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.
Just fyi. Only need to track your miles. If you are a catering company, and bringing in alot of revenue then you would keep your receipts. But for a dascher, only track your miles. I used Gridwise to keep track. Hope this helps.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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
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...
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
Here’s another tip for people. Get out of dashing as soon as you can. They will eventually deactivate you for no reason and your vehicle will take a beating too. It’s not worth it in the long run. Good luck to all of you !
Give or take if you take care of your car you got nothing to worry about. I daily mines to work and deliver everyday after in a 2012 Honda Civic. Bought it 47,000 I now have 234,000 no issues. If you understand your price and your car doing deliveries then focus is only taking orders you know that are worth it.
DD, a completely TRASHY & IRRESPONSIBLE company. been dashing since 2018 with 3k+ deliveries and customer rating of 4.99 but had my account deactivated last month for declining their TRASHY orders. REASON FOR DEACTIVATION - HAVING A COMPLETION RATE OF 70% WHEN THE NON COMPLETION WAS A RESULT OF DOORDASH NOT COMPENSATING FOR WAIT TIMES AT RESTAURANTS 🤷
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
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’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.
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?
Its out of the last 100 orders. So if you did 20 orders in a row 100 offers ago.. your rating would not go up. If you declined 18 in a row, 100 orders ago.. your rating would have gone up 18%.
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??
I just moved from Portland, OR to San Diego... I literally am supporting my 3 kids on my own right now and had no problem doing that in Portland, and had to move down to San Diego, I researched for months and kept hearing about how San Diego was making hundreds per day no problem... but I've been down here for a month and barely made a cpl hundred!!!!!! This is killing me!!! Wtf am I doing wrong here!?! I'm not gonna make rent!
Oh no! That Sucks! I wonder if it was only applicable to a few certain areas in San Diego…and perhaps you, by bad luck, happened to land in one of the “not so good” sub area? Or maybe a lot of people just flexing, and the reality is that only few select make great money, then the rest just feel the need to say “yeah, yeah, we make great money too..” just because they are embarrassed they haven’t figured it out and everyone else seem to be saying they are making money? Could be. A lot of people just “saying” they are making X,Y or Z; no real proof or anything, so it is easy to just say anything. But some people (very few) are willing to post something whether it’s on Reddit, or here by making a whole vid and are very transparent. These are the only ones I really trust. _Therefore, I personally would never move to a location based on what a lot of KEYBOARD WARRIORS are saying. If it is in an area that this guy here is living in, or a similar very transparent Dasher where you are seeing actual proof in real time of whats up, then I could reasonably risk it. But other than that, it would be really hard for me personally to just trust the word of those lots of keyboard warriors out there._ With that said, I truly hope things somehow pick up for you! My heart really hurt for you when I read your post since am a mommy as well. GOOD LUCK; and I truly mean that!
I started DoorDashing and I swear to you I’m paying to do the job . After gas and time (thank god I don’t pay for daycare) I barely make enough to get back home lol it’s ridiculous
@rachelwyatt6030 I know right!? It's seriously ridiculous! And what is really insane??? Every day I see about 12 ads for becoming a damn dasher! It's completely unfair! And they are starting to cut people left and right since they passed the minimum wage law! Like that even makes much of a difference! They get around actually paying you because it's PURELY "Active Time" (the time you click accept until the time you complete an order) and God forbid you get stuck in traffic, or have to wait for an order too long, cause now you could get cut for not making the unreal time estimate.. but ya can't cancel an order when you're stuck waiting for the order either! Plus wtf is going on with the maps lately??? It's taken me to 3 completely wrong locations one "Mcdonalds" order brought me to this dead end back alley late at night... took them 10 minutes to get on the phone and help... and I still got a 'violation' for being "extremely late". It's really to be so frustrating! Also since the new map update... I've been bumped off of 3 separate shifts! Because it wouldn't let me push the start dashing button... drive an hour and a half to get to a supposed 'red zone' and can't even start... And the help line is a joke! They literally do nothing to help that you can't do yourself. But instead of investing in the drivers they already have and keeping them... THEY JUST KEEP RECRUITING!
