I started a few days ago. I ended up far away from civilization quickly and had to drive 20 minutes back. 😅 Learning things quick. Extra money for bills
Happened to me also the other day, now I just take the hourly rate, so they will keep me in the area. They don't like to pay the entire hour, so they keep you within 3-5 miles of a certain restaurant.
One of my biggest tips is to pay very very close attention to your map on the app. High pay/mile ratio orders might seem appealing, but when they pull you 20 minutes away from a power strip, you're severely limiting your profit by having to spend gas/miles driving all the way back. This easily makes a $15 for 5 mile order turn into a $15 for 10 mile order which can actually be catastrophic depending on if you have to wait for orders. I took a $20 order once for 8 miles but didn't mentally register that I'd have to drive 8 miles back, and the order took 50 minutes to complete which is terrible.
I know it's unpopular to pay attention to your rate percents but Top Dasher allows "dash now" at all times, and you get priority for high pay. It makes a difference to me, anyway. In the Portland Oregon market
Glad it's working for you. My only concern is the 50/70% AR minimums with Priority Access or Top Dasher. Do you find accepting that much causes you to take low orders just to qualify?
@@YourDriverMikehe never answered so i will. i’m a platinum dasher myself with 4.97, 99% completion, 98% on time, 77% completion. i have a great market in southern new hampshire/northern massachusetts with tons of power strips all in a 5-10 mile radius. i do have to accept some orders to keep the 70% that i would usually decline, but after about 2-3 weeks of messing with it i was able to figure out a system of what i can afford to decline and what i want to accept. i did this by working 5-6 days a week and learned my area and learned the volume of orders, how much they pay and how far they take me. so by doing this i figured out a system to cherry pick orders i know will be better than what i can normally get and decline bad orders while also having a 70 and higher percent acceptance rate. it also helps when you’re a platinum dasher they filter out many poor orders so i don’t ever get offered no tip orders, 1-2$ tip orders, etc. just my best oriented but i figured id share
@@YourDriverMike as a driver in california, it really dosent seem to be a bad deal to take all low paying orders, with the adjustment guaranteed $18/hour for drive time, averaged out over the week ofcourse.
You are automatically a Top Dasher your first 30 days hun.... doesn't matter when you start... just another fabulous perk for all the loyal drivers that have been dashing! 😒
Get top dasher as soon as possible. You will actually be able to doordash whenever you want. Only need 100 dashes in a month and other stats but other than that it’s very easy.
70% completion is not easy. You have to take so many bad orders. In my area you'd have to take orders that go 15 miles for $3. No thanks 50% is good enough.
If you dash in a higher quality area you will receive better pickups and most likely higher tips, and to stay at top dasher you must stay at 100 deliveries or more each month or you will lose your status.
@marbrooksx6558 Which area are you in? I was Top Dasher ever month for 6 months in Portland, moved down to San Diego and I'm Lucky if I can get 10 orders A WEEK (2-4 hours a day simply because I just can't stand driving from "hot spot" to "hot spot" praying for an order. Any longer than that!)
Since they rolled out the new Dasher Rewards Program ("Platinum Level" instead of "Top Dasher") it has effectively killed DoorDash for me. All of the requirements (AR, CR, Total Deliveries) are now on a rolling 30-day basis so if you happen to fall below a 70% AR you immediately lose access to "Dash Now". The worst is the 100 deliveries over the last 30 days metric because once you lose access to "Dash Now" it becomes a lot harder to maintain so many deliveries as you have to schedule shifts far in advance and most of the decent times are never available. I'm convinced DoorDash secretly hates it's most experienced drivers, because changes like this force them to move on to other ways to make income.
@@petemanning1768also when it is busy sometimes resturants and places are backed up and you spend longer waiting at each place. I'm liking the morning times for now.
I also live in the Pittsburgh area so this video was perfect for me! I mainly dash in New Castle/Ellwood City and only dash in Pittsburgh itself occasionally, overall for both areas I’ve become more fond of earning by time. While it’s true I could potentially earn more from per offer pay I find that’s mostly through luck, hourly pay is much more consistent and since customers usually tip based on order size rather than distance I know that even on small orders I can make better money while also not having to make the decision of whether or not to unassign if I end up waiting for the order for a long time because I find unassigning makes me feel I’ve wasted tons of time
Also check the stacked order it might be 0 feet to the second delivery. I have had it say this like 10 times. Its a room mate putting in a second order.
