Why we bill by the minute
No subscriptions, no hourly minimums. You see the rate up front and pay for exactly the time you use.
Most ways of paying for someone's time are built for the seller, not for you. A subscription bills you whether you use it or not. An hourly minimum makes you buy an hour to ask a ten-minute question. WannaCall is built the other way around.
See the rate, choose the minutes
Every expert sets a per-minute rate, and it is shown on their profile before you commit to anything. When you book, you choose how many minutes you want and see the total up front: your minutes times their rate, with nothing hidden. Payment is taken at checkout through Stripe, and those minutes are reserved for your call.
That is the whole deal. No membership, no package you have to grow into, and no paying for time you never use.
It works for experts too
The same simplicity runs the other way. Experts add the services they offer, set a per-minute rate for each, and publish when they are available. People book real slots against that availability, earnings from completed calls are paid out automatically through Stripe, and the full history stays in the app. Rates and availability are theirs to change whenever they like.
Why it matters
Paying for exactly what you need, and nothing more, is the principle underneath everything we build. It shapes how booking works, how profiles read, and how we talk about the product. Get that one thing right and the rest follows.