SkipTheDishes Courier Requirements in Canada (2026)

SkipTheDishes is the only major delivery platform built for Canada alone, and it works differently from the American apps in two ways that matter more than anything on its sign-up page.

You work scheduled shifts, not on demand. Availability goes in by midnight Wednesday and the schedule arrives the following day. There is a limited way to deliver without a scheduled run, but Skip describes itself as a closed network and the shift is the model.

Skip provides you with no insurance at all. No auto coverage, no liability, no occupational accident cover — while its own courier agreement requires you to carry a commercial policy with at least $1,000,000 in third-party liability. Uber Eats and DoorDash both provide something. Skip provides nothing.

There is also one genuine advantage nobody writes about: Skip shows you the estimated distance before you accept. That means you can work out whether an offer actually pays before you tap, which a DoorDash or Uber Eats courier cannot do as precisely. The arithmetic is below.

Key takeaways

• 18+ to sign up, 19 for alcohol delivery — with Smart Serve certification in Ontario. Bike or insured car, thermal bag, smartphone on iOS 15.1 or later, background check through Sterling, and a SIN or Business Number.
• Skip publishes no minimum model year, door count or inspection requirement — looser than Uber Eats and far looser than Amazon Flex.
• Availability by midnight Wednesday; the schedule follows the next day. Open runs can be picked up through the week.
• Delivery Data drives scheduling on a rolling 28-day window. Customer ratings are not used. Acceptance rate does not drive core scheduling — but Skip says it may be considered for incentives.
• No insurance from Skip. You need your own commercial or delivery-endorsed policy, and your personal policy almost certainly excludes delivery.
• You get a T4A in the Courier Portal by the end of February. Income goes on Form T2125; vehicle costs on line 9281 at actual cost, never a per-kilometre rate.

The requirements

	Requirement
Age	18+ — 19 and Smart Serve certified for alcohol delivery in Ontario
Vehicle	A reliable car, or a bike in select cities
Licence	Valid driver’s licence for car delivery; none for bike
Model year / inspection	None published
Insurance	Vehicle insurance and registration in your own name (car)
Equipment	Thermal delivery bag; smartphone with data, iOS 15.1 or later
Identification	Proof of work eligibility — birth certificate, passport, Certificate of Indian Status, or work or study permit
Tax number	SIN or Business Number — access is revoked if it isn’t provided
Background check	Through Sterling
Banking	Bank account for direct deposit

Alcohol delivery is offered in British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick. It requires being 19, and in Ontario a Smart Serve certification.

The vehicle rules are unusually relaxed

Skip asks for “a reliable car” and publishes no minimum model year, no door count, and no inspection requirement. Set against the other platforms:

	SkipTheDishes	Uber Eats	Amazon Flex
Model year	None published	1990 or newer	Not published
Doors	None published	2 or 4	4 required
Inspection	None	None	None

The courier agreement does require the vehicle be duly registered and licensed if provincial legislation requires it. Commercial plating is a matter for your province and your insurer, not for Skip.

Two things Skip doesn’t publish

Whether a graduated licence qualifies. Skip is silent on the Ontario G2, BC N, Alberta Class 5-GDL and Quebec probationary licences — it neither accepts nor excludes them in writing. Confirm during signup.

Disqualifying offences. Skip publishes no background-check criteria. The check runs through Sterling, and an existing check less than 90 days old can be submitted instead. The widely quoted figures of roughly $20 and up to 14 business days come from third-party guides rather than any Skip fee page.

The thermal bag

Required. You can supply your own and submit a photo for approval, or buy one from Skip. The frequently quoted price of around $60 is third-party sourced, not a Skip-published figure.

Either way it is a deductible business expense — see the tax section below.

Bike delivery

Skip supports car and bike sign-up, and states plainly that bike delivery is not yet available in every city.

The published bike zones are Toronto Downtown, Vancouver Downtown, Halifax, and Montreal Central East, though that list comes from third-party reporting of Skip’s application flow rather than a single canonical Skip page. The authoritative check is the in-app vehicle-type selector — if “bike” appears where you are, it’s available.

Bike couriers still need the thermal bag and the same background check. Skip’s bicycle safety guidance notes you may be legally required to wear a helmet, and that you must obtain whatever insurance your city or province requires.

Skip does not run a separate scooter or e-bike programme distinct from “bike,” which is a narrower set of modes than Uber Eats offers.

