About DoorDash
DoorDash is an American technology company that provides on-demand food ordering and food delivery, founded in Palo Alto in the year 2013 by the students of Stanford University Tony Xu, Stanley Tang, Andy Fang, and Evan Moore. The company, which has a net worth of $900 million, as of Mai of 2019 serves 340.000 store options in over 4 thousand cities in Canada, Australia, and the USA. With the opportunity that is provided by DoorDash, the customers are able to order food or drinks from the restaurants in your area. The delivery is carried through by freelance workers who don’t work for any specific restaurant. Let us know about ‘Active Time Versus Dash Time’.
Active Time Vs. Dash Time
If you are looking for a job and came across a job ad for a DoorDash company or you are a Dasher, you might have seen the terms like active time and dash time on your Dashdoor payment data. So, what do these subjects mean?
Dash Time In DoorDash
Dash time refers to all the time that is spent when a dasher is on the Dashdoor platform. A dasher is supposed to log on to the platform when they are able to receive calls for them to deliver. After a dasher is logged in, it means that they are officially on duty and therefore, their dash time begins.
Even though you are logged in for two hours but have only been called and you were busy for the last one hour, you will still have two hours of dash time in total.
The dash time ends right when you log off from the platform as it means that you can not accept any calls or deliver anything anymore and you are not on duty.
To sum it up, all the things you do between the time you logged in to the time you logged off, whether it is delivering, taking calls, or just waiting for calls, is considered a part of the dasher’s dash time.
Active Time In DoorDash
For your time to be counted as active time on the other hand requires more of a straight job than the dashers. The clue is in the title actually: Active time in DoorDash indicating only the amount of time you are active. While you are logged in to DoorDash’s system and projected as working, you may not always be on calls or be delivering food or drinks to the customers as we established before. There might be some time before someone calls and gives you an assignment and there could be a time period, in which you are just waiting between deliveries. This means that you are not active. Hence, this time overall will not be accounted for by your active time on duty.
Let’s clear the difference between them with an example. If you are to log in for 4 hours in total but you were not actually busy the first hour of it, your dash time will be 4 hours, and your active time will be added up to 3 hours.
With all said and done, it should be noted that a dasher’s dash time will always be more than his/hers active time in hand.
Benefits Of The Distinction Between Dash Time And Active Time
Differentiating the time you are making deliveries and the time you are spending waiting for a call is beneficial for both the dashers and the payers.
In order to not have any question marks on your mind about whether dashing is worth your time or not, looking at your active times is highly useful.
it is important to calculate the profit or maybe the damage you get accurately, while you are working as a freelance dasher on DoorDash, considering you will only get paid for your active time on duty and plus the tips you get while making a delivery are yours to keep. If you have a huge gap between the dashers times and you are spending most of your time waiting around for someone to order something, then dashing may not be the right gig for you. You should also keep in mind that you have to use your own car to deliver and the company doesn’t pay any fee for the gas. For that reason, DoorDash’s system of parting the times comes in handy.
Analysis of dash time and Active Time brings about a just way of paying salary to workers. An online and a freelance job like this might be too open to take advantage of. For instance, someone might just log in and do only a little number of deliveries, while someone else is taking almost every call they take.
Conclusion
Obviously, there are other methods to figure out one’s productivity and if they are getting paid correctly in the online world but this one might be the simplest yet the most efficient one for both parties.
