Reasons that some dashers are against the new Doordash pay model
Lower paying calls
When Doordash changed the pay model, there would no longer be a minimum amount for a delivery. Under the old pay model, dashers were guaranteed to earn at least $5.50 for an order. That means that even if a customer ordered nothing but a 99 cents soda from McDonalds and was one mile away, Doordash would pay $5.50 for it. For many dashers the thought of never earning anything less than $5.50 was a comfort zone.
With the new Doordash pay model, there is no longer a $5.50 minimum. Dashers are now receiving offers that will pay them $2, $3, $4 or $5 to make a delivery. This is something that was unheard of before. Dashers against the new pay model point to this as one of their facts as to why the new Doordash pay model is no good.
What these dashers do not realize is that since we are now receiving the customer tips, the good is going to come with the bad. Since the pay model change, there are many well paying offers being thrown out there now. These are offers that a dasher would have never received before. There are many $10 to $15 calls being thrown out to dashers on a normal basis. This was unheard of under the old pay model.
My advice to dashers that are continually complaining about the small $2, $3, $4 and $5 orders is to not do them if that amount of pay is too small for you. If a dasher is okay making deliveries for that amount of pay, then by all means go right on ahead and do so. All dashers have a right to decline an order that they do not see fit, and it seems that many are accepting these small orders and then complaining about it.
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| The new Doordash pay model will always be victorious over the old tip-stealing pay model |
No more pay boost
Under the new Doordash pay model there is no such thing as pay boost. What is pay boost? As Doordash used to explain it, pay boost was when Doordash would take care of dashers by paying them their guaranteed amount for orders despite what a customer tipped. For example, if Doordash guaranteed a driver $7 for a delivery and the customer did not tip anything, Doordash would pay the $1 base pay and give a pay boost of $6 to the dasher. In another scenario, if that very same customer tipped $2, Doordash would pay $1 base pay and give the driver a $4 pay boost to equal the $7 guaranteed. Basically, the pay boost would help dashers reach the guaranteed amount that they were offered.
The truth about pay boost is that it was a big part of the tip stealing scheme that Doordash had organized a few years ago. Doordash basically acted like pay boost was a good thing when all along it only benefited them. The only way to make it work was to fool dashers in to thinking that pay boost was a good thing. It did work for a while, but eventually in time many dashers unveiled the Doordash tip stealing conspiracy.
This blog, along with others have been trying to let people know about pay boost and what it really was. With Doordash subsidizing customer tips, preaching pay boost and fooling dashers in to believing that they were doing them a favor was a well implemented scam so that Doordash could earn millions of dollars from stealing tips. To learn more and to get a full breakdown about how Doordash pay boost worked, we invite you to read "What exactly is Doordash Pay Boost?"
Doordash acceptance ratings is dropping
With the new pay model many dashers are rejecting more calls than they are used of. These dashers are worried that they will eventually have a terrible acceptance rate. I am here to tell you that your acceptance rate does not matter. All it does it make a dasher feel glad and proud of themselves when they look at their ratings and see that high and mighty acceptance rate.
Doordash cannot deactivate a driver for a low acceptance rate. This was actually a subject in court years ago that Doordash lost and had to pay many millions. Doordash does state that a very low acceptance rate may be a sign of fraud, but don't worry about that. There are many dashers out there with acceptance rates of 30, 20 and even 10 percent. These dashers have been around for years and have never been deactivated. It seems like most dashers that worry about this stuff are those with a 70, 80, 90 or 100 percent acceptance rate. DO NOT WORRY ABOUT YOUR ACCEPTANCE RATE!
There are a few ratings that a dasher should be more concerned about. Dashers need to pay attention to their customer rating and their completion rate. A dasher's customer rating should never fall below 4.2 and their completion rate should not fall below 70 percent. If ratings fall this low a dasher may be deactivated.
Dashers that are against the new Doordash pay model hate to see their acceptance rate fall, but either one of two things are going to happen with them, and they really don't have a choice. They are either going to see their acceptance rate drop like crazy, or they are gong to be doing a lot of $2, $3, $4 and $5 Doordash calls. These dashers may not like their choices here, but those are the only two choices on their plate.
Overall earnings are less
Many of the dashers that are against the new pay model say that their overall earnings are going to be less. My question to these people is "How in the heck are you going to earn less when you are receiving your customer's tips?" Do you realize that Doordash low-balled you for most of the calls under the old pay model? Yes, for many of those calls you should have received $10, $12, $15 or even more, but instead you received $6, $7 or $8.
I have to give an example here. Under the old pay model, let's say Doordash gave you a call with a $7 guarantee. Let's say that customer left the dasher a $6 tip. Doordash would pay the $1 that they were required to pay for each call, and the customer's tip would cover the rest. The dasher would earn a total of $7 for this call even though the customer tipped $6.
I am now going to use the same example order under the new pay model. When a dasher receives this order on their phone, they are going to see at least $8 for this very same order. It may even be more such as $9, $10, $11, $12 or maybe even more. It all depends on the base pay that Doordash offers on this order. Let's assume that Doordash gives the cheapest base pay that there is which is $2. Please note that most offers pay much more than $2 base pay, but a small percentage do pay $2 so we will go with that. The dasher will receive the $2 from Doordash and the $6 tip from the customer for a total of $8. The truth of the matter is that by receiving the customer tips dashers will come out way ahead.
Dashers that defend the old pay model may think that I am crazy because under the old pay model nothing was under $5.50. Now there are orders coming in like crazy that are only offering $2, $3, $4 or $5. These dashers wonder how in the hell the new pay model can be better. First thing that we have to understand is that those very low paying offers are from customers that are not tipping. Personally, I don't want anything to do with these customers. Sure, if all I did all day was accept and deliver these low paying orders I would probably be better off under the old pay model. Instead of earning $2-$5, I'd be earning $5.50. Forget all of that. I will not waste my time. With the new pay model, dashers who use their mind and that have a strategy are going to earn way more money than they did under the old tip-stealing pay model. WITH THE NEW DOORDASH PAY MODEL - OVERALL EARNINGS WILL BE MUCH MORE!
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