome message contain a paid attachment? | Yes, and the price band is published. | Minimum $3, maximum $100 for a paid private message, quoted from the OnlyFans help article. Anything outside that band will not send. |
| Can you send different welcome messages to different fans? | Not with the built-in feature. | The welcome message is one stored message per account. Segmenting by persona, price point or traffic source is not something the platform offers. |
| Can an AI chatbot write and send it for you? | OnlyFans publishes that it may not. | Verbatim: "OnlyFans does not have a public facing API and Creators may not directly integrate AI chat bots into the OnlyFans platform." A tool that drafts text you paste in yourself is a different thing. |
| Can you unsend it after the fact? | Only partly, and only before payment. | Verbatim: "if the message was a paid message it will disappear for any Fan who has not paid to view this message." Anyone who already paid keeps it. |
| Is there a published character limit? | No published limit exists. | OnlyFans publishes no help article on welcome messages and no length rule for one. Treat length as a conversion question rather than a compliance one. |
| Do free trial subscribers get it? | Yes, a trial is a subscription. | Which matters, because a message written for somebody who just paid reads badly to somebody who has not. Write it so it works for both. |
Can you automate OnlyFans welcome messages?
The built-in welcome message is already the automation. You write it once and OnlyFans sends it to every new subscriber with no further involvement from you. That is the whole feature, and for most creators it is enough.
The thing being sold as "OnlyFans automation" is something else: chat tools and AI chatters that log into your account and answer fans. Before you buy one, read what OnlyFans publishes about it, because the help article titled "Can I use an AI chatbot on OnlyFans?" is unusually direct. Verbatim: "OnlyFans does not offer an internal AI chatbot tool for Creators." and "OnlyFans does not have a public facing API and Creators may not directly integrate AI chat bots into the OnlyFans platform."
Read those two sentences next to the marketing for any OnlyFans API product. There is no public API, so anything offering one is working around the platform rather than with it, and the direct integration of AI chat bots is stated as not permitted. That does not make a text generator a problem: a tool that drafts wording you read, edit and paste in yourself is you writing a message, which is why the generator on this page produces text and does not touch your account. Handing your login to a third party is a separate decision with its own consequences, and we go through what that costs in the red flags in an OnlyFans agency contract.
The other half of the automation question is the filter. Messages are moderated more aggressively than posts on OnlyFans, and a word that passes in a caption can be refused in a DM, which is a problem when the message sending itself is one you have not looked at in six months. We list what gets refused in messages specifically in the guide to OnlyFans restricted words in messages.
How this works on a platform built for explicit work
We built this page because the honest version of the answer is short and nobody was publishing it, and because the underlying problem is one we think about constantly. A creator writing a welcome message is guessing at what a keyword filter will refuse, in a message they cannot see get refused, on a platform that does not publish the list.
Here, verified creators sell explicit work under rules written for explicit work. You can name what you make in a message using the real word for it, because there is no keyword filter standing between you and a subscriber who already paid to talk to you. Everyone appearing in explicit content is identity-verified before anything goes live and 2257 records are held, which is where we think enforcement belongs: at the door, on identity and consent, not on vocabulary. What that costs you and what you keep is set out in full on how selling here works.
OnlyFans welcome message questions
What should an OnlyFans welcome message say?
Say what the page is, how often you post, what is included in the subscription, and one thing you want them to reply with. That covers the two jobs a welcome message has: setting expectations so people do not cancel in week one, and opening a conversation, because messages are where most creator revenue is made.
How do I set an OnlyFans welcome message?
Creators consistently report the path as Settings, then Chats, then Welcome messages, where you enable the option and type the message into the text box. OnlyFans publishes no help article on the feature, so treat the exact wording of the menu as something that can move between app versions.
How do I change my OnlyFans welcome message?
Open the same setting and overwrite the text. The change applies to subscribers who arrive after you save it and does not reach anybody who already received the old one. If the old message had a paid attachment, note that unsending only removes it from fans who have not yet paid to view it.
Can you automate OnlyFans welcome messages?
The built-in welcome message is already automatic: you write it once and OnlyFans sends it to every new subscriber. Beyond that, OnlyFans publishes that it offers no internal AI chatbot, has no public facing API, and that creators may not directly integrate AI chat bots into the platform.
Can you attach a paid video to an OnlyFans welcome message?
Yes. A paid private message must be priced between $3 and $100, both figures published by OnlyFans. Describe the file accurately, because the Acceptable Use Policy prohibits misleading descriptions of media, and a welcome message attachment is one fixed file sent to everybody.
How long should an OnlyFans welcome message be?
Two to four sentences. OnlyFans publishes no character limit, so this is a conversion question rather than a rules question. Long messages get skimmed, and the parts people actually read are the first line and the question at the end.
Are copy and paste OnlyFans welcome messages a bad idea?
The templates in circulation are, for a specific reason. Most of them claim to be personal or reference something the fan did, and a welcome message is a single stored string sent identically to everyone. The Acceptable Use Policy prohibits inaccurate information including misleading descriptions of account information.
Do free trial subscribers get the welcome message?
Yes, because a free trial is a subscription. That is worth writing around: a message thanking somebody for paying reads badly to somebody who came in on a trial, so keep the opening neutral about money and put the sales pitch after the expectations.
Does a welcome message stop people cancelling?
It helps with one specific cause of cancellation, which is a mismatch between what somebody expected and what the feed delivers. Telling people the posting rhythm and what is included in the subscription in the first sixty seconds solves that. It does nothing about a feed that is genuinely thin.
Write the message once, in the words you actually use
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