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PCA's online training portal has courses for both the painter and the business owner

Painter Training aims to get your crew field ready faster.
Start with the fundamentals in our Introduction to the Painting Trade series,
and cover more in-depth training in Interior levels 1-3, and Exterior levels 1-3.

We have courses in both English and Spanish.

Getting past the 500k - 1M revenue threshold can be challenging.
Professionalize and fast-track your growth with Business Accelerator.

To sign up for an account in our training portal you can use a social media account, such as Facebook, LinkedIn, or Google, or you can sign up with just your name, an email address, and a password.

You can prompt the system to reset your password for you by clicking on the “Forgot your password?” in red at the bottom of the login pop-up.

After users have enrolled in a course, they will be able to access it indefinitely.

You will have multiple attempts to pass each quiz. If you run out of attempts, contact support at PCA.

A completion certificate is proof of employee completion. If you’d like to see where a specific employee is at in the course, please contact the system administrator at support@pcapainted.org.

To sign up for an account in our training portal you can use a social media account, such as Facebook, LinkedIn, or Google, or you can sign up with just your name, an email address, and a password.

$99 per trainee, per course for non-members. The payment gateway used is PayPal.

Note: You do not need to have an existing PayPal account in order to purchase this course; PayPal gives you the option to enter your debit or credit card details.

The PCA training portal unlocks training materials and gives automatic access to materials at the time of purchase. Once the course is purchased, no refunds will be issued.

If you are a PCA member and did not use the promo code and were charged the non-member price, please contact support@pcapainted.org to request a refund. Once your membership is verified, a refund (minus processing fees) of the overpayment will be issued to the card used for the purchase.

Contact support@pcapainted.org for the promo code.

If you don’t enter the promo code at checkout, you will be charged the non-member price. Please contact support@pcapainted.org to verify that you are a current PCA member and start the refund process.

Video-only access to the Introduction to the Painting Trade series, Painter Training - Interior, and Painter Training - Exterior will be available for free on PCA's Overdrive platform.

No. Watching videos on PCA Overdrive does not include any tools or resources, such as assessments or certificates. For enrollees looking to receive certificates of completion on any of our training programs, we encourage signing up for the courses on this training platform.

If you have any technical questions or issues, please contact the system administrator at support@pcapainted.org.

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Together, we're building a stronger industry.

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