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Sell from home

Your pot, your neighbours.

Cook what you already cook. Neighbours order a plate, a PikaBox rider collects it sealed at your gate, and what you earn lands on your M-Pesa that night.

Apply to cookHow the money works
Sell from your kitchen: plates per pot, price per plate and pots a week, worked out after the fee
Tonight’s pot in the home cook’s app: plates sold, the freshness clock and the riders collecting at her gate
Your address stays yoursBuyers never see it, only the rider on the night
  • You set the priceYour dish, your plates, your price per plate
  • Paid every nightStraight to the M-Pesa number in your name
  • A verified kitchenChecked by our team before your first pot
  • Leftovers, never wastedShare them free with a feeding programme

A night in your kitchen

Put the pot on. We’ll do the rest.

Your app walks you through the evening: what to cook, what to charge, who is at your gate, and what you were paid.

  1. Tonight’s pot: the dish, a photo, how many plates and what time riders can collect

    Open tonight’s pot

    Pick a dish you have saved, add a photo, say how many plates and when they are ready.

  2. The pricing helper: ingredients, gas and packaging, then your price per plate

    Price it your way

    The pricing helper adds up ingredients, gas and packaging. The price is always yours to set.

  3. Handover at the gate: check the rider’s face and ask for his code

    Hand over at the gate

    Check the rider’s face against his photo and ask for his code. Nobody comes inside.

  4. Getting paid: the M-Pesa number in your name and when you are paid

    Paid tonight

    Every plate, paid to the M-Pesa number in your own name the same night.

How the money works

Your price, your pay.

Buyers pay the price on your menu. PikaBox takes 15% of it for the orders, the riders and the safety checks, and the rest is yours, paid every night.

Your own sum

10
400

Estimate, after PikaBox’s 15% fee, cooking 4 days a week

KES 13,600 a week

Your earnings in the home cook’s app: the last seven days, your best dish and what was paid to M-Pesa

One plate, line by line

Your priceWhat the buyer pays, set by you
Yours
PikaBox commissionTaken from your price, never added to it
15%
At Kitchen legendThe top stage pays a lower commission
12%
PackagingFrom the PikaBox packaging shop, at cost
At cost
TipsAdded the moment a neighbour tips
All yours

Paid to your M-PesaEvery night

Sharing leftovers with a feeding programme is free: no fee, nothing charged to you.

You’re food safe: the Food Safe certificate after passing the hygiene course
Getting verified: ID, food handler’s certificate and the hygiene course, ticked off one by one

Getting verified

Checked once, trusted every night.

Neighbours order because they know every kitchen on PikaBox has been looked at by a person. Here is what that takes.

  1. ApplyYour ID, photos of your kitchen, where you cook and what you cook. About ten minutes.
  2. Our team verifies your kitchenA person reviews everything before your kitchen can open.
  3. The hygiene courseHome kitchen hygiene, in short lessons with a test at the end. No pot opens without a valid certificate.
  4. Packaging, then your first potStock up on PikaBox packaging and go live. Neighbours nearby can follow you.

Your cook’s journey

Grow from Starter to Kitchen legend.

Every kitchen starts with fifteen plates a day. Each stage lets you sell more, and the review that moves you up runs every night on its own: no forms, no asking.

  1. Starter

    15 plates a day

    Your first plates

    15% commission

  2. Neighbourhood

    30 plates a day

    25 completed orders, a 4.3 average and a clean safety record

    15% commission

  3. Star

    60 plates a day

    100 completed orders, a 4.6 average and a clean safety record

    15% commission

  4. Kitchen legend

    120 plates a day

    300 completed orders, a 4.8 average and a clean safety record

    12% commission

Your cook journey: the stage you are at, the next stage’s bars and your progress towards them

Moving up needs a clean safety record as well as orders and ratings. A safety strike moves a kitchen down a stage, and a promotion never changes the price of an order already paid.

Safe at your gate

Nobody comes inside.

You stay in control of your home. Buyers never see your address, and only the PikaBox rider on the night collects, at your gate.

A four-hour freshness clockEvery pot closes four hours after it is cooked, so every plate reaches its table fresh.

  • Riders are verified: you see his face and he gives you his code before you hand over
  • Allergens are declared on every dish and printed on every label
  • Share where your pot is going with someone you trust
  • Hold the safety button and our team calls you
Before you open the pot: a photo, a hygiene checklist and the allergens on the label
Safe at your door: buyers never see your address, verified riders only, and a safety line

Questions

Before you apply.

Something else on your mind? Write to hello@pikabox.co and a person will answer.

  1. Do I need a commercial kitchen?
    No. PikaBox is for home kitchens. Our team verifies yours and you pass the home kitchen hygiene course before your first pot.
  2. What does PikaBox take?
    15% of your price per plate, taken from it rather than added on top, and 12% once your kitchen reaches Kitchen legend. Packaging is bought at cost. Tips are all yours.
  3. When am I paid?
    Every night, to the M-Pesa number in your own name, for everything delivered that day.
  4. Will buyers know where I live?
    No. Buyers see your area, never your address. Only the rider collecting that night is shown where to go.
  5. How many plates can I sell?
    Fifteen a day to start. Neighbourhood kitchens can sell thirty, Star kitchens sixty and Kitchen legends a hundred and twenty.
  6. What if I can’t cook one night?
    Rest tonight with one tap, or set your weekly hours so neighbours know when your pots open.

Sell from home

Open your kitchen.

About ten minutes now. We walk you through every check after.

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