If you tutor independently, you already know the problem isn't teaching — it's everything around it. You're stitching together Zoom for the call, Calendly for the booking, Venmo or PayPal for the payment, and a spreadsheet to track who still owes you. Students message you with a quick question that turns into a free twenty-minute session. Parents book, forget, and no-show. And if you built an audience posting study tips on TikTok or YouTube, there's no clean way for a follower in another state to become a paying student without an awkward DM negotiation.
What tutors sell on Cheddify
Cheddify collapses that whole stack into one link. You set a per-minute rate and a minimum duration, and when you toggle yourself available, anyone who taps your link can pay and connect with you live on video right then. You can also offer booked sessions for recurring students and fixed-price blocks for defined deliverables.
- Per-minute homework help — a student stuck on a calculus problem at 9pm pays your rate and gets you live for exactly as long as they need. The meter handles billing; nobody argues over a half hour.
- Booked exam-prep sessions — weekly 60-minute SAT, AP, or finals prep slots, prepaid at booking so no-shows don't cost you.
- Fixed-price blocks — a 30-minute essay walkthrough or a college-application review at a flat price.
- Paid DMs — the quick question gets a price. Students who just want a worked solution or a resource recommendation can pay to ask without booking a call. Here's how paid DMs work.
What tutors charge
Rates vary a lot by subject and level, but tutors on per-minute platforms commonly charge somewhere between $1 and $4 per minute. General K-12 homework help tends to sit near $1–$2 per minute, while specialized subjects — organic chemistry, upper-level math, standardized-test strategy — support $2.50–$4. A sensible starting point for most tutors is around $2 per minute with a 10–15 minute minimum, then adjust based on demand. Per-minute pricing also lets students buy small: a $20 ten-minute unblock is an easy yes for someone who'd never commit to a $90 package up front.
The math on a real session
Say you run a 45-minute algebra session at $2 per minute. The student pays $90 (plus about 3% in card processing, which the buyer covers on top of your price — it never comes out of your share). Cheddify's fee is 20% plus $2 per call: 20% of $90 is $18, plus $2, so $20 total. You keep $70. Payouts go to your bank through Stripe. Full fee details are on the pricing page.
Students pay as guests in the browser — no account creation, no app download on their side. For a parent booking on a phone, that's the difference between a completed payment and an abandoned one.
Compared to scheduling tools
Calendly and similar tools handle booking, but the payment, the video call, and the per-minute billing all live elsewhere. Cheddify owns the call itself — the meter, the billing, and the payout are one system. If you're currently on a Calendly-plus-Zoom-plus-invoice setup, see Cheddify vs Calendly and our guide to getting paid for calls without invoicing.
The honest part
Cheddify does not bring you students. There's no marketplace, no search results, no discovery feed — your link converts the audience you already have: your study-content followers, your local word-of-mouth referrals, your former students' younger siblings. If you have zero audience and need lead flow, a tutoring marketplace that supplies students is a better fit, even at a steeper commission. Cheddify is for tutors who already have demand and want to stop losing money to the plumbing.