I take all the orders I can get that makes me a top dasher and keeps me getting priority orders even those shity long distance orders after that priority orders keep coming then they still sprinkle a few shity ones in there but I take all dollars all money when I'm dashing is good money baby I don't give damn lol
None you're out there to make money all the money you have start from the bottom to get to the top you can't start at the top where are they doing that at so everybody can be at the top from the start I'm truly down with that but not how it goes unfortunately
DO NOT BE FOOLED, I have been driving as long as this guy. Door Dash cuts orders down on all drivers who work for them. Especially if you do not take orders for $2.50, and your acceptance rate drops . Who can afford to take an order for $2 or $3 dollars ? PLEASE help yourself and do the MATH! You wait at Chick Fil A for 10 minutes for your ORDER . Then drive another 15 to 20 minutes to a home. That's $3 for 30 minutes or $6 an hour, less fuel,insurance, and wear and tear 😢. Take orders over $5 only, any less and these lazy cheapskates can pick up thier own food.
Yup I remember getting a offer for 3 dollars in the customer order 70$ worth of food in it was 10 miles I said no way I’m wasting my time taking these type orders
So what we do if we don’t take orders less than 5 dollars the acceptance rate will drop and that would make it worst like my acceptance rate was 70% I decline like 6 low Orders and went down to 65% 🥴😂
I think I'm not getting as many offers because my acceptance rate is below 50%. It says I don't have priority to high paying orders. But DoorDash is purposefully knocking down acceptance rates by offering the same order I already declined over and over. Shady AF!
Exactly, i find DD very crook , they keep sending you trashy order $5.00 for 10 miles or even higher how you can accept those order and when u decline then silence for 10 minutes .
That is true. Yesterday I got the same order for $4.00 going 19 miles 4 times in a row. How am I suppose to keep my rate over 50% when 80% of the orders are crap.
@@JaykPuten That's a waste of time. The order will more likely be sent to you again if you let the timer run out/don't decline it. By doing that you're also missing out on other order offers that would have been sent to your phone especially if it's busy or very busy.
Doordash is shady in every aspect when it comes to taking care of their drivers they don't give a damn about their drivers they barely care about their customers bottom line is they care about themselves and that's it if you have a complaint all you're going to get is a bunch of unfortunately it is our protocol just a whole bunch of unfortunately no matter the issue
I’ve found that it helps to move around! I live in a city that has multiple hot spots. So if I get an order that’s absolute trash ($5 or less for a significant mileage) I let the timer run down while I drive away from that area, and into a new hot spot. That order won’t come up again, if you’re not in the area for it anymore! The system is wildly unhelpful, so we have to find ways to beat it.
auto-pause happens when ~3 offers are declined in a row, either via timeout or explicit decline. sometimes the pause timer is 35 minutes, and sometimes it's 10 minutes. be vigilant about immediately checking for a pause after every decline! there's a bug where pause timers sometimes refuse to reset even after a dash was resumed; they continue ticking in the background, and once they expire the next pause (manual or automatic) will cause your dash to automatically end before you have the slightest clue what's happening.
Yeah cause you have less drivers there. Less competition. Bigger better more urban markets you're competing pretty much against a slew of drivers that are in your general area.
I recently tried dashing really late at night. Although most places are closed, the fast food orders proved to be very profitable. The drive through lines were very short or non-existent. Also, the roads had very little traffic. Because of this, I could pickup and complete orders much more quickly than usual. I rarely had to wait on an order to get ready. Plus, I noticed I would get new orders almost immediately after completing the previous orders. These factors, combined with multi-apping (smartly) allowed me to really increase my hourly pay ($40-$50 per hour). I do live in a very large market with very good road infrastructure so this may not work as well for everyone. Also, I would often switch dasher zones whenever I delivered to locations out of my original zone. Seemed like they were always busy.
Yeah, it's because there are barely any delivery people really late at night. I've also stayed till 11 to 2 am a couple times and experience the same thing. Orders just popping off. Not all of them are great. But it's consistent.
It would be really nice if there was a filter to not get hospital deliveries, not pick up from restaurants inside malls, and/or not do grocery runs. Or even not do runs for a specific grocery store. There's one area that I doordashed in that the Walgreens almost never had half the order, if not all of it, in stock.
As dashers, a lot of restaurants don’t even let us look in the bag, to see if everything is included! Some of us are bold enough to make the restaurant show us everything going into the bag, but not all. Also, certain restaurants don’t even let us know what’s included in the order, so we just have to trust that everything is there. More than likely, the dasher isn’t the reason that you’re missing items!
@@Wldthng Not always. Tacos Bell didn't and half my food didn't make it and the one thing that stood out was my vanilla milkshakes never made it. Never. After this happened 3 times I felt it was a sign and I totally stopped using the service.
I'm a Top Dasher but recently cannot just dash if it's a gray zone. I thought they must've changed something. My biggest problem with keeping my rating up is the app will glitch when I'm trying to accept an order...then it times me out saying I took too long to accept...when the whole time I was trying to accept. Ugh!! This is the main reason my acceptance rate is in the 70s....
Try uninstalling and reinstalling the app. That usually works for me if I experience hiccups like that. Another suggestion would be Google your problem. I find solutions there too because most of the support agents are useless and a waste of time 🙂. Good luck 🙂
As a top Dasher, is it really worth it? Or do you get stuck having to do a lot of crappy, low pay orders? My acceptance rate has dropped a lot because I got sick of running around for nothing. I would accept orders less than $1 a mile. And my acceptance rate was 70%. Even at 70% I would get really low paying orders dd would declare as "high paying orders". Lately I haven't been getting very many, and my acceptance rate is pretty low. I decided to stop doing orders less than at least $1.00 per mile. With gas prices as high as they are it just isn't worth it..
