Partnership for Animal Wellbeing & Credentialed Animal Professionals
Credentials, continuing education, and your member directory. One system.
A shared platform for the organizations that certify animal professionals, and for the professionals they certify.
For organizational leaders · November 2026
The problem
Most organizations run credentialing on spreadsheets and inboxes.
Renewals get missed
Expiry dates live in a spreadsheet someone has to remember to open.
CE lives in email threads
Certificates arrive as attachments. Approvals are a reply nobody can find later.
The directory drifts
The public list of certified professionals is out of date the day after it is published.
Members hold credentials from several organizations and keep a separate record for each one. Nobody sees the whole picture.
What PAWCAP is
One record per professional. Every organization writes to it.
- Issue and renew credentials
- Review CE and approve courses
- Host events and track attendance
- Publish news and white papers
- One verified profile
- CE hours recorded automatically
- Courses, mentors, and a free scheduler
- A listing in Find a Trainer
- Find a credentialed professional
- See who certified them
- Book a session in one click
- Read articles by people who do the work
How it works
Three steps to bring your members on.
Confirm who is certified
You give PAWCAP a secure, read-only way to check active credential status.
Members claim their profile
Every active member gets a verified profile, provided by you as a member benefit.
Everything lands on one record
CE, courses, events, and renewals update the record without data entry.
Nothing changes about how you certify. PAWCAP sits next to your process and keeps the record current.
For organizations
Your workspace.
Credential registry. Every holder, status, and renewal date in one list.
CE review queue. Approve outside certificates with a note. Hours post to the record.
Course accreditation. Set your own review fee. Approved courses credit CE automatically.
Dues tracking. See who is overdue, due in 30 days, or due in 180 days.
Events. Registration, waitlist, check-in, and a CSV export.
A private space. A members-only forum you moderate, plus a public organization profile.
For professionals
Why your members will want it.
One verified profile. Every organization issues credentials to the same record.
CE that records itself. Finish a course or attend an event and the hours are on the credential.
Short courses. Finish in one sitting. Certificate at the end.
Mentors. Book a session with someone who has done what they are trying to do.
A free scheduler. Clients and mentees book straight into their calendar.
A voice. Articles and a members-only forum with real names and real credentials.
For the public
A directory people can trust.
Find a Trainer lists only professionals who hold an active credential from an organization on PAWCAP.
Every listing shows the credentials, who issued them, and whether they are current.
The Book button goes straight to the professional's calendar. No back-and-forth.
A closer look
The organization dashboard.
A closer look
Courses, mentors, and the scheduler.
The partnership
What a partner organization gives, and what it gets.
A secure, read-only way to confirm which members hold an active credential.
A feed, an export, or an API. That is all. No cost, and no change to how you certify.
- Free membership for every active member, a $99 a year value
- A public organization profile
- The CE review and course accreditation workflow
- Your own members-only forum space
- Event pages with registration and attendance
- One view of each member across every organization
What it costs
Free for organizations. Free for your members.
Organizations
$0
No fee to partner. No fee per member.
Your members
$0
Provided by you as a member benefit.
Other professionals
$99
Per year, with independent verification.
Paid courses
90%
The creator keeps 90% of every sale.
CE review fees are set by you and passed through with no markup. The scheduler and mentoring carry no platform fee.
Where we are
Live today. Next up.
- Organization workspace
- Verified professional profiles
- Find a Trainer directory
- Courses and CE
- Certificates
- Mentorship marketplace
- Scheduler and booking pages
- Articles and publishing
- Members-only forum
- Events and registration
- Payments and payouts through Stripe
- CE credited from event attendance
- Automatic verification sync with partner organizations
- Mentor reviews after each session
- Paid event tickets
PAWCAP
Let's bring your members on.
One conversation about verification access is all it takes to start. Your members get their profiles the same week.
Nick Ondrako
Add your email and phone here
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