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<p>The potential earnings range displayed is an estimate. DoorDash makes no guarantees as to the sales your business may earn by using our platform.</p><p>To estimate potential incremental sales on the DoorDash platform, we review past sales data from a subset of businesses in your area using DoorDash. We extrapolate that data to provide an estimated range of annual average earnings on the platform. We choose similar store listings based on the information you share about your business, including business address and the type of business (e.g. restaurant, convenience, flowers, etc.). This includes stores that run promotions on DoorDash. If you do not input a business address, we select similar stores based on the location indicated by your IP address. Based on data availability, we may adjust the size of the area for which you are seeing earnings estimates. For any given earnings estimate result, the general geographic location of the stores that were used as inputs for that particular estimate is shown.</p><p>Your actual sales on the platform may be impacted by a range of factors including local customer demand, pricing, and store availability.</p>

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<p>Online Ordering is a commission-free ordering system for your website, powered by DoorDash technology. It allows customers to order directly from your site, native app, or Google profile, giving you full control over the customer experience—and the revenue.</p><p>With Online Ordering, orders placed through your own channels (website, native apps, social media, Google page) show up on your POS.POS and Aggregator / Middleware that support the following features offer a more streamlined Online Ordering experience:</p>

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<h3>Qualifications to be referred are:</h3><ul><li>A small business restaurant (75 stores or fewer) located in the US, Canada, Australia or New Zealand</li><li>Physical location that is publicly accessible to customers (e.g. brick and mortar store, food truck)</li><li>New to DoorDash Marketplace</li><li>Multiple store locations of the same business will be treated as a single Referred Merchant</li></ul><h3>Qualifications for referring merchants to receive their bonus are:</h3><ul><li>Referred restaurant is active on DoorDash Marketplace within 45 days since their referral</li><li>Referred restaurant has 15 customer delivery orders within 60 days of activating on DoorDash Marketplace</li><li>Referring restaurant must be active on DoorDash Marketplace</li><li>Referring Association must receive an invitation to participate in the Program</li></ul>

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