Make sure to keep track of everything that can be a deduction on your taxes, as most gig jobs will have you fill out a 1099. You can claim deductions for mileage, per diem, business expenses, and more!
Thanks for bringing this up I can see it's received a lot of attention. The only thing with taxes is I don't want to give you incorrect information as I'm not a tax professional or CPA . I'm an expert in what I know and don't pretend to be a tax expert, hope you guys understand. When it comes to taxes for the past 2 years I've done Turbo Tax self employed, they just ask you what 1099 income sources you have, you'll list gross revenue then corresponding mileage. They'll also ask if you want the standard mileage deduction or itemized deduction and you'll follow the respective prompts.
Drive thru orders are very convenient but late at night is trash. Ive waited at McDonald's for 40 minutes before. And taco bell typically will be out of food close to closing time. Restaurants dont have as many employees later at night ive noticed and thats when everybody wants to go get some drivethru food. Its a waste
I wish you could do a survey that set your preferences for these apps. Turn off/dislike/ favorite certain merchants and the algorithm would adjust to that. I got a jewel shop and deliver for $39 to go like 6 miles away a while back, loveeee. Today I took a shipt Best buy drop off and on the way I got a walmart in store pickup drop off for $32/5 orders, 1 bag each. So it was 2 pickups (bby/ walmart) and 6 drop offs, alot of miles but the shipt bby order was perfectly on the route for the DD walmart order and all of it was $55 for about 1 hours worth of work. Good day:)
Another important thing to consider is where the drop-off will leave you...sometimes I get decent orders that take me to areas that are purely residential, with no restaurants around...so I have to drive back to an area where there's a probability of orders...so I am "riding empty" as truckers say. Important to consider this.
Man..NV has insanely bad base pay && incoming orders. I gave DD a try back in early 2019 just to check it out & it wasn't bad in SoCal. Fast forward to now, I need extra flow & have moved to NV. It blows my mind at all the $3 dashes for 6+ miles and rarely any peak pay past $2. I stay away from the strip because its SO much effort for literal crumbs. Beyond frustrating. Made $65 today (Fri) while out on the road for 6hrs!! Found this page while waiting on orders & look forward to the content. I hope it helps me here!!
I really enjoy how you just get straight to the point and are very clear and helpful thank you some of the other instructional videos I had to force myself to sit through two minutes of it I could not get through the whole thing so thank you I appreciate your in-depth instructions and how you break everything down
I make about $10 less per hour during peak pay. Without peak pay I can get 3-4 orders per hour but with peak pay there are wayyyy to many drivers and I only get 1-2 orders per hour.
my sister does ubereats she finds esp at night cause its harder to get food delivered in that neighborhood that downtown in our local large city has very high tips. i went with her last night and i went wih her cause she did the late night shift for the first time down there. and despite most the orders werent going but 2 or 3 miles on any order ( i think the furthest we went was 5 miles) almost every order was around 10 dollars. we also went to the mcds beside the main hospital 4 times and each time it was at least a 15 min wait
I did my first day in my area in tucson doing gig driving. For about 4 hours. Got lost at the uofa for 20 mins and spent 20 30 mins back at home with my dogs since my puppy was sick that day. So about 3 hours in total. About 10 deliveries 32 miles driven. But made 70 bucks. Would you say that's good?
I'm forced into a 60% acceptance rate due to poor area. I'm constantly sent $3 total orders for $50 worth of food & 10 mile trips + to cross a major traffic jammed bridge nearby. I constantly deny & report, small base pay on every order. I don't know who would take those jobs. If we all just simply refuse ALL jobs under $2/mile then we would be good
I'm dashing now made almost $100 in six hours. First hour and half made $40. I'm at $80 in earnings without any possible tips they may pay later. Door dash I can always count on. Going try GrubHub real soon.
The problem is where I live we never ever get more than 2 dollar peak pay and it's usually only 1 dollar and doesn't happen very often. We simply cannot make that kind of money here. The tips always suck and we are forced to take 5 and 6 dollar orders because that is about 90 percent of the orders we get 5 percent are lower and don't get accepted and the other 5 percent are the occasional 7 and 8 dollar orders
I see DD is the only app in your marketplace? That does make it tough since they're the only game in town. Sounds like a smaller marketplace too? Any other niches you could look into?
@@YourDriverMike I do instacart too but it's just as slow and when they finally do have batches They are just way to little pay fro the size of the order. Other than that no! there's nothing else we can do here. We just have to deal with low pay and not many orders because being the only game in town it is also way over saturated with drivers. I'm lucky If I make 200 bucks a week
I dash in Florida too, the other night Wellington had a $5 peak pay, you just gotta be in the right area honestly. I travel to other areas to do my dashing, I don't dash in my own resident area, it helps to expand
One tip I have is if you can, work the hallmark holidays during the day. Fathers day, mothers day, valentines, admin day, boss day, etc. I worked mothers day last year (my mom lives in a different state) and I averaged $70 an hour on a four hour shift. As for taxes, use a tax program. I use tax act and while I declared 5700 last year, I paid zero taxes on my doordash side gig.
Can I’d use my moms car to dash?And is it really worth dashing during the pandemic of covid-19?Because I’m really interested on doing Doordash for extra money on the side but don’t have a car of my own but I’m not sure if I’d can borrow my moms car to make that extra cash?
What I learned last week is Don't accept orders from Walmart, 7-11 and Walgreens. Most of the time you have to go inside and shop yourself which gonna take lot of time for the amount of money paid. I have to go shop at Walgreens yesterday for 8.5 dollar which took me more than 30 minute and the costumer was unhappy because I couldn't find all the items and he rated me 1 star.
Learned that on with Instacart and a CVS order. I don't take those kinds of orders anymore. It was $101.00 worth of candy, and a bunch of stuff I couldn't find and took me way to long to find the stuff!
