@misspocos75 You are confusing two shops as one. The Debit Surcharge shop is supposed to be done with a VISA debit card only when a purchase is required. The Contactless one must be done with a Visa debit or credit that has the contactless technology and with that contactless symbol on the card. Not all debit and credit have the contactless symbol.
The contactless shops have paid $8 and a $5 reimbursement and I have never seen them bonused. The contactless shops always require a purchase and more pics than the debit surcharge shops. The Debit Surcharge shops do not require a purchase unless certain criteria are met. At the beginning of this cycle, the debit surcharge shops started out at $10 with $10 reimbursement, got bumped up in pay to $14, and when they released more last month, the rate went back down to $10 for all of them, including the ones that were $14 the day before. They have since gone back up in pay and are now at $16.
At this stage of the cycle, it is my understanding that you can't build a route of the debit surcharge shops since you can only do 3 from the recently released batch before all in that batch disappear for at least a day. There are a few contactless shops in my area.
They suggest you capture the contactless transaction as a video since the data on the screen moves quickly and doesn't stay there for long. You would do a screen cap of the required shots. I recall myself and other posters having issues when doing this with the app since we got a pixel size error. So the solution was to use software to bump up the pixels. This extra step took a shop that was low pay : low effort and quick to fill out report to low pay : PITA effort to a longer time to complete the shop survey.
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It’s a very simple shop. Don’t expect to make a route of them though, first one I did paid $14, went to do the next one and ALL of them dropped to $10 each. A week later, they had all dropped to $8 each. Waited another month and now they’re all showing $16 each. So confusing and obviously not worth the time unless you are already in or near the location.