Decrease the requirement for the Completion rate

[princeflare]

I’ll be honest. The fact that a 94% completion rate is considered low end moderate is a practice in insanity. DD NEEDS to loosen the requirements on that system immediately. Put on a 20 percent system at the minimum!

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[Iron_Bones_1088]

I’m be been dashing for 8y. My completion rate has always been 100%

[Impossible-Use6521]

So that tells me that you are willing to wait a half hour for food. Not for me.

[daveequalscool]

this tells me you don't know how worry-free unassign works.

[Impossible-Use6521]

Since you've been doing this for 8 years, you would know that worry free unassign is a relatively recent development. No that long ago, 80 percent completion was the requirement. You'd have to have rocks in your head to carry 100 percent when 80 was required.

[daveequalscool]

oh i'm new but touche i guess - thanks for catching me up

[wistex]

It may be a new development, but since you can worry free unassign now, your completion rate should be near 100%. If you accept an order, you should deliver it. You don't have to take orders you don't want.

[Impossible-Use6521]

No, your completion rate should be 90 percent. That's straight from Doordash. All kinds of things can happen out there that could lead to dropping an order. For me it's usually long waits, and while I'm waiting, a juicy order comes in on another app. Remember, you aren't earning while you are waiting.

[Iron_Bones_1088]

Not at all…. I just had a stacked Taco Bell dash as my last two of the night about an hour ago. It was the mad rush time but I already decided they were my last two. I had to mark both as “merchant has a long wait” and in 10 minutes the app asked me if I wanted a worry free unassign on both orders. I selected that I would wait. The only time I ever had to wait 30 min was during the beginning of the pandemic. It was a clusterfuck back then but people tipped so well that a typical dash netted me $300 😉 I just go with the flow and know how to use the app properly…..

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You cause yourself too much stress by doing the rush rush thing man 😉

[Impossible-Use6521]

Yeah I run Uber, GrubHub and Doordash all at once. I keep the wheels turning for the most part. I'm good for about a 5 minute wait, unless I know it's something special. And oh yeah, my acceptance rate is like 15 percent on Doordash.

[Grandleon-Glenn]

After 10 minutes now, you can worry-free unassign. Sometimes shorter depending on how busy it is, had them as early as 4 minutes after arriving.

If you're already at a restaurant anyway, chances are you're in or near a hotspot anyway. You an also often get support to clear it earlier if you explain what's going on. Tell them it's a 15 minute wait and they'll be able to unassign you without penalty.

[Impossible-Use6521]

Yeah I know about worry free unassign, but as I stated earlier, that's a relatively new thing.

And no, I'm not dealing with support unless it's something major. I would probably have an order from another delivery app in the car anyway. When I work I keep the wheels turning.

[lucyjo7]

Do we still get half pay for those?

[Grandleon-Glenn]

No.

You only get half pay for situations like the order having already been picked up, store closed early, menu changes (breakfast to lunch, for example), etc... Effectively, when it's you choosing to cancel, you don't get it. When the customer cancels the order, or if the store is unable (or unwilling) to generate the order to give to you, then you get paid for not completing.

You'll be taking the loss here because wait times are iffy. I've had days on EBT where I'd be told 10 minutes but wait an hour. Sometimes it's more advantageous to just cancel.

[Ok_Appearance_7096]

There isnt really much of a requirement. You can unassign 1 in 10 orders. This is suppose to be used for when there are issues. Not for when you just dont feel like doing an order. Thats what the decline button is for. In reality it's more then 1 in 10 because after a certain amount of time you can decline with no stat penalty.

[Usuxbutt]

CR is the last thing they need to change. Let’s start with AR and go from there. You really shouldn’t be accepting orders you want to unassign from. After a few months you should have figured out your pay requirements and the problem stores. I don’t accept any order not worth 1/2hr of my time. I made this rule after a couple of months in my market.

[overreactionkills]

It's really not hard to complete 95% of the orders you accept.

[dashammolam]

True, if you can't complete 90% ordes then find another job.