Similar to what S.J. mentioned and Shipt comes to mind for me, shopping for items especially in a store you're unfamiliar with can take a lot of time. If it's a Shipt order from a place I've shopped before though sometimes I can be in and out pretty fast
4.50 extra an order...damn....where im at its usually only 4.50 for the whole dash.... The way gas is now you got to make a dollar a mile or it's just not worth accepting the dash
I pretty much decline all drive through orders now, especially if it is a red card order. I will only pick up from fast food places where I can walk up. The only exception will be Chick Fil A, which they bring out when you arrive. They are usually pretty good but I did have a couple instances where I ended up waiting 20 - 25 minutes.
Dude- u shud be investing in OWNING a chic filay, not delivering for them- get $10,000 and a great location n apply online for ur own franchise, cause if u don’t, the next guy will
Yooper Author no, I’ve had 5 food businesses- all successful failures- now I’m 60 and so many men are humping their butts to chase that delivery for one more dollar when if they had the guts to go get the stoopid franchise and run it themselves. Franchises are BEGGING for new owners, as long as your LOCATION fits their agenda. Chic fila only wants $10,000. I’ve spent over a million on my failures. So why not give these men the push that they need.
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Hey I'm a dasher my is Dwayne am always looking at your show, question my account got deactivated is there anyway can you help me out just asking. Thank you
Dwayne Burnett hey there not sure theirs much you can do but maybe email/contact support if you were deactivated for no reason, but if your ratings were low like 4.2 or lower then not sure you can do much about that maybe sign up for skip the dishes good luck tho
I've taken Drive-Thru orders in my area and now I realise how much of a time sink they are. Now I should probably just take fast food orders from the 3 places that have their lobbies open during the day . MCD, TB and BK. The rest are not worth the headache.
@Alpha omega Ilc. Yea but that’s probably because other dashers saw that high peak pay and decided to dash at the same time as you so you had more competition out there.
@@owencollins4790 I experimented it too. I have the customer app and tried to order during peak hours... It costs more, so I know the customer is paying.
Yeah here in kansas city it does not matter what area you are in you will never receive more than $1 peak pay. with that being said in order to get the biggest orders, prepare for your acceptance rate to TANK (which btw does not matter as there is no minimum) as you will have a decline until you get the orders you are happy with. Once in a blue moon will i ever see a SINGLE $18 order (only happened to me three times, the other few it was 2 orders)
The only way to get a generous batches is like many doorsashers they pay for a bot and they have 2 or 3 accounts the otherwise you only see 👀 the lowest pay batches.
After doing my first 4hr shift tonight, I think DD algorithm route higher orders to specific people. Base pay was $3. $2 peak. My. Entire shift all of my orders were $10+ with very short distances. My son was in the same zone and kept getting $7-$8 orders. He started last week. I’ve only done 118 total. I get high orders back to back but he doesn’t.
doordash is tricky. ive had scheduled shifts with large gaps between orders making low money and also times where i hopped on and wound up very glad i did cause i got consecutive good orders (quickies, or big $$) unexpectantly.
Peak pay should not be counted in your picking a delivery. As in peak pay is $3 and you get one for $9 at 5 miles. That means your tip may be as low as $3-4 so not worth your time. Now $3 peak pay and the delivery is $12 at 5 miles is gravy. Tip may be at least $5-7 we go through a lot for low tips. Tips are how we make our money DD does not give great paying deliveries so we have to make sure the base pay, and tip is more or the same as our lowest acceptable pay without the peak pay. But if no orders are coming through $10 is $10. We all have our choices of what we take or don't take.
O my, I be complaining about delivering past 2 miles and a lot of ppl do way more than 2 miles. Like driving 5 miles just to drop off some food for $8 is ridiculous. So now I can be very thankful and grateful for getting 1.5 miles for $9 or orders that's the max of 2 miles away for $8+
Just a note is very different in Columbus GA, snsllish town not CALI, so when you mention good and bad amounts of money, it is all relative to one's area. I loved your idea of a spread sheet comparing peak pay to non peak pay. I also have been finding that Saturday is so saturated with drivers that I do much better during the week. Even though the orders tend to be for less, the resteraunts are much quicker,less backed up. And more orders because there are less drivers.
I stack orders between multiple platforms including dd. Make $35-$45 average in the poway area when I visit my family working solo. Working 11:30-1 and 4:30-7:30.
My issue is that dd keeps trying to push me out of my zone and constantly tries to force me into a couple of cities over in a dangerous area.. So ive had to start declining orders & I've gotten less work ever since. Everyone says that acceptance rates dont matter but i would get back to back and frequent stacked orders until i declined my first order & now i wont get an order for my first hour of dashing & will often have 15 or more minutes in between orders. Even next to restaurants i know are getting flooded & its very busy in the area. I worked a thursday in a not very busy area and could not catch my breath vs now on busy weekends where i have downtime?? Its a bummer
I just signed up for Door Dash last night and they want me to start immediately. The will not mail my starter kit until I complete my first dash. How can I tell if the order is a red card order before I accept it. I do not want to pay for customer's food and wait up to 10 days for reimbursement.
I only go on busy hours until it slows down which usually only lasts about 4-5 hours and I make around $120 each session. I take orders that are at least $2/km. I live in Canada so it’s in KM not Miles
I will take stacked orders sent together by DD as long as they’re somewhat reasonable because I take into account that I only have to go to one pickup (to 2 customers) which saves me a lot of time.
Today I got a alert from door dash that a customer did not get her food and the deactivation squad will be viewing my comment, one sub from Penn Station I was sitting the food down when the girl came out the door and took the sub out of my hand I said enjoy and left, I can identify this girl because her ethnicity was different than all my hand offs today I remember her well. I have been driving for door dash for 7 months, this accusation really hurts, any comment?
