The following articles provide some strategies you can use to be more profitable when delivering for Doordash. These Dasher tips and tricks dive into how Doordash works and what you can do to make the best of your time delivering for Doordash (and other delivery companies)
How to Dash: Doordash Driver Tips and Tricks
As an independent contractor, you are not required to accept any particular delivery offer that Doordash sends your way. In fact, they can't even require you have a certain acceptance rate. Delivery offers should be viewed as a bid for your services, not an assignment from your boss. We examine how to evaluate offers and decide whether or not they make sense for you.
We examine thirty one different tips and ideas to help you be more profitable when delivering for Doordash as a Dasher.
We look at programs like Doordash's Top Dasher program, which incentivize you to accept a higher percentage of delivery offers. We talk about how to evaluate the programs and how to evaluate the benefits they offer against the lower pay that typically goes with a higher acceptance rate.
Do Top Dashers really get better delivery offers? We examine what Doordash actually promises (tl:dr: they no longer promise anything about delivery offers) and discuss what Doordash really did promise.
While many people make claims on one side or the other as to whether Top Dashers get better delivery offers, no one has data. We decided to do something about that by accepting 100 straight delivery offers while not Top Dasher, and another one hundred straight after being awarded Top Dasher status. We compared the offers and results to see if there was any improvement in order quality.
Doordash promises "higher priority" for high paying offers if you have a 50% acceptance rate or higher. We put that to the test, and compared delivery offers when acceptance rate was under 50% and when it was higher. Were the offers really better?
We examine the best times to deliver for Doordash, and how to determine when you can make the most money as a Dasher.
We talk about the factors you should consider when trying to decide if Dashing for Doordash is a good full-time opportunity.
Does it make sense to deliver exclusively for Doordash? We talk about pros and cons of working for only one delivery platform verses working multiple apps.
Doordash introduced a cash on delivery feature, where the customer pays the Dasher for the entire meal in cash. We talk about how that works and whether it makes sense to accept cash on delivery offers.
Do you know whether or not there will be a tip when you get a delivery offer on Doordash? We examine what Dashers see when they get a delivery, and when they know if they receive a tip and how much that tip is.
We look at the steps one has to take to deliver for Doordash and how the Dasher application process works.
How do you qualify to be a Dasher? We look at Doordash's driver requirements, and how their background check process works.
A Dasher's low customer rating can prevent them from receiving Top Dasher status, or even lead to deactivation. We look at eleven tips and strategies to help Doordash drivers keep their ratings up.
Should you rely on Doordash to tell you how many miles you drove? That can be a costly mistake. Doordash offered a mileage tracking pilot, and I compared their numbers to the actual miles driven. This article offers the results of that test.