Omg! I had this happen today I didn’t even realize until I got back in my car that the second order went to the same location. I walked back over there with the order and the first roommate came out and I asked him if he had another order and he said no and shut the door. I was so confused lol. Roommate with the second order texted me and let me know it did go to the same place.
Thanks for this video; super helpful! I just started doing DoorDash/UberEats yesterday (northwest Houston, TX area), and so far, I've noticed very few promotions. There's usually only one or two available, and they're at like 1:30 am and in areas far from where I live. So that's been frustrating. Also, there are only a few scheduling slots available; most are late-night hours and not in my preferred districts. Houston is really full of dashers right now. Hopefully, I'll get better offers and more opportunities as I do more orders.
On DD you have to constantly refresh the schedule, it changes all the time when you refresh it. I’m in the Houston area as well. South of Houston. I’ve gone into the city a few times and the orders are very few and far between during the day. At least you’re right it is over saturated my time to dash is late at night for me personally that’s where the money money money is. And that’s when the promos are and there’s no traffic huge bonus for me !! Like he said in the video, if you just keep your screen on, it will refresh as well. One minute you won’t see now and the next minute you will.
Appreciate this comment. I'm thinking about starting and I'm also in NW H-Town/Cypress area. I already work a part time from 4am-8am, so I'm up at 3am. Looking to quit that warehouse job and start DD.
Sorry Mike you inspire me to talk! They also started doing undesirable stacking the past month or so. $8.50 seperate delivery locations both no tips but the miles on the stack $2.00 a mile. I am at 3,853 deliveries today just sharing...
I love your videos..I just started DD today (12/30). I only did a couple of orders because i just wanted to get "my feet wet" and see how it goes. It wasnt too bad, except i issues with the app, when i arrived at the pu location, it didnt say arrived at pickup location..but eventually did...same when i went to deliver..so not sure if you have to be right in front of the customers residence or what....plus i had a couple other issues too...but im sure ill get the hang of it the more i do DD....
Thanks Mike. Basics but handy. I run with Uber Lyft and am just fixing to test the DD waters and was looking for additional insight. Our market and subms are always good out here in the valley of the sun. Would you recommend ordering the doordash bags from them or finding a Amazon accessory for cheaper (unless it likely needs branded like a catering bag for example?) Cheers mate
I’m in the Denver metro area and I had a heck of a time scheduling for Christmas eve but that’s ok because I don’t think it was busy enough. I did schedule a few hours on Sunday and Monday but honestly I think my market is over saturated by college students on holiday break. Things should start picking up mid January here.
That's what I figure. Taking the next couple weeks off to reset and things to go back to a "normal" when people are done vacationing. Most of my frequent regular customers even told me they were going to be out of town for a week or 2 at the end of the year.
I live in the city Tulsa . I get dash now anytime and DD is way better then Uber Eats i do both and UE is a dumpster fire. Barrages of 2-3-4 dollar pay that is including tips for trips 10 miles plus. Barely can average 10-12 an hour. On DD im hovering around 19-20 an hour
Yeah they have substitutions but they are not always chosen by the customer. I got burned on that a couple weeks ago. Something not available? Message customer before proceeding on that item.
Is the scheduling thing strict? Like what if you just go off-line? Or are you skipped a lot of orders because they aren’t good and you see better ones popping up on Uber eats? What’s a good way to use this and Uber eats? I’ve done Uber eats three times and now I’m considering adding this one to the mix.
It definitely takes knowing when peak is beneficial to you and not just some DD test tube, mitigation or loss leader. In my market, scheduled promo seems to have 3 purposes. 1) to acclimate volume in a rural zone. (One remote zone here does +$3 24/7) 2) expected delays (traffic conjestion) 3) historical high volume/low driver saturation. This is the only condition where promo boosts my hourly rate.
Has anyone ever tried dashing during a busy promo time / area without actually having a scheduled slot? Were u able to dash? And did you receive the promo?
is there a way to get notified that there is promos when it instant starts?? cuz they always appear on my time off from other work and i never noticed it until its close to the end of the promotions
Five guys you get them to put the fries in before you go next store to chipotle to get the other order you have. By the time you get back the fries done...
One more thing on knowing jumping task, you can pick up out of order and it almost always makes you faster. No sense in driving past taco bell to get the mcdonalds order a half mile away. You save a mile by not back tracking.
