It's All About the Top Rated Dasher

Doordash has recently rewarded some dashers with a program that they are calling "Top Rated Dasher." A dasher must meet certain criteria to become a top rated dasher. The greatest benefit of becoming a top rated dasher is that you can dash anytime you want. That's right! There is never a need to schedule any dashes because a top rated dasher can start working any time they want in any region that they want. Nice!

The benefits of becoming a top rate dasher

By far the greatest benefit that becoming a top rated dasher has is the "Dash Anytime" option. This gives a dasher the ability to log on to dash anytime they want. There is no reason to worry about scheduling as top rated dashers are able to log in anytime they want and in any region that they choose.

There will not be anymore having to worry about logging in at a certain time or competing with other dashers for certain time slots. No reason to sweat losing your all day dashing schedule when your pause exceeds the 35 minute timer. Becoming a top rated dasher minimizes all of the little things that dashers sometimes worry about, and lets them put their full concentration on delivering orders.

Another benefit of those with top rated dasher status is that they supposed to receive more delivery offers than regular dashers. What this means is that if there is an order out there, and there are two nearby dashers, the top rated dasher supposed to win the tie-breaker over a regular dasher and receive the order. How true this is I am not sure, but if this is true it is surely a good thing.

How to become a top rated dasher

There is certain criteria that a dasher must meet in order to become a top rated dasher. Customer rating must be above 4.70. Completion rate must be above 95 percent. Must have over 100 deliveries completed the previous month and must have a 70 percent acceptance rate. One other thing to keep in mind is that a dasher must have 200 total lifetime deliveries completed before being considered in to the top rated dasher program.

All dashers are evaluated on the first of each month. Just because a dasher qualified as a top rated dasher last month does not mean that they will qualify the next month. All ratings are considered on the first of each month. For example, if a dasher qualifies for top rated dasher on Jan 1st, but when Feb 1st comes around their customer rating is 4.50, they will not be a top rated dasher in February.

Also keep in mind that a dasher will not lose their top rated status in the middle of a month if their ratings drop. For instance, if a top rated dasher has their customer rating drop to 4.60 in the middle of January, they will still be a top rated dasher for the rest of the month. What is important here for the top rated dasher is to raise that customer rating to 4.70 by the beginning of February if they want to continue to have their top rated status in February.

Why did Doordash create the top rated dasher program? 

This program was invented to reward dashers that maintain high ratings, but there is also another reason for it. With the new Doordash pay model, Doordash ran in to sort of a problem. Dashers have been accepting only the higher paying orders while the low paying orders were not being accepted. These low paying orders have been taking a very long time to be delivered or were not being delivered at all. This of course was not good business for Doordash and their customer satisfaction.

Please keep in mind that these low paying orders that dashers would not accept are usually non-tipper orders. Anybody in their right mind would understand why dashers would not accept them. Dashers do not want to waste their time delivering an order for sometimes pay as low as $2.

The top rated dasher program will help Doordash fulfill some of these low paying orders. It is not a full cure to the problem, but it will definitely help at least a little bit. This is done by the 70 percent acceptance rate that top rated dashers must maintain. That means that top rated dashers will feel a little bit of pressure in order to keep their top rated dasher status. Doing some of the cheap paying calls is by all means worth it if it means keeping top rated dasher status.

Some top rated dashers will probably not sweat their acceptance rate throughout most of the month, but when the end of the month is nearing and their acceptance rate is low, it wold be in their best interest to start accepting at least some of the lower paying offers. Some dashers will have it worst than others depending on what the calls are like in their region.

Yours truly usually has an acceptance rate of 50 to 70 percent. Most of the calls in my region are decent. If I have to accept a few calls that I normally wouldn't in order to keep my top rated status it will definitely be worth it. There are those in regions though that are offered many terrible calls. It will be tougher for them as they will have to accept more of the terrible calls to keep their top rated dasher status. Many of these dashers have acceptance rates of 10 to 40 percent. Looks like there will be a hustle during the last week of the month, but it will all be worth it.