For DD, if you want to make sure the app is working and not glitching, Tap the "?" at the top right, then tap "i'm not getting any deliveries", Then app will say "everything is working fine, move to a hotspot". If you can't do all that, the app has glitched. Sometimes when I click the "?" and I don't see the option for "i'm not getting any deliveries". Then I know the app is glitch I totally got timed out. I was frustrated at the no tip/high milage orders, so I just said "screw it, I'm not even going to respond so these no tipper can wait even longer" And DD timed me out LOL
I always hit decline rather than just let it time out because once they sent me an offer and I let it time out and a minute later thay sent it to me again and I hit decline. Both declines counted agioanst me in the A/R even though they were bot the same order.
My area has been so over saturated with dashers now. I wish they would start weeding out the people that dont actually do the work, or really need the work. Im in the dfw area, and I'm always a top dasher because I actually do the work.
Thank you for researching this for me. Door Dash customer service is absolutely terrible. They give you basic knowledge you can find on google or their website. I needed to know specifics to why I wasn’t getting a single order here in Big Bear, CA
I’d love a deliver type feature. Grocery orders in my area are pure robbery for the effort it takes to wait, load an entire cart into my car (including cases of water and soda), drive 15-25 min, then carry it all to their door?! I’ve done it but now why would I accept to get paid the same from that as I do a single bag chipotle delivery.
I agree. There needs to be a dedicated feature for the grocery runs. I have done a few dozen now and will only accept it if the items are minimal and the pay hovers at around $3 mile or more and I think I can get in and out of the store relatively quickly. I'd stay away from Dollar General and Dollar Tree, I've found that those stores typically have none of what the customer ordered and the customers generally slow to respond to alternative choices.
That because they are playing ppl. They want you to work for their company only, they don't want you to multi app. So in concussion you're better off with a real paying job and dash or UE on the side. Trust
I just started this week in the Miami area. So many 2-4 dollar orders. I end up taking some and then end up waiting up to half an hour sometimes for the items to be ready. So annoying. But I guess some money is better than no money. I really don’t like ignoring or declining stuff.
When you first start it's best to take every order you can, it may suck but it's necessary to build your ratings. Stay in hotspots and stay on the app, I try to not do anything else, there have been times it said they tried to send me an order and it didn't go thru 🙄. May have to drive to busier zones you don't necessarily want to be at in the beginning.
DAMN! New drivers usually get treated like kings! I was crushing it for the first month.. then everything changed. I live in an extremely dense area or a "power strip" it doesn't matter. There's too many drivers. The gig is up.
I been calling door dash and keep asking them that .. some restaurant location ignore door dash orders and they serve 12 to 15 new walk in customers before finishing a door dash order... I call when I see new walk 9n customer got their food and am on the phone with door dash ... And tell them make it so we don't want to go to that location... Not all are bad but when 12 to 15 new walk in are served and you still waiting.. they ignore door dash orders ..
That's because to a customer at home a slow order is a reflection of the delivery service provider and especially when personal in person experiences reflect speed.
@@woodward_alan I send a customer an update and if food taking longer I update customer food still being prepared.... Door dash tells me as long as I send a customer a text update it helps ... Once my order was made and it took longer than it should... I let customer know store ignore door dash orders and the time it will take to arrive ... Every customer has been please with the update and communication.....
Yeah the market your'e in is a big factor. If you're more subarbs/rural then that market is going to be not so great. If you're more urban/city that market tends to be way better.
In my area doordashing kinda sucks to be honest so if you want to make money you are declining tons of orders and DD really needs to fix how they are running things for areas like this. My acceptance rate is terrible and I take orders that pay a dollar per mile one way. In my area people hardly tip or tip like 1 maybe 2 dollars. For example: today I had to decline multiple orders in a row because the payouts were as follows: 2.75 for 4 miles one way (so 8 miles round trip), 3 for 9 miles one way (so 18 miles round trip) 3 for 4 miles one way (8 round trip) and so on. Also, when I did have top dasher status and I was accepting lots of crap orders I did notice a little more order frequency, but hardly any as far higher paying orders. the most I have seen is like 2 per mile one way and that is very very rare. So, honestly I think dash should either pay better in these locations or get rid of the acceptance rate because it is nearly impossible to keep a high acceptance rate here if you want to make any money. Thoughts?
Here in the NYC area I make my best money from 10p to 2am. Late night McD's, BK and Taco Bell. No traffic. No drivers. Dinner time drive is dead. So many damn drivers out there. Not worth it.
This is a has-been gig in most areas. The CEOs themselves make it clear the goal is to have way more drivers than customers, not only for better service, but to avoid having to pay surges/bonuses. Inflation, etc has more drivers on these apps than ever now, so just not worth it.
Every since DoorDash has added a timer to when you will get a delivery l, my orders have decreased. It say, something like 2 to 10 minutes for a delivery. This is the worst ever
I’d just be happy to be able to specifically eliminate areas. I get orders for a neighboring town that is outside my zone ALL THE TIME. I am never going to go there. Once I’m there it’s a dead zone. The algorithm is BS. Otherwise I wouldn’t get those offers.
Idk but it seems like I have been seeing very busy and I dash along the way just to get $2 base pay orders. No tip! Or $1 tip lol $22 in 3 hrs I get tired of waiting and end
im starting to think its an inside job on certain driver accounts. I'm noticing most are saying they were making good money 200 a day. Then all a sudden now its life support, 20 a day. Support is not helpful with this issue, all that troubleshooting and nothing changes. I think its bad programming by the team or its the team *intentionally sabatoging accounts* by making the app inoperable by code. I find it very suspicious only Asians work for the support teams. That alone lets me know they doing something dirty.
I want to filter out delivery areas that I don’t want to go to for deliveries. I reject so many deliveries to far regions that it constantly drags my acceptance rate down.
You can't. What I hate is when they send me an offer for a Mc'donalds that is like 13 miles away when I KNOW that there is a McD only a few miles from them. Why not send the order to that McD? So freaking stupid.
It happens with everyone , Taco Bell orders McDonald’s order 13 miles 12 miles like seriously , there is no Taco bell or Mcd near be the destination?? They do everything on Purpose.
