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If you are a trial member and want to upgrade to a full membership, here are step-by-step instructions.

1 – Log in at https://www.intervac-homeexchange.com/service/login

2 – Follow the Upgrade membership link right at the top of your dashboard/member home

3 – Select the duration of your membership. Please note that a full membership always starts at the end of your free membership period. To select the duration of your choice, press one of the blue Select buttons.

4 – Once the duration is selected, a yellow Go button will show further down. Click on that button to proceed.

5 – After this, the options will vary depending on the country and duration of membership selected. But if you wish to pay online, you can do so with your credit card or your PayPal account by selecting the blue with credit card button

If you still have questions, please contact your national representative. You’ll find their contact details here.

Home exchange guide, Your membership

How to Renew your Membership

December 13, 2017March 13, 2018 intervacwebmaster

Ready to renew?

Login and click the link in this box on your member home page. Even if your membership is expired, you can still log in to your Intervac account anytime. Your listing, your messages and your favorites are all kept for you.

You can also renew before your membership expires. Some countries offer a discount if you renew on time, that is, before your membership expires.

You can renew ahead of time for up to 6 months before expiry: you get the rest of your current membership + your new membership to arrange unlimited home exchanges.

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How to renew

When you do click the renew link, you’ll be taken to a page where you choose your next membership. Some countries offer multiple year memberships. Start by clicking one of the blue Select buttons.

You will then see a yellow Go button appear below. Click on it and you’re on your way!

If you prefer to do your renewal via your national representative, you’ll find their contact details here.

Home exchange guide, Your membership

How to Become a Platinum Member

December 13, 2017November 20, 2018 intervacwebmaster

Reaching the Platinum level at Intervac is, well, let’s be honest, mostly a lot of fun! Our platinum members have made at least 11 exchanges but we have some who are reaching for 100! Exchanges must be registered via our exchange agreement in order to update automatically.

What Do Those Badges Mean?

Platinum members have made more than 11 exchanges. Some of them way more than 11 exchanges. We have platinum members with over 100 exchanges behind them. Some have been Intervac members for many, many years.

Lucky us to have so many precious Gold members. They have all made between 6 and 10 exchanges. When you talk to them you’ll discover they are enthusiastic home exchangers and have plenty of great stories to tell.

Silver members have usually been swapping their homes for a couple of years. They have experience (3 – 5 exchanges). They have made the kinds of friends and memories that happen with home exchange.

The Bronze members have a bit of experience now and know the ropes. With 1 or 2 exchanges they have some stories and probably still have some questions.

These members are brand new to home exchange and have never swapped their house before. They are Ready to go! We appreciate their trust in our members and encourage experienced members to help out by making offers to new members.

Home exchange guide, Your membership

Changing your Password

December 13, 2017January 9, 2018 intervacwebmaster

From time to time passwords need to be changed. Here’s how to do it at Intervac:

Login to your intervac account and from the member home page, click on the navigation link Emails and logins.
Scroll down that page to the section titled “Password”.
Click the Edit button.

Screenshot of Change Password

Pretty much just like everywhere on the web:
Type your old one, choose a new one – confirm it and save!

In this case, the best way to do it yourself is to use the forgotten password link on our login page. That will take you to a page where you can enter your email address and we’ll send you a link to reset your password.

Your other option is to contact your national representative and they can change your password for you.

Secure Passwords You Can Remember?

A good way to generate strong passwords you can remember is to use phrases. To do this you take letters and numbers from a sentence or a phrase which is sensible to you in the context. You want an example? Ok, let’s make a password for my Intervac account.

Just start with a memory…

Let’s say that I joined Intervac in 1999 and my first exchange was with John and Mattie in Dallas, Texas. They had a lovely home and a black lab named Sparkle. One evening after a Willie Nelson concert I pulled into the driveway and a ghostly white dog-face appeared in my headlights as the smell of skunk filled the car. I don’t know which was harder, getting all the white paint or the stink off Sparkle. According to John, Sparkle took the secret of what happened that night to his grave with him.

Out of that little memory, I could generate the following phrases which would give me some pretty random passwords that I wouldn’t have any trouble at all remembering.

Sentence / Phrase	Password
5 days in Dallas and Sparkle stunk of skunk	5diD&Ssos
stinky Sparkle the Ghost Dog glowed in the dark	sStGDgitd
First exchange / Dallas 99 – John Mattie and Sparkle	1e/D99-JM&S

Of course, if that’s too much trouble you can always go to a password generator and a safe.

Password Safes

Home exchange guide, Your membership

Your Contact Information

December 13, 2017 intervacwebmaster

Your contact information is there to make contact with your prospective exchange partners easier. It can only be seen by our members and then, only when they are logged-in to our service.

Changing Your Contact Information

Login to your Intervac account.
In the member navigation scroll down to the section My Membership and click on Contact information.

In this section you can change your name, address, telephone and mobile numbers. You can also add a fax number, your Skype name and a link to your website.

Changing your Email Address

Clicking the grey “edit” button.
Type the new address in the place of the old one.
Click the “save” button.

About Email & Logins

First of all, let’s get there:

From the Member home navigation look in the My Membership section and click on Emails & Logins. On this page you can:

Change your primary email address: This is the email address that receives messages from the system and from other members. It is also the address that is displayed to other members on the Contact Information section of your listing. This is also your login address
Change your secondary email address: This address receives messages from other members and system notifications. It won’t work for logging in though.
Change your password – It’s pretty straightforward but if you need to know more about that, look here.
Add a Family Member allows another member of your family to have their own login and password for your account.
Connect with Facebook.