Still waiting on background check since applying last June so I called customer service again to move process forward. I Uber eats, ride share, and instacart instead
Here is what I gather from all this. EVERY single run is a business decision and you have to do that math, with guesses educated hopefully, each and every drive. Takes a lot of agility and might not work out. Scheeewoo!
Any idea how I can get DD to know that the app is not allowing to work my home town and surrounding area including six other towns and villages??? The Phillipino outsource team and supervisors are inept, ignorant, and unequipped to help even though it's a known issue involving other dashers. Anyone have a workaround as I've tried all the troubleshooting tips and the problem is on the programming side?
Also, go to a different area if yours isn’t active. I live in bay city and I cover all of midland, bay city and Essexville MI, but there is so many dashers mostly in midland that my area is almost ever open especially with how I work. But Saginaw is open far more frequently.
Also if you live in an area like mine, take every order, you don’t have enough time and there isn’t enough orders to cherry pick to much. Just take what you can in your hour at most they give you to dash. Trying out using multiple delivery apps at once rn.
And when it's gray, there's so few orders to be had that it's not worth going out anyway; so never chase top dasher. Very rarely, it is b/c it is good peak pay but that sometimes can happen right after a snowstorm where DD put a high peak pay on which usually runs for a few hours after the storm ends.
Happened last night, peak pay from 3:30 to 5:30, it was dead and the map was gray from 6:00 onward. I called it a night a 7 and grabbed and order on my way home but was done 3 hours earlier than normal.
Do you have a referral code for Doordash or Uber. Started driving for lyft without one. Just trying to have more opportunity. Please let me know. In Vegas, thanks.
My base pay seems to be pertty much $3-5 minus the bonus pay. so if bonus is $2 then my base pays are 2 dollars less. the the promo bonuses never really matter at all until they are around 4 or more for me
Live demand hotspots can also get you a fast order if you get close enough. I don't think it is a really past tense indicator. The resturaunts can push a dasher off if they need more time to prep. I have this happen alot where I get close and get an order from that resturaunt.
I swear the half hour blocks are becoming too common in my area, that's when the zone will light up red for like a minute and says it's busy, I'm sick of the mind games
I also find the ability to decline 1 per hour quite subjective. If it is slow, you will be booted off promptly once you decline more than one for the hour. But when it's very busy, they'll let you time out offers a good 10 times per hour before they will get around to booting you off. They probably know that some people will end up quitting for some time once they are booted off.
These tips and tricks would only work for people Door Dashing in a big city though. . . What about a small to mid sized city that isn''t as busy as Philadelphia usually is??
Previously I made a mistake in the comments, when I noted DD's recent requirement change. I was upset because I thought they changed the acceptance rate from 70% to 90%. After reading my email again, it was the COMPLETION RATE they raised (from 80% - 90%). Big difference. I know how crucial accurate information is when trying to make important decisions. I apologize for the mix up. Wishing everybody prosperity in 2024.
dang $25/hr goal? i can barely get $20/active hour and when you count time spent driving back to the zone and waiting for orders to come in its more like $17/hr
Im new. Maybe I’m looking in the wrong place but many times it’ll say like $7.50 for 4 mi. I’ll take it then all of a sudden it says I’m delivering 20 mins away. It does NOT show where I’m going. It also doesn’t give the item count until I’ve accepted AND navigated to the pickup location. Recently I had a 7-11 order that the business owner hadn’t even picked, and there were 3 other dashers there ahead of me who were also frustrated. They decided to pick their own orders (one man had over 100 items!?) because just one man working at the 7-11, the owner, expects the dashers to pick the orders. 😢
I have e-bikes So door dash is very good for me personally I never ever go to a gas station No insurance no property taxes plates tickets …should I continue??? So yea I profit easily lol
What happens when people schedule out the schedule and then they don’t do those? So the people who did want or had availability to work didn’t get a chance to schedule.
i worked really hard to get my acceptance rate over 70% to get the highest priority orders and half the time they are crap. They are quite often I would say 50% of the time about a dollar per mile so now I'm wondering if I should just go back to your about $2.00 per mile standard or try to push all the way to top dasher to see if I get even better orders? I'm in downtown Winter Park Orlando
You know I'm curious as well. I don't know how amazing the priority orders would effect money per hour. Like I don't know if it should be a dollar per mile. I don't really understand what I should go for.
