Member
Yearly WWS membership
Every verified member school carries the Member pill — website footer, signage, print. It links back to the WWS school directory.
Membership
The WWS badge system
Every mark on a WWS school profile means something specific — some are memberships, some are verified facts, and some can only be earned through a season of real data. Here's how to read them.
The Member mark is the permanent base. Everything else stacks alongside it — and disappears the moment its criteria stop being true. Badges are issued by WWS on the school's public profile; they can't be self-awarded.
The tier marks
What each mark tells you
For students: a quick trust read before you book. For schools: the ladder you climb.
Pro
Runs on AllyOS
The Pro mark shows a school runs on AllyOS — live scheduling, digital student records and verified reviews.
Pro+
AllyOS Center — unlimited instructors
The orange plus marks Center-tier schools — unlimited instructors and freelancers, the full operation running on AllyOS.
Trusted
Member + insurance package
The silver shield is added once a school carries the WWS insurance package — verified liability cover, visible to students and partners.
Academy
Active training center partner
The gold hexagon marks active WWS training center partners — schools that train and examine instructors under WWS standards.
United Gear
Equips with United Gear
The gear insignia marks schools that train on United Gear equipment through the WWS partnership — a modern fleet, factory-direct.
Excellence badges
Earned every year. From real data.
Four badges no school can buy. They're computed from verified AllyOS data — real bookings, real reviews, real payroll — and every January they reset to grey. A school keeps its colours only by proving itself again.
Business
The operation runs professionally: 100+ students taught this year, top-rated service, instructors paid on time and on contract. If a school wears this, it treats both students and staff right.
Experience
Years in the water. Built from time active, lifetime students taught and how long the crew has been together. The slowest badge to fill — and impossible to fake.
Gear
Modern, maintained, safe equipment. Fleet age, service logs, damage rates and what students themselves say about the kit after verified lessons.
Instructor Quality
You learn from good people who stay. Instructor ratings from verified students, certified crew, real teaching outcomes — and a team that comes back season after season.
- Badges saturate with progress — a half-coloured badge means the season is half-proven. What you see is always the current truth.
- Only verified data counts: reviews are booking-gated, and scores are weighted by the school's integrity record. Gaming the system makes badges fill slower, not faster.
- Every badge resets on 1 January. Past years stay visible as history — but this year's colours must be earned this year.
Where you'll see them
Badges live in the badge box on every school's public WWS profile — next to their verified reviews, TrustScore and level. If a badge isn't on the profile, the school hasn't earned it. Simple as that.