How the shift system actually works

This is what most people get wrong about Skip, and it is the single biggest structural difference from DoorDash and Uber Eats.

Weekly scheduling

Submit your availability by midnight Wednesday. Skip emails your schedule and updates the in-app “My Schedule” page the following day. The courier agreement puts it simply: each week, Skip allocates delivery runs for the following week.

Setting availability does not guarantee you’ll get runs for all the hours you offered.

Open runs and cancelling

Open runs are added throughout the week and you can build a schedule from them. You can cancel a scheduled run before it starts or arrange a substitute — and per the agreement, doing so before the run has no impact on your acceptance rate. Skip recommends confirming runs within 48 hours of the start time.

Delivering without a scheduled run

There is a limited equivalent to DoorDash’s Dash Now. If you aren’t scheduled and no open runs are available, you can switch from “Offline” to “Available” and be first in line if Skip needs extra couriers.

It isn’t guaranteed. Skip describes itself as operating a closed network, and the scheduled run is the primary model.

Delivery Data — what actually drives your schedule

Skip’s priority system runs on four statistics:

• Collected On Time
• Delivered On Time
• Delivery Success Rate
• Offers Assigned and Completed

It operates on a rolling 28-day period, scoring you relative to other couriers in your zone rather than against a fixed threshold. New couriers get a 14-day boost that tapers. Everyone who set availability and completed a delivery in the last 28 days stays eligible. Delivery Data arrives by email every other week; there is no in-app version yet.

Two benefits flow from it: Preferential Scheduling and Priority Order Assignments.

Hamilton is excluded. The programme piloted in British Columbia in 2024 and expanded to the Prairies in early 2025.

The acceptance-rate question, settled

Forum advice on this is wrong in both directions, so here is the precise position from Skip’s own agreement.

Rejecting a delivery opportunity does not affect your ability to accept future ones. And Preferential Scheduling is based on undelivered order rates, order unassignment rates and similar contract indicators — not customer ratings.

But Skip does maintain an acceptance rate over your most recent ten opportunities, and states it may be considered when offering additional earnings opportunities, incentive fee offers, or future delivery opportunities.

So: acceptance rate doesn’t drive core scheduling, but it can affect incentives. Declining unprofitable offers is a genuinely available strategy on Skip — it just isn’t entirely free.

What does hurt you is a pattern of unassignments and undelivered orders, which feeds directly into Delivery Data and your future scheduling.

How Skip pays

Transit Pay + 100% of tips + reimbursements + incentives.

Transit Pay is set by factors including estimated distance and delivery time. Before accepting, you see the complete earnings, both locations, and the estimated distance.

Skip publishes no minimum per order. The old Top-Up earnings floor no longer exists, and couriers report offers below $6 being common — that’s self-reported, not a Skip figure.

Tips are 100% yours, in-app or cash, and customers can tip at checkout before the delivery happens.

Reimbursements cover longer waits at the restaurant and cancelled orders. Skip calls the wait compensation restaurant hold payments and says its system tracks them using GPS and processes them automatically. No amounts or time thresholds are published.

Incentives are zone promotions you qualify for, plus Hot Spots and shift extensions during busy periods. A courier referral programme exists, with a six-digit code and a “Referral Incentive” line item, but Skip publishes no dollar amount — it is zone-variable and shown in-app only. The $5/$7/$10 figures you’ll find online are the customer food-order credit, not the courier bonus.

Getting paid

Direct deposit processes every Tuesday, covering the previous Monday through Sunday. Skip’s courier help pages say Thursday evening in one place and by Friday in another, so: Tuesday processing, arriving Thursday or Friday depending on your bank.

Fast Cash cashes out instantly to a supported debit card for $1.99, usable as often as you like including weekends and holidays, and typically landing within 30 minutes. Availability is city-dependent. That’s the same price as DoorDash’s Fast Pay.

What couriers report earning

No Skip-published figure exists. All of the following is self-reported and unaudited:

Source	Figure
Glassdoor	Roughly $15/hour average
Indeed	Roughly $18.83/hour
Third-party guides	$15–$24/hour gross by city; base pay ~$3.50–$8.00/order

Unaudited, and gross. Which brings us to the part that matters.

Working out net pay before you accept

Here is Skip’s one real advantage: you see the estimated distance before accepting. So you can do the arithmetic in the two seconds before you tap.