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.
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....
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.
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!
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 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.
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
In order to maintain top dasher status, you have to be willing to take EVERY order sent to you including the absolute trash orders. If you don’t, your acceptance rate will plummet and you won’t get those nice juicy orders all the time. It’s a racket.
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 technically still top dasher it’s platinum tier idk if my account is messed up or something but since the the new tier program I been getting less orders and only making like 60 in 8 hours been like this for 2 weeks I’m almost done with DoorDash if this keeps up
DoorDash Driver Mike, I think this is an advanced question... I don't want to scare drivers. I don't even know where to post this. 1PM in the afternoon I get a simple red card order for $3 dollars worth of candy & false eyelashes from Dollar General. While picking up her order, she messages me through the app "can you buy me some cigarettes at the gas station close to my house?" My spidey senses told me this a teenage child and NO I will not deliver cigarettes with your candy. I unassigned immediately. I am not going to risk a 1 star rating from a child denied cigarettes. An unassign is a thousand times easier to get rid of than a ONE star. Recently, Doordash has made orders almost impossible to unassign. Any thoughts? Where do I sign up for your class?
I have e-bikes So door dash is very good for me personally I never ever go to a gas station No insurance no property taxes plates tickets …should I continue??? So yea I profit easily lol
Has anyone ever tried dashing during a busy promo time / area without actually having a scheduled slot? Were u able to dash? And did you receive the promo?
I did food delivery for ll time 5 years If I can quit you Can cost me 1,700$ just to get my car back to clean in 2023. It’s not worth it. 2 years driving trucks great pay no worries now
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 am a top dasher in my market, and I cherry-pick. I don't take anything under $6. I also follow the 1 per mile. My market is over saturated with drivers so npt being top dssher and having to schedule is impossible
Newer dasher here, approaching 50 dashes.....how do you stay in top priority mode if you decline orders? I was reading up on it and it says you have to maintain certain percentages (acceptance, ratings, delivery on time, etc)
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
I live between two of my towns hot spots. I usually wait here for my first order. Is it better for me to go sit in the bigger hot spot? Or hang out here and wait for an order?
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.
This all depends on where your at but I start in the gated communities then DD takes me to the getto for no pay after 3 or 4 deliveries. If I take a job I keep getting more horrible opportunities to drive really far for no money. 16 miles for $2. Who would take that job? It really hurts your score and its insane to drive that... thoughts??? I have to pause my deliveries just so I can drive 3 or 4 miles back to normal paying offers. Its better then being stuck in the geto making no money lol!
DD sucks! Horrible CS - filed BBB report yesterday. No accountability - CS just drops chats or hangs up on you. Never order again ( they are among the more costlier to boot ) - They have a terrible rep and they earned it.
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 $23 payout without checking distance my first dash in years. wasnt worth the long drive.
Lol same 😂
One thing I haven't heard anyone say on any DD video is MAKE SURE YOU GET RECEIPTS for gas. You will thank me come tax season.
Just fyi. Only need to track your miles. If you are a catering company, and bringing in alot of revenue then you would keep your receipts. But for a dascher, only track your miles. I used Gridwise to keep track. Hope this helps.
No way! Someone recommended you from a Reddit post and you literally work the same market as me, that's incredible luck! Thanks for the tips!
I know it's unpopular to pay attention to your rate percents but Top Dasher allows "dash now" at all times, and you get priority for high pay. It makes a difference to me, anyway. In the Portland Oregon market
Glad it's working for you. My only concern is the 50/70% AR minimums with Priority Access or Top Dasher. Do you find accepting that much causes you to take low orders just to qualify?