Hi Jerry, when delivering always confirm the name. So in that case I would say, "You're waiting for DoorDash? Great, what's the name? [of the order customer]". This reduces the risk of fraud from someone taking an unauthorized order. For your scenario I would simply detail what happened with support and mention how this person was assuming to be the customer. Going forward very the order name of anyone accepting an order.
@@YourDriverMike Thanks, I drive mostly for Uber I only have 207 door dash delivery's I do door dash when uber is slow. I enjoy your video's very informative.
Has anyone had a contract violating from an order that never arrived but you actually delivered it ? I got one today and I definitely made the delivery
Yeah always take a pic no matter what. There are a lot of dishonest people that will do that just to get a free meal, or they'll blame you if the restaurant is slow and try to take it out on you.
To be honest, I don't like the shopping with the card or even the items to purchase with the card on the drive thru because it takes too much time. Although just watching and listening to your videos helps me out alot to try and make more money on a weekly pay. I try so much to not take the low paying orders because it takes too much of my time,when I should concentrate on the bigger payouts as you have mentioned. And I took the part the part when you said that a Hotspot does not really give you something to deliver. I've tested it and that is so true. With Doordash they will not give me a delivery right away until I have confirmed the deliveries. Uber on the other hand gives me deliveries continously even before I confirmed a delivery which Uber really keeps me busy throughout the day,nights,and mornings. Thanks again for your videos and tips.
If I had a flying drone that I can sit on it and deliver their food I don't mind accepting $2 commission at all cuz it's faster to avoid traffic and the covered distance. :) I don't like being stuck in the traffic for 20+ minutes.
dd seems useless around here for drivers. nearly every delivery are $3 or so or too far to be worth it. i think they might be keeping more of the base far than ue.
Quick question. I had to deliver an order that was completely out of my area and once I was there I was getting no orders and had to drive back to my area. Was I just unlucky once I got to a new area or are you not allowed to deliver in a area you weren’t assigned to?
Don’t choose far areas. Set your own limits before you dash. What I do is set a limit for distance, and pay. Nothing under 5$ and nothing further than 13 miles. I will make 100-140 a day. The first days I would go far and take any order and would only make 60-70 a day
The high pay is the region your working in. It has nothing to do with being close to a restaurant with lots of orders. Unless being within 5 miles is close to you.
My Peak Pay yesterday night from 4-7:30pm was so bad that I didn't ger any order for 1and half hours. Then I just quit for the night and went home. It was frustrating to be scheduled for the peak pay and I drove 30 minutes to the peak pay area and then waited and waited. Then went to 3 hot spots and got no orders. Doordash app needs to be improved to that if there's too many drivers delivering for the night, they should just straight up tell you to go home. Sometimes its very disappointing on what Doordash do to people trying to make a decent pay.
The secret is don't dash in peak pay areas. You have to be top dasher to do so because doordash gives them priority over everyone else. Instead dash in a zone with the smallest peak pay or none at all. Trust me it works because everyone and their momma is rushing to the peak pay areas leaving the other areas wide open with very little competition.
I got to hot spot and then run both DD and Postmates at the same time. Often I work in Postmates more than Door Dash, but DD gets to where there are orders. Unless Door dash is paying me peak pay...
@@RiverWoods111 I go to Doordash hot spots but everyone gets different results on orders. Some have to wait longer than others. For me, I end up waiting for a long time. Then I sometimes used the UberEats app.
@@RiverWoods111 I'm saying doing Doordash or UberEats, everyone's earning is different in different areas. I would sometimes want to see the negative or bad days of people doing Doordashing and not always see people making a lot of money doing Doordash. The video's makes it look so easy making the money in deliverys but in fact its hard.
I also drive in mission valley, there are lots of restaurants in the area. Personally, I love to work in this area. I also went to this same exact Sonic and OMG, the line was so long and finally getting to thr window, they told me it was picked up by someone else. I was so furious and have no longer picked up from there. I wasted a full hour and how they say, time is money. I would recommend that you don't get orders from here
I’m surrounded by 7-10 restaurants in my area, but i average 4.50 per offer (not per order that i accept) and 6mi per offer. My acceptance rate is 2% thanks to this
dude freaking mcdonalds.. people order mcdonalds and expect that its fast food.. HELLO! FAST.......... FOOOD................ why does it take the amount of time a steak would take? they need to figure this out...
I would love to see a video that walks me and talks me through a full door dash after the fact... so record it in the moment, leave that hard to focus background music out, and talk me slowly through the process of an order coming in - what do you look at, what helps you to decide whether to take the order or not, what are the things you consider? Once you take the order, talk us through the details of how the app works from there. My first order took me forever to figure out how to do everything in a timely manner and I ended up getting tagged as not having delivered it on time, when in fact, I had delivered it at least 5-10 minutes early. Also, where do you put your purse? Some of the areas I deliver to are not the most trustworthy and full of character, integrity, and respect. I worry about my purse when I jump out to run a delivery up to a house. Things I found hard to figure out on my first day dash today: 1. How do I look at the screen and know whether it is worth my time and drive? 2. How do I know what the full amount of miles will be? 3. Once finished, do I drive back toward a hotspot to pick up another delivery or stay where I'm at? 4. Is there a way to tell where I'm being sent ahead of time? (I live in Indiana and it sent me across the border to a rough neighborhood in Illinois today. I grew up in a neighborhood like that and I know what goes on. I was not prepared and should never have been over there.) 5. How do you go into the app and send the customer a text? Are you doing this through the app or through your own text message? 6. I actually live in a rough and unsafe area... How do I drive to a safer area where I can work? Do I have to find the hotspot or can I just go to the area and then pick up orders from there? 7. What app or process do you use for tracking mileage, vehicle maintenance, etc? 8. I know I'm missing some things. For a type A - Highly sensitive personality and a total introvert (functional introvert but nonetheless...), I was a little overwhelmed with it all. I wish I could have had time to play in a "test" version to really learn my way around the app and figure out how to navigate it but because they don't offer that, I need a video that at least takes the time to show these things - and preferably, a previously recorded dash that has been gone back through and voiced over to explain everything...
