I am not sure if the restaurants (clients) decide that, or the mystery shopping service providers decide that. But in any case, it sounds like it would help if you use total cash accounting. That way regardless it's a fee or a reimbursement, you always report them the same way. For example if the job offers $10 and you paid $10 for the required purchase. You would report $10 in proceeds, and $10 in required purchases (expenses), and your net profit is $0. However the purchase must be required by the job specifications. Hope that helps. A lot of great restaurants I do are fee-based and I would not miss out on them. :)
Hi, Everyone.
I am new to the forum but I am not a new shopper. I have been shopping since 2001. In my early shopping years, I was very active on multiple shoppers forums. But once I was too honest in posting my opinions and directly contradicted a scheduler who scheduled for many different mystery shopping providers, so she blacklisted me from all of their shopper databases. Since then, I have not posted a thing on open forums until now. Let's see how it goes.