What Happens If You Accept ALL Orders On DoorDash? 

Some of us live in small towns where you accept everything because that is all there is. If you decline you will just be sitting there waiting, and that makes NO money.

the funniest order I got was a $5 order and the distance was 15 miles. I was like get the f------ outta here

Midwest: 80% of all orders are fast food and cost $4 per delivery for 8 miles lmao

Wish I got orders like that. Highest orders I've seen is $8.00 with bad mileage. Most my orders are $3-$6

I work 10 hour shifts, make $30 an hour, $2 a mile. I definitely do NOT take everything.

I learned that the hard way when I first started dashing. I currently dash in a 55 year old classic car(1966 Plymouth Fury 3) yes, she drinks lots of fuel but I do ok but when i started and took every order that came across my path all I was making was barely gas money. Thanks for all the tips and tricks I've learned from your videos 🤙🏻🔥

wow, i wish i had those kind of orders. mine avg %-$7.50 for 5 miles plus

I did this for the first two days of dashing. Minus expenses and total time, I made about 17 an hour. Thanks for all the tips and videos. They've been really helpful.

Lol, I couldn't take all deliveries. i've had one where the money was good, but the miles was longer......throw it back in the pool....lol!!! I think your strategy works, pick and choose wisely. Good video.

In my experience from my very first dash, if you accept every order then you spend 2 and a half hours driving 53 miles and you only make $20.75. Iowa is a lot of really cheap people spaces really far apart.

I'm also in San Diego, but I usually dash south... National City is often more busy than Chula Vista, but the Door Dash zone is also much smaller which means often deliveries take you out of that zone. If other nearby zones are busy, great. But if only National City is popping, then I have to spend time driving back. And sometimes I just want to head back in that direction anyway. Chula Vista zone is a lot larger so it's less likely that deliveries take me out of the zone, but it's also less busy. Thanks for your channel and tips though!

In my area in PA if you except every order you will be getting a lot of $3 orders with no tip. NO THANKS

hey, thanks for taking one for the team. i think on the next one you should only do westfield mall deliveries.

You’re a real one bro 👍🏾👍🏾

Dude. I have a question for you Been posmaiting and dashing 1 month now. How you handle bad manner youngsters, clowns, fast food places with people that dont want to be in there? I like your youtube channel and your explainings. Also you are analitical person like myself so you know i love numbers. Keep it up!!!

Can’t do $/miles if you don’t know drop-off destination, and you don’t know that until after order pick-up!

I live right outside of New Orleans I leave the app on from 10 am - 10 pm the most of I’ve made is 80$ with a average of 6.33 a delivery . I make 3 base pay . Tips are what let’s me be able to do this job .

Small college towns are the best for Doordash! Not always the best tips but you'll still make $20/hr easy. The farthest dash I've seen pop up was 8 miles, and that was stretch outside of the zone. 90% of the orders are 2-3 miles tops

What sucks for me is that I get Walmart orders so much. It’s groceries so your always waiting for them to bring it out then you have to get all the groceries out of your car. And what makes it bad is it’s always 3 dollars for every order. That is ridiculous, seriously they need to change that. It actually makes me so mad. So my acceptance rate can’t go up because I’m constantly declining those orders.

I think I'd like to pack up everything and move by you so I can make the big bucks too. What you just showed me is probably proportionate to my best day ever.

Damn bro u be getting good orders. I get like one $10 everytime I go out. Usually most are $5-$8

This is cheating. Try doing this without making peak pay or promos. You'll be getting those $3 and $4 orders. That's like 1980's minimum wage.

You should work the Carmel Valley Del Mar Highlands area more. It has all the same restaurants as LJ with better parking and less condos.

I noticed that too with DD. On UE, I take everything and I always average $25 per hour.

This guy is having super great luck! My door dashes look something like $3 for 6 miles.

This is the second time watching this. I'm sweating too watching all that walking from the Mall! Haha. But the view of the ocean. Wow how beautiful.