Just got a regular job ! DD is NOT reliable. So glad I don’t have to “dash “anymore ! They should have to pay for all online hours like employers not just “AcTIvE HoUrs” BS . Enough people quit as they did in fast food they would change the pay scale. Fast food Now $20 California wage not driving anywhere . While CA Dashers earn $18/hr ONLY while on delivery.
I have a problem. Everything was fine, I'm a top Dasher, ratings in top 90's but all of a sudden i quit getting any Dashes 4 days ago. I trouble shooted by myself and with customer support. I did nothing different than i always do. Just all of a sudden, no dashes. Do you have any ideas that i could try?
I'm new and I still have yet to do my first order, now I'll get notifications that my area is busy and now when I open the dasher app, completely nothing
I took the survey that DD emailed me, I was honest and said that they let too many dashers on the road and there aren't enough orders to go around. I also said the pay sucks and I thought it was bs that they lowered the base pay. Now I don't get many orders. Coincidence?
What about Merchants? They keep messing with my paywall and I have weeks when they refuse to fix the issue. One time it took 6 weeks to get back up and running again. This happens every few weeks. We loose business. Our customers try and place orders and cannot finish up because the paywall is blocked. Doordash is screwing over Merchants too. So far this week Last week of Sept. 2023 we have had zero orders. They admitted it was on their end but 4 days later still not fixed.
Doordash isn't that lucrative. I have to work at least 10 hours to make 100$. To make matters worse there are days when there's no demand for dashers for the entire day often times for several consecutive days and I live in South Houston
I have 80% and above on all states with a 4.85 rating and suppose to be a top Dasher but all areas near me are Grey and not allowing me to dash now. This happened today where I'm told to schedule like if I'm not a top Dasher anymore. Not sure what's going on but it's not been as busy last week and this as it had been. Hard to even be able to dash as a top Dasher or not.😢
Im abput to snap 13 doordazh orders cane tbru tjis mcdonalds im sittin 15 feet from this drive thru and skipped im top dasher platinum wtf,Ive done all trouble shots it makes no sense wzt so ever
I called Door Dash and told them I cannot do grocery shopping and they didn’t give me any of those but I’m not Dash and right now I’m in Florida and I live in a rule area so I’m not running all over in the country.
Friday dinner rush has become the worst time. It's consistently my weakest time-frame for the past couple years. It's completely counterintuitive, but the heaviest rushes are the worst for drivers in my area, the saturation plus wait times and traffic makes it tough to do more than 1 or 2 trips an hour. It's better to dash when the map is grey; locking out unscheduled dashers.
How far away from a restaurant is still considered 'near' it? Also, does it figure distance from a restaurant based on a straight line or based on driving route to get there? I think it must be by physical distance as I've had orders offered while on a highway that I couldn't exit for a while and the restaurant was behind me.
@@jamesjonesJ2real I've only been dashing for a few weeks but I still haven't figured out how close you have to be to get orders. I believe it actually is an algorithm based on current wait time, distance, and acceptance rate so it would be very difficult to map how it works without many people doing controlled testing. I have received orders while multiple miles away from a restaurant, so I think I just happened to be the closest available driver at the time.
It seems to be purely random. I was stopped at Dunkin Donuts waiting for orders to come in and happened to be chatting with another Dasher. I was at 40-something acceptance rate and she was above 80 (it was her first week). I got an order for McDs across the street and she didn't get any. I did the order and came back, she was still there with no orders. With the highway issue, that also happened to me, and it tells me that I was likely the only dasher in the area at the time.
Force stop, uninstall and install, log out log in. I do this sometimes three times a day at least four times a week. The doordash app is horrible. They need to do something about the tech
Completion rate is 98 percent and my acceptance rate is 90-92 percent. It all depends on your market. I hardly turn down any order because I take everything 5 dollars and up. If I do 10 hours in one day, I'm easily getting 300 dollars that day. Do the morning breakfast rush, lunch rush, and then the dinner rush usually hits around 5-6pm until 10. Then if you have a 24 hour cvs, there will be a good chance you'll have orders until 2am. Lol It different for everyone. I'm in the east coast and it's consistently busy. The more I accept, the more orders I get. It's completely changed my earnings. I actually earn more. Always stick to the restaurants you've routinely picked up from and plazas that have many restaurants. It looks to me, they are trying to get rid of cherry pickers who have low acceptance rates. If you decline too many, you'll definitely see less coming through.
Same in my market in SoCal. The more I accept, the more orders I get. And here, on top of too many top dashers, we have a ton of new dashers. It seems to me that DoorDash is really trying to get rid of cherry-pickers (as the other person mentioned here), and get the most drivers under new accounts, new contracts, which I heard, are set with facial recognition to log in. I also notice there's a rotation of drivers/pays. One day I make my average income and the next I struggle. I don't think there are good orders for everybody anymore. That's my take.
There is no way you make $300 a day in 10 hours lol I did 10 hours and I barely make $100 😂 what’s the secret and I’m not taking $5 for 10 miles mayb 5 miles probably
I live about ten miles north of Philadelphia,, what you would call a"suburb",,, I've been doing it two years and it works out fairly well but I've noticed a decrease in orders,, talking to other drivers I know they told me to watch a few videos on oversaturation... I do believe it ... Why don't people get real jobs and allow our dashers to make money🤣🤣🤣
ugh you're telling me? I think that's almost every market. Today lunch time was awful, once the clock hit 1:30 I wasn't getting any orders at all. If you start before 12 you're also not getting anything at all.
You can schedule 5 days ahead. That's what you have to do here in LA. The schedule opens at 3:00 P.M. So today you can schedule for Tuesday. It fills up really quickly so you have to log on right at 3
I'm in Orange County and like Chris said, I schedule a few days in advance. The further you are from the 5 days ahead, the shorter the hours available become.
