I have a trip to WDW coming up soon, and am working through getting everything set up correctly. For some context, our travel party is 3 adults from 3 households, and this is our first trip post-Genie+. Up to now, I was responsible for doing all the ticket/MagicBand/FP+ management and planning. And since no one else in the party needed to worry about it, I am the only one with an MDX account (everyone else is in my Family + Friends list as managed by me). Obviously, that's still doable, but not ideal. What I'd like to do is keep the planning/management aspects the same, but get the other 2 adults set up with their own MDX accounts so they can use Mobile Ordering (if necessary) and set up their DVC entitlements (I do not personally have DVC access). They're not going to need (or want) to use MDX for in-park planning
So my first question, is it possible for them to create MDX accounts that can be used for Mobile Ordering and DVC entitlement access, without them having to be responsible for their own ticket/MB/G+ management? Second, I'm assuming they should create an MDX account using the same credentials as their DVC accounts? Or, should I just not worry about the MDX aspect, stick with in-person ordering, and print them "temporary" DVC cards from their DVC accounts?
I will continue to beat the drum and loudly suggest that every adult creates their own MDE account, and then link to their travel party as friends, even if they have no intention of ever logging into the app or making their own plans. It allows for the greatest flexibility down the road.
To reassure you on your first question, yes, as long as you're all linked as friends, one person can still be the person in charge of making Genie+ reservations, etc.
[Note, I typed up everything that follows with the mistaken thought your group was more than just three adults. Most of it still applied, but the parts dealing with extended family members can be ignored]
And while your plan of having only one "lead" person in each family create their own account with their other family members managed by them is a sound idea, the time to do that was before any trips. It's impossible to move a "managed by you" profile over to another account to be "managed by them". The only way to do that is a lengthy call to the MDE Help Desk.
And if the new lead member makes a *new* listing for the others, you then have multiple versions of some people, old MagicBands won't work and it becomes a muddled mess.
So at this point your best bet is to break *everyone* off to create and manage their own basic account, and then interconnect as friends.
Step 1- Have everyone go onto mydisneyexperience.com and create an account. If they are DVC members, they should use the email they use on their DVC account.
Note: At this point they should *not* try and add or connect to anyone else.
Step 2 - Go into *your* account, and for each person, go into their profile in your account and "invite to plan and share" by filling in the emails they used in Step 1.
While you're in there, make sure your privacy settings are set to share your friends list.
Step 3 - Everyone accepts the friend request from you. Once they do, any existing tickets, MagicBands, etc will move over to their new account.
Step 4 - Wait until *everyone* has completed Step 3. Then you start inter-connecting people as friends using the "add via mutual friend" feature. Since everyone is now friends with you, they'll have access to friend-request any or all of the others in the party. At a minimum, the lead person for each family should become friends with everyone else in their immediate family.
If you're going to be the sole planner, that should be enough, but everyone else can become friends if they want to.
You're done. When making future plans, just link resort reservations, tickets, etc to the appropriate friends. The lead guest on a resort reservation will be responsible for ordering MagicBands, but once they ship the Bands assigned to the others will become controlled by them through their account.
-Rob
