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So while completing orders on the Instacart platform, sometimes you will find that there is a promo on the app known as Guaranteed Earnings, which can seem good at a glance, but might not be as good as you think it is.
So in this article, We are talking about:
EVERYTHING You MUST Know about Guaranteed Earnings on Instacart
What they tell you vs how it ACTUALLY is
Everything in between!
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I also want it to be clear that everything that we are going over is very market dependent, and what applies to me and my market may not apply to you!
The Guaranteed Earnings promotion is available to some shoppers. With this promotion, Instacart guarantees that you’ll earn a certain dollar amount (before tips) for completing a set number of batches within a specific timeframe.
For example, if you’re offered, “Finish your first 65 batches for guaranteed earnings of $800 within 30 days,” you’ll have 30 days to complete 65 batches. If you complete 65 or more batches and—
Earn $750 (not including tips), Instacart will pay you an additional $50 to meet the $800 minimum guarantee.
Earn $850, congrats! You exceeded the $800 guarantee.
As you can already imagine, this is to get more orders done, not good orders of any kind. Not to mention, in almost every case it is never that high, at least where I am.
In a more in practice scenario, Guaranteed earnings are available for a day or a couple of days and they need you to do let’s say 6 batches throughout the day with a 7pm cut off, if you do that you are guaranteed $60.
In most cases, you would hit that in 4, and wouldn’t even need the earnings to offset losses. Which is why it is important to take good orders, not more orders.
The earnings that count toward the guaranteed earnings amount include—
Batch payment
Peak Boosts
Tips are separate and not considered part of the guarantee from Instacart—you keep 100% of all customer tips.
So this is where the confusion normally sets in, because if this is your first app, it can be misleading based on the front title of the guaranteed earning page. That said, when you see an order, you only see the final value.
Squeaker: But Joe, if you click on the order before accepting, you can see the breakdown right?
I mean sure if there is time, but some people see a $40 pay out and take it before really looking at it because it is that good and you have to get it before anyone else.
Which can lead to some look before you leap screw ups.
Also in most cases, they will have to take orders with a low base pay to accomplish that or Instacart will pull some shady shenanigans but more on that later.
This is actually news to me and is a great display of why I make videos going over the help pages like this.
I was under the impression that this was a system that included tips in its calculations, but apparently not. This factor alone makes it a more attainable goal to achieve. That said, I wouldn’t be surprised if they started playing games to prevent a real payout.
If you continue to shop after meeting the promotion requirements, the additional batches are considered separate. Any earnings from these additional batches will not contribute to the guaranteed earnings reward—they are yours to keep.
That said, I wouldn’t be surprised if they started playing games to prevent a real payout.
Shady Instacart Tactics
This may be slightly mistitled because a lot of companies pull this crap, not just instacart. Sometimes in an effort to prevent the Guaranteed earnings from triggering, they will pull some shady tactics to prevent paying out or find a way to make it more worth it for them.
Instacart BS: Oh you got 5 out of the 6 required batches done and 1 hour left before you qualify? Let’s not send you a single batch. Or we will send you only the worst of batches!
It is actually rather normal for gig companies as a whole to lure you in with marketing opportunities and then stab you in the back.
Never Chase Promo Pay
Guaranteed earnings is also a market to market thing and that could mean leaving your current market for another, and that is not a great plan in most cases.
Promo pay acts like a moth to a flame, where the companies use it to lure you into the general area, everyone wants to be in that place. So orders aren’t as available because of the oversaturation.
Not to mention how this can lead to some drivers taking bad orders for the sake of completing a promo and as we said before, it is unwise to not expect shady tactics.
So never chase promo pay.
Still Not as Good as Multi-Apping
I am not saying that you shouldn’t get it if you have the means and are getting good orders, I am saying in reality, it is not as good as multi-apping.
No matter how much the guaranteed minimum is in most cases, you are better off just diversifying your gig portfolio and having multiple apps to accept orders from.
Are you on Walmart Spark, Shipt, Doordash UberEats Grubhub?
What about Catering? DeliverThat, Dlivrd, FoodFetched, Zifty?
What about package delivery with Amazon Flex, Veho or Jitsu (used to be Axlehire)?
There are a lot of opportunities, you just gotta keep your eyes open for it. This way it doesn’t matter who isn’t sending you good orders, as long as you are still getting them from somewhere.
If Instacart won’t pay you for your work, someone else will!
If you would like to add some other perspective to how Guaranteed Earnings Work on Instacart, feel free to email me: drivenwyld@gmail.com and who knows? Maybe your email or perspective and be featured in a post as well!
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