It's also beneficial to decline an order immediately because it increases your availability for other orders. While you're being sent an offer, you can't be sent other offers. So even if you only take an extra 10 seconds for, say, 12 declined orders per day, that's 2 minutes per day. If you do it 5 days per week, that's 10 minutes per week, or 6 1/2 hours per year that you're losing just from letting that offer screen run out instead of declining it at 10 seconds. And once you get better at judging orders, you can save even more time. Given that Doordash also seems to have an algorithm in place to only send orders you'll take (reduces the incentive pay), the reasons for declining could be important as well, making you more likely to get orders that you're more likely to accept.
I have seen the algorithm doing this but with one exception. I have only ever taken longer distance orders if the pay ends up to be $2/mile or greater. For the last couple of weeks, the vast majority of my offers are orders over 15 miles away for $1 tip or no-tip. In one day of dashing I dropped 25% acceptance percentage due to this. The algorithm just didn't adapt to my declining long-distance orders.
Like, I haven’t even had the luxury to even decline an order, cause I’ve received so little amounts of orders, that then I’d make no money at all…..lol
Does the rating count? I mean, i don’t know why no one rated me except 1 person and she was mad at me because i guess her food wasn’t good and rated me 3starss… does this affect my dasher experience?
I WAS A Dasher until I got hurt doing a delivery. I will say Door Dash paid me for my down time and paid my medical bills as will. But I DON'T Dash anymore
I've been signed up for about 2 months now and I haven't received one delivery job do you have to go out and wait in different areas to get the jobs closest or I've just been sitting at home I didn't think it mattered but yeah pretty frustrating it's like the app is frozen or something so maybe if I drive out somewhere near a restaurant something will pop up???
I don't get it I'm in Portland oregon and I got no orders for 2hrs wt??? Everything is working I called dasher support and they said all is working wth
Gee, if only I could actually drive for Doordash in my area. Unless, of course, if I drive between Midnight and 6:00 AM. Or drive 25+ miles to a zone that says it's busy. And when I try to schedule a time in that "busy" area, they'll offer an hour of work time! Sometimes. Not every night. Their ads say you can dash anytime it's convenient for you. NOT TRUE! Doordash lies. Period.
There’s no excuse to why we don’t get orders tho. Like everybody saying what it can be but this is an app that they created. They know exactly what they’re doin. Making ppl work for less. It’s the American way no matter what you do in this country.
These rules apply to UberEats as well. I can NEVER get on DoorDash when I want to multi app. I'm not in Skip, so I can only use UberEats. I can tell there is an over saturation of drivers.
You mean lazy ppl. It's time for ppl to get real jobs again stop being lazy. And don't get offended everyone is lazy but you have the ability to work like regular ppl. The problem today is Social media has made everyone lazy.
@@Hey-gt4gs a 'regular' job? What happens if you lose your job? How stable is that? You don't want to set your own hours? You want to say yes to every task you get, even the ones you do t like? Doing deliveries IS a real job. Unless making $250 per day isn't your thing....
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I take all the orders I can get that makes me a top dasher and keeps me getting priority orders even those shity long distance orders after that priority orders keep coming then they still sprinkle a few shity ones in there but I take all dollars all money when I'm dashing is good money baby I don't give damn lol
None you're out there to make money all the money you have start from the bottom to get to the top you can't start at the top where are they doing that at so everybody can be at the top from the start I'm truly down with that but not how it goes unfortunately
9 hours online and not 1 order in Chicago and no one will help. Red everywhere
Not getting any orders doesn't matter what time of day. I went from making $20+hr to making $3.50 an hr. Unreal 😢
joe biden did that
Same bro
DO NOT BE FOOLED, I have been driving as long as this guy. Door Dash cuts orders down on all drivers who work for them. Especially if you do not take orders for $2.50, and your acceptance rate drops . Who can afford to take an order for $2 or $3 dollars ? PLEASE help yourself and do the MATH! You wait at Chick Fil A for 10 minutes for your ORDER . Then drive another 15 to 20 minutes to a home. That's $3 for 30 minutes or $6 an hour, less fuel,insurance, and wear and tear 😢. Take orders over $5 only, any less and these lazy cheapskates can pick up thier own food.
Yup I remember getting a offer for 3 dollars in the customer order 70$ worth of food in it was 10 miles I said no way I’m wasting my time taking these type orders
So what we do if we don’t take orders less than 5 dollars the acceptance rate will drop and that would make it worst like my acceptance rate was 70% I decline like 6 low
Orders and went down to 65% 🥴😂
Facts 👌
@@elmerpleitez3445don't decline just let the order time out.
im confused with how it works tho, if i dont take a order i lose priority and wont get as many orders anymore right?
I think I'm not getting as many offers because my acceptance rate is below 50%. It says I don't have priority to high paying orders. But DoorDash is purposefully knocking down acceptance rates by offering the same order I already declined over and over. Shady AF!
Exactly, i find DD very crook , they keep sending you trashy order $5.00 for 10 miles or even higher how you can accept those order and when u decline then silence for 10 minutes .
That is true. Yesterday I got the same order for $4.00 going 19 miles 4 times in a row. How am I suppose to keep my rate over 50% when 80% of the orders are crap.
@@JaykPuten That's a waste of time. The order will more likely be sent to you again if you let the timer run out/don't decline it. By doing that you're also missing out on other order offers that would have been sent to your phone especially if it's busy or very busy.
Doordash is shady in every aspect when it comes to taking care of their drivers they don't give a damn about their drivers they barely care about their customers bottom line is they care about themselves and that's it if you have a complaint all you're going to get is a bunch of unfortunately it is our protocol just a whole bunch of unfortunately no matter the issue
I’ve found that it helps to move around! I live in a city that has multiple hot spots. So if I get an order that’s absolute trash ($5 or less for a significant mileage) I let the timer run down while I drive away from that area, and into a new hot spot. That order won’t come up again, if you’re not in the area for it anymore! The system is wildly unhelpful, so we have to find ways to beat it.