Net = Transit Pay − (estimated distance × your cost per kilometre) + tips

The National Joint Council’s Corporate Fleet Services 2026 Annual Report — the study the federal government uses to set its own reimbursement rates — puts the weighted average operating cost of a personal vehicle at 61.0¢ per kilometre. Ownership is 43.5% of that, maintenance 20.6%, fuel 18.6%.

Your provincial figure differs. The CRA’s kilometric rates, effective April 1, 2026, are a useful cross-check:

Province	CRA kilometric rate
Ontario	62.5¢
Quebec	61.5¢
British Columbia	59.5¢
Alberta	56.0¢
Manitoba	55.5¢
Saskatchewan	55.0¢

Use roughly 61¢ as a working number, or your province’s figure if you’d rather be conservative.

Worked examples, at 61¢/km

Transit Pay	Distance	Vehicle cost	Net before tax	Verdict
$9.50	5.5 km	−$3.36	$6.14	Strong
$6.00	4 km	−$2.44	$3.56	Workable
$6.00	8 km	−$4.88	$1.12	Marginal — needs a tip
$4.00	7 km	−$4.27	−$0.27	Loss-making. Decline.
$12.00 (incl. $6.00 tip)	10 km	−$6.10	$5.90	Fine

Notice the third and fourth rows. A $6.00 offer is either decent or barely worth doing depending entirely on the distance — and a $4.00 offer over 7 km costs you money to complete.

That’s the calculation Skip uniquely lets you make in advance. Most couriers never make it.

On a bike, the maths changes completely

A bike courier’s marginal cost per kilometre is close to zero — maintenance and depreciation on the bike, and nothing else.

That $4.00-over-7-km offer that loses a car courier money? A bike courier nets essentially the full $4.00. Short, low-value offers in a dense core are viable by bike and are not by car.

Which is exactly why Skip’s published bike zones are downtown Toronto, downtown Vancouver, Halifax and central-east Montreal. The same structural point runs through our gig driver pay comparison: removing the vehicle removes the largest cost in the business.

The shift-model wrinkle

Scheduled runs give you predictability, but you may be offered low-value orders during a shift you’ve already committed to. Declining individual offers doesn’t hurt the acceptance rate used for core scheduling — but a pattern of unassignments does lower your Delivery Data, and that does affect future Preferential Scheduling.

So the “decline bad offers” strategy works on Skip. It just carries a cost a DoorDash courier doesn’t face in the same way.

Insurance: the risk nobody warns you about

Skip provides no insurance to couriers. None.

Not auto, not liability, not occupational accident. Its agreement places all tools of the trade and associated expenses on the courier, and states the liability position plainly: you are solely responsible for any and all liability resulting or alleged as a result of operating your vehicle, including personal injury, death and property damage.

And Skip requires you to carry your own. The Ontario and British Columbia courier agreement requires your vehicle be properly and adequately insured for commercial courier operations, with third-party liability coverage of at least one million dollars.

One clarification worth making: Skip’s bicycle safety page says that after an accident Skip may be able to file an injury report with the Workers’ Compensation Board on your behalf. That’s an administrative courtesy, not coverage.

What the other platforms provide

Platform	Coverage
Uber Eats	Commercial auto via Economical/Definity for car couriers — $1M liability while online and waiting, $2M en route — plus a Chubb Life accident policy for bike, e-bike, e-scooter and on-foot couriers
DoorDash	Excess third-party liability during active delivery, plus occupational accident insurance from March 1, 2026 — income support at 85% of average weekly earnings to $500/week, medical to $100,000 after a $50 deductible. Excludes BC, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
Amazon Flex	Northbridge commercial policy — Ontario only
SkipTheDishes	None

Note what that means in Winnipeg. Manitoba is excluded from DoorDash’s occupational accident programme, and Skip offers nothing. In Skip’s own home market, neither platform provides occupational accident cover.

Your own policy, by province

Personal auto policies generally exclude commercial food delivery. Undisclosed delivery use is a material change in risk and can void a claim — or the policy itself.

Province	Position
Ontario, Alberta	Private market. Personal policies exclude delivery; you need a delivery endorsement or a commercial policy.
British Columbia	ICBC. Most basic personal policies permit up to 6 days per month of commercial use; beyond that you need business coverage.
Manitoba	MPI. Most personal all-purpose passenger policies permit up to 4 days per month of commercial use; beyond that, business coverage.
Saskatchewan	SGI. Basic auto liability applies while delivering; confirm any additional coverage with SGI or a broker.
Quebec	SAAQ covers bodily injury; property damage and liability are private and need a commercial endorsement.