The real trick is to take advantage of any bad weather. Even rain makes it busier in my area. Tonight cuz of snow was 5 dollar peak pay. I did 13 orders for 135 in 4 and a half hours

you'll end up taking one 12 miles one way for 3 bucks . lmao

So funny watching these Cali rideshare videos. I haven’t seen a $10+ order (non-promo) in 6 months of deliveries here in rural Maryland. Thankfully we have good tippers out here and I average around $18-$22hr on a decent weekend.

those payouts were looking pretty good. then I looked at the total and time and said nevermind lol.

you did better than i do choosing orders in my market lol

Good info

So I developed another metric I use on top of DOLLAR/MILE. I look at DISTANCE/TIME. I'm in Mesa, AZ and I border 5 market segments- 2 busy, 3 not so much (and larger- less dense population). I look at MILEAGE (they LOVE to offer me 10, 11, 12, 12.9 mile orders). Here is another way to put it into perspective a 12.9 mile (be real 13 miles) order offering $14. In my area that 13 Miles is going to take 26 Minutes (30 minute round up for locating stuff because apartment people aren't the best at including decent directions to apartment # 7,107 of 15,000... lol). That's 30 Minutes out of your market/hot spot. In my area that takes you either far south- Gilbert, Queen Creek, Chandler or Far East- Apache Junction- none of which I've found to be very lucrative. So then you have to drive back- another 30 minutes to your starting point/hot spot. That is an hours worth of work for $14 - minus expenses. Not a good deal. AS a new guy I unfortunately had to take a couple of orders like that to get it beat into my head that it wasn't profitable. You get MUCH more attractive offers in San Diego than Mesa, AZ. I also clear my TRIP odometer at the start of my shift and then compare TOTAL MILES DRIVEN to TOTAL EARNED it helps me hit home mentally if I'm going in the right direction financially for myself or not.

In virginia Doordash give you 4 $ for 10 mile drive.

If I accepted every offer I’d be broke 🤷‍♂️😂DD sends new so many upside down orders . $3 drive 6 miles . $4 drive 7 miles . Even $10 for 10 miles is a waste cause it takes me so far out of my area to get another order so it’s really 20 miles 30 min for that $10? And what if the foods not ready then it’s 40 min for that $10 🤷‍♂️😮🚨🤯

My strategy isnt so much to do with miles per delivery but rather drive time. Because Id rather accept a delivery that might be a few more miles, but is all freeway, over one that is a little closer but is all surface streets with a bunch of lights, stop signs, school zones, and turns etc. At least that's for deliveries that go outside of my preferred starting points and would require me to have to drive all the way back after. As a guide, I try to work in 20 min incriments where I bring in a minimum $8-10 every 20 min. Of course this is not always possible so I will borrow time from the next 20 min incriment if the pay is also in proportion with that. So if a delivery is going to take 40 minutes to complete, it would need to pay at least $20.

Just started this weekend in Phx. Saturday 4-11, 15 orders $110.00. Sunday 12-8 22 orders $173.81 Monday 4-7:30 8 orders $62.00. I should've done this a long time ago.

You got so much positive

Oh my God you should come to my neck of the woods the orders are so great I take every $2 order they offer I can average at least four dollars an hour after driving

How do you see the location of the order when it comes in because I only see the miles and the restaurant location

I only try to accept 5-6 miles radius because I want to end up where all restaurants rows are at and go back to that location.I do go hotspots at times,but sometimes it will send me over 6 miles so I don’t try to accept every order.

How about stacking orders? That's been screwing me lately because one of the orders isn't ready for 10 mins so then both orders are late. I'm thinking of not accepting second orders.

If you accepted everything, how did you not get any $3 and $5 orders? How did you not any hour long Wal Mart orders? I'm a bit skeptical. Because that's still better than I do here in Indianapolis employing strategy.

I filter out and base it on distance I’m in Chicago suburbs so it’s a lot of restaurants

I live in dfw area. Decent market but im usually shocked when i get a $10 plus order.

Your orders were insanity. So much money for like 3 miles. I wish.