My acceptance rate is 89% and im going hours without getting an order and im either near or in a hot zone smh
Same here. My AR is almost 90% and I make $40 driving from 3pm - 9pm on Sunday. Doordash is just bad
I'm at 100% AR and haven't gotten a single order in the last 3 days.
i havent got any order for a week. top dasher, 5 rating and 100% AR
Same here. My acceptance rate is at 89%, and it takes forever for me to gets orders.
im in central LA supposedly the busiest market. I did 12 PM to 8 PM and made seven dollars.
A nightmare!
I swear I just started door dash and I get maybe 1 offer every hour and a half, and that's no lie..I live in Brooklyn ny
Chicago and same
If u ignore it and let the timer run out they think u just missed it so they send it to u again and again which also drops your rate
I've worked 30 hors on doordash with absolutely 0 orders! Thank you!
auto-pause happens when ~3 offers are declined in a row, either via timeout or explicit decline. sometimes the pause timer is 35 minutes, and sometimes it's 10 minutes.
be vigilant about immediately checking for a pause after every decline! there's a bug where pause timers sometimes refuse to reset even after a dash was resumed; they continue ticking in the background, and once they expire the next pause (manual or automatic) will cause your dash to automatically end before you have the slightest clue what's happening.
I dash in a rural market. It's not as busy, but it's safer, and it stays on a permanent $3 peak pay.
Yeah cause you have less drivers there. Less competition. Bigger better more urban markets you're competing pretty much against a slew of drivers that are in your general area.
legit it’s a thursday from 9 to 11 and NO orders bruh
I recently tried dashing really late at night. Although most places are closed, the fast food orders proved to be very profitable. The drive through lines were very short or non-existent. Also, the roads had very little traffic. Because of this, I could pickup and complete orders much more quickly than usual. I rarely had to wait on an order to get ready. Plus, I noticed I would get new orders almost immediately after completing the previous orders. These factors, combined with multi-apping (smartly) allowed me to really increase my hourly pay ($40-$50 per hour). I do live in a very large market with very good road infrastructure so this may not work as well for everyone. Also, I would often switch dasher zones whenever I delivered to locations out of my original zone. Seemed like they were always busy.
Yeah, it's because there are barely any delivery people really late at night. I've also stayed till 11 to 2 am a couple times and experience the same thing. Orders just popping off. Not all of them are great. But it's consistent.
100% dashing is better at night recently. Even have a +3$ peak pay at 11-1am
Same, I’m a night owl so working 5p-1-2am on weekends is really great for me. You get the drunks and stoners needing their Taco Bell after 11 or so 😂😂
I'm experiencing the same exact thing In my market literally killing it I feel like I'm robbing somebody
what city are u in???
Worse day to drive is Tuesday
Yeah definitely
Actually one of the best days for me
Tuesdays are great in my market.
Learned that yesterday
And Wednesday
It would be really nice if there was a filter to not get hospital deliveries, not pick up from restaurants inside malls, and/or not do grocery runs. Or even not do runs for a specific grocery store. There's one area that I doordashed in that the Walgreens almost never had half the order, if not all of it, in stock.
I always tip at least 20%, but my orders always and I mean always were missing items. Dash is so expensive, I QUIT USING IT because of that, Mike.
As dashers, a lot of restaurants don’t even let us look in the bag, to see if everything is included! Some of us are bold enough to make the restaurant show us everything going into the bag, but not all. Also, certain restaurants don’t even let us know what’s included in the order, so we just have to trust that everything is there. More than likely, the dasher isn’t the reason that you’re missing items!
@@Wldthng Not always. Tacos Bell didn't and half my food didn't make it and the one thing that stood out was my vanilla milkshakes never made it. Never. After this happened 3 times I felt it was a sign and I totally stopped using the service.
I'm a Top Dasher but recently cannot just dash if it's a gray zone. I thought they must've changed something. My biggest problem with keeping my rating up is the app will glitch when I'm trying to accept an order...then it times me out saying I took too long to accept...when the whole time I was trying to accept. Ugh!! This is the main reason my acceptance rate is in the 70s....
I'm a TD and can still dash when the zone is "grey"
Try uninstalling and reinstalling the app. That usually works for me if I experience hiccups like that. Another suggestion would be Google your problem. I find solutions there too because most of the support agents are useless and a waste of time 🙂. Good luck 🙂
As a top Dasher, is it really worth it? Or do you get stuck having to do a lot of crappy, low pay orders? My acceptance rate has dropped a lot because I got sick of running around for nothing. I would accept orders less than $1 a mile. And my acceptance rate was 70%. Even at 70% I would get really low paying orders dd would declare as "high paying orders". Lately I haven't been getting very many, and my acceptance rate is pretty low. I decided to stop doing orders less than at least $1.00 per mile. With gas prices as high as they are it just isn't worth it..
For DD, if you want to make sure the app is working and not glitching, Tap the "?" at the top right, then tap "i'm not getting any deliveries", Then app will say "everything is working fine, move to a hotspot". If you can't do all that, the app has glitched. Sometimes when I click the "?" and I don't see the option for "i'm not getting any deliveries". Then I know the app is glitch
I totally got timed out. I was frustrated at the no tip/high milage orders, so I just said "screw it, I'm not even going to respond so these no tipper can wait even longer" And DD timed me out LOL
I always hit decline rather than just let it time out because once they sent me an offer and I let it time out and a minute later thay sent it to me again and I hit decline. Both declines counted agioanst me in the A/R even though they were bot the same order.
My area has been so over saturated with dashers now. I wish they would start weeding out the people that dont actually do the work, or really need the work. Im in the dfw area, and I'm always a top dasher because I actually do the work.
Thank you for researching this for me. Door Dash customer service is absolutely terrible. They give you basic knowledge you can find on google or their website. I needed to know specifics to why I wasn’t getting a single order here in Big Bear, CA
I’d love a deliver type feature. Grocery orders in my area are pure robbery for the effort it takes to wait, load an entire cart into my car (including cases of water and soda), drive 15-25 min, then carry it all to their door?! I’ve done it but now why would I accept to get paid the same from that as I do a single bag chipotle delivery.
