Buying a Membership

A membership is what makes you eligible to enter rodeos for a season. This guide covers picking the right card, the one-per-year rule, and how checkout works.

The membership page

The Membership page is the price list — anyone can browse it, signed in or not. Two toggles shape what you see:

• NRA | NWRA — the two associations' cards and permits
• Year — this season or next. A membership belongs to a calendar year and expires December 31 of it, so a December rodeo and a January rodeo are different seasons. Only the current and next year can be purchased.

Add what you want to the cart on the right, tick the policies box, and Purchase.

One membership per year

You hold one membership per year, across the whole catalog — cards, permits, and contract-labour credentials all share that one slot, and the rule reaches across the NRA and NWRA tabs. Once you hold (or have carted) one, the rest grey out and tell you why: "One membership per year. A junior card can be added alongside it."

The junior card is the only exception — it can be held alongside one other membership, so a junior can contest both junior and open rodeos. Junior means 14 and under on January 1 of the membership year, checked against the date of birth on your account.

What checkout needs from you

• Be signed in with a complete profile — an SSN must be on file before a membership can be purchased.
• No unpaid fines — a fine on your account disables purchasing until it's paid. See the Fines guide.
• Agree to the policies — the checkbox covers the NRA & NWRA Membership Policies, including the Release and Agreement Not to Sue. You agree once per year.
• Card payment — Purchase takes you to a secure Stripe checkout page. A $10.00 Credit Card Processing Fee is added once per transaction (Rule M.2.1.5) — it's shown in the cart before you're charged, so buying several items in one go pays the fee once.

If this is your first purchase and you had an NRA member number from before this site, the cart has a place to enter it so you keep it. Otherwise your member number is assigned automatically with this first purchase.

After paying you land back on your dashboard with the membership active and a receipt in your email. Your dashboard's member card shows the membership and its expiry date, and Membership History keeps every year you've held one.