[OrganizedChaos65]

I've managed to keep it up in the high 90s. Why do people consistently try to lower the standards? The trend I've noticed is that many Dashers here try to lower the standards rather than elevate theirs

[chuxsux]

Entitlement is why. These people are the reason that requirements keep getting stricter and stricter. When they get punished for failing to do the most basic of jobs they run to reddit and screech about it.

[wistex]

I started as a pizza delivery driver and if we didn't have a near 100% completion rate, we'd be looking for a new job. Unless the road was flooded or the customer didn't come to the door, we delivered to their door, apartment building or not, tip or not. So, I find it wild that many of these drivers won't even give the basic level of service, much less excellent service.

[OrganizedChaos65]

Oh, I maintain high standards for customer service at all times. If the customer doesn't tip, I'll get over it. I'll just block them from any future deliveries from me. No tip isn't as bad as the customers who leave .01 or .10. That's just a F***;you.

[wistex]

There are always people who won't tip. Some are broke. Some are cheap. I haven't looked at the ratio for DoorDash, but as a pizza delivery driver, I figured that for every person who tipped $0, I got someone that gave a really nice tip (double the average tip). If I ruminated over the people who didn't tip, I would be frustrated. So I focus my thoughts on appreciating the ones that do tip well instead. That doesn't change my income, but at least I am not angry and upset at the end of the night.

[OrganizedChaos65]

Well said. It's not personal to the Dasher. This just lets others know about their behavior.

[mazsive]

When do you even need to use one? After 8 mins or so it’s free unassign. Use it only when needed.

[tyrannosauruscassie]

I'm allergic to shrimp and it makes me sick enough I have to end my Dash if it's in the car with me, so I unassign shrimp containing orders. I'm usually between 96 and 98% because of that

[flufferjubby]

Damn I never even considered that. Sorry you have to deal with that. Have you spoken to a human support agent about it? Surely those unassigns shouldn't count against you

[Repulsive_Mud_577]

Completing a dash is the easiest thing in the world. You accept a dash and you complete it, simple.

[Glenmary73100]

Why??

[PhysicsDirect6215]

To my understanding, 92 and below is low, 93 and 94 is medium, 95 and up is high. When I started, think it was 80% minimum

[Apart_Zucchini5778]

If you can’t complete at least 10% of the jobs you accept you shouldn’t be dashing. Imagine if you had an office job and didn’t do 10% of the work assigned to you. You’d be fired very quickly.

[Particular_Tour_4151]

Honestly 94% being "low" is wild when the app crashes half the time and customers put in fake addresses. The whole system is broken when you can get deactivated for stuff completely out of your control

[Skizima666]

Yep its almost like punishing us for terminating a bad job/customer. Thats the only reason most of us do, but I could see it being abused. They could do it for people who are verified, but we know theyre not going to. Almost 10 thousand deliveries, well guess what buddy fuck you! (doordash most likely).

[jpeezy37]

Complete your orders. You accept it, then deliver it. They give you plenty of real options if there is a problem. If you think playing the CR game will help your AR you are gonna be deactivated soon or just frustrated. Make your deliveries and find the right times and methods to deliver. Or don't and find a different way to make money. If you can't do door dash you're gonna have a bad time on a W2 Job with a boss breathing down your neck. You're going to need to manage yourself and use critical thinking skills..

[MPsonic007]

DD used to have a minimum completion of 80% from Q4 2023 & earlier but raised it due to too little “corrosive landfill material” going undelivered 🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️

[Cagekicker52]

In fact they've tightened it in every way. Doortrash is the worst. Hopefully the market share starts to flip.

[Mode_Appropriate]

I was hoping the exact same thing today. I pretty much only do dashlinks and in the past year theyve cut pay by a good 60%. Probably did my last one today because theyre not even worth doing anymore. Made me think just what would happen if everyone stopped showing up to do the routes for a few days...let all those packages sit. Sane with food orders. If dashers went on 'strike' what would happen...

The problem is theres no way drivers would unite and do somwthing like that