Personal shoppers: true pay per batch after miles and vehicle costs. Free, no signup.
IRS mileage rate is the standard stand-in for gas, wear, and depreciation. Change it to your real cost if you know it.
Count every mile: your drive TO the store, store to customer, and the trip back to your zone.
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Set your bar first: the minimum dollars per hour you will work for ($25 default) and your vehicle cost per mile ($0.67 default). The note under vehicle cost says the IRS mileage rate is the standard stand-in for gas, wear, and depreciation, so change it to your real cost if you know it. In the batch card enter the batch pay offered, the tip shown, items to shop, total miles, and total minutes. Count every mile: your drive to the store, store to customer, and the trip back to your zone. Results show a line-item breakdown: batch pay plus tip, vehicle cost, true batch profit, and profit per mile driven. Enter an item count and you also get pay per item and your shopping pace in items per hour. The big number is true pay per hour, profit divided by minutes. Verdicts: TAKE IT when it clears your bar, BORDERLINE when it is within 80 percent with the exact extra pay needed, SKIP IT when it is far under, and INSTANT SKIP when vehicle cost eats the whole batch. The session planner shows how many batches like this reach your shift earnings goal and the total committed hours.
Example only, not typical pay. Pay $18.50 plus a $5 shown tip is $23.50 gross. 22 miles at $0.67 is $14.74 of vehicle cost, leaving $8.76 true profit over 55 minutes, which is 0.9167 hours. True rate: 8.76 / 0.9167 = $9.55 per hour, far under a $25 bar, so it fires SKIP IT. To clear the bar it would need 25 x 0.9167 + 14.74 - 23.50 = $14.16 more pay, exactly what the verdict reports. A $120 shift goal would need 14 batches like this, since 120 / 8.76 = 13.7 rounded up, at 14 x 0.9167 = 12.8 total committed hours.
**Why count the miles before the store and the trip back to my zone?** Because the app only shows the shopping trip, but you burned fuel on the dead miles getting there and getting back. Counting every mile is what separates a batch that looks fine from one paying $9.55 an hour.
**Is $0.67 per mile my real vehicle cost?** It is the IRS mileage rate, used here as a starting point for gas, wear, and depreciation. If you know your real cost per mile, replace it; the verdict math changes with every cent.
**Why is pay per item shown before vehicle cost?** Pay per item helps you judge shopping effort, and vehicle cost is subtracted separately on its own line. Subtracting it twice would hide how the miles eat the batch.
**What if the tip changes after delivery?** Shown tip is all you can judge before accepting, so the verdict uses it. If tips get reduced later, re-run the batch with the final tip to see what the hour actually paid.
**How does the session planner work?** It divides your shift goal by the true batch profit and rounds up, then multiplies by the batch minutes. It only runs on a profitable batch, so a losing batch never plans a shift for you.