The Manitoba four-day limit deserves attention, given how central Winnipeg is to Skip. Four days a month is not much if you’re treating this as real income.

Bike couriers: Skip requires you to obtain whatever insurance your city or province requires, but doesn’t verify it and doesn’t ask for proof.

Where Skip operates

Skip states it operates across all ten provinces and describes itself as available in more than 450 cities and towns across Canada.

Province	Cities
Manitoba	Winnipeg — Skip’s home city
Ontario	Toronto, Ottawa, Hamilton, London, Mississauga, Kitchener-Waterloo
Alberta	Calgary, Edmonton
Saskatchewan	Saskatoon, Regina
British Columbia	Vancouver, Victoria, Burnaby
Quebec	Montreal
Nova Scotia	Halifax

Bike delivery: Toronto Downtown, Vancouver Downtown, Halifax, Montreal Central East.

Hamilton sits outside Delivery Data — and outside the July 2025 courier agreement version entirely, which states it is not applicable to couriers operating in Hamilton.

Skip vs the other platforms

	SkipTheDishes	Uber Eats	DoorDash	Amazon Flex
Pay model	Transit Pay + tips	Base + promos + tips	Base + Peak Pay + tips	Fixed block rate
See distance first	Yes	Upfront fare, not km	Addresses, not km	Block, not km
Scheduling	Shift/run-based	On demand	On demand or scheduled	Blocks
Minimum age	18 (19 for alcohol)	21 car / 18–19 bike	18	19
Vehicle standard	None published	2-door OK, 1990+	Any car	4-door minimum
Bike allowed	Yes, select cities	Yes	Yes, some cities	No
Platform insurance	None	Commercial auto + bike accident	Excess liability + occ. accident (excl. BC/SK/MB)	Ontario only
Instant payout	Fast Cash $1.99	Instant Pay	Fast Pay $1.99	—

Skip’s differentiators are the shift model and the visible distance. Its weakness is insurance, and it is not a close call.

Gig worker laws: do they apply to you?

Ontario’s Digital Platform Workers’ Rights Act, 2022 came into force July 1, 2025 and covers ride share, delivery, courier and other prescribed services — so Skip is squarely in scope. It guarantees minimum wage for engaged time per work assignment, protects tips, and requires written notice before platform access is removed. Ontario’s general minimum wage rises to $17.95 on October 1, 2026.

British Columbia’s Online Platform Workers Regulation, in force September 3, 2024, goes further. As of June 1, 2026 the engaged-time minimum wage is $21.89/hour, plus a distance allowance of at least $0.35/km for delivery workers using anything other than walking.

Note the arithmetic on that allowance: $0.35/km against a real operating cost of 61¢/km covers 57% of what the car costs you. Helpful, not sufficient.

Neither framework changes your tax status. You remain self-employed and file a T2125, with nothing withheld.

Your taxes

Self-employed, no withholding

Skip’s agreement is explicit that it makes no deductions at source — not income tax, not Employment Insurance, not Canada Pension Plan.

Income goes on Form T2125. File by June 15, pay by April 30 — interest runs from May 1 regardless. Our self-employed tax deadlines guide covers what that gap costs and how instalments work.

The T4A

Skip provides couriers a T4A slip in the Courier Portal — Earnings, select the tax year, download the report — by the end of February.

The T4A includes stated driver tips, is not reduced by Fast Cash fees, and excludes GST/HST/QST reimbursements. Don’t expect a T4; that’s for employees.

Skip also files a Part XX platform report with the CRA by January 31, so the CRA has your figures before you file.

GST/HST

The $30,000 small supplier threshold applies. Food delivery isn’t caught by the register-from-the-first-dollar rule that applies to passenger ride-share — that rule is about taxi and commercial ride-sharing, which is why an UberX driver registers on their first fare and a Skip courier doesn’t. Our GST/HST filing deadlines guide covers registration and filing frequency.

CPP

You pay both halves: 11.90% on net income above $3,500 up to the $74,600 YMPE, a maximum of $8,460.90, plus CPP2 at 8.00% to $85,000, a maximum of $832. Combined maximum $9,292.90. Half is deductible. Quebec residents pay QPP.