I agree. There needs to be a dedicated feature for the grocery runs. I have done a few dozen now and will only accept it if the items are minimal and the pay hovers at around $3 mile or more and I think I can get in and out of the store relatively quickly. I'd stay away from Dollar General and Dollar Tree, I've found that those stores typically have none of what the customer ordered and the customers generally slow to respond to alternative choices.
I get orders from DD but not UE. The worst is Tuesdays during lunch.
That because they are playing ppl. They want you to work for their company only, they don't want you to multi app. So in concussion you're better off with a real paying job and dash or UE on the side. Trust
In my market it's so random. I feel like a firefighter 🚒. Whenever it's busy...Go....Go...., not when you're specifically free to dash.
It was good for past few years but this year and last was horrible because over saturated. Now you will wait every 30 mins for a 1 crap order
I just started this week in the Miami area. So many 2-4 dollar orders. I end up taking some and then end up waiting up to half an hour sometimes for the items to be ready. So annoying. But I guess some money is better than no money. I really don’t like ignoring or declining stuff.
Then help me out brotha ! 😂
When you first start it's best to take every order you can, it may suck but it's necessary to build your ratings. Stay in hotspots and stay on the app, I try to not do anything else, there have been times it said they tried to send me an order and it didn't go thru 🙄. May have to drive to busier zones you don't necessarily want to be at in the beginning.
Don't hit decline for orders you're not going to accept... Just let it run out then it won't effect your rating
DAMN! New drivers usually get treated like kings! I was crushing it for the first month.. then everything changed. I live in an extremely dense area or a "power strip" it doesn't matter. There's too many drivers. The gig is up.
Go at night ! It will blow ur mind
Worst day Monday Tuesday/ working between 2-5
Panhandler wage 12 hours for $30 in Denver yesterday
DoorDash periodically puts me on pause without my realizing it!
SAME!!! THAT'S SO Annoying!!!
I been calling door dash and keep asking them that .. some restaurant location ignore door dash orders and they serve 12 to 15 new walk in customers before finishing a door dash order... I call when I see new walk 9n customer got their food and am on the phone with door dash ... And tell them make it so we don't want to go to that location... Not all are bad but when 12 to 15 new walk in are served and you still waiting.. they ignore door dash orders ..
That's because to a customer at home a slow order is a reflection of the delivery service provider and especially when personal in person experiences reflect speed.
@@woodward_alan I send a customer an update and if food taking longer I update customer food still being prepared.... Door dash tells me as long as I send a customer a text update it helps ... Once my order was made and it took longer than it should... I let customer know store ignore door dash orders and the time it will take to arrive
... Every customer has been please with the update and communication.....
@marviz5574 that helps :)
Tues breakfast is the worst time in my market.
Tuesday
tuesday at 3:30PM worst time to drive
Im a top dasher and still cant clear decent money.have never gotten 25.00 hr like they say and this is in peak hrs.months of the same thing?..
Yeah the market your'e in is a big factor. If you're more subarbs/rural then that market is going to be not so great. If you're more urban/city that market tends to be way better.
In my area doordashing kinda sucks to be honest so if you want to make money you are declining tons of orders and DD really needs to fix how they are running things for areas like this. My acceptance rate is terrible and I take orders that pay a dollar per mile one way. In my area people hardly tip or tip like 1 maybe 2 dollars. For example: today I had to decline multiple orders in a row because the payouts were as follows: 2.75 for 4 miles one way (so 8 miles round trip), 3 for 9 miles one way (so 18 miles round trip) 3 for 4 miles one way (8 round trip) and so on. Also, when I did have top dasher status and I was accepting lots of crap orders I did notice a little more order frequency, but hardly any as far higher paying orders. the most I have seen is like 2 per mile one way and that is very very rare. So, honestly I think dash should either pay better in these locations or get rid of the acceptance rate because it is nearly impossible to keep a high acceptance rate here if you want to make any money. Thoughts?
Here in the NYC area I make my best money from 10p to 2am. Late night McD's, BK and Taco Bell. No traffic. No drivers. Dinner time drive is dead. So many damn drivers out there. Not worth it.
This is a has-been gig in most areas. The CEOs themselves make it clear the goal is to have way more drivers than customers, not only for better service, but to avoid having to pay surges/bonuses. Inflation, etc has more drivers on these apps than ever now, so just not worth it.
I always get worst Uber Eat orders all the time. I quit driving food
These driving jobs never meant to be full time only part time. They're making it now so ppl actually get full time jobs
@@Hey-gt4gs actually
Every since DoorDash has added a timer to when you will get a delivery l, my orders have decreased. It say, something like 2 to 10 minutes for a delivery. This is the worst ever
I’d just be happy to be able to specifically eliminate areas. I get orders for a neighboring town that is outside my zone ALL THE TIME. I am never going to go there. Once I’m there it’s a dead zone. The algorithm is BS. Otherwise I wouldn’t get those offers.
I'd love some kind of filter. That would be amazing.
Fri-sun are more busy but I drive most days at least a little.
Idk but it seems like I have been seeing very busy and I dash along the way just to get $2 base pay orders. No tip! Or $1 tip lol $22 in 3 hrs I get tired of waiting and end
Stimulus payments have dried up imo was super slow on a Monday here in national city. It used to be busy for me while doing this side hustle.
I’ve been getting a order a hour average in nc and Chula Vista smh
Agree with Wifi. I have to make sure my phone isn't connecting to even my vehicle's wifi for doordash to be reliable.
im starting to think its an inside job on certain driver accounts. I'm noticing most are saying they were making good money 200 a day. Then all a sudden now its life support, 20 a day. Support is not helpful with this issue, all that troubleshooting and nothing changes. I think its bad programming by the team or its the team *intentionally sabatoging accounts* by making the app inoperable by code. I find it very suspicious only Asians work for the support teams. That alone lets me know they doing something dirty.
It's just a massive influx in new people signing up that's all
I can only work during lunch times because its hard for me to see at night time so Thursday thru Sunday are my worst days
I want to filter out delivery areas that I don’t want to go to for deliveries. I reject so many deliveries to far regions that it constantly drags my acceptance rate down.
