A hallway
You teach an hour. Then you stand there while somebody looks for a phone.
You tutor every week.
Bill every week.
A session is a service, and services are what fuime sells.
Start your business
5% of collections, minimum 50¢. Nothing until a session sells.
Under 18? A guardian signs once and holds the account; you teach.
How tutoring gets paid now
The hour is professional. The payment is not.
Six sessions deep
Nobody ever sent a bill, so the total is now big enough to make a client flinch.
The rate never moved
Raising it means saying a new number out loud, in a doorway, to someone already paying.
A link, not a conversation
One page that names the price.
A named offer, your price
Anywhere from $1 to $10,000, at /pay/<business>/<offer>, and it survives a rename.
A storefront for the rest
/b/<business> lists everything you sell, so a client can find the two-hour block.
Stripe-hosted checkout
No card details reach you or a chat thread. Sales are USD only.
The weekly student
Bill the standing slot without asking.
Set it on the offer
The same offer can bill monthly or yearly, at the amount you publish.
Renewals post themselves
Each month lands as its own ledger line, with its own fee line and receipt.
A client cannot cancel it
They email support@fuime.com and a person ends it. Say so before you set one up.
A refund gives the fee back
Refunding a month posts a reversal and rebates fuime's fee in proportion.
Questions
What a tutor asks first.
Can I sell tutoring on fuime?
Yes. A session is a service, and a worksheet pack or a recorded walkthrough is a digital good. Childcare and babysitting are excluded, and so are physical goods, food and crafts.
What does an hour of tutoring cost me?
5% of what you collect, with a 50¢ floor. It is a floor, not an additive fee: on a block you price at $400 the fee is $20.00, not $20.50.
Card processing of about 2.9% + 30¢ is paid by fuime out of that 5%, never added to your side. Anything outside the standard rate is a conversation with sales. The full breakdown.
Who is the student's family buying from?
Ninth Street Labs, LLC, doing business as Fuime, is the seller of record, and Stripe processes the card. What you hold is a claim on fuime for what you earned, not a balance.
When does the money for a term reach me?
Payout runs are generated weekly and a person approves every one before anything moves. The policy is a 7-day hold, a 10% rolling reserve over 90 days, a $2,500 cap per run and a $10 floor.
Every operator skipped in a run gets a stated reason. There is no automated rail and no promised date.
Do I have to be 18 to tutor for money?
No. From 13 up, a parent or legal guardian accepts a versioned agreement and becomes the account holder and legal payee; you run the tutoring. Under 13 is refused at signup.
Nobody's identity is verified. The signature IP, user-agent, timestamp and document version are recorded, and that is the whole of it.
What happens at tax time?
fuime totals income, expenses and net for the year against the IRS $400 self-employment threshold. Schedule SE multiplies net earnings by 92.35% first, so the real trigger is $433.14 of net profit.
It is an estimator: it does not touch checkout, calculate sales tax, or file anything. What it counts.
Can I raise my rate?
You set every price and change it whenever you like. fuime has no suggested rate, no recommended range and nowhere to store one. It will never tell you what your hour is worth.
Where this stops
Four things fuime will not do.
It will not chase anybody
You still send the link and follow up, but an unpaid invoice costs you nothing.
Nobody is verified
Age is a self-attested checkbox, and no document is ever held.
Not a tax service
It estimates your income tax position. It files nothing, and none of it is advice.
USD, and the United States
English only. A client abroad or a second currency is outside what fuime does.