I am, at the moment, taking a short break from updating one of the tutorial modules for the Fitness Pro Travel Community. Making the search, learn, and discuss features as simple as possible will help both the Fit Pro in finding a best fit teaching vacation and Fit Bodies in providing an awesome vacation experience.
When sorting out how to display a new feature (basic accounts can now view all available dates, even for those products they are not allowed to book) that was just put in this weekend I realized it is valuable enough to require mention here so that it reaches beyond only those going through the tutorial.
As FPT members have always known, you cannot access certain products if you do not qualify for them based upone your certified specialty skills.
As of this most recent upgrade to the social commerce platform you have likely noticed the access for those maintaining a “BASIC” or free account is a bit limited.
Hundreds of fitness professional immediately recognized the value of community membership and the expenses that go into not only Fit Bodies travel program, but also the building and maintaining of this high function site.
As expected, there are many who were not quite as confident about immmediately upgrading their account to any of the three premium options. This also created several questions that these most recent changes will help answer.
Previous to this weekend BASIC account holders could only access the short description and details pages of resorts that were considering traveling to…. That was unless those members were clicking directly on the 15 opportunities that are available to that group.
What this created was an issue where BASIC account members were not sure they wanted to upgrade just yet, until they knew that dates were available for the locations (which were not in the basic category) were available.
No More…
Now ALL ACCOUNTS can manuever all the way to the “Add To Cart” page for positions they qualify for. The red pop up notice to BASCIC accounts will now come up only when they click the “Add To Cart” button.
This now gives the BASIC accounts, similar to all of the Premium Accounts access to the drop down menu so you can see what is remaining available for you to book whether you need to go upgrade first or not.
Sorry for the long winded explination, but mucho better now. 
Helpful???