The problem I've come to recently is that I've had to contact customer service unassigned orders at times when I didn't get a chance to see how long the drive was because the app started glitching up and I didn't want to miss it. they tried to get me to drive from South lake Tahoe to Tacoma which is on a Friday night an hour each way 33 mi each way for $17 at a Safeway. Then I got another order for a 13 Mile drive for like $7 and I wasn't paying attention and could not assign it. I started watching some door dash videos videos and realize that cherry picking is probably the best method instead of accepting every order that comes through. after I started doing this I noticed that they started to give me a lot of three and four and five dollar orders literally seven to ten I've been a row and I have been putting me in pause mode every 30 seconds until I and my dash just to get me off of the platform and signed out. They've actually signed me out several times during dashes when I minimize the window.
Thanks for watching Jonathan, tricky because I notice a few things there. Firstly of course make sure to pay attention to the order request screen so you don't accidentally accept sub par orders. Second as you continue to dash you'll pick up on market specific averages. What I mean is maybe a $8 payout is the highest it typically gets there, maybe $7. Regardless that dollars:mile is key. As far as the time outs also drive on other platforms if you don't already because maybe DD just isn't that strong in your market for drivers. I wouldn't lower my pay standards, I would continue to ignore low payouts which is good
Thank you thank you thank you 😊
Can you make a video on how to prepare for the tax season for gig workers.
Facts
THIS RIGHT HERE!!!!!!!
Make sure to keep track of everything that can be a deduction on your taxes, as most gig jobs will have you fill out a 1099. You can claim deductions for mileage, per diem, business expenses, and more!
Jared Messersmith been keeping track of gas more then anything but also kms kinda is gas good to keep track of?
Thanks for bringing this up I can see it's received a lot of attention. The only thing with taxes is I don't want to give you incorrect information as I'm not a tax professional or CPA . I'm an expert in what I know and don't pretend to be a tax expert, hope you guys understand.
When it comes to taxes for the past 2 years I've done Turbo Tax self employed, they just ask you what 1099 income sources you have, you'll list gross revenue then corresponding mileage. They'll also ask if you want the standard mileage deduction or itemized deduction and you'll follow the respective prompts.
We NEVER get those amounts of incentives here in Houston. What up DD🤔
Yeah I wish Houston has more peak pays man 😢
@@GliiderTV Where I live in Houston, peak pay pretty much happens almost every day. It’ll usually be $1, $1.50, or $2.
I spend 10 dollars in gas and make $90+ in 4 to 5 hrs so im very pleased
Same here
I say the same thing 90% of the time I reject anything less than 1$ per mile.
I have driven 11 hours this week. Earned $530. No peak pay 35 orders 112 miles and it was five easy 2 hour shifts
Another reason why you will get higher pay from stores like 7-11 is alcohol orders pay more.
I had a $18.75 order for 1.4 miles then immediately after got a $14.25 order for 2.3 miles made $85.75 in 3 hours
I only receive only a dollar for peak pay at most. Its ridiculous.
Drive thru orders are very convenient but late at night is trash. Ive waited at McDonald's for 40 minutes before. And taco bell typically will be out of food close to closing time. Restaurants dont have as many employees later at night ive noticed and thats when everybody wants to go get some drivethru food. Its a waste
The light in your window is making me think there is something on my screen.
I would quickly accept the 11.00 stacked order
I wish you could do a survey that set your preferences for these apps. Turn off/dislike/ favorite certain merchants and the algorithm would adjust to that. I got a jewel shop and deliver for $39 to go like 6 miles away a while back, loveeee. Today I took a shipt Best buy drop off and on the way I got a walmart in store pickup drop off for $32/5 orders, 1 bag each. So it was 2 pickups (bby/ walmart) and 6 drop offs, alot of miles but the shipt bby order was perfectly on the route for the DD walmart order and all of it was $55 for about 1 hours worth of work. Good day:)
Okay I'm now 6 minutes into the video and you've made more than I made all week accepting every order I get lol wtfff
I love door dash. It pays my rent. I'm a part timer , and make $1600 a month
My market has too many drivers. Never any peak pay. Its aweful.
Damn San Diego is where it's at. My towns avg is $6.50 per order.
In Kissimmee never never take orders at Old Town and also at food trucks parking lot in front of Old Town, that's a waste of time.
Another important thing to consider is where the drop-off will leave you...sometimes I get decent orders that take me to areas that are purely residential, with no restaurants around...so I have to drive back to an area where there's a probability of orders...so I am "riding empty" as truckers say. Important to consider this.
Anyone from Tampa Bay here? Here the distances are very far and the pay is really low.
Man..NV has insanely bad base pay && incoming orders. I gave DD a try back in early 2019 just to check it out & it wasn't bad in SoCal. Fast forward to now, I need extra flow & have moved to NV. It blows my mind at all the $3 dashes for 6+ miles and rarely any peak pay past $2. I stay away from the strip because its SO much effort for literal crumbs. Beyond frustrating. Made $65 today (Fri) while out on the road for 6hrs!! Found this page while waiting on orders & look forward to the content. I hope it helps me here!!