Is doordash different in Indianapolis or something. I have never seen $4 peak pay. And all i see is low offers. $1 per mile, sometimes less than that. Peak pay is 1 or 2 $. Im just tired.
It's not an error, I've encountered this too. You can only edit if the shift will fit into an available time slot in the scheduling section. Even if you're already scheduled in advance and you're trying to push the start time back an hour, it won't let you unless there are available shifts all the way until your end time.
In my market, no amount of trickery is able to outsmart the algorithm. Late at night when orders take forever to get dispatched: no pay by hour. Caught a few good tips in a row? No orders for a while. High pay, long delivery? Usually that's the last order of your shift. It's like they don't want you to make more than $15/hr total dash time
I am very new, like 3 dashes, my very second dash the customer ordered a gift to be delivered at a second person's job and that business didn't pen until 10am. I was at the delivery at 9:45. I ended up waiting until 10am because 4 other customers were waiting at the door and I didn't want the food to get stolen. Was that the correct thing to do or can (or should) you cancel the order?
If the instructions say “leave at door”, just leave it. If the instructions tell you to hand it to me. Send the customer a “ready to send message” telling them that you’re here then a 5 minutes timer will start if they don’t show up DD will tell you to leave the order outside unless a return to the store is required
One thing I haven't heard anyone say on any DD video is MAKE SURE YOU GET RECEIPTS for gas. You will thank me come tax season.
I started a few days ago. I ended up far away from civilization quickly and had to drive 20 minutes back. 😅 Learning things quick. Extra money for bills
Yea seriously I ended up getting 3 orders in the morning and wasted my time chasing hot spots tht went away and changed when I got there
Happened to me also the other day, now I just take the hourly rate, so they will keep me in the area. They don't like to pay the entire hour, so they keep you within 3-5 miles of a certain restaurant.
It's pretty f*cked up, drive like 20 or 30 minutes for a decent order but then you have to drive 20 or 30 minutes back to your zone
yuh, i jumped on an order for $23 payout without checking distance my first dash in years. wasnt worth the long drive.
Lol same 😂
One of my biggest tips is to pay very very close attention to your map on the app. High pay/mile ratio orders might seem appealing, but when they pull you 20 minutes away from a power strip, you're severely limiting your profit by having to spend gas/miles driving all the way back. This easily makes a $15 for 5 mile order turn into a $15 for 10 mile order which can actually be catastrophic depending on if you have to wait for orders. I took a $20 order once for 8 miles but didn't mentally register that I'd have to drive 8 miles back, and the order took 50 minutes to complete which is terrible.
I know it's unpopular to pay attention to your rate percents but Top Dasher allows "dash now" at all times, and you get priority for high pay. It makes a difference to me, anyway. In the Portland Oregon market
Glad it's working for you. My only concern is the 50/70% AR minimums with Priority Access or Top Dasher. Do you find accepting that much causes you to take low orders just to qualify?
@@YourDriverMikehe never answered so i will. i’m a platinum dasher myself with 4.97, 99% completion, 98% on time, 77% completion. i have a great market in southern new hampshire/northern massachusetts with tons of power strips all in a 5-10 mile radius. i do have to accept some orders to keep the 70% that i would usually decline, but after about 2-3 weeks of messing with it i was able to figure out a system of what i can afford to decline and what i want to accept. i did this by working 5-6 days a week and learned my area and learned the volume of orders, how much they pay and how far they take me. so by doing this i figured out a system to cherry pick orders i know will be better than what i can normally get and decline bad orders while also having a 70 and higher percent acceptance rate. it also helps when you’re a platinum dasher they filter out many poor orders so i don’t ever get offered no tip orders, 1-2$ tip orders, etc. just my best oriented but i figured id share
@@YourDriverMike as a driver in california, it really dosent seem to be a bad deal to take all low paying orders, with the adjustment guaranteed $18/hour for drive time, averaged out over the week ofcourse.
I you don't decline an just let the time run out it doesn't effect your acceptance rate I don't believe
Yeah, unfortunately, that STILL affects your AR @@billphillips983
if you sign up on the last day of a month and don't do anything til the first day of the next you get top dasher rewards automatically
I automatically got top dasher and I started in the middle of the month, don't know how it happened
You are automatically a Top Dasher your first 30 days hun.... doesn't matter when you start... just another fabulous perk for all the loyal drivers that have been dashing! 😒
I just create a new account with a fake id every single month to always be top dawg
@@JessiP-kz5zj oh fr???????😐
Hi Mike I'm new to dashing ty for all your help
Great information thank you!
