Free for most. AED 29 when it isn't.

One revenue line. No commission per applicant. No subscription. No premium tier. Job seekers never pay anything, ever.

1. The TL;DR #

What	Price	Lifetime
First 3 listings per rolling 30 days, per employer	Free	30 days from publish
Every listing beyond the free quota	AED 29 (5% VAT inclusive)	30 days from publish
Extend any listing (free-origin or paid-origin) by another 30 days	AED 29 (5% VAT inclusive) per extension · unlimited	+30 days from the current expiry
Job-seeker account, browsing, applying, withdrawing	Free	—

You probably won't pay anything.Most UAE employers hire fewer than 3 roles a month. The free quota is sized so the typical employer never sees a charge. The AED 29 fee exists for the long-tail buyer (4+ posts in 30 days) and for extending listings past their default 30-day window.

2. How the free quota works #

• The quota is per employer account, not per listing or per Emirates ID.
• It's a rolling 30-day window. Each free listing counts against your quota for 30 days from its publish timestamp. After 30 days, that slot returns to your quota automatically.
• Cancelling a free listing (via the "Cancel listing" button in the dashboard) immediately returns the slot to your quota — you can re-post right away.
• A draft that never publishes does not consume a slot.
• If your trade-licence verification or 2FA gate refuses the publish, the slot is not consumed — you can retry once the gate clears.

3. When AED 29 is charged #

You see the AED 29 Stripe Checkout page only in three situations:

1. You've used all 3 free posts in the last 30 days and want to post a 4th. The 4th post (and onwards) is paid.
2. You want to extend any listing past 30 days. Both free-origin and paid-origin listings can be extended; each extension is AED 29 and adds 30 days to the current expiry. There is no cap on extensions.
3. An older free post ages back into your quota while you're already on the paid path. Stripe still charges that one; the freshly-freed slot is available for your next post.

The fee is AED 29 inclusive of 5% VAT. Stripe collects payment in AED; no foreign-exchange surprise. We never see or store your card number.

4. What "30 days from publish" means #

The 30-day clock starts the moment the listing transitions from paid / draft to published — i.e., the moment trade-licence verification and 2FA both pass and the listing appears in the seeker feed. It does not start at payment time. If your trade licence takes 8 hours to review, those 8 hours don't shorten your 30-day window.

At the 30-day mark, the listing transitions to expired. It disappears from the public feed. The application inbox stays available in your dashboard until PDPL retention sweeps in. You can extend the listing back to published for AED 29 from the dashboard.

5. Refunds #

• Free listing → cancelled. No money changes hands. The quota slot returns immediately.
• Paid listing → cancelled. Trabaho calls Stripe's Refund API; AED 29 lands back on the original card in 1–5 business days (statutory ceiling: 14 days, per Cabinet Decision 66/2023 Article 17).
• Auto-refund on trade-licence rejection. If your trade licence fails verification and the paid listing therefore cannot publish, the AED 29 is refunded automatically. You don't need to ask.
• Extension fee. Extensions are non-refundable once the +30-day window has begun. (You're paying for the right to keep the listing live; the moment we extend, the obligation is satisfied per IFRS 15.)

Full statutory detail at Refund Policy.

6. What we don't charge for, ever #

• Job-seeker registration, browsing, applying, withdrawing, exporting your data.
• Per-applicant fees. The listing fee does not scale with how many applications you receive.
• Featured or boosted placement. There is no paid-promotion tier. Listing order is deterministic and identical for all viewers.
• Resume access. CVs come in via the standard application flow; there is no separate "candidate database" subscription.
• Cancellation. There is no cancellation fee. There is no early-termination fee. There is no churn fee.
• Re-posting after a cancellation or an expiry — that's just a new listing, governed by your current quota and the same fee schedule.

7. VAT, invoices, and corporate-tax records #

AED 29 is inclusive of 5% Value Added Tax per Federal Decree-Law No. 8 of 2017. Stripe issues a receipt with the VAT-inclusive amount; you can download a VAT invoice from your dashboard once we register for VAT. We retain payment records for 7 years per UAE Corporate Tax Law (Federal Decree-Law 47/2022, Article 56). Free listings produce no payment record — only the audit envelope describing publication and cancellation.

8. Why we did it this way #

The platform's whole reason to exist is that worker-pays job boards in the UAE create the exact incentive that produces visa scams: a recruiter can monetise an applicant before any real job exists. Someone has to pay for the platform — the answer is employers, not workers, and only when they're using the platform heavily. A small SME hiring a single cleaner per quarter posts for free, forever. A large logistics employer pushing 12 roles a month pays for the long tail. Either way, no fee touches the worker.

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