I really enjoy how you just get straight to the point and are very clear and helpful thank you some of the other instructional videos I had to force myself to sit through two minutes of it I could not get through the whole thing so thank you I appreciate your in-depth instructions and how you break everything down
I started up Postmates last week and made 873$ in first 5 days
I hope all doordash staff wud kindly remind restaurants whose job it is to fill n seal cups. The restaurants', if u were wondering.
Dude, I’m making on average $200.00 a day. Save all gas receipts, and maintenance receipt. By the end of the year they wouldn’t take taxes.
I make about $10 less per hour during peak pay. Without peak pay I can get 3-4 orders per hour but with peak pay there are wayyyy to many drivers and I only get 1-2 orders per hour.
my sister does ubereats she finds esp at night cause its harder to get food delivered in that neighborhood that downtown in our local large city has very high tips. i went with her last night and i went wih her cause she did the late night shift for the first time down there. and despite most the orders werent going but 2 or 3 miles on any order ( i think the furthest we went was 5 miles) almost every order was around 10 dollars. we also went to the mcds beside the main hospital 4 times and each time it was at least a 15 min wait
Yes I did a order for 21 dollars for 11 miles I thought was ok 😂 but 21 for less than 5 miles is awesome 😎
Hey, Mike. Thanks for your great advice. Did my first Dash today. Made about $56.00 for 2 hours worked...drove about 28 miles.
Where you live bro that’s really goof
Awesome video! Best I’ve found so far! I start Dashing tomorrow!! Thanks!
"How to get the largest orders"
"Have good luck."
Thanks
The only time we ever even get peak pay is sometimes from midnight-2am, but everything is closed at that time 😂
I’m getting paid soo little, prob it just my city 💀💀
I did my first day in my area in tucson doing gig driving. For about 4 hours. Got lost at the uofa for 20 mins and spent 20 30 mins back at home with my dogs since my puppy was sick that day. So about 3 hours in total. About 10 deliveries 32 miles driven. But made 70 bucks. Would you say that's good?
I'm forced into a 60% acceptance rate due to poor area. I'm constantly sent $3 total orders for $50 worth of food & 10 mile trips + to cross a major traffic jammed bridge nearby. I constantly deny & report, small base pay on every order. I don't know who would take those jobs. If we all just simply refuse ALL jobs under $2/mile then we would be good
that math transition was nice
I'm dashing now made almost $100 in six hours. First hour and half made $40. I'm at $80 in earnings without any possible tips they may pay later. Door dash I can always count on. Going try GrubHub real soon.
Gh is better pay
The problem is where I live we never ever get more than 2 dollar peak pay and it's usually only 1 dollar and doesn't happen very often. We simply cannot make that kind of money here. The tips always suck and we are forced to take 5 and 6 dollar orders because that is about 90 percent of the orders we get 5 percent are lower and don't get accepted and the other 5 percent are the occasional 7 and 8 dollar orders
Same
What area are you in and are you multiapping?
Josiah Staggs no I’m. It because doordash is the only thing available here. We have grub hub but they are not looking for drivers here
I see DD is the only app in your marketplace? That does make it tough since they're the only game in town. Sounds like a smaller marketplace too? Any other niches you could look into?
@@YourDriverMike I do instacart too but it's just as slow and when they finally do have batches They are just way to little pay fro the size of the order. Other than that no! there's nothing else we can do here. We just have to deal with low pay and not many orders because being the only game in town it is also way over saturated with drivers. I'm lucky If I make 200 bucks a week
What's the difference between total revenue vs gross revenue?
You would hate Cincinnati. If you decline orders less than 1.50 per mile you would probably get 5 orders in a 8 hour shift
$4.50 peak pay I wish. Here in Florida the most I’ve currently seen in my area is $2
$2.00 is definitely doable as long as it's steady, thanks for watching Seth good luck out there be safe
Duh- it’s Florida... hang at IHOP for a early morning run- u WILL MAKE$$ with IHOP
I dash in Florida too, the other night Wellington had a $5 peak pay, you just gotta be in the right area honestly. I travel to other areas to do my dashing, I don't dash in my own resident area, it helps to expand
I saw $4 in Coral Springs last week
@@andresruiz62 LOL that’s Miami a huge city. Normal Florida ain’t like that.
One tip I have is if you can, work the hallmark holidays during the day. Fathers day, mothers day, valentines, admin day, boss day, etc. I worked mothers day last year (my mom lives in a different state) and I averaged $70 an hour on a four hour shift. As for taxes, use a tax program. I use tax act and while I declared 5700 last year, I paid zero taxes on my doordash side gig.
Any idea what's happened with picpay in Oceanside or Carlsbad Area California? They so low it got me wonder why?
I live in a suburb of Cleveland and lucked out with 2 orders and 2 different restaurants and made $40 with those orders alone. Thanks for the tips!
Clevelands hit or miss. I come out there from Pittsburgh sometime. All those Ohio UBER drivers are over here all the time!
Can I’d use my moms car to dash?And is it really worth dashing during the pandemic of covid-19?Because I’m really interested on doing Doordash for extra money on the side but don’t have a car of my own but I’m not sure if I’d can borrow my moms car to make that extra cash?
What I learned last week is Don't accept orders from Walmart, 7-11 and Walgreens. Most of the time you have to go inside and shop yourself which gonna take lot of time for the amount of money paid. I have to go shop at Walgreens yesterday for 8.5 dollar which took me more than 30 minute and the costumer was unhappy because I couldn't find all the items and he rated me 1 star.
Learned that on with Instacart and a CVS order. I don't take those kinds of orders anymore. It was $101.00 worth of candy, and a bunch of stuff I couldn't find and took me way to long to find the stuff!
Similar to what S.J. mentioned and Shipt comes to mind for me, shopping for items especially in a store you're unfamiliar with can take a lot of time. If it's a Shipt order from a place I've shopped before though sometimes I can be in and out pretty fast
I never have problems with 7-11 orders, besides the suspicion that I might get murderd
@@educationalporpoises9592 omg lol!