Get top dasher as soon as possible. You will actually be able to doordash whenever you want. Only need 100 dashes in a month and other stats but other than that it’s very easy.
70% completion is not easy. You have to take so many bad orders. In my area you'd have to take orders that go 15 miles for $3. No thanks 50% is good enough.
If you dash in a higher quality area you will receive better pickups and most likely higher tips, and to stay at top dasher you must stay at 100 deliveries or more each month or you will lose your status.
@marbrooksx6558 Which area are you in? I was Top Dasher ever month for 6 months in Portland, moved down to San Diego and I'm Lucky if I can get 10 orders A WEEK (2-4 hours a day simply because I just can't stand driving from "hot spot" to "hot spot" praying for an order. Any longer than that!)
Since they rolled out the new Dasher Rewards Program ("Platinum Level" instead of "Top Dasher") it has effectively killed DoorDash for me. All of the requirements (AR, CR, Total Deliveries) are now on a rolling 30-day basis so if you happen to fall below a 70% AR you immediately lose access to "Dash Now". The worst is the 100 deliveries over the last 30 days metric because once you lose access to "Dash Now" it becomes a lot harder to maintain so many deliveries as you have to schedule shifts far in advance and most of the decent times are never available. I'm convinced DoorDash secretly hates it's most experienced drivers, because changes like this force them to move on to other ways to make income.
@@JessiP-kz5zj Fullerton area
PSS This is a great DoorDash 101 video! Thanks! ☺️
Here in my area I’ve noticed when there’s peak pay the orders come in slow. Usually
It can backfire on you because more drivers come out for that and therefore everyone gets fewer orders.
@@petemanning1768also when it is busy sometimes resturants and places are backed up and you spend longer waiting at each place. I'm liking the morning times for now.
Great video.... Very informative. Well executed
Great tips Mike. I wish we had $4 or $5 peak pay. I rarely ever see anything over a $1.50 if there is even peak pay.
Peak pay never go up more than $2 here
Hey bro, thank you for this. I just started dashing in the Canonsburg/Washington area.
This is a great comprehensive guide for new and experienced Dashers! 🙌🏻
I also live in the Pittsburgh area so this video was perfect for me! I mainly dash in New Castle/Ellwood City and only dash in Pittsburgh itself occasionally, overall for both areas I’ve become more fond of earning by time. While it’s true I could potentially earn more from per offer pay I find that’s mostly through luck, hourly pay is much more consistent and since customers usually tip based on order size rather than distance I know that even on small orders I can make better money while also not having to make the decision of whether or not to unassign if I end up waiting for the order for a long time because I find unassigning makes me feel I’ve wasted tons of time
Very cool. Thank you
Also check the stacked order it might be 0 feet to the second delivery. I have had it say this like 10 times. Its a room mate putting in a second order.
Omg! I had this happen today I didn’t even realize until I got back in my car that the second order went to the same location. I walked back over there with the order and the first roommate came out and I asked him if he had another order and he said no and shut the door. I was so confused lol. Roommate with the second order texted me and let me know it did go to the same place.
Same customer, same restaurant - he just added a whole new order for one more item. Ended up with extra $6.... Sweet deal.
Had 2 orders twice that morning. 2 each time. In same small apartment area right next door. 😊
Thanks for this video; super helpful! I just started doing DoorDash/UberEats yesterday (northwest Houston, TX area), and so far, I've noticed very few promotions. There's usually only one or two available, and they're at like 1:30 am and in areas far from where I live. So that's been frustrating. Also, there are only a few scheduling slots available; most are late-night hours and not in my preferred districts. Houston is really full of dashers right now. Hopefully, I'll get better offers and more opportunities as I do more orders.
On DD you have to constantly refresh the schedule, it changes all the time when you refresh it. I’m in the Houston area as well. South of Houston. I’ve gone into the city a few times and the orders are very few and far between during the day. At least you’re right it is over saturated my time to dash is late at night for me personally that’s where the money money money is. And that’s when the promos are and there’s no traffic huge bonus for me !! Like he said in the video, if you just keep your screen on, it will refresh as well. One minute you won’t see now and the next minute you will.
