Stewarding Matters

Stewarding your platform account

Your driver or courier account with a rideshare or delivery platform.

This guide goes with the Platform Recipe. Everything here is a suggestion: keep what helps, and leave the rest.

In short

  • Name it: My delivery account, Rideshare.

  • Know it: which platform, your driver ID, and when you started.

  • Connections: the platform, the vehicle, the insurance, your license, the bank account it pays into, and the email and phone on the account.

  • Contents: where your login lives, the documents you uploaded, earnings statements and tax forms.

  • Needs: keep the documents current, the sign, tax forms each year, and your mileage.

Know what you know

The Recipe asks: Which platform is this account with? What is your driver ID? When did you start?

Connections

Contents, and where they are

  • Where your login lives, for example a password manager. Write down where it is, not the password.

  • The documents you uploaded: your license, registration and insurance.

  • Earnings statements, in the app, or by email.

  • Tax forms the platform sends each year.

Needs

  • Keep the documents current. When your license, registration or insurance renews, the platform will want the new one.

  • The sign. Some platforms and cities require a sign or decal in your windshield. Know where it is, and whether it's current.

  • Tax forms. Platforms send them early in the year. They belong with Stewarding your work.

  • Mileage. Record your work miles as you go. A record kept along the way is far easier to rely on than one rebuilt later.

Come back to it whenever something on the list renews.

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