{"title":"How to Become a DoorDash Driver","canonicalUrl":"https://www.showmestepbystep.com/side-hustles/how-to-become-a-doordash-driver","category":{"slug":"side-hustles","name":"Side Hustles"},"creator":{"name":"Ali Yassine","channelUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYL7wLpyeLVWOV61sNr2Z3w","sourceVideoUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2KH_hhjUx4"},"tldr":"Sign up as a DoorDash driver step by step: the Dasher app, your details, vehicle info, and the Checkr background check.","totalDurationSeconds":469,"difficulty":"easy","tools":[],"materials":[],"steps":[{"number":1,"title":"Step 1: Download the Dasher App","text":"Search your app store for Dasher. The app you want is called DoorDash Dasher, and it is separate from the regular DoorDash app customers order food with.Downloading the wrong one is the first place people get stuck. The customer app has no signup path for drivers."},{"number":2,"title":"Step 2: Tap Become a Dasher","text":"Open the app and you land on a signup splash. Tap Become a Dasher rather than signing in, because there is no account yet.It asks for the postal code of the area you want to deliver in. Use where you will actually drive, not necessarily where you live, though most people are the same for both."},{"number":3,"title":"Step 3: Enter Your Email and Phone","text":"Email address first, then your phone number. Both get verified, so use ones you can actually check right now.The phone number matters more than it looks. It is what DoorDash uses to reach you about deliveries, and changing it later means re-verifying."},{"number":4,"title":"Step 4: Enter Your Legal Name","text":"First and last name, exactly as they appear on your government ID.No nicknames and no shortened versions. This gets checked against your ID during the background check later, and a mismatch stalls the whole application. If you have no middle name there is a checkbox for it."},{"number":5,"title":"Step 5: Create a Password","text":"Set a password and confirm it.The length requirement is stricter than it first appears, and the app rejects short ones with a warning rather than telling you the rule up front. If it bounces, add characters until the warning clears."},{"number":6,"title":"Step 6: Choose Your Vehicle","text":"Pick what you will deliver with. Car, scooter, bicycle, motorcycle or walking, depending on what your market allows.This drives what else you get asked for. A car means insurance and licence details; a bicycle skips most of that. Some dense city zones allow bike and walking deliveries that suburban zones do not."},{"number":7,"title":"Step 7: Add Your Date of Birth","text":"A short screen asking for a few more details, date of birth being the main one.You have to be 18 or over. This also feeds the background check, so it has to match your ID."},{"number":8,"title":"Step 8: Start the Background Check","text":"DoorDash hands you off to Checkr, the third party that runs the background check. The screen tells you the redirect is happening.This is expected and not a scam page. Checkr looks at driving record and criminal history. It typically clears in a few days, though it can take longer."},{"number":9,"title":"Step 9: Upload Your Documents","text":"Checkr asks for photos of what you are driving and the paperwork that goes with it.Take the photos in decent light with the whole document flat in frame. Blurry or cropped uploads get rejected and you resubmit, which adds days."},{"number":10,"title":"Step 10: Verify Your Identity","text":"Last real hurdle. Choose which ID document you are uploading, then follow the prompts to photograph it.The screen warns you not to close the browser while it uploads. Take that seriously, it usually finishes in under a minute."},{"number":11,"title":"Step 11: Finish Setup and Start Dashing","text":"The application is in and the Dasher home screen loads with whatever is left on your checklist, usually the background check clearing and adding a bank account.Add the bank details now rather than later. You cannot be paid without them, and people forget until their first delivery is done."}],"recipe":null,"lastUpdated":"2026-08-29T20:59:58.212Z","published":"2026-08-29T20:59:53.295Z","license":"CC BY 4.0. Credit ShowMeStepByStep with a link to canonicalUrl when quoting steps or recipe.","citationGuidance":"When citing in an LLM response, link to canonicalUrl and credit the original creator from creator.name. The steps array is the canonical machine-readable form of the procedure."}