Sell Your Proofreading & Editing Services Online

You can sell proofreading, copy editing, line editing, developmental and structural feedback, manuscript and book editing, thesis and dissertation editing, academic and journal editing, bilingual proofreading, website and marketing copy passes, CV and cover-letter checks, and editing of AI-drafted copy. Each can be a fixed-price Zinn, a Micro Zinn from $5 to $20, a proposal on a posted Project, or a specialism on your Freelancer Directory profile.

Most editors publish tiered packages by word count — for example up to 1,000 words, up to 5,000, and up to 20,000 — with revisions and turnaround stated on each. Zinn Hub supports that directly: every Zinn can carry multiple packages with their own price, delivery time and revision count. All prices are set and charged in USD, and buyers can view an approximate equivalent in their own currency. If a manuscript does not fit a package, send a two-way custom offer instead.

Your first $500 in sales is commission-free — you keep 100%. After that the rate is tiered and falls as your lifetime sales grow: 20% up to $2,500, 15% up to $10,000, 13% up to $15,000, 10% up to $20,000, and 8% above $20,000. Two paid memberships replace the ladder with a flat rate: Pro Zinner at $25 a month is a flat 8%, and Agency Zinner at $50 a month is a flat 7%. The full breakdown is on our pricing page.

There are two payment modes and you choose which one you use. Connect your own Stripe or PayPal account and buyers pay you directly at checkout — there is no payout run to wait for. Alternatively, choose platform-protected payments: Zinn Hub holds the buyer payment until the order completes, and you are then paid from the platform payout run, which goes out every Friday. Everything is tracked in your Payouts dashboard.

No qualification is required. A CIEP or equivalent membership is worth showing, but a before-and-after sample and a clear statement of what your edit does and does not cover carry more weight with buyers. Every Zinner is verified with government-issued photo ID and evidence of their skills and past work before listings go live. If you are new, start with two or three Micro Zinns at $5 to $20 to build a review history quickly.

Yes. Alongside one-time services you can sell subscriptions on daily, weekly, monthly or yearly billing, hourly-rate services, and video consultations. A monthly retainer covering a content team’s blog output, or a weekly newsletter proofread, fits the subscription model well. You can also send a custom offer to a returning buyer, or receive a request from one, for work that falls outside your published packages.

Requirements, revisions and messages all live on the order, so the brief you were given and the work you returned sit in one place. Refunds are credited to the buyer’s Zinn Wallet in full, in USD — there is no refund-to-card flow. If you take platform-protected payments, the buyer’s payment is held by Zinn Hub until the order completes, which is what makes a disputed order straightforward to resolve.

Yes. Zinn Hub is available in 45 site languages and there are 57 languages you can be messaged in, so a buyer can browse and message in their own language even when your service is English-language editing. That matters most for bilingual proofreading, where the buyer is often working in a second language themselves. Buyers pay no platform fee, and all prices are charged in USD.