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Hello ziizoo-ians(?)

We updated ziizoo again with some bugfixes today, most prominently an overhauled version of the tutor services tool. People were complaining about not being able to select any tags or loosing their selected tags in the process.
First of all, we made the tutor services selection a 1-page process. You now set your rate and select your tutor tags on the same page, and save them. Easy as that. Also, loosing the selected tags and other quirky behavior should be gone as well. If not, let us know.

We also added as basic version of feedback a few days ago. After a completed session you will be able to rate your tutor or student and leave praise or constructive criticism. Be assured that there will be a more advanced version later on. Your feedback on this is appreciated as always.

The latest update yesterday evening did include, besides other minor improvements, PayPal as disbursement method. I know that was a big one for many tutors. We are also working actively on making PayPal available as payment method. I don’t want to get too technical, but it’s a little more complicated to take money out of your PayPal account than putting money into it, for a good reason. That’s why it takes a little longer.
Next up are improvements to the tutor service tag tool, and a brand new feature as well, so stay tuned.

Gregory

Hello ziizoo community,

I would like to keep you updated on improvements and fixes we made to ziizoo today. We plan on doing this regularly, since we think it is only fair to you tutors and students that you are the first to know about any changes.

You might have noticed the “maintenance” screen throughout the day while we were updating the site. I understand that it is very annoying, but we had to make some very important updates. We will try to limit these maintenance downtimes to off-hours if possible.

Now to the good stuff:

• Some users with certain email providers like AOL and Road Runner have not been receiving their account confirmation email. We have resolved this issue and all affected users should have received their confirmation email by now.
• We have improved / fixed the search. It no longer returns tutors who are completely unrelated to the subject matter. With that said, we will be constantly enhancing the search. Also, by popular demand you can now find yourself in the search.
• Issue with the hourly rate on the tutor profile being different from the search results has been resolved.
• For security reasons we made changes to the usernames. Your username is now case insensitive, for example when you login. Chances are that you haven’t even noticed which was our intention.

Things to come:

• We are in the process of updating the billing section. One of the changes will be the addition of PayPal as disbursement method for tutors. Many of you have also asked about PayPal as student payment methods, and we definitely plan on adding that as well in near future.
• Some more exciting features I shouldn’t probably talk about

That’s all for now. If you are experiencing any trouble with any of the changes or the ziizoo site in general, please let us know. Your feedback is greatly appreciated.

Gregory