The vehicle deduction

Actual costs × business-use percentage on line 9281 of Form T2125, with capital cost allowance claimed separately on line 9936.

There is no per-kilometre deduction method in Canada for the self-employed. The 73¢/67¢ figure is an employer reimbursement ceiling under section 7306 of the Income Tax Regulations — not something you can claim. Our CRA mileage rate guide explains who it’s actually for, and the T2125 vehicle expenses guide works through the calculation.

Which kilometres count. Kilometres driven while logged in and delivering, between deliveries, and — importantly for Skip’s model — travelling to the start of a scheduled run. You have no fixed workplace, so the ordinary commuting exclusion doesn’t apply the way it would to an office worker. You also need your total kilometres, since the deduction is a ratio.

A logbook is mandatory: date, destination, purpose and kilometres per trip, plus odometer readings at the start and end of your fiscal period. Our free CRA mileage log template has the format.

Deductions specific to a Skip courier

The thermal bag — 100% if bought for the business — plus the business share of fuel, insurance, maintenance, repairs and capital cost allowance, phone and data at the business portion, and parking incurred on deliveries. Our Uber driver tax deductions guide maps each category to its T2125 line; the lines are the same whichever platform you drive for.

Bike couriers: bike maintenance, parts, tires, repairs and equipment are all business expenses. There’s far less to deduct, because there’s far less cost.

Never deductible: parking tickets and traffic fines, your own meals on shift, and everyday clothing.

Industry code

NAICS 492210 — Local messengers and local delivery, which explicitly covers independent restaurant meal delivery.

Newcomers and international students

Skip is a common first job, and its agreement requires you to possess and maintain valid legal authorization to work in Canada, noting that it may undertake periodic checks.

Permanent residents, valid work-permit holders and authorised study-permit holders are eligible.

The rule students get wrong: since November 8, 2024, study-permit holders may work up to 24 hours per week off-campus during academic sessions, with unlimited hours during scheduled breaks. Courier self-employment counts toward that cap, and the Government of Canada states that self-employed students are responsible for keeping track of the hours they work.

Exceeding it breaches your permit conditions and can cost you student status and future permit eligibility. Track your hours and check IRCC’s current rules directly — this article isn’t immigration advice, and the rules have moved recently.

Seven mistakes Skip couriers make

1. Expecting DoorDash’s model. Skip is a closed, scheduled network — availability by Wednesday.
2. Believing acceptance rate drives scheduling. It doesn’t for core scheduling. Unassignments and undelivered orders do.
3. Assuming Skip provides insurance. It provides none, and undisclosed delivery use can void your personal policy.
4. Not tracking kilometres. The logbook is mandatory for the line 9281 deduction, and it’s your largest one.
5. Claiming 73¢/km. That’s an employer reimbursement ceiling, not a deduction method.
6. Not setting aside for CPP. Nothing is withheld and self-employed CPP is 11.90%.
7. Confusing the customer referral credit with the courier bonus. They’re different things.

Skip tells you the distance. It doesn’t tell you the cost

Every Skip offer is either profitable or not depending on kilometres, and your annual vehicle deduction depends on the same number. The platform shows you one estimate per offer and never adds them up.

EveryLastMile, an iOS mileage tracking app, records every drive on-device using your iPhone’s motion and location sensors, so trips are captured whether or not you remembered to start anything. Each is classified business or personal from rules you set once, which produces the ratio rather than just the numerator, and a CSV export hands the whole year to your accountant. Your location history never leaves your phone.

Frequently asked questions

How old do you have to be to drive for SkipTheDishes?

Eighteen, per Skip's courier agreement. Alcohol delivery requires 19, and in Ontario a Smart Serve certification. Alcohol delivery is offered in British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick.

Do you need a driver's licence to deliver for Skip by bike?

No. Bike delivery requires no licence — only the background check, proof of work eligibility, and a thermal bag.

What car do I need for SkipTheDishes?

Skip asks for "a reliable car" and publishes no minimum model year, door count or inspection requirement. Your vehicle must be registered and licensed as your province requires, and insured in your name.

Does Skip accept a G2 or N licence?

Skip publishes no position either way. Its documentation is silent on graduated and probationary licences, so confirm during the application.

What documents do I need to sign up for SkipTheDishes?

