Understanding your reviews as a detailer
Customers review the job, not you personally, and only in one direction — there's no mechanism on Dripbase for a detailer to rate a customer. This article is about the other side of that: how the reviews you receive affect your standing on the platform, and how to respond to one.
What your rating affects
Each detailer has a running rating average and a running count, kept up to date as reviews come in. Dispatch and ranking read that average — it's part of how offers get ordered.
Your rating average also feeds tier eligibility. Tiers are defined by rules that set a minimum number of completed jobs, a minimum rating average, and a cap on cancellations. The reward for meeting a higher tier's bar is that the platform keeps a smaller share of what a job pays — we won't publish the exact numbers here since they're set centrally and can change, but climbing a tier is worth real money on every job after that point.
The rating average is a rolling window, not a lifetime score
The rating bar for a tier is measured over a rolling window, not over every review you've ever gotten. That's deliberate: a lifetime average means one bad morning follows you forever, and a single low rating from an off day could permanently lock you out of a tier you've otherwise earned. A rolling window means a bad month ages out. If you have a stretch of low ratings, the fix is the same as the cause — a run of solid jobs moves the average back on its own.
Responding to a review
A review has room for one response from the detailer it's about. There's no back-and-forth after that — it's your one chance to add context, so use it for something a future customer would actually want to read, not a rebuttal aimed at the customer who left it.
If a review seems wrong
If you think a review is inaccurate, unfair, or about the wrong job, that's a conversation with support, not something you can edit or remove yourself.
Written against how Dripbase works today. Rules like pricing, timing, and what we require of a detailer are settings we can change, so this describes the current behaviour rather than a permanent guarantee.