I have a question. How do you record miles? And which miles? Just miles for the delivery? Or miles on way back to hot spot? Thanks

My first week I accepted all orders on DoorDash and put 1000miles on my car. Made $250. Yea that was enough of that.

It’s like Door Dash was throwing him fast balls right down the middle of the plate.

Love the EDC mask

I’m have try this out tomorrow

For example today, DoorDash had a peak hour and I took 1 order for only 6$, after that order I end dashing and went back to Instacart because people was too generous today, so, in Instacart I did 125 in 4 orders, in 6 hours. So, I think was pretty good on Instacart but not DoorDash, I’m always switching between apps depends on numbers

Can someone explain to me what the tax deduction is and how it works?

Hi Mike, I just starting dashing and just accepted everything just to familiarize myself. By doing so, I accepted a delivery that was like a 20 minute drive from my base without realizing it. Upon coming back I’ve been seeing orders flashing on my phone. Whats the best strategy for that? Do I just accept it as it comes while I’m driving or let them go and head back to a hotspot so I can screen my deliveries more. I’m a very new dasher and I’m not sure how to approach it. Thank you 🙏

I'm new to Dashing but I don't think that the miles to order is a given as a strategy everytime. I took a twenty dollar order the other day without checking out the miles. It turned out to be around a 30 mile distance. I got a ten dollar tip on top of that. So my travel time is a dollar a minute which is very good. I think always looking for miles is not a failsafe strategy especially when Doordash doesn't always reveal the tip...

I sort of tried this yesterday because it was slow, and I was getting fishball after fishball (no tip). If you live in a $200,000 house and DD has me doing sub-contracting work for Papa John's, there'd better be a tip involved. Mfer grabbed his two pizzas, mumbled "thank you," and slammed the door - I'd like to think it was because he was embarrassed and wasn't expecting a face-to-face meeting, lol. Today, I will decline all $3.00 - $4.00 deliveries and ignore the "Your acceptance rate will drop to 98%" malarkey.

I was getting deliveries this morning $6.75 for 21mi. And they had the nerve to tell me that I was the best driver for these high mile deliveries...then cough up the pennies sir!

Haha I try to avoid ordering on doordash from malls for the same reason

I make $150-195 in 6 hours with a total of 50-60 miles. I reject every order under $6 for a distance of more than 2 miles.

Ty

I have a DD question that I cannot find the answer to anywhere. It is about the "balance" that shows in your earnings. I have found in my app that the "balance" is sometimes displayed and other times it is not.I have also found that this changes for no apparent reason. The other day I noticed that my balance was $5 less than my earning. The next day it was $15 less than my earnings. The day after that it was $20 less. Then the amt that went into my bank acct was my balance. I contacted DD to see why it was less and what happened to my $20. They said that it was because someone tipped me from a previous week.I have had tips after the week was over and understand the concept but that would make my balance go up and not down. Then DD told me that it was because I ended my dash in the next pay period. Also not true. It had ended at noon on Sunday. They said they will put the $20 on my next deposit and then it was showing in my balance but then disappeared again so not sure if I'll actually get it next week. Has anyone else experienced this?

How about the customers that pay cash tips? They won't be on the app. You could lose a lot of money. I have several customers that pay cash tips. The tips range from $10 to $25. Same customers every week.

Cannot relate to these good orders! I’ve never seen more than a dollar bonus where I live and I’m declining 4-5 dollar orders left and right.

I did that and Ended up driving from national city El Cajon for $8

The town I live in your lucky if you get and 8.00 order every now and then mostly 5.00 orders and lots of 3.00 orders It’s also a college town so a lot of 3.00 orders with no tip I don’t take less than anything under 6.00 and I still make a killing

You do you deduct the miles bonus. You get that back when you do miles so it only helps. Right?

I accept 97% or more and average 20+an hour. It just depends on your area. There's only 2 restaurants I will not accept due to wait times.

The people ordering the food don't know how far away from the restaurant so when they tip load it looks bad and no one will do it lol. What happens if no one does an order like late at night?

