July 2022

Products & Services in Checkout

Our latest feature addition to our new Checkout basket is support for selling Product & Services!

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The Products & Services module allows you to sell more than just courses through your basket! Here are a few of the common types of Products & Services that we have seen built within the accessplanit platform so far:

1. Selling printed certificates alongside courses

2. Selling optional and mandatory exams alongside courses

3. Selling hotel / travel services alongside courses

4. Selling books and learning materials

5. Selling course related equipment such as first aid kits

6. Adding booking fees to course bookings

Products & Services tend to be allocated to Courses so that they are displayed and promoted in the basket whenever your customers are making a booking. However it is also possible for your customers to follow a direct purchase link to buy a Product & Service on it’s own!

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Purchasing a Driving Test Product and Service through the Checkout Basket

Your Products & Services can be set up to require a user name for purchase, for example you may not need to know the name of the person who will receive a First Aid Kit, however you would need to know which delegates want to have a Printed Certificate! You can see in the above example that the booking user can choose how many First Aid Kits that they wish to buy, whereas they instead select the names of the delegates when purchasing the Printed Certificates.

Your Products & Services can also be set up to be mandatory or optional when bought alongside your courses, in the above example both the First Aid Kit and the Printed Certificates are optional.

If you do not yet use the Products & Services module and you are interested in learning more about it, please speak to your CSM and they will be happy to set up a demonstration of the module for you!

WorldPay in Checkout

Our latest payment gateway addition to Checkout is WorldPay.

The integration is for WorldPay’s Corporate Gateway and so if you have a WorldPay corporate gateway account or you are about to get one, once this is enabled it will show up as a new payment option in your Checkout basket!

WorldPay opens in a pop-over window over the top of the Checkout basket, so your customers are not directed anywhere else to complete their payment, it is all done within one page.

Section Menus

Section Menus are a new type of menu which displays at the top of the forms in your platform, they make navigating up and down your forms much quicker and save you a lot of scrolling!

It’s just a simple click to jump to the area of the form that you want to view or edit, and a click on the first option in the Section Menu to jump back up to the top of the page!

Internet Explorer no longer supported

Microsoft has announced that it will stop supporting Internet Explorer 11 on June 15 2022. Internet Explorer 11 will no longer be available, and Microsoft will no longer provide support or patches for it.
Read more from Microsoft here.

What this means for accessplanit users

accessplanit software is a web-based system and requires the use of any modern browser to operate effectively.

Microsoft has deprecated Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) and therefore IE11 is no longer considered a modern browser. As such, from June 2022 users are strongly encouraged to move to a modern browser such as Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, or Apple's Safari. From June 2022, accessplanit will no longer be validating updates for compatibility with IE11 and bug fixes will not be actioned where they only apply to IE11.

If any users log into accessplanit while using Internet Explorer, a pop-up will appear to let them know that some functionality may not work for them correctly

What happens next?

If you or your users are currently operating in IE11, we strongly encourage that you move to a modern browser such as Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, or Apple Safari to ensure that your accessplanit instance operates effectively.

If you have any questions about Internet Explorer and accessplanit, please get in touch with a member of the team here at accessplanit!

jQuery Update

jQuery is a JavaScript library and it is used as one of the technologies to build your accessplanit platform.

In this latest release we have updated the entire accessplanit platform, including the Learner Portal and the Shopping Baskets, to have the latest version of jQuery.

This updates means that your accessplanit platform benefits from the latest security fixes and performance improvements from the jQuery latest version.

API Feed Improvements

There are two API Feed improvements in this update, both of them support your developers with building high performing integrations!

API Feed Filtering

The first is to introduce filtering into more of the available feeds, we already have support for filtering the Courses and the Delegates feed, however there is now support for filterin