The best way to make extra money on your schedule... - Anonymous employee Favor Employee Review

4.0
Sep 12, 2019
Anonymous freelancer
Recommend
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Pros

Compared to all of the other food delivery services in the Austin area, Favor seems to have the best overall earnings for me. You can reliably get at least one Favor an hour (about two an hour on average). Sometimes UberEats would not give me a single delivery over the course of three or four hours. DoorDash had its own problems. It will send you all the way across town just to pick up an order. Deliveries are kept inside a local area, so you can knock out a few deliveries nearby and then not spend more than 20 minutes to drive home. HEB orders can sometimes yield large tips, especially in well off areas (my largest was $25.00). You can reassign Favors if you want (although there are some caveats to this. see the cons section below). You can schedule yourself and make a guaranteed minimum amount. It's not much ($9 or $10 an hour most of the time), but it helps on slow days or when you're not tipped.

Cons

Sometimes it feels bad for the environment to make a Favor delivery for a small order. If some of these hipsters knew that I was driving 20 minutes just to deliver their celery juice, they might have some second thoughts. If you reassign too many Favors and your acceptance rate drops below a certain percentage (I think its 60%?), you cannot place yourself on the schedule. However, I can understand why they would do this. If they didn't someone could just reassign Favors all day long and still rake in the hourly guarantees. Hourly guarantees are not calculated for each hour. They are based on the earnings that you bring in for the entire run session. For example, if you run 4 to 6 and earn nothing in the first hour, but then earn $20 in the second hour, your earnings are calculated to be $10 per hour so you don't receive anything extra from the $10 an hour guarantee. I would not advise this job for someone with a newer car, or a car that consumes a lot of gas. The miles can quickly add up and take quite a bit off your car's value. You feel replaceable. There are no benefits that I know of for being a runner long term.

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Pros

Great culture. Great people great benefits.

Cons

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1.0
May 4, 2026
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Pros

None whatsoever I’m not even joking. Oh sorry they will currently give you $20 for completing 80 deliveries which will probably account for 800 miles of driving

Cons

This platform is bad, if you’re not selective they will require you to shop for 50+ items then drive 11 plus miles for only $18. There is definitely a lot better platform and apps that pay better. Be careful only about 5-7% of the offers sent on favor platform are good which is why I have an acceptance rate of only 13%.

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