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Now onboarding · Northwest Arkansas

Free to drive. Set your own prices. Keep 100%.

Deliver food and same-day parcels in NWA as your own independent business — free to drive, no per-delivery fee, no trial. You set your delivery price and keep 100% of it, 100% of tips, and 100% of any perks you offer, landing directly in your own Stripe account. Optional Premium ($7.99/mo — free for founding drivers) unlocks smart tools: route optimizer, demand heat map, and weather-pay forecast.

Free to drive — keep 100%You set your price100% of tips — never a cut

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Independent contractor platform · You set your own schedule · No guaranteed hours

Independent by design

You're an independent business. We just run the software.

DriverEats is a dispatch and clearing platform — we route orders, clear payments, and provide the tools; drivers are independent businesses. We're not your employer — you run your business on DriverEats.

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You set your prices, keep 100%

You set your own delivery price in Settings — the platform never sets it. You keep 100% of your delivery fee, 100% of tips, and 100% of any upsell perks you offer. We take $0 out of your deliveries.

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You control your own hours

Go online whenever you want — no mandatory shifts, no schedules. Declining an offer never counts against you; your acceptance rate is never published or used to deactivate you.

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We just provide the software

We route orders, clear the payment straight to your own account, and hand you the tools. Driving is free — no per-delivery fee, ever. An optional flat Premium plan ($7.99/mo — free for founding drivers) adds smart tools that help you earn more, but it never changes your $0-per-delivery economics. The delivery business is yours to run.

Your plan

Free to drive. Premium if you want to earn more.

Driving is free — $0 per delivery, no trial to run out. We take $0 out of your deliveries; your delivery fee and 100% of tips are always yours. Premium is completely optional: a flat monthly plan that unlocks smart tools to help you work faster and earn more. It never changes your $0-per-delivery economics, and you never need it to work or to get paid.

🎁 Free to drive: $0 per-delivery fee, no trial, no catch. Set your price, keep 100% + 100% of tips.

Free

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✓$0 per delivery — no trial to run out, no catch
✓Accept orders, navigate, and deliver — fully operational
✓Set your own price + keep 100% + 100% of tips
✓Basic maps + basic multi-stop route delivery

Everything you need to drive and get paid — the default.

Premium · optional

$7.99/mo

✓Still $0 per delivery — Premium buys tools, not lower fees
✓Route optimizer — auto-sequences multi-stop package routes
✓Demand heat map — see where the orders are
✓Weather-pay forecast + tracking
✓Advanced upsell-perk + pricing config
✓Custom driver branding on your profile
✓Founding drivers get Premium FREE — permanently

Pay to work smarter — never required to work or get paid.

Never locked out. Premium is a convenience, never a gate. If a Premium card fails, you simply drop back to the Free plan and keep working with $0 per-delivery fees the whole time — you never stop earning. Update your card and Premium reactivates instantly.

Add your own upsell perks — customers pay, you keep 100%:

🧊 Chilled cooler bag +$2⚡ Priority, no stacking +$4🌙 Late-night / weather premium +$3

Examples — you choose which perks to offer and what to charge. 100% of every perk is yours.

🏅 Founding Driver Program · Limited spots

Get in first. Be a founding DriverEats driver.

We're launching neighborhood by neighborhood — and we're building our founding driver bench now, before the orders start. Get approved today and you're activated the day we go live in your area, with the founding rate locked in. No cost, no obligation, no guaranteed hours — just early access to a platform built to actually pay you well.

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Permanent Founding badge

A badge on your profile that never goes away — you were here first, and everyone can see it.

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Premium FREE for founding drivers — forever

Driving is always free for everyone. And if you opt into Premium as a founding driver, it stays FREE for you permanently — it never rises to the $7.99/mo list price, for as long as you keep it.

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Activated first at launch

When your neighborhood goes live, founding drivers are activated first so you can start earning on day one. Order offers themselves go out fairly to everyone — founding status is early access and a locked rate, never priority on who gets which order.

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A direct line to the founder

You'll help shape how this works. Tell me what's broken and I fix it — usually the same day.

Claim a founding driver spot →

Free to drive · You set your own prices · Keep 100% of tips · Founding drivers get Premium free

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Apply in minutes.

DriverEats is open to independent drivers across NWA. Every application is reviewed before activation. Payments are cashless and run entirely through the app.