Proof of work eligibility — a birth certificate, passport, Certificate of Indian Status, or a work or study permit — plus a SIN or Business Number, a driver's licence with vehicle insurance and registration for car delivery, a bank account, and a smartphone running iOS 15.1 or later.

How long does the SkipTheDishes background check take?

Skip publishes no timeframe. Third-party guides commonly cite roughly $20 and up to 14 business days through Sterling. An existing check less than 90 days old can be submitted instead.

Does Skip provide a delivery bag?

You can supply your own and submit a photo for approval, or buy one from Skip. The frequently cited price of around $60 is third-party sourced. Either way it's a deductible business expense.

How does the SkipTheDishes shift system work?

Submit your weekly availability by midnight Wednesday; Skip emails your schedule the following day. Open runs can be picked up through the week. Setting availability doesn't guarantee you'll get all the hours you offered.

Can I deliver for Skip without a scheduled shift?

In a limited way. If you're not scheduled and no open runs exist, you can switch from Offline to Available to be first in line if Skip needs extra couriers. It isn't guaranteed — Skip runs a closed network.

What is Delivery Data, and does my acceptance rate affect it?

Delivery Data scores you on Collected On Time, Delivered On Time, Delivery Success Rate, and Offers Assigned and Completed, over a rolling 28-day window relative to couriers in your zone. Customer ratings are not used, and rejecting an offer doesn't affect your ability to accept future ones. Skip does track acceptance rate over your last ten opportunities and says it may be considered for incentives.

How does SkipTheDishes pay work?

Transit Pay — set by factors including estimated distance and delivery time — plus 100% of tips, plus reimbursements for long restaurant waits and cancelled orders, plus zone incentives. You see the complete earnings, both locations and the estimated distance before accepting.

Do Skip couriers keep 100% of tips?

Yes, in-app or cash. Customers can tip at checkout before the delivery happens.

What day does SkipTheDishes pay?

Direct deposit processes every Tuesday, covering the previous Monday to Sunday. Funds arrive Thursday or Friday depending on your bank. Fast Cash cashes out instantly for $1.99 where available.

How much do SkipTheDishes couriers make per hour?

Skip publishes nothing. Aggregators report roughly $15 to $19 an hour, and third-party guides cite $15–$24 gross depending on city — all self-reported, and all before vehicle costs. At 61¢/km, a courier covering 20 km an hour is spending about $12.20 of that on the car.

Does SkipTheDishes provide insurance to couriers?

No. Skip provides no auto, liability or occupational accident coverage. Its agreement makes you solely responsible for liability arising from operating your vehicle, and requires you to carry commercial coverage with at least $1,000,000 in third-party liability.

What car insurance do I need to deliver for Skip?

A policy that permits delivery for compensation. In Ontario and Alberta that means a delivery endorsement or a commercial policy. In BC, most personal ICBC policies allow up to six days a month of commercial use. In Manitoba, most MPI personal policies allow up to four days a month. Confirm with your insurer before your first shift.

Which cities have SkipTheDishes bike delivery?

Toronto Downtown, Vancouver Downtown, Halifax and Montreal Central East are the published zones, though that list is third-party sourced. The reliable check is whether "bike" appears in the app's vehicle-type selector where you are.

Does Skip send a T4A?

Yes — available in the Courier Portal under Earnings by the end of February. It includes stated tips, isn't reduced by Fast Cash fees, and excludes GST/HST reimbursements. Skip also files a Part XX report with the CRA by January 31.

Can I claim mileage as a Skip courier?

Not as a per-kilometre rate — no such method exists in Canada for the self-employed. You deduct actual vehicle costs multiplied by your business-use percentage on line 9281 of Form T2125, and you need a logbook to support the percentage.

Do Skip couriers need to register for GST/HST?

Only once taxable revenue exceeds $30,000. Food delivery uses the ordinary small supplier threshold, unlike passenger ride-share, which requires registration from the first fare.

Is SkipTheDishes worth it compared to DoorDash and Uber Eats?

It depends on your kilometres and your priorities. Skip's shift model gives predictability but less flexibility, it publishes no minimum per order, and it's the only one of the three providing no insurance. Its real advantage is showing the estimated distance before you accept, which lets you calculate net pay per offer.

Can international students deliver for Skip?

Yes, with an authorised study permit — but the 24-hour weekly cap during academic sessions applies and self-employment counts toward it. You're responsible for tracking your own hours. Check IRCC's current rules directly.