@@YourDriverMikehe never answered so i will. i’m a platinum dasher myself with 4.97, 99% completion, 98% on time, 77% completion. i have a great market in southern new hampshire/northern massachusetts with tons of power strips all in a 5-10 mile radius. i do have to accept some orders to keep the 70% that i would usually decline, but after about 2-3 weeks of messing with it i was able to figure out a system of what i can afford to decline and what i want to accept. i did this by working 5-6 days a week and learned my area and learned the volume of orders, how much they pay and how far they take me. so by doing this i figured out a system to cherry pick orders i know will be better than what i can normally get and decline bad orders while also having a 70 and higher percent acceptance rate. it also helps when you’re a platinum dasher they filter out many poor orders so i don’t ever get offered no tip orders, 1-2$ 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
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.
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???????😐
Top dasher 1st 2 weeks after sign up
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
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. 😊
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 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
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.
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
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@0:11 best tip, and I hate spreading this news is being Top Dasher with pizza, alcohol, priority shopping with 80% AR
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...
Drivers start rebellion 1/1/2024!
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.
Hi Mike I'm new to dashing ty for all your help
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.
PSS This is a great DoorDash 101 video! Thanks! ☺️
I stay near the mall and five minutes from downtown! I make good money in my new area.
Pre-written thank you cards. Attach to each order. I get an extra tip about 1 out of 5 order, between an extra $5-$15 (highest I’ve gotten was $55).
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.
This is a great comprehensive guide for new and experienced Dashers! 🙌🏻
Something is going on with Uber. Every order is$1 a mile. Most are very long distant too
for real
Great video.... Very informative. Well executed
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
Agree, that's the average.
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.
“Dash now” availability is low in Longmont, Co. Plus the schedule blocks are small.
Great information thank you!
Thanks for the info my man!! Allot to think about but makes a ton of "cents":)
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
Here’s another tip for people. Get out of dashing as soon as you can. They will eventually deactivate you for no reason and your vehicle will take a beating too. It’s not worth it in the long run. Good luck to all of you !
Give or take if you take care of your car you got nothing to worry about. I daily mines to work and deliver everyday after in a 2012 Honda Civic. Bought it 47,000 I now have 234,000 no issues.
If you understand your price and your car doing deliveries then focus is only taking orders you know that are worth it.
Yes. Will any freelance work your equipment is your money. I would NOT deliver with anything that isn't Honda or Toyota @@GhadSpeed
DD, a completely TRASHY & IRRESPONSIBLE company. been dashing since 2018 with 3k+ deliveries and customer rating of 4.99 but had my account deactivated last month for declining their TRASHY orders.
REASON FOR DEACTIVATION - HAVING A COMPLETION RATE OF 70% WHEN THE NON COMPLETION WAS A RESULT OF DOORDASH NOT COMPENSATING FOR WAIT TIMES AT RESTAURANTS 🤷
😂you saying get out like you gotta put in a two weeks notice 😂😂 just stop opening the app.. it ain’t that deep big dogg.. DoorDash isn’t the only app😂
@@GhadSpeedgo ahead and skip Honda, theyre 🗑️ too
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 start getting deliveries from Town to Town for 9 dollars (20 minutes drive from the pick up to the custumer)
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’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.
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?
How on earth can I do 18 DD orders today but my AR only went up 9%. The math ain’t mathin. Are they cheating me??
Its out of the last 100 orders. So if you did 20 orders in a row 100 offers ago.. your rating would not go up. If you declined 18 in a row, 100 orders ago.. your rating would have gone up 18%.
Lol math is hard.
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??
I just moved from Portland, OR to San Diego... I literally am supporting my 3 kids on my own right now and had no problem doing that in Portland, and had to move down to San Diego, I researched for months and kept hearing about how San Diego was making hundreds per day no problem... but I've been down here for a month and barely made a cpl hundred!!!!!! This is killing me!!! Wtf am I doing wrong here!?! I'm not gonna make rent!