✓ Reviewed in 24–48h✓ Cash-free — all in-app✓ Paid at drop-off

Pay breakdown

Your price, your tips — 100% yours.

Per-delivery fee

Keep 100%

You set your price

100%

Tips

$7.99/mo

Optional Premium

You set your own delivery price and keep 100% of it, plus 100% of tips. No platform cut of your deliveries and no per-delivery fee — driving is free. An optional flat Premium plan ($7.99/mo — free for founding drivers) adds smart tools but never changes your $0-per-delivery economics. Money lands directly in your own Stripe account; from there you cash out to your bank instantly at drop-off, or let your own Stripe balance pay out to your bank on its regular schedule — DriverEats never holds or disburses your pay.

How offers work

You always see the full offer first.

Every order shows you the full offer upfront — your delivery fee plus distance, tips and any weather pay, before you accept. What you see is exactly what you earn. Your call every time, with no acceptance-rate penalty for passing.

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Full offer, instantly

The moment an order matches your location, you see the maximum pay — no guessing, no hidden math.

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Accept now or watch it drop

Tap Accept for max pay, or hold off. The offer counts down over ~45 seconds. You can accept at any point.

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Missed it? It resets.

If the timer runs out, the offer resets to full pay and you get another shot — twice before it moves on.

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Next driver, same full offer

If it passes to another driver, they also see the full offer from the start. Max pay every handoff.

Bottom line: You never get lowballed on the initial offer. Accepting fast = max pay. Missing the window = a fresh reset at max pay. Every driver on every order starts at the top.

Requirements

What you need to get started.

🪪18+ years old with a valid government-issued ID

🚗Valid driver's license (AR)

🛡️Auto policy with a business-use or delivery endorsement — or a commercial policy. A personal policy alone excludes delivery-for-pay. Upload your current certificate of insurance (COI).

📱Smartphone (Android or iOS)

🧊Insulated delivery bag — recommended for food orders (not required to apply)

Keep 100%

Your delivery fee

you set your own price — the platform never takes a cut of it

Keep 100%

Upsell perks

offer perks (cooler bag, priority, late-night) — customer pays, you keep it

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Tips

no deductions, ever

Per-delivery fee

free to drive — no per-delivery fee, no trial to run out

$7.99/mo

Optional Premium

smart tools only (route optimizer, heat map, weather-pay) — free for founding drivers

Work free

Never required

Premium is optional — never needed to work or get paid

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How your pay works

You set your own price and keep 100% — plus 100% of tips

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You set your delivery price

You choose what you charge for a run. The platform never sets or suggests it — you keep 100% of the fee you set.

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100% of every tip

Tips go straight to you, in full. The platform takes $0 of your tips — ever.

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Weather pay is customer-funded

When conditions are rough, a weather premium is priced into what the customer pays and flows 100% to you. The platform funds none of it.

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$0 platform cut on deliveries

No commission, no per-delivery fee. The platform’s only charge is an optional flat software plan (Premium) for tools — it never touches your delivery pay.

Drivers are independent contractors. You set your own prices and choose when to work — there’s no acceptance-rate requirement. DriverEats does not project, promise, or guarantee any level of earnings.

Apply Now — free to apply →

Independent contractor · Set your own schedule

Apply to Drive

STEP 1 OF 5Get ready

You're applying as an independent business — not an employee. You set your own delivery price and keep 100% of it plus 100% of tips; a standard rate is the default until you set your own, and DriverEats never marks it up. You pick your own hours with no mandatory shifts — we just provide the dispatch app and tools.

Here's what you'll need to finish

🎂Be 18 or olderYou'll certify your age at the end.
📱A smartphoneiPhone or Android to run the driver app.
🚗Vehicle + license + the right insuranceA valid driver's license and an auto policy with a business-use or delivery endorsement (or a commercial policy). A personal policy alone excludes delivery-for-pay.
🍱An insulated hot bag (recommended)Not required to apply — but it keeps food safe and protects you from false "arrived cold" complaints. $15–40 at most sporting-goods stores.
🪪Your SSN and date of birthFor identity verification and the application review. Your full SSN is never stored — only the last 4 + a one-way hash.
🤳A clear photo of yourselfKept on your driver file to confirm who completed a delivery.

Don't have everything yet? You can start now and come back — nothing is submitted until the final step. Every application gets a quick review (typically 24–48 hours) before you go active. Learn more →

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