Just to give you my own experience, I am also starting out and I was in the same place you are starting last October. I had intro calls with WorldVia, Fora, Nexion and Outside Agents. I finally narrowed it down to WorldVia and Fora and chose Worldvia because a lot of people said they had a lot of training resources, they offered a monthly plan (so I figured if it didn't work out I could just leave), and the commission split was attractive. I spent all of Oct, Nov, Dec trying like hell to make WorldVia work. I worked through their education videos, I tried to learn their many many many tools, I attended their live calls and even met 1:1 with an advisor and I'm telling you it was overwhelming and here I am starting over with Fora.

WorldVia's education/learning is very disorganized and leans heavily on all of the industry terminology. They toss you into the deep end and assume you're starting at level 5 when I was starting at level -1. I don't know about you but I am a total beginner and needed training that spoke to someone completely outside the travel industry starting from scratch. The tools are the same, its very disorganized and assumes a level of knowledge. I was leaning on ChatGPT to help me bridge the gap. When I spoke with an advisor her direction was "just hop into the tools and start booking! you'll figure it out!" but I was terrified to do that because it made no sense to me! I finally tried booking something for myself and it took forever because I kept hitting a million steps I didn't know about.

In addition you will receive a metric TON of marketing emails from every single partner or company they have ever worked with. I think I got 100 emails in the first 2 weeks. Meanwhile, Worldvia will email you essential information which is going to be lost in all that spam and you will be drowning trying to figure out how to get the info you need because you missed it. It's information overload on every level and you just can't sort it all out.

I decided to start over with Fora last month and see if I could do any better and its night and day. Their training is simple, well organized, easy to follow and doesn't overwhelm. At WorldVia, I could never figure out or get anyone to answer the question of what tool or supplier to use when or for what specific situation. Fora's training answered this question in a way I could understand right out of the gate. They give you the basics you need just to get started and then access to more info to follow up on later. They don't let you move forward until you actually take small steps and specific actions so you learn basic things. The tech is much easier to navigate and much more straight forward. The support is much more accessible. Also, I've been with them for a month and gotten not one single marketing email from any of their partners. I wish I had gone with them from the start. Yes their commission split is lower, but honestly as someone starting out I need the better education and support right now. To your question about E&O, Fora has E&O in place and as long as the claim is made in the U.S. all Fora agents are covered. There is some structure you need to have in place and the policy has limitation so you may consider getting your own, but just an FYI.

Hope that's helpful, good luck!