A national marketplace for paid design consultations, ready for state by state rules.

An admin table that stores, for each state, the credentials required to list, the titles designers may display, the tax treatment of consultations and goods, and the consumer notices shown at checkout. When you open a new state, your team fills in its row and the platform applies it everywhere. Changes are logged with the date and the staff member who made them, so you can show what rule applied to any past booking.

Designers upload state licenses, registrations or certifications and, where relevant, their NCIDQ certificate. Staff verify each against the issuing body before a badge appears. Expiry dates drive reminders and automatically hide profiles whose required credential has lapsed in a state that regulates practice.

Designers publish availability in their own time zone and clients see slots in theirs. Video sessions can be sold nationwide or limited to states where the designer holds any required credential. Confirmations and reminders carry both times, which removes the most common cause of missed remote consultations. Video sessions also let a designer in a quiet market serve clients in busier ones.

After the Supreme Court's Wayfair decision, states can require tax collection from remote sellers, and most states with a sales tax have marketplace facilitator laws. The checkout calculates tax by delivery or service address and item type through a tax service, separating design fees from furnishings so each follows its own rule.

A marketplace processor charges the client once by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay, splits the amount between your commission and the designer's connected account, and pays out on your schedule. The processor verifies designer identities and issues the federal information returns designers need, while hosted payment fields keep card data out of your PCI DSS scope.

A growing list of states, from California and Virginia to Colorado, Connecticut and Texas, give residents rights over their personal data. The platform shows the right notice, honors opt out preference signals where required, logs consent, and routes access and deletion requests to an admin queue with due dates.

If designers sell furniture and decor through the platform, the marketplace may fall under the federal INFORM Consumers Act, which requires verifying and disclosing information about high volume third party sellers. We build the seller verification and disclosure screens so product sales can be switched on without exposing you.

Only clients with a completed paid session can review, incentives for reviews cannot depend on sentiment, and negative reviews cannot be hidden. These controls reflect the FTC's rule on consumer reviews and testimonials, which applies nationwide and carries civil penalties.

Bookings, gross volume, commission, refunds and unfilled searches by state, metro and designer. Leadership sees which regions are profitable, where supply is short and which session types sell in each market, and finance can export by state for tax filings. Metro level views show whether a city needs more designers, more marketing or different session prices.

The site is built to WCAG so clients using screen readers or keyboards can book, which supports ADA expectations. Because the platform is for adult homeowners, sign up includes an age confirmation and the site is not directed at children, keeping it outside COPPA's scope.