Nutrition professionals occupy a strange spot: your expertise is in constant demand, and almost all of that demand arrives free. Post about protein intake or meal prep and your DMs fill with what-should-I-eat questions, label screenshots, and can-I-ask-you-something messages — each one a consult-shaped request with no consult attached. The traditional alternatives are heavy: insurance billing and practice-management software on one end, or coaching packages with contracts and onboarding calls on the other. There's been no lightweight middle — a way to charge for the fifteen-minute conversation people actually want.
What nutritionists sell on Cheddify
Cheddify is one link in your bio that prices the conversation. You set a per-minute rate and minimum duration; clients pay as guests in the browser — no account, no intake portal — and connect with you live on video or audio, or book ahead.
- Per-minute check-ins — the quick questions, finally billable: a supplement-stack review, help reading a confusing label, a plateau troubleshoot, a what-do-I-order-tonight call from someone standing in a grocery store.
- Booked initial consults — a prepaid 45- or 60-minute session for a proper intake: goals, history, current diet, and a plan of attack.
- Fixed-price blocks — a 30-minute pantry audit over video, a grocery-list rebuild, a restaurant-menu strategy session before a client's travel week.
- Paid DMs — clients pay to send the food-log screenshot or the is-this-brand-okay question; you answer on your schedule. It converts your single biggest source of free labor into a product. See how paid DMs work.
For credentialed practitioners: Cheddify is a payment-and-call tool, not a telehealth platform — it makes no compliance claims. Keep the same professional boundaries you'd apply to any cash-pay, non-clinical coaching conversation, and keep clinical care in clinical channels.
What nutritionists charge
Nutrition and wellness professionals on per-minute platforms commonly charge $2 to $5 per minute. General healthy-eating coaching sits near $2–$3 per minute; credentialed practitioners (RD/RDN or equivalent) and specialists — sports nutrition, prenatal, gut-health protocols — support $3–$5, which maps to the $180–$300/hour range specialists already command. Around $3 per minute with a 15-minute minimum is a sensible default: it makes your smallest product a $45 consult, which respects your expertise while staying far below the commitment of a coaching package.
The math on a real consult
A 40-minute initial consult at $3 per minute is $120. The client pays about 3% card processing on top of your price — it never comes out of your share. Cheddify's fee is 20% plus $2 per call: 20% of $120 is $24, plus $2, so $26. You keep $94. No invoice, no billing software subscription, no waiting on payment — the money is settled before the call starts, and payouts go to your bank through Stripe. Full details on pricing.
Lighter than the alternatives
Compared to practice-management platforms, there's nothing to configure and no monthly software fee — claiming your link is free. Compared to Calendly-plus-invoicing, payment is built into the same flow as the call; see Cheddify vs Calendly and how to sell your time as a coach for the broader playbook. And per-minute pricing gives you an entry product no package can match: a client can try you for fifteen minutes before committing to twelve weeks.
The honest part
Cheddify brings you zero clients. There's no directory, no marketplace, no discovery — your link converts demand you already generate through your content, your referrals, and your reputation. If you're building a practice from scratch with no audience, a referral network or a marketplace with client flow will serve you better first. Cheddify is for nutritionists whose DMs already prove the demand — it just adds the checkout that's been missing.