Oh no! That Sucks! I wonder if it was only applicable to a few certain areas in San Diego…and perhaps you, by bad luck, happened to land in one of the “not so good” sub area? Or maybe a lot of people just flexing, and the reality is that only few select make great money, then the rest just feel the need to say “yeah, yeah, we make great money too..” just because they are embarrassed they haven’t figured it out and everyone else seem to be saying they are making money? Could be. A lot of people just “saying” they are making X,Y or Z; no real proof or anything, so it is easy to just say anything. But some people (very few) are willing to post something whether it’s on Reddit, or here by making a whole vid and are very transparent. These are the only ones I really trust.
_Therefore, I personally would never move to a location based on what a lot of KEYBOARD WARRIORS are saying. If it is in an area that this guy here is living in, or a similar very transparent Dasher where you are seeing actual proof in real time of whats up, then I could reasonably risk it. But other than that, it would be really hard for me personally to just trust the word of those lots of keyboard warriors out there._
With that said, I truly hope things somehow pick up for you! My heart really hurt for you when I read your post since am a mommy as well. GOOD LUCK; and I truly mean that!
I started DoorDashing and I swear to you I’m paying to do the job . After gas and time (thank god I don’t pay for daycare) I barely make enough to get back home lol it’s ridiculous
@rachelwyatt6030 I know right!? It's seriously ridiculous! And what is really insane??? Every day I see about 12 ads for becoming a damn dasher! It's completely unfair! And they are starting to cut people left and right since they passed the minimum wage law! Like that even makes much of a difference! They get around actually paying you because it's PURELY "Active Time" (the time you click accept until the time you complete an order) and God forbid you get stuck in traffic, or have to wait for an order too long, cause now you could get cut for not making the unreal time estimate.. but ya can't cancel an order when you're stuck waiting for the order either! Plus wtf is going on with the maps lately??? It's taken me to 3 completely wrong locations one "Mcdonalds" order brought me to this dead end back alley late at night... took them 10 minutes to get on the phone and help... and I still got a 'violation' for being "extremely late". It's really to be so frustrating! Also since the new map update... I've been bumped off of 3 separate shifts! Because it wouldn't let me push the start dashing button... drive an hour and a half to get to a supposed 'red zone' and can't even start... And the help line is a joke! They literally do nothing to help that you can't do yourself. But instead of investing in the drivers they already have and keeping them... THEY JUST KEEP RECRUITING!
I noticed here all peak pay is at 1 to 2 am. All restaurants are closed then.
Peak pay is going for about 24hrs+ in my area right now. Which is kinda bittersweet because there is sooo many dashers live now.
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.
We had 3$ peak pay yesterday but I was only able to get 3 orders in 2 hours 😢
If waited for orders that are $2 per mile I’d never do any orders in my area.
You can dash now whenever you want long as you keep top dasher😂. 70% is not hard to keep
My area only has scheduling in the middle of the night :(
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....
Great video, bro!!
Thank God I got Base access, the pay is much better…FYI if you live near a military base make sure you gain access…
Very cool. Thank you
Hey bro, thank you for this. I just started dashing in the Canonsburg/Washington area.
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.
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
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!
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
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
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.
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
I love door dashing now
In order to maintain top dasher status, you have to be willing to take EVERY order sent to you including the absolute trash orders. If you don’t, your acceptance rate will plummet and you won’t get those nice juicy orders all the time. It’s a racket.
Can you give an example of a trash order?
@@RTphotoandvideo you receive an order where the delivery address is 10 miles from the restaurant and the pay is $5.00 or less and NO TIP!
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 just started dashing in Pittsburgh....first day was smooth....
Good information
Wait $2 or $3 peak pay is good? They have $9 and $10 peak pay here…. Please somebody help me understand.
