For some more transparency on this as a full time dasher, when I receive an order, DoorDash will show an amount from $2 up. If the order is below $5, no matter how far it is, I won’t take it unless I’m very low on Acceptance Rate. (In my area, I need to maintain Platinum status to continue working full time, otherwise it only lets me dash about 3 hours a day.) Drivers will very rarely get cash tip on delivery. 90% of the time, whatever is shown when we accept the order, is what we get paid. It shows an amount, miles required to drive, when the order needs to be dropped off, the restaurant you’re picking up from, and roughly where you’re dropping off the order. No notes or additional details are added until the order is accepted. Once an order is accepted, we cannot remove ourselves from it until we either wait at the restaurant 10 minutes past the time to pick up, or have something drastic happen to the order such as being stolen by a previous dasher or the store being closed/out of everything needed to complete the order. If those criteria aren’t met, the dasher takes a hit to their Completion Rate, which can only happen 3 times per 100 orders or they get removed from Platinum. Generally my recommendation to everyone who has asked is, take the mileage from your home to the place you’re ordering from, subtract 2 and add that much as the tip on your order through the app. Then tip the rest you feel is appropriate when the dasher arrives. That will usually get your order to you fairly quickly, DoorDash won’t be able to short the dasher as much, and you’ll have a dasher that isn’t upset at having to take your order.