Appreciate this comment. I'm thinking about starting and I'm also in NW H-Town/Cypress area. I already work a part time from 4am-8am, so I'm up at 3am. Looking to quit that warehouse job and start DD.
Thanks for the info my man!! Allot to think about but makes a ton of "cents":)
Sorry Mike you inspire me to talk! They also started doing undesirable stacking the past month or so. $8.50 seperate delivery locations both no tips but the miles on the stack $2.00 a mile. I am at 3,853 deliveries today just sharing...
Good information
Peak pay is going for about 24hrs+ in my area right now. Which is kinda bittersweet because there is sooo many dashers live now.
Thank you
I stay near the mall and five minutes from downtown! I make good money in my new area.
I love your videos..I just started DD today (12/30). I only did a couple of orders because i just wanted to get "my feet wet" and see how it goes. It wasnt too bad, except i issues with the app, when i arrived at the pu location, it didnt say arrived at pickup location..but eventually did...same when i went to deliver..so not sure if you have to be right in front of the customers residence or what....plus i had a couple other issues too...but im sure ill get the hang of it the more i do DD....
@0:11 best tip, and I hate spreading this news is being Top Dasher with pizza, alcohol, priority shopping with 80% AR
Thanks Mike. Basics but handy. I run with Uber Lyft and am just fixing to test the DD waters and was looking for additional insight. Our market and subms are always good out here in the valley of the sun. Would you recommend ordering the doordash bags from them or finding a Amazon accessory for cheaper (unless it likely needs branded like a catering bag for example?)
Cheers mate
I’m in the Denver metro area and I had a heck of a time scheduling for Christmas eve but that’s ok because I don’t think it was busy enough. I did schedule a few hours on Sunday and Monday but honestly I think my market is over saturated by college students on holiday break. Things should start picking up mid January here.
That's what I figure. Taking the next couple weeks off to reset and things to go back to a "normal" when people are done vacationing. Most of my frequent regular customers even told me they were going to be out of town for a week or 2 at the end of the year.
You’re the man
I live in the city Tulsa . I get dash now anytime and DD is way better then Uber Eats i do both and UE is a dumpster fire. Barrages of 2-3-4 dollar pay that is including tips for trips 10 miles plus. Barely can average 10-12 an hour. On DD im hovering around 19-20 an hour
Yeah they have substitutions but they are not always chosen by the customer. I got burned on that a couple weeks ago. Something not available? Message customer before proceeding on that item.
Drivers start rebellion 1/1/2024!
I just started dashing in Pittsburgh....first day was smooth....
“Dash now” availability is low in Longmont, Co. Plus the schedule blocks are small.
Is the scheduling thing strict? Like what if you just go off-line? Or are you skipped a lot of orders because they aren’t good and you see better ones popping up on Uber eats? What’s a good way to use this and Uber eats? I’ve done Uber eats three times and now I’m considering adding this one to the mix.
There's only one area in my city the whole city is the area but divided into hot zones never get peak pay and never super busy to get peak pay
It definitely takes knowing when peak is beneficial to you and not just some DD test tube, mitigation or loss leader. In my market, scheduled promo seems to have 3 purposes.
1) to acclimate volume in a rural zone. (One remote zone here does +$3 24/7)
2) expected delays (traffic conjestion)
3) historical high volume/low driver saturation. This is the only condition where promo boosts my hourly rate.
I start getting deliveries from Town to Town for 9 dollars (20 minutes drive from the pick up to the custumer)
So is there a certain time that they drop the peak pay? To schedule is always prayed out for my market.
Has anyone ever tried dashing during a busy promo time / area without actually having a scheduled slot? Were u able to dash? And did you receive the promo?
Can someone explain how peak pay works, like why is there Different peak pay for dashers dashing in the same zone during peak pay hours?
is there a way to get notified that there is promos when it instant starts?? cuz they always appear on my time off from other work and i never noticed it until its close to the end of the promotions
any time I'm driving through Pittsburgh I think about how hectic it would be door dashing in some of the busy areas. No where to park in some areas
We had 3$ peak pay yesterday but I was only able to get 3 orders in 2 hours 😢
Jumping task is the biggest hack to know. I hope you talk about it!
Five guys you get them to put the fries in before you go next store to chipotle to get the other order you have. By the time you get back the fries done...