4.50 extra an order...damn....where im at its usually only 4.50 for the whole dash.... The way gas is now you got to make a dollar a mile or it's just not worth accepting the dash
I pretty much decline all drive through orders now, especially if it is a red card order. I will only pick up from fast food places where I can walk up. The only exception will be Chick Fil A, which they bring out when you arrive. They are usually pretty good but I did have a couple instances where I ended up waiting 20 - 25 minutes.
Dude- u shud be investing in OWNING a chic filay, not delivering for them- get $10,000 and a great location n apply online for ur own franchise, cause if u don’t, the next guy will
Yooper Author no, I’ve had 5 food businesses- all successful failures- now I’m 60 and so many men are humping their butts to chase that delivery for one more dollar when if they had the guts to go get the stoopid franchise and run it themselves. Franchises are BEGGING for new owners, as long as your LOCATION fits their agenda. Chic fila only wants $10,000. I’ve spent over a million on my failures. So why not give these men the push that they need.
Daniel Kleinmeier ok but we need to get 10k saved up first... until then I’m chasing the next gig
Chik fila you only need 10000 to apply for the franchise?
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Hey I'm a dasher my is Dwayne am always looking at your show, question my account got deactivated is there anyway can you help me out just asking.
Thank you
Dwayne Burnett hey there not sure theirs much you can do but maybe email/contact support if you were deactivated for no reason, but if your ratings were low like 4.2 or lower then not sure you can do much about that maybe sign up for skip the dishes good luck tho
Thanks
COMMON SENSE BOI
You know what they say about common sense
How does he calculate the mile to money ratio
I've taken Drive-Thru orders in my area and now I realise how much of a time sink they are. Now I should probably just take fast food orders from the 3 places that have their lobbies open during the day . MCD, TB and BK. The rest are not worth the headache.
My observation has been that, except for weekends, when the peak pay is higher, less orders come through because it's more expensive for the customer.
Weekends are definitely were it's at for bonuses
@Alpha omega Ilc. Yea but that’s probably because other dashers saw that high peak pay and decided to dash at the same time as you so you had more competition out there.
Peak pay does not affect what the customer pays. DoorDash takes care of that. I experimented with this and can confirm
@@owencollins4790 I experimented it too. I have the customer app and tried to order during peak hours... It costs more, so I know the customer is paying.
Yeah here in kansas city it does not matter what area you are in you will never receive more than $1 peak pay. with that being said in order to get the biggest orders, prepare for your acceptance rate to TANK (which btw does not matter as there is no minimum) as you will have a decline until you get the orders you are happy with. Once in a blue moon will i ever see a SINGLE $18 order (only happened to me three times, the other few it was 2 orders)
The only way to get a generous batches is like many doorsashers they pay for a bot and they have 2 or 3 accounts the otherwise you only see 👀 the lowest pay batches.
Pshhh out here in NH i be lucky to make even $4 total for a delivery smh
After doing my first 4hr shift tonight, I think DD algorithm route higher orders to specific people. Base pay was $3. $2 peak. My. Entire shift all of my orders were $10+ with very short distances. My son was in the same zone and kept getting $7-$8 orders. He started last week. I’ve only done 118 total. I get high orders back to back but he doesn’t.
Our Miles is always 8-10 mi…. Then you are coming back round trip 20 mi…. $.50.. Too many Miles
doordash is tricky. ive had scheduled shifts with large gaps between orders making low money and also times where i hopped on and wound up very glad i did cause i got consecutive good orders (quickies, or big $$) unexpectantly.
Great points, it's definitely like that. Matt's seeing that in Pittsburgh which is why it's so good to drive on multiple apps
Bro one time I did a postmates and doordash Job at the same time. Taco Bell had me sitting there for 25 mins. I will never do that again
Taco Bell orders definitely can be some of the longest wait times, I get that from Wendy's as well
We have a couple of Taco Bells that are open for carry out...those are the only ones that I accept...I refuse to wait in the Drive-thru
Peak pay should not be counted in your picking a delivery. As in peak pay is $3 and you get one for $9 at 5 miles. That means your tip may be as low as $3-4 so not worth your time. Now $3 peak pay and the delivery is $12 at 5 miles is gravy. Tip may be at least $5-7 we go through a lot for low tips. Tips are how we make our money DD does not give great paying deliveries so we have to make sure the base pay, and tip is more or the same as our lowest acceptable pay without the peak pay. But if no orders are coming through $10 is $10. We all have our choices of what we take or don't take.
Hello neighbor LOL I'm in Escondido California I completely dislike dashing here in Escondido
I calculated $21/5 in my head and came up with $4.25. I was wrong, but still close enough.
O my, I be complaining about delivering past 2 miles and a lot of ppl do way more than 2 miles. Like driving 5 miles just to drop off some food for $8 is ridiculous. So now I can be very thankful and grateful for getting 1.5 miles for $9 or orders that's the max of 2 miles away for $8+
Just a note is very different in Columbus GA, snsllish town not CALI, so when you mention good and bad amounts of money, it is all relative to one's area. I loved your idea of a spread sheet comparing peak pay to non peak pay. I also have been finding that Saturday is so saturated with drivers that I do much better during the week. Even though the orders tend to be for less, the resteraunts are much quicker,less backed up. And more orders because there are less drivers.
I once saw a 8 dollar peek pay!! Crazy
How ??? Well you get them by being smart and declining the bullshit orders lol 😂
I stack orders between multiple platforms including dd. Make $35-$45 average in the poway area when I visit my family working solo. Working 11:30-1 and 4:30-7:30.