You can't. What I hate is when they send me an offer for a Mc'donalds that is like 13 miles away when I KNOW that there is a McD only a few miles from them. Why not send the order to that McD? So freaking stupid.
@@robmen1402 that’s also my issue as well. Like wtf is wrong with them.
It happens with everyone , Taco Bell orders McDonald’s order 13 miles 12 miles like seriously , there is no Taco bell or Mcd near be the destination??
They do everything on Purpose.
Ive had people say this but my acceptance rate still drops if I miss them and just let it time out
Same, here in KC
Monday’s for sure!
My acceptance rate is %90 still not getting offers 1000+ lifetime deliveries and im in los angeles
Just got a regular job ! DD is NOT reliable. So glad I don’t have to “dash “anymore ! They should have to pay for all online hours like employers not just “AcTIvE HoUrs” BS . Enough people quit as they did in fast food they would change the pay scale. Fast food Now $20 California wage not driving anywhere . While CA Dashers earn $18/hr ONLY while on delivery.
I have a problem. Everything was fine, I'm a top Dasher, ratings in top 90's but all of a sudden i quit getting any Dashes 4 days ago. I trouble shooted by myself and with customer support. I did nothing different than i always do. Just all of a sudden, no dashes. Do you have any ideas that i could try?
Every minute we spend doing this is another minute you spend not creating the life you deserve you all deserve so much better
Sometimes, one thing is a tool to help create the other thing. If only it was as easy as just “poofing” the life you think you deserve into existence.
Every five minutes you spend writing this is five minutes you could have created a life 🧬
Shipt same thing no orders!!
They only pause your Dash while your not actively on the app, for example, if your on your map app instead of DD.
I'm new and I still have yet to do my first order, now I'll get notifications that my area is busy and now when I open the dasher app, completely nothing
I took the survey that DD emailed me, I was honest and said that they let too many dashers on the road and there aren't enough orders to go around. I also said the pay sucks and I thought it was bs that they lowered the base pay. Now I don't get many orders. Coincidence?
Central CA has been dead for a week-several nights I sit, wait and get nothing. What is going on?
What about Merchants? They keep messing with my paywall and I have weeks when they refuse to fix the issue. One time it took 6 weeks to get back up and running again. This happens every few weeks. We loose business. Our customers try and place orders and cannot finish up because the paywall is blocked. Doordash is screwing over Merchants too. So far this week Last week of Sept. 2023 we have had zero orders. They admitted it was on their end but 4 days later still not fixed.
Doordash isn't that lucrative. I have to work at least 10 hours to make 100$. To make matters worse there are days when there's no demand for dashers for the entire day often times for several consecutive days and I live in South Houston
Yeah, it’s a ten minute pause dash. I’ve let a few offers go when I’m busy.
I have 80% and above on all states with a 4.85 rating and suppose to be a top Dasher but all areas near me are Grey and not allowing me to dash now. This happened today where I'm told to schedule like if I'm not a top Dasher anymore. Not sure what's going on but it's not been as busy last week and this as it had been. Hard to even be able to dash as a top Dasher or not.😢
Wednesdays about 2:30 pm is the worst time in my market
Im abput to snap 13 doordazh orders cane tbru tjis mcdonalds im sittin 15 feet from this drive thru and skipped im top dasher platinum wtf,Ive done all trouble shots it makes no sense wzt so ever
I called Door Dash and told them I cannot do grocery shopping and they didn’t give me any of those but I’m not Dash and right now I’m in Florida and I live in a rule area so I’m not running all over in the country.
This week my dash time is 31 hours but my active time is 14 imagine how much I have to wait for an order and my rating is pretty good 😢
Friday dinner rush has become the worst time. It's consistently my weakest time-frame for the past couple years.
It's completely counterintuitive, but the heaviest rushes are the worst for drivers in my area, the saturation plus wait times and traffic makes it tough to do more than 1 or 2 trips an hour. It's better to dash when the map is grey; locking out unscheduled dashers.
How far away from a restaurant is still considered 'near' it? Also, does it figure distance from a restaurant based on a straight line or based on driving route to get there? I think it must be by physical distance as I've had orders offered while on a highway that I couldn't exit for a while and the restaurant was behind me.
Real good point let me know if you figure that one out
@@jamesjonesJ2real I've only been dashing for a few weeks but I still haven't figured out how close you have to be to get orders. I believe it actually is an algorithm based on current wait time, distance, and acceptance rate so it would be very difficult to map how it works without many people doing controlled testing. I have received orders while multiple miles away from a restaurant, so I think I just happened to be the closest available driver at the time.
It seems to be purely random. I was stopped at Dunkin Donuts waiting for orders to come in and happened to be chatting with another Dasher. I was at 40-something acceptance rate and she was above 80 (it was her first week). I got an order for McDs across the street and she didn't get any. I did the order and came back, she was still there with no orders. With the highway issue, that also happened to me, and it tells me that I was likely the only dasher in the area at the time.
can restaurants block dashers?
Force stop, uninstall and install, log out log in. I do this sometimes three times a day at least four times a week. The doordash app is horrible. They need to do something about the tech
I just delivered an order and I don’t get paid on app
I did my 7 delivery with UE and GH I got no order from DoorDash I was confused
i have not been getting orders for 3 days. have 29% acceptance rate.
Completion rate is 98 percent and my acceptance rate is 90-92 percent. It all depends on your market. I hardly turn down any order because I take everything 5 dollars and up. If I do 10 hours in one day, I'm easily getting 300 dollars that day. Do the morning breakfast rush, lunch rush, and then the dinner rush usually hits around 5-6pm until 10. Then if you have a 24 hour cvs, there will be a good chance you'll have orders until 2am. Lol It different for everyone. I'm in the east coast and it's consistently busy. The more I accept, the more orders I get. It's completely changed my earnings. I actually earn more. Always stick to the restaurants you've routinely picked up from and plazas that have many restaurants. It looks to me, they are trying to get rid of cherry pickers who have low acceptance rates. If you decline too many, you'll definitely see less coming through.
