The Mystery Shopping thread - part 6

jdan9

I have a query regarding GAP jobs for the well-known high street pizza chain, and I daren't ask GAP, judging from what I've heard about their attitude to shoppers contacting them.

I have a pizza delivery job booked for Monday, and I know I need a receipt. Do I need to tell them when ordering that I require a receipt, or will the delivery driver be able to provide one if I tell him when he arrives?

ellie9ellie

Head hurts now!! Going through my spreadsheet on a few days I've done 5 jobs in a day so I'm doing mileage A-B, B-C, C-D, D-E and then D back home to A. Where I've made a loss for any reason I'm just putting in a - figure and hope the spreadsheet total works. Wish me luck!!!

jessicamb

jdan9 wrote: »

I have a query regarding GAP jobs for the well-known high street pizza chain, and I daren't ask GAP, judging from what I've heard about their attitude to shoppers contacting them.

I have a pizza delivery job booked for Monday, and I know I need a receipt. Do I need to tell them when ordering that I require a receipt, or will the delivery driver be able to provide one if I tell him when he arrives?

they should have the receipt available when they deliver it to you. Sometimes you have to remind the driver to give it to you and then watch as he points out all the things he forgot to mention before you asked

jessicamb

ellie9ellie wrote: »

Head hurts now!! Going through my spreadsheet on a few days I've done 5 jobs in a day so I'm doing mileage A-B, B-C, C-D, D-E and then D back home to A. Where I've made a loss for any reason I'm just putting in a - figure and hope the spreadsheet total works. Wish me luck!!!

sounds like it will work fine Ellie - hope you doesnt take you too long to get through it all.

ellie9ellie

My own fault for not keeping it up to date - I'll get there though. For jobs with only reimbursements are we putting the mileage down as a loss?

jessicamb

ellie9ellie wrote: »

My own fault for not keeping it up to date - I'll get there though. For jobs with only reimbursements are we putting the mileage down as a loss?

I definitely am - no way did I do a 200 mile round trip to the north east for a job to not reduce my taxable profit

ruthiejane

I just have two columns on my spreadsheet - one for money coming in and one for money going out (and alongside these where the money came from/when to and what it was for) - it doesn't show whether each job makes a profit or loss. So on a day when I've done 4 shops it would show the total number of miles driven x 40p per mile in the expense column with a note to say milage to whichever towns I've driven to. Underneath that would be the compulsory spends in each shop I've visited as more expenses. A few weeks/months later the payments from the mystery shopping companies show as income. I add up the total of each column and can see my total profit or loss.

Timmne

ruthiejane wrote: »

I just have two columns on my spreadsheet - one for money coming in and one for money going out (and alongside these where the money came from/when to and what it was for) - it doesn't show whether each job makes a profit or loss. So on a day when I've done 4 shops it would show the total number of miles driven x 40p per mile in the expense column with a note to say milage to whichever towns I've driven to. Underneath that would be the compulsory spends in each shop I've visited as more expenses. A few weeks/months later the payments from the mystery shopping companies show as income. I add up the total of each column and can see my total profit or loss.

This sounds like a good way of keeping tabs on things- it also hazes the massive losses on certain jobs!

xxvickixx

I had to cancel my first job with ISC, hope that they still let me work for them, I had tomorrow to do the job but I can't get childcare. I'm quite fed up cause I was excited about the job.

Hope everyone had a better day than me.

Becles

ruthiejane wrote: »

I just have two columns on my spreadsheet - one for money coming in and one for money going out (and alongside these where the money came from/when to and what it was for) - it doesn't show whether each job makes a profit or loss. So on a day when I've done 4 shops it would show the total number of miles driven x 40p per mile in the expense column with a note to say milage to whichever towns I've driven to. Underneath that would be the compulsory spends in each shop I've visited as more expenses. A few weeks/months later the payments from the mystery shopping companies show as income. I add up the total of each column and can see my total profit or loss.

I do similar. I have money coming in and money going out for all sources, which calculates my gross profit. Then I have another section with mileage and I jot down the towns I've visited for that day, and it works out my expenses at 40p a mile. Then it takes the expenses off the gross profits to give me my net profits. When it's tax return time, I can just copy the relevant figures off the spreadsheet.

For PAYE work, I have a seperate page for each company and list the miles I've done and the amount of reimbursement (if any!). Then it calculates the difference between the reimbursement and 40p, which you can use to offset a bit of tax on each employment page of the tax return

I built myself a spreadsheet as I used to do it all by hand on paper, but Timmne told me off