Are you getting a Doordash paycheck each week? I’m sure you already understand this part, that you aren’t an employee with Doordash, so that means you won’t be getting a paycheck from Doordash. As an independent contractor, they simply drop your earnings into your bank each week through Direct Deposit. The thing that is really, …
Does Doordash Pay Overtime? Note: This is part of a series of articles that addresses common questions that get asked about various delivery platforms in the gig economy. The short and fast answer is, no. Understand that as a driver for Doordash, you are an independent contractor and not an employee. Therefore, employee guarantees like …
Today was a good day to try riding a bike for Doordash. My car is in the shop for maintenance, so I thought it would be a good day to test out the new Bicycle mode on the Doordash app. You may have noticed the little button on the bottom of the map on Doordash …
What is going on with the Doordash app? The past few days, there’s been a lot of buzz about Doordash that has nothing to do with their pay model and the supposed upcoming change. The Dasher app has been having some major issues. Dozens of drivers have reported in forums that they were deactivated. And …
Over the next several days or several weeks, Doordash Dashers will be wondering what the new pay model is going to look like. You could say it ranges between anticipation and dread, depending on who you talk to. I watched one Youtuber just giddy about the fact that it’s changing, though he seems to forget …
Dashers recently received an email from Tony Xu announcing that a new pay model was going to roll out. The Doordash pay model has been a source of controversy for awhile. There have been accusations pretty much from the day it was rolled out that they were stealing tips. I published this awhile back, that …
Doordash sent an email out to their Dashers yesterday with information about new improvements they are providing for their platform. If you have received any of the emails in the past from Grubhub and Postmates about how they were “improving” your pay (which translated, meant improvements for them, not us), it’s pretty natural to ask, …
For the longest time, conventional wisdom was that Uber Eats would be the one to eventually knock Grubhub off their perch as market share leader in the food delivery business, with Doordash and Postmates seemingly left behind to battle for scraps. And yet recent reports like this one and this one show Doordash taking over …
No. No, Doordash isn’t stealing your tips. At least not technically. But you can’t blame drivers for getting that impression. Editor’s Note: This article was written during Doordash’s previous pay model so some things will seem different. Some things haven’t changed – I’ll talk about what’s changed at the end of the article. The Doordash …