Same in my market in SoCal. The more I accept, the more orders I get. And here, on top of too many top dashers, we have a ton of new dashers. It seems to me that DoorDash is really trying to get rid of cherry-pickers (as the other person mentioned here), and get the most drivers under new accounts, new contracts, which I heard, are set with facial recognition to log in. I also notice there's a rotation of drivers/pays. One day I make my average income and the next I struggle. I don't think there are good orders for everybody anymore. That's my take.
@Garden State RX8 And the more low paying order you accept the more money you're going to lose when you consider gas and wear and tear on your car.
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There is no way you make $300 a day in 10 hours lol I did 10 hours and I barely make $100 😂 what’s the secret and I’m not taking $5 for 10 miles mayb 5 miles probably
And how you keep getting lots of orders you need make at least 20-30 orders to make that kind of money
I live about ten miles north of Philadelphia,, what you would call a"suburb",,, I've been doing it two years and it works out fairly well but I've noticed a decrease in orders,, talking to other drivers I know they told me to watch a few videos on oversaturation... I do believe it ... Why don't people get real jobs and allow our dashers to make money🤣🤣🤣
That double from caste village is doo doo. Maybe if you were sitting in lot and drop the SS MAYBE.
In my area I'd say Thursday at 230 is the worst
ugh you're telling me? I think that's almost every market. Today lunch time was awful, once the clock hit 1:30 I wasn't getting any orders at all. If you start before 12 you're also not getting anything at all.
Wed are also pretty bad during lunch time.
@@robmen1402 lunch rush here starts at 10:45 and lasts til about 1:30
I can't even get on the schedule in my area for the last month, any ideas? I'm in Los Angeles, Calabasas area
You can schedule 5 days ahead. That's what you have to do here in LA. The schedule opens at 3:00 P.M. So today you can schedule for Tuesday. It fills up really quickly so you have to log on right at 3
I'm in Orange County and like Chris said, I schedule a few days in advance. The further you are from the 5 days ahead, the shorter the hours available become.
Your area is too saturated with other drivers..that's usually the reason.
When I’m out working or just out n bout to eat out I always see old Asian men door dashing asking me where this address is holding food
Monday at 2pm worst time
It's also beneficial to decline an order immediately because it increases your availability for other orders. While you're being sent an offer, you can't be sent other offers. So even if you only take an extra 10 seconds for, say, 12 declined orders per day, that's 2 minutes per day. If you do it 5 days per week, that's 10 minutes per week, or 6 1/2 hours per year that you're losing just from letting that offer screen run out instead of declining it at 10 seconds. And once you get better at judging orders, you can save even more time.
Given that Doordash also seems to have an algorithm in place to only send orders you'll take (reduces the incentive pay), the reasons for declining could be important as well, making you more likely to get orders that you're more likely to accept.
I have seen the algorithm doing this but with one exception. I have only ever taken longer distance orders if the pay ends up to be $2/mile or greater. For the last couple of weeks, the vast majority of my offers are orders over 15 miles away for $1 tip or no-tip. In one day of dashing I dropped 25% acceptance percentage due to this. The algorithm just didn't adapt to my declining long-distance orders.
Monday-Wednesday is the worst
Monday & Tuesday is the worst day to drive unless it’s the first of the month
@Mike Dylan what software?
Like, I haven’t even had the luxury to even decline an order, cause I’ve received so little amounts of orders, that then I’d make no money at all…..lol
Does the rating count?
I mean, i don’t know why no one rated me except 1 person and she was mad at me because i guess her food wasn’t good and rated me 3starss… does this affect my dasher experience?
I WAS A Dasher until I got hurt doing a delivery. I will say Door Dash paid me for my down time and paid my medical bills as will. But I DON'T Dash anymore
Stop lying
Are you in the bay area I see you in the general area I dash with those screen shots, if so I have a couple questions
Worst day to drive is Wednesday
I've been signed up for about 2 months now and I haven't received one delivery job do you have to go out and wait in different areas to get the jobs closest or I've just been sitting at home I didn't think it mattered but yeah pretty frustrating it's like the app is frozen or something so maybe if I drive out somewhere near a restaurant something will pop up???
The top reason, there are more drivers than customers. Nobody can afford delivery service fees.
I don't get it I'm in Portland oregon and I got no orders for 2hrs wt??? Everything is working I called dasher support and they said all is working wth
Im.platinum top dasher ive wztched 12 orders doordash come and go and im not gettin orders at this mcdonalds
In my market, anyone who follows your advice would lose a lot of money.
Tuesdays morning slowest
Heck ya ain't hardly made anything 7:48
Gee, if only I could actually drive for Doordash in my area. Unless, of course, if I drive between Midnight and 6:00 AM. Or drive 25+ miles to a zone that says it's busy. And when I try to schedule a time in that "busy" area, they'll offer an hour of work time! Sometimes. Not every night. Their ads say you can dash anytime it's convenient for you. NOT TRUE! Doordash lies. Period.
There’s no excuse to why we don’t get orders tho. Like everybody saying what it can be but this is an app that they created. They know exactly what they’re doin. Making ppl work for less. It’s the American way no matter what you do in this country.
These rules apply to UberEats as well. I can NEVER get on DoorDash when I want to multi app. I'm not in Skip, so I can only use UberEats.
I can tell there is an over saturation of drivers.
You mean lazy ppl. It's time for ppl to get real jobs again stop being lazy. And don't get offended everyone is lazy but you have the ability to work like regular ppl. The problem today is Social media has made everyone lazy.
@@Hey-gt4gs a 'regular' job? What happens if you lose your job? How stable is that?
You don't want to set your own hours? You want to say yes to every task you get, even the ones you do t like?
Doing deliveries IS a real job. Unless making $250 per day isn't your thing....
Has anyone experienced Not receiving orders during the last 30 mins of their Dash Shift?