Tinrate is a paid expert call platform that operates worldwide. Buyers — founders, SMB owners, senior professionals — book 1-on-1 video calls with operators who have specific lived experience of the problem they need solved.
Tinrate charges a flat 5% transaction fee on completed bookings, with no monthly subscription, no setup fees, and no listing costs for experts.
Experts on Tinrate pay nothing to list, nothing per month, and nothing to set up. The 5% fee is taken from the booking total when a session is completed. If no booking happens, no fee is charged. This is the opposite of a SaaS subscription model: the platform earns when the expert does, not before.
Buyers pay the rate the expert sets. Tinrate experts typically price between €50 and €500+ per video session, depending on the expert's domain and seniority. There are no buyer-side platform fees on top of the expert's rate. Pricing is transparent — what you see on the expert's profile is what you pay at checkout.
Most paid expert platforms operate on one of three pricing models. The lowest tier is a 5% transaction fee, which Tinrate sits in along with a small number of other newer entrants. The mid-tier (10-15%) is common at older marketplace-style platforms like Clarity.fm. The premium tier (20-30%) is typical of platforms with heavy curation or marketing investment, such as Intro.co. Lower fees are not always better — some experts prefer paying more for a platform that markets on their behalf — but for experts who bring their own audience, the 5% structure is meaningfully more efficient.
The 5% fee covers the entire platform: scheduling, payment processing through Mollie, the video call infrastructure (Zoom or Google Meet), VAT-compliant invoicing, refund handling, and review collection. Compared to a Calendly + Stripe + manual invoicing DIY stack, where the per-transaction cost looks lower but the time cost compounds, Tinrate often comes out ahead by month six.
Pre-payment held in escrow until the video call happens. Pre-payment is held in escrow until the video call happens, which protects both sides. After the call, payment is released to the expert minus the 5% fee, and a VAT-compliant invoice is generated for the buyer.