My issue is that dd keeps trying to push me out of my zone and constantly tries to force me into a couple of cities over in a dangerous area.. So ive had to start declining orders & I've gotten less work ever since. Everyone says that acceptance rates dont matter but i would get back to back and frequent stacked orders until i declined my first order & now i wont get an order for my first hour of dashing & will often have 15 or more minutes in between orders. Even next to restaurants i know are getting flooded & its very busy in the area. I worked a thursday in a not very busy area and could not catch my breath vs now on busy weekends where i have downtime?? Its a bummer
DD's algorithms always give less food delivery offers to ppl who accept less and decline more of them.
I just signed up for Door Dash last night and they want me to start immediately. The will not mail my starter kit until I complete my first dash. How can I tell if the order is a red card order before I accept it. I do not want to pay for customer's food and wait up to 10 days for reimbursement.
They will not give you any orders that require the card, they will wait until you get it and activate it
@@luisarias3848 Thanks! That’s what I was hoping. I just wanted to make sure.
lets do the math quickly :P LMAO
Great information! Thanks for sharing. Every little bit helps those of us considering delivery service.
Glad to help Colleen!
I made one 9miles for 63$ in Uber eats
I only go on busy hours until it slows down which usually only lasts about 4-5 hours and I make around $120 each session. I take orders that are at least $2/km. I live in Canada so it’s in KM not Miles
Nice ending?
I will take stacked orders sent together by DD as long as they’re somewhat reasonable because I take into account that I only have to go to one pickup (to 2 customers) which saves me a lot of time.
Today I got a alert from door dash that a customer did not get her food and the deactivation squad will be viewing my comment, one sub from Penn Station I was sitting the food down when the girl came out the door and took the sub out of my hand I said enjoy and left, I can identify this girl because her ethnicity was different than all my hand offs today I remember her well. I have been driving for door dash for 7 months, this accusation really hurts, any comment?
Hi Jerry, when delivering always confirm the name. So in that case I would say, "You're waiting for DoorDash? Great, what's the name? [of the order customer]". This reduces the risk of fraud from someone taking an unauthorized order.
For your scenario I would simply detail what happened with support and mention how this person was assuming to be the customer. Going forward very the order name of anyone accepting an order.
@@YourDriverMike Thanks, I drive mostly for Uber I only have 207 door dash delivery's I do door dash when uber is slow. I enjoy your video's very informative.
Has anyone had a contract violating from an order that never arrived but you actually delivered it ? I got one today and I definitely made the delivery
Did you take a picture of your delivery then it’s a proof you still get paid even if customers scammed you.
Yeah always take a pic no matter what. There are a lot of dishonest people that will do that just to get a free meal, or they'll blame you if the restaurant is slow and try to take it out on you.
I got a $24 order to drive 5miles! It was a Catering order😎
Nice job! Do you have a catering bag?
How do you do Catering Orders??
To be honest, I don't like the shopping with the card or even the items to purchase with the card on the drive thru because it takes too much time. Although just watching and listening to your videos helps me out alot to try and make more money on a weekly pay. I try so much to not take the low paying orders because it takes too much of my time,when I should concentrate on the bigger payouts as you have mentioned. And I took the part the part when you said that a Hotspot does not really give you something to deliver. I've tested it and that is so true. With Doordash they will not give me a delivery right away until I have confirmed the deliveries. Uber on the other hand gives me deliveries continously even before I confirmed a delivery which Uber really keeps me busy throughout the day,nights,and mornings. Thanks again for your videos and tips.
If I had a flying drone that I can sit on it and deliver their food I don't mind accepting $2 commission at all cuz it's faster to avoid traffic and the covered distance. :) I don't like being stuck in the traffic for 20+ minutes.
dd seems useless around here for drivers. nearly every delivery are $3 or so or too far to be worth it. i think they might be keeping more of the base far than ue.
Today I did a $5 3 miles then right after $36 double order 3 miles
What market?
The drive thru happened to me today. Didn't like but it was for $10 with only 3 mile drive from the pick up
I'll take the hit and wait most times, if I accept from a fast food place I know what I'm getting into 😂
@@YourDriverMike right. Now I know 😂
$4.50 peak pay?!?! Wish I could get that.
Definitely higher than other markets from what I've seen, the strategies definitely still work though. Thanks for watching 👊🏻
Your Driver Mike lol i dont even get peak pay i would have to drive to a different city 30 minutes away and thats only for a one dollar peak pay
Ya. It’s because our rent is $2150 for a 2 bedroom apt in this area
We had $11 peak pay here in Louisiana when there was a hurricane. Plot twist all the restaurants were closed though.
@@RussTafari 😱😱😱
Quick question. I had to deliver an order that was completely out of my area and once I was there I was getting no orders and had to drive back to my area. Was I just unlucky once I got to a new area or are you not allowed to deliver in a area you weren’t assigned to?
doordash is sneaky , they take you out of the area you choose
Don’t choose far areas. Set your own limits before you dash. What I do is set a limit for distance, and pay. Nothing under 5$ and nothing further than 13 miles. I will make 100-140 a day. The first days I would go far and take any order and would only make 60-70 a day
The high pay is the region your working in. It has nothing to do with being close to a restaurant with lots of orders. Unless being within 5 miles is close to you.
all this dont go to the hotzone advice.. lol.. so i should drive around the houses where there are no restaurants.. good advice...
Hey Mike. The Doordash driver app has changed. I only see the total order, I can't tell what my guarantee pay is. Can u help?
My Peak Pay yesterday night from 4-7:30pm was so bad that I didn't ger any order for 1and half hours. Then I just quit for the night and went home. It was frustrating to be scheduled for the peak pay and I drove 30 minutes to the peak pay area and then waited and waited. Then went to 3 hot spots and got no orders. Doordash app needs to be improved to that if there's too many drivers delivering for the night, they should just straight up tell you to go home. Sometimes its very disappointing on what Doordash do to people trying to make a decent pay.