You also can jump to the delivery task of a stacked order. If the second resturaunt is slammed. Make the first customer happy.
One more thing on knowing jumping task, you can pick up out of order and it almost always makes you faster. No sense in driving past taco bell to get the mcdonalds order a half mile away. You save a mile by not back tracking.
Still waiting on background check since applying last June so I called customer service again to move process forward. I Uber eats, ride share, and instacart instead
Iif you schedule days ahead is it saved on you app somewhere?
@djganesh Considering this in retirement. Is your $1.75/mile goal including your 20-30% for taxes or should one add that percent on.
Here is what I gather from all this. EVERY single run is a business decision and you have to do that math, with guesses educated hopefully, each and every drive. Takes a lot of agility and might not work out. Scheeewoo!
Any idea how I can get DD to know that the app is not allowing to work my home town and surrounding area including six other towns and villages??? The Phillipino outsource team and supervisors are inept, ignorant, and unequipped to help even though it's a known issue involving other dashers. Anyone have a workaround as I've tried all the troubleshooting tips and the problem is on the programming side?
I noticed here all peak pay is at 1 to 2 am. All restaurants are closed then.
Why would the tips be lower on the earn by time? And how would they know? R they taking them? 😢
Your lucky in America we don't get tips in Australia maybe life is tough now
My area almost never gets peak pay!! The best I've gotten was $4 an hour, on New years eve. 😂
Also, go to a different area if yours isn’t active. I live in bay city and I cover all of midland, bay city and Essexville MI, but there is so many dashers mostly in midland that my area is almost ever open especially with how I work. But Saginaw is open far more frequently.
Also if you live in an area like mine, take every order, you don’t have enough time and there isn’t enough orders to cherry pick to much. Just take what you can in your hour at most they give you to dash. Trying out using multiple delivery apps at once rn.
I live in the Fort Worth area today is my first day. I have been online for an hour and have yet to get an order. Not sure what i am doing wrong.
And when it's gray, there's so few orders to be had that it's not worth going out anyway; so never chase top dasher. Very rarely, it is b/c it is good peak pay but that sometimes can happen right after a snowstorm where DD put a high peak pay on which usually runs for a few hours after the storm ends.
Happened last night, peak pay from 3:30 to 5:30, it was dead and the map was gray from 6:00 onward. I called it a night a 7 and grabbed and order on my way home but was done 3 hours earlier than normal.
Do you have a referral code for Doordash or Uber. Started driving for lyft without one. Just trying to have more opportunity. Please let me know. In Vegas, thanks.
Hi new dasher
I love dashing and i make money doing so!!!
My base pay seems to be pertty much $3-5 minus the bonus pay. so if bonus is $2 then my base pays are 2 dollars less. the the promo bonuses never really matter at all until they are around 4 or more for me
My area only has scheduling in the middle of the night :(
If waited for orders that are $2 per mile I’d never do any orders in my area.
how do i change my set point
Is it bad to have shop and deliver off? I don’t want to spend more time out of my car if I can help it.
Made 300 a day just hustling
Good luck.
How do you make more money in a small town called Osceola AR and there are a lot dasher
The only peak pay I see is at midnight to 3 in the morning I have to risk my life to make extra money apparently
What is the largest $ offer you received from uber?
I’ve see $9 and $11 peak pay here in Austin, TX
Lyft peak pay 3-4 am really I’m usually asleep still and I did do it once only got one ride in so not worth it.
Live demand hotspots can also get you a fast order if you get close enough. I don't think it is a really past tense indicator. The resturaunts can push a dasher off if they need more time to prep. I have this happen alot where I get close and get an order from that resturaunt.
Thank God I got Base access, the pay is much better…FYI if you live near a military base make sure you gain access…
I swear the half hour blocks are becoming too common in my area, that's when the zone will light up red for like a minute and says it's busy, I'm sick of the mind games
I also find the ability to decline 1 per hour quite subjective. If it is slow, you will be booted off promptly once you decline more than one for the hour. But when it's very busy, they'll let you time out offers a good 10 times per hour before they will get around to booting you off. They probably know that some people will end up quitting for some time once they are booted off.
Vert good information. Did not know that.
These tips and tricks would only work for people Door Dashing in a big city though. . . What about a small to mid sized city that isn''t as busy as Philadelphia usually is??
