As an independent contractor delivering for Uber Eats, you can put as many or as few hours into it as you want. You have the freedom to make it a full-time gig if you wish. Whether you should or not, that’s a different question. Full-time delivery is the right move for many, but for others …
The best times to deliver for Uber Eats are when there are the most available delivery offers for the number of contractors logged into the app. It’s all about supply and demand. The beauty of being an independent contractor for gig economy food delivery apps like Uber Eats is that you get to make your …
Uber Eats does not pay overtime. Uber Eats delivery drivers are independent contractors providing delivery services as a business and thus are not Uber employees. Therefore, employee guarantees like minimum wage and overtime do not apply. Understand how payment works as an independent contractor Unfortunately, Uber does not do a good job explaining that their …
Uber Eats independent contractors are allowed to decide whether to accept or decline any delivery offers. In fact, Uber Eats can not legally make you accept any deliveries. They also can’t require you to accept a given percentage or acceptance rate. But the question is, how does accepting or rejecting orders on uber Eats work? …
Uber Eats has started hiding upfront address information in some markets for drivers with less than a 50 percent acceptance rate. At this point it appears to be a test. Drivers in the test markets who have rejected more than five of their last ten offers will no see all of the delivery information when …
Do you need to maintain a high acceptance rate when delivering for Uber Eats? What happens if you decline too many delivery offers on the Ubereats driver app? With as much as we hear about delivery drivers having their contracts deactivated by companies like Uber Eats, that’s a question that can make you nervous. We …
Uber Eats is trying something new: Showing the total amount, including expected tip, when they offer deliveries. They rolled it out in my market. What was it like taking offers now that I know the total amount that a delivery will pay? Uber Eats Information and Tipping: An Evolution As a driver, I have to …
Uber Eats showing total amount INCLUDING tip up front? Will they? Should they? Brian from the UDM Youtube channel has commented a couple times that my market always seems to get the first look at changes that these gig delivery companies roll out. It looks like he got the scoop on this one. (Around the …
News broke last week that Uber and Postmates were negotiating a take over. This morning, Uber and Postmates announced that a deal had been reached. Uber will buy Postmates for 2.65 billion dollars worth of stock. Postmates will fall under current Uber Eats management. Bloomberg reports that Bastian Lehmann and his team will stay on …
Uber is back in the food delivery mergers and acquisitions rumor mill. This time they are negotiating a take over of Postmates. Several weeks ago, Uber and Grubhub were in talks about a possible takeover. I had the feeling that a deal would be done, but wasn’t sure that it could pass regulatory approval. It …
Is Uber EATS a good delivery option for you as an indpendent contractor? As part of the Deliver on Your Business Podcast, we are looking at the four delivery companies and examining some of the pros and cons of each. I drug my feet a bit with this one because I wanted to wait to …
How well do Uber Eats Customers tip? I think that varies by customer, market, and circumstances. Uber Eats was the first gig platformed I had ever delivered for, and I was shocked at how bad the tips were starting out. Over time, things began to make a bit more sense. My experience is that tipping …
When you are thinking about delivering for different delivery apps, you will be asking yourself, does Uber Eats pay enough? Is there enough potential to make decent profits as an independent contractor working exclusively or primarily on Uber Eats deliveries? I can’t answer that. Every person is different, every situation is different and every market …
Customer service can have very positive and direct rewards towards your bottom line in one area: Tipping. This is especially true with Postmates and Uber Eats. I know a lot of people don’t like delivering these two platofrms primarily because the tipping doesn’t seem to keep up with that on Grubhub and Doordash. I actually …
My first experience delivering in the gig economy was with Uber Eats. It was February. It didn’t take long before the first snow, and I figured tips would be pretty good, right? You know, you’d expect peope were more thankful that they didn’t have to go out. They’d respect that we were willing to put …