The secret is don't dash in peak pay areas. You have to be top dasher to do so because doordash gives them priority over everyone else. Instead dash in a zone with the smallest peak pay or none at all. Trust me it works because everyone and their momma is rushing to the peak pay areas leaving the other areas wide open with very little competition.
I got to hot spot and then run both DD and Postmates at the same time. Often I work in Postmates more than Door Dash, but DD gets to where there are orders. Unless Door dash is paying me peak pay...
@@RiverWoods111 I go to Doordash hot spots but everyone gets different results on orders. Some have to wait longer than others. For me, I end up waiting for a long time. Then I sometimes used the UberEats app.
@@RiverWoods111 I'm saying doing Doordash or UberEats, everyone's earning is different in different areas. I would sometimes want to see the negative or bad days of people doing Doordashing and not always see people making a lot of money doing Doordash. The video's makes it look so easy making the money in deliverys but in fact its hard.
I also drive in mission valley, there are lots of restaurants in the area. Personally, I love to work in this area. I also went to this same exact Sonic and OMG, the line was so long and finally getting to thr window, they told me it was picked up by someone else. I was so furious and have no longer picked up from there. I wasted a full hour and how they say, time is money. I would recommend that you don't get orders from here
Hey im a fellow 19 year old dasher currently in school. I love dash i can make $300-$400 a week while in school
How many hours u work
@@FinancialCharles 6-7 hours a day
@@FinancialCharles I made $503 working this week in oklahoma, worked 6 days 7 hours each day. Only costed my honda accord $55 in gas
Here in Vegas the market is FLOODED with drivers who are moving here from California. When peak pay hits, you're gonna get MAYBE one order per hour.
I’m surrounded by 7-10 restaurants in my area, but i average 4.50 per offer (not per order that i accept) and 6mi per offer. My acceptance rate is 2% thanks to this
Pretty good bcuz I did pick day at 10 pm for 2 hrs made $80 and a day before 2 hrs $70 so his videos are helping me out alot
I literally live, within 2-3 miles, of about ~20 restaurants, and even then I BARELY get anything decent going most days
maybe there’s more orders on other apps
dude freaking mcdonalds.. people order mcdonalds and expect that its fast food.. HELLO! FAST.......... FOOOD................ why does it take the amount of time a steak would take? they need to figure this out...
When the order first pops up it only shows mileage to the store. How are you seeing this?
You are a very informative TH-camr and took the time to comment back. Newly subscribed! Thank you for your hard work.
Welcome to the team Jerry!
I would love to see a video that walks me and talks me through a full door dash after the fact... so record it in the moment, leave that hard to focus background music out, and talk me slowly through the process of an order coming in - what do you look at, what helps you to decide whether to take the order or not, what are the things you consider? Once you take the order, talk us through the details of how the app works from there. My first order took me forever to figure out how to do everything in a timely manner and I ended up getting tagged as not having delivered it on time, when in fact, I had delivered it at least 5-10 minutes early. Also, where do you put your purse? Some of the areas I deliver to are not the most trustworthy and full of character, integrity, and respect. I worry about my purse when I jump out to run a delivery up to a house.
Things I found hard to figure out on my first day dash today:
1. How do I look at the screen and know whether it is worth my time and drive?
2. How do I know what the full amount of miles will be?
3. Once finished, do I drive back toward a hotspot to pick up another delivery or stay where I'm at?
4. Is there a way to tell where I'm being sent ahead of time? (I live in Indiana and it sent me across the border to a rough neighborhood in Illinois today. I grew up in a neighborhood like that and I know what goes on. I was not prepared and should never have been over there.)
5. How do you go into the app and send the customer a text? Are you doing this through the app or through your own text message?
6. I actually live in a rough and unsafe area... How do I drive to a safer area where I can work? Do I have to find the hotspot or can I just go to the area and then pick up orders from there?
7. What app or process do you use for tracking mileage, vehicle maintenance, etc?
8. I know I'm missing some things. For a type A - Highly sensitive personality and a total introvert (functional introvert but nonetheless...), I was a little overwhelmed with it all. I wish I could have had time to play in a "test" version to really learn my way around the app and figure out how to navigate it but because they don't offer that, I need a video that at least takes the time to show these things - and preferably, a previously recorded dash that has been gone back through and voiced over to explain everything...
The problem I've come to recently is that I've had to contact customer service unassigned orders at times when I didn't get a chance to see how long the drive was because the app started glitching up and I didn't want to miss it. they tried to get me to drive from South lake Tahoe to Tacoma which is on a Friday night an hour each way 33 mi each way for $17 at a Safeway. Then I got another order for a 13 Mile drive for like $7 and I wasn't paying attention and could not assign it. I started watching some door dash videos videos and realize that cherry picking is probably the best method instead of accepting every order that comes through. after I started doing this I noticed that they started to give me a lot of three and four and five dollar orders literally seven to ten I've been a row and I have been putting me in pause mode every 30 seconds until I and my dash just to get me off of the platform and signed out. They've actually signed me out several times during dashes when I minimize the window.
Thanks for watching Jonathan, tricky because I notice a few things there. Firstly of course make sure to pay attention to the order request screen so you don't accidentally accept sub par orders. Second as you continue to dash you'll pick up on market specific averages. What I mean is maybe a $8 payout is the highest it typically gets there, maybe $7. Regardless that dollars:mile is key. As far as the time outs also drive on other platforms if you don't already because maybe DD just isn't that strong in your market for drivers. I wouldn't lower my pay standards, I would continue to ignore low payouts which is good
Sorry about the bad writing period Google really did a number on that lol