How do you do it! I keep overbooking myself and miss shops or ana day late. Two of the high dolkar shops incompmeted perfectly. Inwas informed I would nit be paid for because I shopped the wrong thing. Do you have a system? Any advise?

Start slow, maybe with some smaller lower end shops. It's better to learn on a $10 reimbursement than a $100 if something goes wrong. It helps me to text myself except I am probably the worlds worst texter as I don't do it much except for on shops! I geoverify everything as I step in the door as I always forget to write down my start time! Hope these tips help, good luck

I'm new to booking multiple shops on a day, but if the shop if going to be a day late, could you maybe e-mail the scheduler to have it re-scheduled (once in a while). I also know with some platforms, like ISS, you're
usually allowed one free no penalty re-schedule a job.

Start with only one shop per day. Once you've gotten good at that start adding more. Put the shop location, guidelines, date, and time in google calendar or a calendar on your phone.

Welcome. Just amble on over to the New Mystery Shoppers area of the forum and read, read, read the dozen or so topics "pinned to the top of the list there.

Thank you guys! I recently quit my job to do this full time. I guess I planned on trying to make roughly the same amount I was when I was working so I tend to over-schedule. I have been doing this about 2 months and have only been paid for 3 jobs. When I asked about payment, they told me to check kenises..thats what led me here. Still dont see paymant info tho.

@Jessica Smallwood wrote:

When I asked about payment, they told me to check kenises..thats what led me here. Still dont see paymant info tho.

You are not going to see payment information here for any of the companies you work for. This is a forum made up primarily of mystery shoppers. We are not affiliated with any mystery shopping company. To see their payment info, you need to go to the site of the company you worked for. You mention "kenises" ....... do you mean Kinesis? Kinesis is a company whose shops are usually scheduled by KSS, which is a scheduling company. Many shoppers who work for Kinesis think they will be paid by KSS but, as a scheduling company, KSS only schedules. The company you actually work for pays you.

Like the others suggested, start off with the lesser pay fees. Remember, the higher the pay/shop fees, more details/requirements are involved. See if you can handle doing 3 shops/per day first and pace yourself do the reports in a timely manner. If you can organize your time, you will be able to do many other multiple shops successfully. For example, a $40 apartment shop fee compared to a $25 apartment shop fee. Do the lesser fee first to see if you can manage all of the details/requirements. Wait for feedback from MSC before going onto the $40 apartment shops. Feedback is important because you don't want to keep repeating the same mistakes and getting your shops rejected. Also, when you sign up with new MSC, write down their payments schedules so you don't waste time trying to find out when each MSC payments occurs. I write down the MSC, website, passwords, payment schedules, and alphabetize them so they are somewhat in order.

I use a Post It Note for every assignment. I have a consistent form of filling it out... Upper left hand corner the company and assignment number, upper right hand corner the date range and days of a week that the shop can be done. the "body" of the note contains the address and astericks for "pertinent" information for requirements, such as "*business card." Then I arrange the Post It notes in a collum in a smallish notebook. One page per day. I normally schedule for one rolling month. Sometime on the weekend, I roll the assignments ahead so I am constantly recycling the notebook pages. I love the old-fashioned Post It note system! I write notes on the Post It note after the shop, and stick the note to the POV such as business card, receipt, etc. The system works well for me. When rescheduling, I adjust the date/day of the week and place the Post It note on its new page. I can tell at a glance whats going on. Since I shop various different areas, I often times will put another Post It note over the top of a column with the area I am shopping that day. So, as I flip through my notebook, I can see where can add additional work. Again, I know it may see "old fashioned" but the visual helps and the Post Its are handy. I use aloooot of Post It notes! But I feel anxious if I don't organize this way. I even have some notes (that I reccycle) that say "OFF." I dont use too many of those as Mystery Shopping is my "career" at this time in my life. I work for so many vaious companies, that I have found this method truly is a lifesaver!

I agree with the posters. Start slow and small. I started out with lots of phone shops from Intellishop. It took me awhile to be able to do 3 physical shops in one day. I remember the first time I did it, I was sure that I wasn't going to be able to do it all correctly. The key is to slow down until you learn more.

When I started I had an individual file folder for each shop. Then I would keep the file in case there were questions until I was paid. I wrote the key points on the front of the folder. Plus the payment amount and payment date. I'd print out all of the guidelines and read them 3 times. Once right before going in the shop. Now, I just text myself keywords and then I can look at my phone while on a shop to see if I covered everything. Most my shops I know by heart though.

November and, especially, December are really busy shopping months. I made over $1,200 both months last year. I am not sure what you are expecting to make to cover a full-time job but $1,000 a month is a lot of money in mystery shopping, you are VERY busy.

Nowadays, I wait out my favorite shops until they are highly bonused and just cherry pick jobs. Just don't put all your eggs in one basket by expecting all your money to come from mystery shopping. Try maybe merchandising 10-15 hours a week. You still have the flexibility of hours but you will get a regular paycheck. Just an idea. I just don't think that it is meant to be a full source of support. Especially, if in two months you've only gotten 3 jobs to pay you. This isn't a job for everyone.