Holy crap! Where do you live? I'm in Portland Oregon and the highest I've seen is $3.50
Always been top dasher was doing great making 200 plus in 8 hrs now that I’m platinum dasher I’m getting less orders and bearly making 100 bucks
Why did you stop being Top Dasher? Do you know the exact reason?
Because orders for$ 3.50-5$ are not worth it, they get declined and rate goes down 👎
I’m technically still top dasher it’s platinum tier idk if my account is messed up or something but since the the new tier program I been getting less orders and only making like 60 in 8 hours been like this for 2 weeks I’m almost done with DoorDash if this keeps up
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
DoorDash Driver Mike, I think this is an advanced question... I don't want to scare drivers. I don't even know where to post this.
1PM in the afternoon I get a simple red card order for $3 dollars worth of candy & false eyelashes from Dollar General. While picking up her order, she messages me through the app "can you buy me some cigarettes at the gas station close to my house?" My spidey senses told me this a teenage child and NO I will not deliver cigarettes with your candy. I unassigned immediately. I am not going to risk a 1 star rating from a child denied cigarettes. An unassign is a thousand times easier to get rid of than a ONE star. Recently, Doordash has made orders almost impossible to unassign. Any thoughts? Where do I sign up for your class?
I rarely, if ever, see any bonus anything ever in my area.
Made 300 a day just hustling
Good luck.
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
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.
We rarely have peak pay
Sometimes up to $1.50-3.50 but it barely ever happens
Why would the tips be lower on the earn by time? And how would they know? R they taking them? 😢
Even when I schedule a dash- if I don’t delete and forget my dash, they just cancel it. There’s no penalty
I’ve see $9 and $11 peak pay here in Austin, TX
Has anyone ever tried dashing during a busy promo time / area without actually having a scheduled slot? Were u able to dash? And did you receive the promo?
Thank you
Your lucky in America we don't get tips in Australia maybe life is tough now
I did food delivery for ll time 5 years If I can quit you Can cost me 1,700$ just to get my car back to clean in 2023. It’s not worth it. 2 years driving trucks great pay no worries now
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 am a top dasher in my market, and I cherry-pick. I don't take anything under $6. I also follow the 1 per mile. My market is over saturated with drivers so npt being top dssher and having to schedule is impossible
Newer dasher here, approaching 50 dashes.....how do you stay in top priority mode if you decline orders? I was reading up on it and it says you have to maintain certain percentages (acceptance, ratings, delivery on time, etc)
$9.50 double peak bonuses. But we are hit with a snowstorm
😭 Chicagoland
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
I live between two of my towns hot spots. I usually wait here for my first order. Is it better for me to go sit in the bigger hot spot? Or hang out here and wait for an order?
My dashing area never has peak pay. Like ever. It sucks.
I just got to where I can dash anytime I want.
My area almost never gets peak pay!! The best I've gotten was $4 an hour, on New years eve. 😂
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.
This all depends on where your at but I start in the gated communities then DD takes me to the getto for no pay after 3 or 4 deliveries. If I take a job I keep getting more horrible opportunities to drive really far for no money. 16 miles for $2. Who would take that job? It really hurts your score and its insane to drive that... thoughts??? I have to pause my deliveries just so I can drive 3 or 4 miles back to normal paying offers. Its better then being stuck in the geto making no money lol!
DD sucks! Horrible CS - filed BBB report yesterday. No accountability - CS just drops chats or hangs up on you. Never order again ( they are among the more costlier to boot ) - They have a terrible rep and they earned it.
My market only has peak pay around midnight :(
Lyft peak pay 3-4 am really I’m usually asleep still and I did do it once only got one ride in so not worth it.
By the time the promos come up that are any good, it’s already greyed out and can’t be booked. Do we know when these are released?
Hi new dasher
I love dashing and i make money doing so!!!
I am a Dasher
I'm one too from the ATL! Great 👍🏿 success and have fun!
Where im at anything over 1$/ mile is good sadly ive never seen anything like those examples
You’re the man