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.