Held with Cheffar
Paid and held
At checkout
You pay the booking total through the wallets shown for your city. Cheffar keeps that amount with the booking until shopping and service finish. Do not settle the main fee in a private chat.
Trust and safety
Your kitchen is personal. Trust has to be practical.
Cheffar screens private chefs before they enter a home, shows costs in plain lines, and keeps booking money on the platform until shopping and service are complete. In this city you can pay with MTN MoMo or Orange Money.
How money works
You pay once. Money moves in stages.
Checkout holds the full total with MTN MoMo or Orange Money. Market budget opens after you approve the shopping list. Labor fee releases after the meal and cleanup.
Your approval
Market budget opens
After you approve the list
Your chef sends an itemized shopping list. You approve it. Only the market budget opens so they can buy at local markets. Labor fee stays held.
Service complete
Labor fee releases
After the meal
When the menu is served and the kitchen is left clean, labor fee releases on schedule. The main booking never needs a cash handoff at the door.
Clear costs
See what goes where before you confirm
Hosts in Cameroon watch market prices at places like Marché Central and Sandaga. Cheffar shows chef time and grocery spend on separate lines, and does not mark up your grocery money as a commission.
Time and craft
1. Chef fee
What the chef sets for expertise, prep, cooking, service, and kitchen cleanup. It stays protected until the meal is done.
Real market spend
2. Grocery money
What shopping will cost for the menu, with no markup on ingredients. Your chef sends an itemized list. You approve before shopping starts.
Flat 1 500 FCFA
3. Platform protection fee
A flat fee at checkout that covers payment protection on the booking and host support while the service runs.
Kitchen standards in CM
Vetted chefs for private kitchens
Letting someone cook where your family eats is not casual. Every chef completes identity checks, health clearance, a live cooking practical, and host service training before home bookings.
Path 1, Executive
Executive Chef
For intimate plated dinners and tables with several courses. We verify formal training or hotel and restaurant work, then run a plating practical before the profile can take home bookings.
Required checks
- National ID and health papers
- Hotel or institute record
- Plated three course practical
- Payment and house standards
Path 2, Cordon Bleu
Cordon Bleu
For Njangi, Dot, Sunday pots, and rooms full of people. We weight real occasion references and a traditional cooking practical: authenticity, batch timing, and a sensible grocery list.
Required checks
- National ID and health papers
- Occasion references
- Traditional dish practical
- Market list accuracy
Host protection
Questions hosts ask about trust
Straight answers on payments, grocery plans, chef screening, and what to do if something goes wrong.
Grocery money opens after you approve the shopping list. The chef fee pays out after the meal and cleanup are complete. Both releases show on the booking trail.
Have specific questions about booking fees or worked examples?
Trust that travels with the booking
Browse screened chefs. Keep the booking on Cheffar.
Checkout protects the total. Shopping opens when you approve the list. The chef fee releases after service.