If you post about Etsy SEO, Shopify conversion, or product listing strategy, your comments and DMs are full of the same message: "Can you look at my shop?" It is flattering the first fifty times. The problem is that a real shop audit is skilled work — you are reading listings, spotting pricing mistakes, diagnosing why traffic does not convert — and the ways most consultants charge for it are all friction. Productized audit PDFs take hours to write. Discovery calls are unpaid. Coaching packages scare off the shop owner who just wants one focused hour. Meanwhile the person asking has a store losing money today and would pay right now if paying were easy.
Cheddify makes paying easy. Your link goes in your TikTok, Instagram, or YouTube bio; a shop owner taps it, sees your per-minute rate or your session offers, and pays as a guest in the browser — no account, no back-and-forth. You take the call on the Cheddify app, screen-share-style walkthroughs happen the way you already do them (they open their shop, you talk them through it), and the meter bills automatically. Compared to a scheduling-tool-plus-invoice workflow, the whole transaction happens in one place, before the call starts.
What e-commerce consultants sell on Cheddify
- Live shop audits. A booked 30-45 minute call where you walk through their Etsy or Shopify store front to back: first impressions, navigation, product photography, trust signals, checkout flow. Concrete fixes, prioritized.
- Listing reviews. A tighter 15-20 minute format: titles, tags, keywords, photos, and pricing on their top listings. Great as a fixed-price block and an easy first purchase.
- Launch and strategy calls. Pre-launch checklists, holiday season prep, ad-spend sanity checks, and "should I raise my prices" conversations.
- On-demand troubleshooting. Toggle yourself available and let per-minute callers bring you the fire of the day — a suppressed listing, a traffic cliff, a supplier mess.
- Paid DMs. Quick questions — "is this a good niche?", "why was this listing rejected?" — become paid messages instead of free consulting. See how paid DMs work.
How to price e-commerce consulting by the minute
E-commerce and business consultants on per-minute platforms commonly charge $3 to $10 per minute. If you are building your reputation, $3-4 per minute converts well and still values your time properly; consultants with strong case studies and a real following commonly charge around $5; specialists with proven store-scaling results price at $8-10 and find that serious sellers pay it, because one good audit can pay for itself in a weekend of sales. Set a minimum duration around 15 minutes — anything shorter than that is not an audit, it is a DM, and you can price DMs separately. More on the framework in how to price your 1:1 calls.
The math on a real audit
Run a 40-minute shop audit at $5 per minute and the client pays $200, plus roughly 3% card processing added on their side. Cheddify's fee is 20% plus $2 per call: 80% of $200 is $160, minus $2 leaves $158 to you, paid out through Stripe. Do three audits a week and that is around $1,900 a month layered on top of whatever you already earn from content and courses — from questions people are already asking you for free.
The honest part
Cheddify sends you zero clients. There is no marketplace where shop owners browse consultants, no discovery feed, no SEO magic on your behalf. Every buyer arrives through your link, which means your content is the engine: the Etsy teardown videos, the before-and-after screenshots, the free tips that prove you know what you are talking about. Cheddify is the missing bottom of that funnel — the step where a viewer becomes a client in under a minute. If that engine is running, claim your link and point it here. If it is not yet, start with what Cheddify is and build the audience first.