The life-coaching funnel everyone teaches is exhausting: post free advice, offer a free discovery call, spend thirty unpaid minutes with someone who "needs to think about it," follow up twice, and maybe close a package. Meanwhile your actual audience, the people commenting "I needed this today" and DMing you their situations, has no way to simply pay you for an hour of your attention. So you coach them for free, a sentence at a time, in the comments.
And the tooling makes it worse. Calendly for booking, Zoom for the call, Stripe or PayPal invoices afterward, a spreadsheet to track who owes what. Every seam in that stack loses a client. Cheddify collapses it into one link: your rate, your calendar, your call, and your payout in a single system. If you're comparing tools, see Cheddify vs Calendly, the short version is that Calendly schedules time and Cheddify sells it.
What life coaches sell on Cheddify
Per-minute office hours
Toggle yourself available for an hour after you post, and your followers can tap your link, pay as guests in the browser, and talk to you live, no discovery call, no proposal, just coaching with the meter running. Someone stuck on a decision pays for fifteen minutes of clarity instead of committing to a package they're not ready for. It's the lowest-friction first purchase a coach can offer, and it's how followers become clients.
Office hours also fix a positioning problem. Announcing "I'm live for the next hour, link in bio" in a story gives your content a call to action that isn't a webinar funnel, and it teaches your audience something valuable: access to you is real, immediate, and priced.
Booked sessions
Your standard 30- or 60-minute sessions, scheduled ahead and paid at booking. Prepayment ends no-shows and ends the awkward invoice chase, the session starts with money already settled, which is better for the coaching too.
Paid DM check-ins
Between-session accountability is real work. A paid DM price lets clients send you a check-in, "I did the thing, here's what happened, what now?" and pays you for the thoughtful reply. See how paid DMs work.
What should life coaches charge?
Sellers in this niche commonly charge $2 to $8 per minute, with $4 a common working rate, that's $240 an hour at the meter, though most per-minute calls run 10 to 30 minutes. If your current package rate implies $150 to $300 per hour, price your per-minute rate to match; going cheaper on Cheddify undercuts your own packages. More guidance in how to sell your time as a coach.
A worked example
You charge $4 per minute and take a 25-minute call: the client pays $100, plus roughly 3% card processing billed to them on top. Cheddify's fee is 20% + $2 per call, so you keep 80% of $100 ($80) minus $2, $78 to your bank via Stripe. Compare that to a free discovery call, which pays $0 and converts maybe one in five. Full numbers on the pricing page.
The honest part: Cheddify brings you zero clients
Cheddify has no marketplace, no directory, and no discovery, it will not send you a single client. It converts the audience you already have on TikTok, Instagram, or YouTube into paying clients. If your content gets engagement and your DMs get questions, that's the demand; Cheddify is the checkout and the call in one. If you don't have an audience yet, an expert marketplace is a better fit today, see Minnect alternatives for the discovery-driven options, and come back once your content is pulling people in. Claiming your link is free: how it works.