I am an editor and there has NEVER been any shop that didn't need editing in some way or another. Spelling, typos, spacing, no ending punctuation, rotating pictures, zooming in on pictures, cropping out people in pictures, getting dates and times wrong, conflicting information in narrative vs. drop-down information ... you get the picture, the list is endless.

If it went to approved status and you can no longer enter the report and you don't get an email with a request for changes or clarification, you should be good to go-pay attention to scoring. I know that when a report is even a day late, I have to take off 1 point, no matter how good the report is. You'd be surprised at how many people don't seem to proofread their own work - especially those that are using text-to-speech. Those are messes.

I’m an editor. We have to send reports back for clarification ALL the time. Top offenses: no receipt, bad pictures, not following instructions (i.e. failed to make a reservation when one was required), not providing names/descriptions of team members, not fully clarifying issues, using generic terms to describe food (i.e. tasty, good, hot, great) when asked to use unique words for each item … the list is endless. That’s not counting refusing to use spell check, using text-speech and not proofing and poor grammar/punctuation with a lot of fragments instead of complete sentences.

Do the shop on time and the report on time. Monitor your emails in case an editor has a question. I’ve worked on reports for over 35 minutes with back and forth with shoppers only to have them excluded due to lateness. Then, no on gets paid - the scheduler, the editor or the shopper. The shopper will get assigned fewer or no shops if they are habitually late or have problems with their shops.