You will be taken to a ‘Membership Checkout’ page. This page asks you to provide basic profile information, including your name, desired username, email, mailing address, phone number and a password.
If the selected membership level has a fee, you will also be asked to enter payment information in order to complete your membership subscription. You may pay via PayPal (no account needed) or by check. Your access will not be confirmed until a successful subscription payment has been received.
In addition to a confirmation email, expect to receive a “Welcome” email with important information from [email protected].
What is “Error occurred: parse error” when I try to login?
The parse error means that the website couldn’t ‘parse’ your username or password out of the stored usernames and passwords authorized to use the website. This usually happens when the username or password is typed wrong (caps lock on, fat fingers on keyboard, forgot password, etc.)
It is possible that you changed your password and didn’t remember you did or the system had to reset all passwords when WAGS moved from the old website to the new one. If you haven’t logged into the website since 2020, your password was changed in early 2021 due to the new website. Your new password would be first letter of first name + 5-character zip code + last name first letter (all lower case) for example: x98803y. Your username was not changed when the website was transferred.
If the above doesn’t work and you still have problems logging in, send an email to: [email protected] and we will reset your password and provide you with your actual username and the new password.
How do I change my password?
Log in using the ‘Member Login’ under the ‘Members Only’ menu.
You will be taken to the ‘Members Only Landing Page.’
Now you will be able to see the menu item ‘Membership Account’ that will take you to your account information page where you may Edit Profile, Change Password and Log Out.
Using PayPal – Information for customers
PayPal can be used for purchases if the customer has a PayPal account OR PayPal can be used for regular credit card purchases without the customer needing a PayPal account.
If you have a PayPal account:You can simply enter your username and password. The other personal information (address, phone number, etc.) is retrieved from the PayPal database and automatically entered onto the payment form.
If you don’t have a PayPal account: you can create one and use your credit card or bank account as the payment option. At this point in the process, the PayPal transaction is complete.
If you don’t have a PayPal account: If you choose to pay with a credit or debit card, select: “Use Credit Card” at checkout instead of “Checkout with PayPal;” you will then be sent to a PayPal form used for credit cards called: “PayPal Guest Checkout.” On the guest form enter your contact and card information and then click the Pay button to authorize payment. (Note: this credit card process takes place within the PayPal website and therefore your personal info and credit card info is only maintained by PayPal. The WAGS website DOES NOT receive or maintain credit card info; that is why we use PayPal.) During authorization the credit card information is encrypted and transmitted by PayPal to their transaction processing facility where they contact the issuing bank for your credit card. Assuming that your credit line can cover the purchase, the issuing bank authorizes the transaction, and the sale is approved. This process only takes a few seconds–you will probably see a message saying: “Processing…”
IMPORTANT: At this point you will see a confirmation page with a message (sent by PayPal) that says the purchase has been completed, and provides a button to ‘Return To Merchant.’The important thing here is that the transaction may not finish properly if you do not wait for and select ‘Return To Merchant’ on the confirmation page that is displayed. At that point, PayPal also notifies the customer of the purchase via email. The process is then complete.
