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Ask HN: What are you using to bill one-off online calls/meetings?
I receive a small, but non-trivial amount of emails that request my time (via a call or otherwise). When appropriate I reply (or chat) for free, but I can't do this for everything.
Instead of just saying "no", I'd prefer to have an option where I can tell the person to schedule a paid chat with me.
I've seen the likes of Code Mentor, but are there any services that cater for this in a more general-purpose way?
- crypt0calypse 8y agoAre you looking for something to just send invoices or schedule and send invoices? If it's the former, you could always use Quickbooks or something like simpleinvoices.io.
- aosaigh 8y agoNo, I probably wasn't very clear in the original post. More like a video chat service with billing built-in. Code Mentor allows you to have a video chat with somebody and it handles the payment depending on how long you were talking. I'm looking for a generic version of this (that isn't particularly geared toward coding/programming)
- silviapfeiffer 8y agoWe run a video consultation platform (https://www.coviu.com/ https://www.coviu.com/) and you can activate a stripe integration to create appointment bookings with associated stripe payments (activate the "Client Payments" addon from https://coviu.com/addons https://coviu.com/addons). People can't enter the video call without having paid. You might want to check out if that solves your problem.
- dgwight 8y agoI’m working on something like this: https://otechie.com https://otechie.com. Otechie is starting off focused on support from open source maintainers, but will cover your use case. What are you helping people with?