Now that we have officially moved back into the new Fitness Community Site at Fitness Pro Travel, its been crazy bug fix and directional officer for a few days non stop.
Bad Things Happen
Happy to say that most are getting around well and the many accounts (not bad out of 12,000 though) for whom we had to adjust their login to help them access are back in and active.
Surprising to me though is a use issue with the new vacation search tool that so many people use. It is slightly different than in the past but provides many great benefits to scheduling the teaching vacations than the previous tool did.
Now, instead of searching week by week as in the old, you simply select a day from within the week that you would like to travel….. A list of resorts that have a week with that date available pull up with their short descriptions.
Since there is generally a Sunday overlap there are essentially two individual week blocks that share the same date. One may end on a particular date and the next will begin on that same date.
From those search results a person would then click on the individual resort and on the add to cart page they would see specifically which week is available for booking. Can be a pain for the searcher if you were looking for the week that isn’t actually available. (SO – we are adding an element that will show you the available week dates in the first results screen rather than going all the way to the product page)
As is it should be nothing more than an inconvenience (again, which we are working on). And, it should be only an inconvenience because we all know to NOT BOOK FLIGHTS until confirmation comes (within 48 hours usually sooner) on your booking……… And even more prominent than that is to certainly not book flights before you’ve even tried to book the dates at Fitness Pro Travel.
There is no guarantee that the dates will be available from one minute to the next as there are a lot of fitness professions utilizing this Fit Bodies program.
This information is splattered through out the site and is in the terms that you had to mark that you read when you created your account. It’s also common sense.
* This is why many subscribe to the Enterprise Level Account so that they have access before the rest of the community on dates.
You likely can imagine I am not ranting on this subject without reason.
Yes, it has happened in the past that fitness professionals have bypassed the rules and booked flights before notice and even before actually booking the dates in the system…. and Suzelle has always worked when this caused a conflict to find a way to make it work (she’s got stories).
She, Denise, Erica, Lisa, and Alison all have to use the oops cleaners from time to time, but an oops that includes paying for air travel can be expensive.
It may not always be the case that they can fix your oops. And, since we are starting fresh in our new site digs i thought I’d share this very important topic and hopefully head off one or more potential future “Oopsies”.
Make it a Great Day!
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