I've been dashing for 3 weeks, I'm loving it. And it's just not the money either, of course that's what it's mainly about. It's a blessing to have this second income right now. I know some of y'all wouldn't want to hear this, so be it, I'm taking all the orders and trusting in God 🙌🏻👏🏻🙌🏻✝️❗ El Shaddai provides 😉 I averaged $15 an hour by the way 😌

How do you calculate the hourly rate?

I cherry pick no red card orders, no orders under 5.50 and no miles past 3miles radius works better for me

Hi! I’ve been dashing a little over a month and am getting the hang of it. My current concern is the acceptance rate. Mine is currently at 60% because Im picky with my orders so I can best maximize my time. Does something happen to your account if you fall below a certain percentage? Can they deactivate you?

At the moment i pull in about 192$ a day. By time i break down mileage taxes im left with 110$

I live behind a huge mall so I just sit in my driveway and don't take orders more than 5 miles out

You make about $6.00 an hour if you do that in Indpls.

I gotta be honest the math you did confused me. Why did you subtract your business miles/tax deduction from what your gross pay was? That 29.90 deduction for 52 miles is there to help us, correct? Not take away from our gross pay. I’m confused right now lol I don’t see how you only did 8 bucks an hour

Just started yesterday and a guy gave me a 1 cent tip I should have known better

Holy s...t i wish i have orders like that overe here at chicago

This makes zero sense how are your orders if you’re accepting every single one like this? My orders where I live are like 8 bucks for 6 miles and stuff like that

You’re the best

Do we get tax deduction on death miles? If not then I'd rather stay under 5 miles per order

When did doordash start caring about acceptance rate? I can't be a top dasher without a 70%??? Since when? I cherry pick, but I have to take 10 miles for 5 bucks? And out of my area so I have to deadhead back? What're you doing doordash?

Here in the Charlotte area I get $4-6 14-18 miles 1 way and way out of my zone. No thanks

I was waiting for some $3 orders lol. I would have taken all of those 🤷‍♀️

I take everything and now I’m a top dasher and now they don’t send me 300 dollar orders nothing below 6

On a $3.50 promo it’d be very easy to accept all orders. Do one without promos lol

Add on the 5k miles you put on your car a month

Hey do anyone know if you can deduct the miles when you go back home after dashing? Like say I finished my dash and it’s 10 miles back, do I have to stop my mileage tracker before I start going hole or can I stop it after I get home

For about 4-5 hours I literally had dashes all the same $16. Is it just me or did this happen you before?

Where did you get the face mask ?

Taxes suck made almost 450 in 2 days hadda put back almost 2 for taxes

I'm 57 and don't get out of breath going down steps. You need to exercise a bit more.

Do you get good orders if your acceptance rate is 94 and you get a contract violation and the person said she didn’t get her food she lied to them when I go in the store to pick up my order I grab it and go and when I get in my car I hit confirm pick up then I go drop in off and one order I went to go pick up the store told me to please confirm the pick so I tab confirm for them then when I got in the car I forgot they told me in the store to tab confirm pick up so I tab it again and it said order delivered I just forgot they told me to confirm it in the store but I drop her order off to her and she told them she never got her order she lied to them and they give me a contract violation I think I didn’t deserve that one doe she was wrong for that and doordash was wrong for that to how can I take that off

$3.50 peak pays...no wonder!!!

Try doing this challenge when there is no peak pay. That makes it more fair

EDC!!!

Dang, UE I'm driving (not always) 6-7 miles and getting $5-6. 5 miles $4-5 and so on. Now that's not including tip obviously, that's just me accepting an order and praying a damn tip comes in an hour later to make it worth it. I first started and would see videos saying dont take the $3 orders that are like a mile away, yet idk. I would rather bang out a bunch of $3 orders I think and only be driving a mile or 2 on each plus tip over driving 7 some miles not even getting a dollar a mile. I just take basically everything and run em out till I'm done for the day. But I do hate beating up my poor mazda 6 like this. 😝

lucky you, come to miami you will only see $3 orders.

If you do every order you will visit the gas pump often n you will average 10 n hour

Never get orders higher than 6.00