Free Basic Shop Plans + Dive Spot Data/Verification Expansion

I've been going hard on shop onboarding and activation but also dedicated some time to improving the accuracy and data fields available for dive spots.

This sprint was mostly improving shop accounts and adding more data fields and UI for dive spots: + added a free plan tier for dive shops that just want to have their presence on the map, shop verification, and making it more obvious how to onboard and mange you dive shop in the account portal.

🚀 What Shipped

• Greatly expanded the Dive Spot detail fields to include Difficult, Safety Hazards, Local Operator guides and recommendations for safety.

• Dive Shop Basic Free accounts are live so if you simply want to get your dive shop or resort on the global map, you can now easily do that.

• Dive Shop verification is added so you know the shop you're booking with is legitimate and vetted.

• Updates for dive shop spot linking and featured placements on their shop profiles.

• Improvements to Dive Shop dashboards and admin tooling.

• I'm now actively reaching out to dive shops to feature in destination guides to help improve the accuracy of dive spots.

• BUG FIX - Some notifications would get stuck on "unread" in your mailbox, that's now fixed and dismissing correctly after you read messages or update notifications for logs, spot submissions, or spot improvement submissions.

• Continuing the effort to keep dive spots safe and accurate, new fields and verification flows for the dive spot data are added as well as "go with a guide only" recommendations and contribution tracking. If you know a dive spot, you can now easily and quickly "confirm details" or "improve details".

Useful links:

• Dive Shop Destination Partner program: https://divejourney.io/dive-shop-partners
• Dive Shop accounts + plans (including Free Basic Accounts): https://divejourney.io/dive-shop-accounts

️ 🐙 New Featured Destination Partner Dive Shops/Resorts

Destination partners are starting to onboard, you can check them out on their shop profiles or on the destination guide they're featured on.

• Cabo Private Guide - Featured Dive Shop for Los Cabos (Mexico) Destination Guide
• Manta Dive & Snorkel - Featured Dive Shop for Cancún (Mexico) Destination Guide
• Reconnect Buka Buka - Featured Dive Resort for Togean Islands (Indonesia) Destination Guide
• Fifty Six Dive - Featured Dive Shop for Koh Tao (Thailand) Destination Guide

🔥 What's Next!

I'm working on lots of cool things this week, coming up:

• New destination guides coming
• Working on setting up a blog
• Some UI design improvements
• Improve onboarding for shops

I'm also going to try to pull in one submitted community feature this week - these are coming either from direct emails to me or added directly.

As always feel free to add or vote on feature suggestions!

Vote here or submit feature requests: https://divejourney.io/feedback

🤝 Dive Shops Welcome

If you run a dive shop and want your profile to show up cleanly on the global DiveJourney map, start with a free Basic shop account or apply for the destination partner program.