Getting started
Signing up, choosing a platform, and what to sort out before your first shift.
Guides
Riding for Deliveroo: the full guide
How Deliveroo works for a rider: what you need to join, how each fee is worked out, the pay floor agreed with the GMB union, when the money arrives, the insurance Deliveroo gives you for free, and the parts that are left to you.
Getting startedUpdated 29/09/2026
Delivering for Uber Eats: the full guide
How Uber Eats works for a courier: signing up, how each delivery is paid, Quests and batched orders, the weekly pay cycle and the two ways to cash out early, the free Allianz cover, Uber Eats Pro, and the tax side.
Getting startedUpdated 29/09/2026
Delivering for Just Eat: the full guide
Just Eat works differently from the other food apps. You set your availability each week and are scheduled into delivery runs, each order pays Transit Pay, and your acceptance rate decides how quickly offers reach you. Here is how all of it fits together.
Getting startedUpdated 29/09/2026
Delivering for Evri: the full guide
Evri couriers are self-employed and paid per parcel, once a month. You choose between Evri Flex and Evri Plus, which trades a five-day commitment for holiday pay, a pension and guaranteed earnings. Here is how it works and what it means for your tax.
Getting startedUpdated 29/09/2026
Driving for DPD: owner driver, employed or Connect
There are three ways to deliver for DPD, and they are three different jobs for tax. An owner driver runs a route as a business, an employed driver is on PAYE, and a DPD Connect courier uses their own car on a local round. Here is how to tell which suits you.
Getting startedUpdated 29/09/2026
Delivering for Stuart: the full guide
Stuart pays a base fee per delivery set by distance and vehicle, multiplies it at busy times, pays for long waits at pick-up, and pays weekly. It also has a written substitution policy and regular face checks. Here is how each part works.
Getting startedUpdated 29/09/2026
Driving for Bolt: the full guide
What it takes to drive for Bolt in the UK, how the weekly payout is worked out, what the 2024 tribunal ruling on worker status means, why the 2026 VAT change is Bolt's problem rather than yours, and how to report the income correctly.
Getting startedUpdated 29/09/2026
Driving for Addison Lee: the full guide
Addison Lee is London's largest private hire and courier firm, and it works differently from the apps: most drivers rent a car from it, the work leans on corporate accounts, and holiday pay is paid on every job. Here is how that shapes your money and your tax.
Getting startedUpdated 29/09/2026
Driving with Freenow: black cab and private hire
Freenow, now owned by Lyft, sends jobs to London black cabs and to private hire drivers. It charges commission only on completed jobs, rewards drivers who carry its advertising, and will pay for private hire drivers to do the Knowledge. Here is how each of those lands on your tax return.
Getting startedUpdated 29/09/2026
Starting on Amazon Flex: requirements, insurance and pay day
What you need before your first Amazon Flex block: the right car, or an e-bike where it is offered, the two insurance policies Amazon asks for, the checks, how blocks are booked, and the day the money arrives.
Getting startedUpdated 29/09/2026
Hire and reward against courier and food delivery cover
Hire and reward is the class of cover you need to carry goods or people for payment. Within it, food delivery cover suits short local hot-food runs, courier cover suits parcels, and goods in transit covers the value of what you are carrying rather than the driving.
InsuranceUpdated 27/08/2026
Registering as a sole trader: the whole process
Everything from deciding whether you need to register, through getting a UTR, to the 5 October deadline and what arrives in the post.
HMRC & taxUpdated 20/08/2026
Self Assessment for delivery drivers: the complete guide
Registering, what counts as income, what you can claim, how much tax you will owe and when it is due - written for UK delivery and courier drivers, correct for the 2026/27 tax year.
HMRC & taxUpdated 19/08/2026
Insurance for delivery drivers: what you actually need
Hire and reward, courier cover, goods in transit and public liability - what each one is for, and why your ordinary car policy will not cover you.
InsuranceUpdated 19/08/2026
How to become a delivery driver in the UK
What you need before your first shift: the right licence and insurance, which platform to start with, what it costs to set up, and how to tell HMRC.
Getting startedUpdated 19/08/2026
Articles
Amazon Flex or an Amazon delivery partner job?
There are two ways to deliver Amazon parcels. Flex is self-employed, in your own car, a block at a time. A Delivery Service Partner job is with a separate company that provides the van and usually sets a full day. They are different jobs with different tax.
Getting startedUpdated 29/09/2026
Private hire or food delivery: which is worth doing?
Private hire pays more per hour and costs far more to get into. Food delivery you can start this week with the car you already own.
Earnings & profitabilityUpdated 20/08/2026
Food delivery or parcel delivery: which is better?
Two quite different jobs that get lumped together. How the pay, hours, mileage, costs and risk compare.
Earnings & profitabilityUpdated 19/08/2026
Questions
JoltMile Help
Logging a shift
What each step of the shift wizard asks for, why, and what happens to it afterwards.
Getting startedUpdated 29/09/2026
Your data: backup, export and deletion
What JoltMile stores, who can read it, and how to get all of it out or remove it entirely.
Getting startedUpdated 29/09/2026
Getting started with JoltMile
What to set up before your first shift, what to do in your first week, and which figures to ignore until you have some history behind them.
Getting startedUpdated 29/09/2026
The JoltMile app for iPhone
Where to get it, how to sign in, what it does, how paying through Apple works, and what your account on the website is for.
Getting startedUpdated 29/09/2026
Every setting, and what it changes
What each section of Settings does, which figures it moves, and which of them are safe to change once you have started logging.
Getting startedUpdated 29/09/2026
Account and billing
The free plan, what a subscription includes, how to cancel, what happens to your records afterwards, and where to find your invoices.
Getting startedUpdated 29/09/2026
When something looks wrong
Figures that do not match, shifts that have not synced and totals that surprise you, with the handful of causes that explain almost all of them.
Getting startedUpdated 29/09/2026
Your privacy and how your data is protected
What JoltMile stores about you, who can reach it, what it is never used for, and how to get all of it back or delete it.
Getting startedUpdated 29/09/2026
Working offline
What happens when the signal goes, what is safe to do without one, and how your work gets back to your account afterwards.
Getting startedUpdated 29/09/2026
Asking Jolt
What the in-app assistant can answer, where its answers come from, and the things it will not do for you.
Getting startedUpdated 29/09/2026
News
JoltMile is now a phone app
The web dashboard has closed. Shifts are logged in the app, with one tap to start and one to end, and joltmile.com keeps a small account area for exports, receipts and your account.
Getting startedUpdated 29/09/2026
JoltMile is on the App Store
The JoltMile app for iPhone is out. It signs in with the account you already have, and it can time your shifts and measure your miles as you drive.
Getting startedUpdated 23/09/2026
Fixes: the Expenses page, and the earnings menu that did nothing
The Expenses page failed to open for accounts with any expenses logged. That is fixed, along with the earnings view menu, the PAYE tax figure and a handful of smaller faults.
Getting startedUpdated 12/09/2026
Updated tax reminders and expense rules
We fixed tax return reminders and updated expense category explanations for fines.
Getting startedUpdated 29/08/2026
New Jolt AI assistant and guides
Ask questions and read new help guides using the updated AI assistant built into the app.
Getting startedUpdated 27/08/2026
The JoltMile Knowledge Centre is here
Guides, articles, FAQs and help pages covering UK delivery driving and how JoltMile works - free and open to everyone.
Getting startedUpdated 19/08/2026
Draft shifts, and the distance calculator in the wizard
Save an unfinished shift and come back to it, and work out mileage from postcodes without leaving the wizard.
Getting startedUpdated 19/08/2026