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?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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!
- 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?
- 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