Sorry for the late response.
So here is my very long palfish/cambly explanation, a pre-warning, my typing is terrible at the moment as I have a wrist brace on and can't use my fingers properly and it's a pain to go back to correct! I'm normally much better at English!!
Palfish Kids Pay
55yuan (£6.43) per 25minute class
You get paid by payoneer once a month, once you hit the threshold of
As you take on more lessons each month, your pay goes up slightly. The highest level people earn: $10.9 (75 yuan)per 25 minute lesson.
Palfish Adults pay
I don't teach the adults so I can't give as indepth but basically you set you only pay of X amount of yuan per minute. If you teach adults, you will have to price low, to begin with until you build up enough reputation that you can start charging higher prices.
Palfish Kids Classes
To begin with Palfish book you in for some trial lessons (you can choose what times you are available). You teach the trial slides to potential customers, you get paid the standard 55yuan, but if they end up buying a course you get a bonus.
After a while palfish will stop sending trial lessons your way as the expectation is you will of converted some of your trial lessons into regular students.
Things to do to win students, do live lessons, there's the option of doing live lessons on the app, you can charge or do them for free, it's a good way of bringing in potential clients.
You can make sure to have you app open between the hours of 8am - roughly 1pm uk time, this is peak beijing time and you will notice pop ups appearing saying emergency teacher needed, this is where a teacher hasn't turned up and you're going to be the substitute, smash the lesson and try and convert them
Palfish things you need
A mobile or tablet, you teach the lesson on your phone or tablet, not a computer.
Some props, this does not have to cost you anything, I'm happy to share my prop files, I just use print outs of a monkey, fruit etc, if you don't have a printer, draw some of the things you will need in the trial lessons.
A tefl, tesol or similar certificate, do not spend loads of money on this, this is a box-ticking exercise that all Chinese companies have to do now, unless this is going to be your life long career, get the cheapest one you can find.
A blue shirt. I have a cheap blue polo that I throw on top of my actual clothes before I do a lesson.
Technically it says you need a degree or to be studying for a degree, however, there are lots of teachers on the app that don't, if you do well on your trial lesson I don't think they care as long as you have a tefl or tesol. Basically they only care that you are a native speaker and that you can ham it up in lessons.
Cambly pay
Cambly: 0.17 (usd) cents per minute, if you are fully booked this equals $10.20 an hour, pay is paid every Monday (once you are over the 20 dollar threshold) to paypal.
Cambly things you need
A computer, a webcam, a mic for your computer.
Getting Classes Cambly
Some negatives around that, at the beginning, it's hard to get booked in the slots you want at the beginning, you have no rating and no experience. The way to get around this is to jump on priority hours.
Priority hours on Cambly are hour-long slots where you guarantee you will pick up calls, for every hour, you get a 5-minute break that you can choose whenever you would like. So they route people towards you that haven't booked in.
Pros Priority hour
At the beginning realistically priority hours are the only way to make money, it helps build up your rating, you get to talk to lots of people who could book in with you as a regular tutor. You still get paid the same but its Adam at 1pm for 30 mins rather than mystery callers for the priority hour.
It's guaranteed cash, you will probably get at least one or two decent sized calls.
Neg priority hour
You have no idea who is coming in! It could be someone who's basically fluent and wants help with their IELTS practise or it could be someone who speaks no English, be prepared to adapt!
You could be sitting and only take one 15minute call. Or you could be sitting, and you take none if you take none you get a tiny amount I think like 3 dollars. Taking none hasn't happened to me yet, I've always had at least one or two calls.
If you don't get calls for the whole hour, that's a lot of sitting around to do when your not earning money, what I do is I watch Netflix on another screen or do things like Appen, so I am earning while I am sitting around.
Really try and smash these priority calls as if they like you, they will book in with you again, if you have regulars at set hours, then you don't have to faff around sitting about on priority hours.
If people want to take a peek at the palfish app/cambly app from the tutors point a view I'm happy to jump on a screen sharing app or zoom etc and show the various slides you will have to teach, how priority hours work on cambly, how to teach them. It's really the least I could do, I've really struggled in the work place due to asd and discovering this thread and learning so much has a) got me earning cash! but b) given me so much confidence that I can make money at home, in the way that I want to, if you'd told me a year ago I would be talking to randomers online on cambly I would of laughed, I was so shy. I can't explain how much confidence, ideas etc this thread has given me, so I am more than happy to return the favour and help others with the couple of bits I know!