Creator agreement

1. What this is

This sits on top of the terms. Opening a kitchen means you accept both. Where they disagree about creators, this page wins. Nothing here makes you our employee, our agent or our partner — you run your kitchen, we run the platform.

2. Who can open a kitchen

You need to be 18 or over, able to enter a contract, and able to pass Stripe's identity checks in a country Stripe supports. You need the right to publish what you publish.

Kitchens open straight away, without an application. That is deliberate, and it is also why section 8 exists.

3. The fee

OnlyFood keeps 15% of the sticker price of every sale. You keep 85%, and nothing else is taken out of it. Card processing comes out of our 15%, not your 85%. Payout costs come out of ours too. There is no monthly fee, no listing fee and no minimum.

So a £5.99 membership pays you £5.09 and us £0.90. Every price field in the studio shows you that line before you save it.

The fee is 15% today and is still under review. If we change it, you get at least 30 days' notice by e-mail, and the new figure only applies to sales after it takes effect. If you do not like it, you can close your kitchen before then.

Refunds reverse both sides: your share comes back out, our fee comes back to you with it. Chargebacks are handled the same way, and we will tell you when one lands against your kitchen.

4. Your prices

You set them. We set floors so that a small sale still covers card processing: £3.99 a month for a membership, £2.99 for a Recipe Pass, £15 for a session, £5 for a cookalong seat. A yearly membership is ten months for twelve.

Tax is added on top of your price where it applies, so a change in tax never changes what you keep.

5. Payouts

You are paid through Stripe Connect Express. Payouts run weekly, on Fridays, to the bank account you give Stripe. OnlyFood never sees or holds your bank details, and never holds your money any longer than Stripe's schedule.

You will need to finish Stripe's onboarding before your kitchen can take money: identity, business details and a bank account. Stripe may hold a payout while it verifies something, or if a dispute is open. Your earnings ledger in the studio shows every sale, what you kept and the date it was paid.

You also accept Stripe's Connected Account Agreement as part of that onboarding. [Solicitor: confirm the wording and the place we capture that acceptance.]

6. Tax is yours

What you earn here is your income. You are responsible for declaring it and for paying whatever is due where you live. OnlyFood does not deduct tax and does not issue you a tax form.

Stripe may require identity and tax details from you, and reports your earnings where it has to — a 1099-K in the United States, the local equivalent elsewhere. On sales tax and VAT charged to buyers, OnlyFood is the merchant of record and handles it; that is our side, not yours.

7. What you publish

Your recipes stay yours. You give OnlyFood a licence to host and display them, as set out in section 6 of the terms, including showing the free part of a recipe publicly so people can find you.

• Publish your own recipes. If a recipe is adapted from someone else, credit them by name.
• Your own photographs, or photographs you have the right to use.
• Food safety stated where it matters: cooking temperatures, resting times, raw egg, raw fish, home preserving, fermenting.
• Allergens named in the ingredients list. Not hinted at.
• No medical or health claims. Food is not a treatment, and a recipe page is not the place to say it is.
• No sexualised food language. The name carries the joke; your kitchen does not have to.
• Nothing illegal, hateful, or aimed at anyone under 18.

Ingredients and equipment are always free to read. You choose where the member line falls in the method, and everything before it is public.

8. If something goes wrong

We can unpublish a recipe, or suspend a kitchen, when it breaks section 7, when a rights holder complains, or when there is fraud. We tell you what and why, and you can appeal by replying to that e-mail — a person reads it and answers.

A suspension does not take your earnings. You are paid what you have earned up to that point, on the usual Friday.

9. Your members' details

You see your members' display names, their handles, the questions they ask you, what they cooked and what they paid you for. You never see their e-mail addresses, their card details or their home address, and we will not give them to you.

What you do see, you may use to run your kitchen: answering questions, preparing a session, thanking someone. You may not export it to sell, to add people to a mailing list, or to move them somewhere else.

10. No exclusivity

None. Publish the same recipes on your blog, your channel, your newsletter, a book, another platform. We are not asking you to choose. If we ever have to earn it, we would rather earn it.

11. Sessions and cookalongs

You supply the meeting link — Zoom, Meet, Discord, whatever you already use — and it is only shown to someone who has booked. You set the length, the price, the slots and the cancellation window.

• Turn up, on time, for a slot someone paid for.
• If you have to cancel, cancel the slot rather than leave it — the member is refunded in full.
• No recording a member without telling them and getting a yes.
• Treat the people in the room the way you would in your own kitchen.

Repeatedly missing paid slots is a reason to suspend a kitchen under section 8.

12. Closing your kitchen

You can close it whenever you like. When you do:

• Memberships stop renewing. Members keep access until the end of the month they have paid for.
• Recipe Passes were sold as forever, so those recipes stay readable to the people who bought them. If you delete a recipe outright, we refund those passes out of your share.
• Booked sessions either happen or are refunded in full.
• Your last payout arrives on the usual Friday after the money clears.

We can end this agreement with 30 days' notice, or immediately for the reasons in section 8.

13. Law and contact

Governed by the law of England and Wales. [Placeholder for the solicitor: governing law, and how this reads for a creator outside the UK.]

hello@onlyfood.me · [OnlyFood Ltd], [registered address].