Launched in January 2013 California, Doordash is an American on-demand food delivery platform that operates in multiple countries including the United States, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and Germany. They help pick up and deliver food or sometimes groceries ordered from restaurants or stores if you don’t have time to do it or you’re simply too lazy to go out. In this article we shall see Can I apply to doordash after being deactivated?
Depending on the severity of your offense, you may be allowed to either reactivate or open another account by appealing to the doordash platform. However, there’s no guarantee that your account will be reactivated after appealing.
Before you delve into reapplying or opening a new account, If you’re wondering what led to your deactivation, here are the various ways or activities that might have led to your account being deactivated.
Activities that lead to your doordash account being deactivated
Customers ratings
As the customers are asked to rate each delivery service anytime they other through doordash, the ratings your customers give after delivering are very important to your account. As a doordash driver, if you’re consistently receiving low ratings, which is on a scale of 1 to 5, your account might be deactivated especially if it falls below a certain percentage known as the threshold.
Violence, abusive language, and other unruly behaviors
Threatening customers, dashers, or merchants’ security and safety by engaging in either verbal or physical assault, dashing under alcohol or drugs influence, discrimination of color, race, sex, etc, damaging or stealing third party’s property, displacement of personal or confidential information, constant engagement in accidents while dashing, and other related unruly activities might lead to deactivation of your dash door account.
Completion Rate
The completion rate is the number of orders you’ve completed successfully to the number of orders you accepted. Say if you accepted 10 orders but were only able to complete 9, your completion rate is 90%. However, if your completion rate falls below a certain percentage, known as the threshold, your account is at risk of being deactivated.
Abuse or engagement in fraudulent activities
Fraudulent activities like consuming or tampering with a customer’s order, giving false information while signing up, opening multiple accounts for oneself, tampering and spamming with the doordash referral program, infringing on third party rights, disrupting the doordash platform with false information and many other untrue activities may lead to deactivation of your account.
Violation of Contract Terms
Violating contract terms like not making a safe delivery, arriving late to your delivery location, marking a delivery complete on your profile without completing it, taking customers’ goods for oneself, and other unprofessional activities may lead to a deactivated account.
The above-mentioned activities are the key reasons why your account might have gotten deactivated. if you’d love to open a new account or you’re just signing up as a Dasher, here’s how to go about it…
How to sign up as a doordash driver?
Ensure you meet their requirements
To sign up successfully on doordash, you need to be 18 years of age, have a driver’s license if you’re using a car as your mode of transport, a Social security number (for US citizens), consent to a background check, and have your mode of transportation be it car, motorcycle or even a bicycle with the appropriate licenses – and you’re good to go!
Head to doordash’s official website to sign up
Once you’ve met the basic prerequisites mentioned above, signing up and getting approved on doordash is a no-brainer. You can sign up by heading to doordash.com/dasher/signup and providing the requested details.
Accept and deliver
Your account got approved, what next? Your next step is to download the app, log in with your sign-up credentials and start accepting and delivering orders near your location while getting paid.
Conclusion
In conclusion, you should know that the idea behind being a Dasher is quite simple – abide by the provider rules and terms of the contract, work diligently- and you won’t need to have a deactivated account.
Frequently Asked Questions
Where is DoorDash available?
As an international platform, doordash is available in over 7,000 cities in countries including the United States, Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, and Germany, and according to them “more yet to come”.
Can I use someone else’s bank account for doordash?
Since there are no rules stating otherwise on doordash, you can use someone else’s account either while signing up for doordash as a Dasher or while ordering for your food pickups. But, as a Dasher, you’ll have to be meticulous about this.
Do I need any experience to be a DoorDash driver?
Not at all, there’s no need for you to have food delivery experience to be a doordash driver (Dasher)
Can I Use Food Stamps On Doordash?
Sadly, Doordash doesn’t accept payments using food stamps or EBT cards mainly because according to doordash, it complicates doordashers’ payments processes on their end. Regardless of the complication, as doordash mostly operates with local restaurants and delivers prepared hot foods (which you can’t buy with your food stamps) you wouldn’t be able to pay for your delivery because of the limitations on what you can buy with your EBT cards.
Can You Use Two Payment Methods On DoorDash?
No, doordash does not allow you to combine two payment methods, say PayPal and credit card, to settle your order payment. However, if you have doordash credits but it’s not enough to make an order you can combine the credits with any other accepted doordash payment and make your order.
