PGCA On-line Membership.....

[John D.]

Hi folks..!

Many, many thanks for your kind words and support! As well, I’ve been taking on some questions from some of you, and thought it would be a good idea to explain how this works, OK? If folks e-mail me other questions – I’ll add them to this post…

The on-line Membership look-up… (Find my Membership!!!)
That is an excel spreadsheet (protected in the website), formatted as a database, which I programmed a few forms to look up your Membership information. That database (excel spreadsheet) will be updated regularly by Jennifer. As she hands off updates to me – I’ll add them in – but it’s not “instantaneous” as is much of the on-line Membership system.

What happens when you renew or join on-line?

1. As soon as your payment is cleared (typically seconds) by PayPal, your title is upgraded to “PGCA Member” (if you are a new member). If you are a current PGCA Member with that title, it is unchanged.
2. After payment is received, and you click from PayPal the “Return to Merchant” button – it takes you directly to a Membership information form to have you fill out your name, phone number and stuff for the PGCA Roster. Once you submit that, I get a copy, Jennifer gets an e-mail copy and it’s posted in a private forum on this site for reference.
3. For right now, my PayPal address is being used by PGCA – which is no problem and we’ll change that to a PGCA PayPal account in the not-to-distant future.
4. As soon as I see the PayPal notice in my account – I redirect a copy to PGCAmembership@gmail AND send back to you a “Thank You” note acknowledging your payment and thanking you for your support of PGCA. As an aside – I’d like to thank many of you for your wonderful replies to my “Thank You” note!
5. If you are a new PGCA Member and joined on-line, you should get your Welcome package at your home address within three weeks. If you have joined on-line, and that is not the case, please let me know, OK?
6. You will also get automated subscription reminders from the website before your PGCA Membership expires (30 days, 15 days and 5 days).

Again – many thanks!

John