So you have to use a red card at every Grocery offer?
$9.50 double peak bonuses. But we are hit with a snowstorm
😭 Chicagoland
Previously I made a mistake in the comments, when I noted DD's recent requirement change. I was upset because I thought they changed the acceptance rate from 70% to 90%. After reading my email again, it was the COMPLETION RATE they raised (from 80% - 90%). Big difference. I know how crucial accurate information is when trying to make important decisions. I apologize for the mix up. Wishing everybody prosperity in 2024.
dang $25/hr goal? i can barely get $20/active hour and when you count time spent driving back to the zone and waiting for orders to come in its more like $17/hr
Active hour in here is $10 too low
I just got to where I can dash anytime I want.
My dasher got paid 10 dollars for a 2 mile drive is that good also I added a 3 dollar tip
Im new. Maybe I’m looking in the wrong place but many times it’ll say like $7.50 for 4 mi. I’ll take it then all of a sudden it says I’m delivering 20 mins away. It does NOT show where I’m going. It also doesn’t give the item count until I’ve accepted AND navigated to the pickup location. Recently I had a 7-11 order that the business owner hadn’t even picked, and there were 3 other dashers there ahead of me who were also frustrated. They decided to pick their own orders (one man had over 100 items!?) because just one man working at the 7-11, the owner, expects the dashers to pick the orders. 😢
Can my daughter use my car also? We both have accounts, right now we are down to one car
Something is going on with Uber. Every order is$1 a mile. Most are very long distant too
for real
Where im at anything over 1$/ mile is good sadly ive never seen anything like those examples
I have e-bikes
So door dash is very good for me personally
I never ever go to a gas station
No insurance no property taxes plates tickets …should I continue???
So yea I profit easily lol
What happens when people schedule out the schedule and then they don’t do those? So the people who did want or had availability to work didn’t get a chance to schedule.
As far as I know not working until your scheduled time is not held against you.
i worked really hard to get my acceptance rate over 70% to get the highest priority orders and half the time they are crap. They are quite often I would say 50% of the time about a dollar per mile so now I'm wondering if I should just go back to your about $2.00 per mile standard or try to push all the way to top dasher to see if I get even better orders? I'm in downtown Winter Park Orlando
You know I'm curious as well. I don't know how amazing the priority orders would effect money per hour. Like I don't know if it should be a dollar per mile. I don't really understand what I should go for.
Out and about on my first time as a Dasher its pretty quiet in a hotspot
Never go to a hotspot,never please!
Sounds counter productive but take a quick drive away from the hotspot 9 times out of 10 I will get an order but it may not always be great.
How is Pittsburgh DoorDash I live in Greensburg. The pay is OK but I would like to go for more.
Is doordash different in Indianapolis or something. I have never seen $4 peak pay. And all i see is low offers. $1 per mile, sometimes less than that. Peak pay is 1 or 2 $. Im just tired.
I’ve scheduled for peak twice and never received it.
We rarely have peak pay
Sometimes up to $1.50-3.50 but it barely ever happens
You can dash now whenever you want long as you keep top dasher😂. 70% is not hard to keep
Sometimes I schedule and then need to change it and get an error that I can't edit. Been happening for at least a month.
It's not an error, I've encountered this too. You can only edit if the shift will fit into an available time slot in the scheduling section. Even if you're already scheduled in advance and you're trying to push the start time back an hour, it won't let you unless there are available shifts all the way until your end time.
In my market, no amount of trickery is able to outsmart the algorithm. Late at night when orders take forever to get dispatched: no pay by hour. Caught a few good tips in a row? No orders for a while. High pay, long delivery? Usually that's the last order of your shift.
It's like they don't want you to make more than $15/hr total dash time
I love door dashing now
I am very new, like 3 dashes, my very second dash the customer ordered a gift to be delivered at a second person's job and that business didn't pen until 10am. I was at the delivery at 9:45. I ended up waiting until 10am because 4 other customers were waiting at the door and I didn't want the food to get stolen. Was that the correct thing to do or can (or should) you cancel the order?
If the instructions say “leave at door”, just leave it. If the instructions tell you to hand it to me. Send the customer a “ready to send message” telling them that you’re here then a 5 minutes timer will start if they don’t show up DD will tell you to leave the order outside unless a return to the store is required
DoorDash only are showing an hour or a half hour. Why can't I dash for longer?