A Few Simple Additions To The Trainer Login
In talking to a ClubReady user recently the subject came up of what things trainers ask admins for on a fairly regular basis. The admin login obviously has a lot greater ability to pull data than a trainer login. There were two things that stood out.
The first one was ‘What’s Changed On My Schedule?’
At first this was a suprise because trainers (I keep using the word trainer but really it’s provider, because not only trainers can use the system - any provider can - nutritionalists for example), anyway - it was a suprise because trainers have their schedule readily available in their login. On reflection - this makes sense. It’s not instant to be able to look at a schedule and figure out what has changed. This is readily available on the admin login dashboard - hence trainers asking admins for what has changed.
The solution is easy - give that feature to the trainer login area. Now trainers have a quick heads up on their dashboard (the 1st page they reach when they login) that shows how many changes there has been to their schedule since they last logged in.
The second question trainers asked admins about frequently was ‘How Much Have I Earned This Week, Month…?’
This one makes a lot of sense. Trainers are typically paid by the session and admin can create payroll reports in about 1 second (well maybe 10 seconds!). Every working person wants to track that type of thing, so it’s no suprise that trainers were asking admin to run a payroll report to see how much they’ve earned this week so far. It’d be easy enough I guess for trainers to keep a track of how many sessions they’ve done, or to count sessions on their schedule but knowing that info at a glance is far better.
The solution again was simple - add a version of this report to the trainer login area. Trainers can now run a simple report that lists their completed sessions between any 2 dates. It doesn’t show $ per session like the full admin payroll report does, but they can now easily see their completed session counts. One other difference is the admin payroll reports can include sessions not yet logged off by the trainer. This report in the trainer area does not include any sessions not logged, so it gives an added push to trainers to log off their sessions in a timely fashion.
Hopefully these two small additions will make life just that little bit easier for trainers using the system and also make admin users life a little bit easier also.
