For some delivery shifts your payment will be defined by the amount of deliveries you do. You will receive a base rate per hour and on top of that a drop rate per delivery. Before you apply for a shift you will know if this is a pay per drop shift and what the rates are. This has to be mentioned clearly in the job title and briefing.
How does it work?
After you work the shift you check out your hours as usual. If you worked 8 hours, you complete the checkout for 8 hours. During your shift, the client keeps track on how many deliveries you made. Instead of accepting your hours, the client will do a counter proposal on your checkout. The new proposed hours, reflect your total pay. After that you have the opportunity to check the new proposed hours and if everything is correct, accept the checkout.
Your total pay is calculated the following way:
(base rate x worked hours)
+
(amount of deliveries x drop rate)
Let's look at an example:
How much should Martin earn?
Martin worked 4 hours for Getir Hackney and dropped 10 deliveries
The hourly rate is effectively £8 (£12 is published). The rate per drop is £3
He gets paid for the 4 hours worked, so 4 times the £8 rate = £32
On top of that he’s paid for the 10 deliveries = £30
His total earnings = £62
What counter proposal can Martin expect?
The official platform and invoicing rate for the shift is £12
We know that his earnings are £62 as we can see in the calculations above
£62 divided by this £12 rate is 5.16. The checked out hours will be 5h 10m
He actually earned £15.5 per worked hour
The published rate is higher than the base rate
The published rate can deviate from the base rate but you will never earn less then the published rate. If your total earnings are less than the total hours you worked for the published rate, you will still earn the minimum of the published rate. For example when the client has no deliveries for you to do, they are still required to pay you above the minimum rate. Also, when your shift gets cancelled outside the cancellation term, you will be able to claim 50% of the shift based on the published rate.
In short: you will only be paid per drop if the total earnings exceed the total amount of the published shift rates.