LITTLE ROCK — Renewing your looking and fishing licenses this 12 months might be simpler than ever earlier than, because of an upgraded on-line licensing portal launching this week. Smartphone customers additionally will discover a new AGFC cell app to obtain and preserve useful this looking season.
The principle license buying net web page might be much like earlier on-line license programs, however will provide extra user-friendly customizations, together with license listings based mostly upon the consumer’s residency, age and present license purchases.
“You may get the identical really feel as many on-line shops the place you’ll create and log into a personalised account and solely the alternatives that you’re eligible for might be seen,” Spencer Griffith, AGFC Deputy Director, stated. “You will want to log in utilizing your selection of contact info you’ve got submitted previously, and the system will join you along with your account. When you’re arrange, the system needs to be a lot quicker to make use of, so you will get out looking and fishing as a substitute of fidgeting with a web site or your telephone.”
The brand new system additionally might be extra inclusive to all hunters and anglers in Arkansas. By the top of the 12 months, the interface might be accessible in each English and Spanish.
Customers might want to log into their account at agfc.com to get began with the brand new license system.Along with the brand new license system, the AGFC’s smartphone software will see a relaunch later this week to make it extra appropriate with right now’s smartphones and make checking deer and turkeys doable with out the necessity for cellular phone service. To make the most of these options, customers might want to delete the previous app from their telephones and discover the brand new software listed underneath “AGFC” in Apple’s app retailer and the Google Play retailer. As soon as the brand new app is downloaded, customers might want to log in to their identical account as the web site to make sure all their license purchases are right.
When looking seasons start, the variety of tags every license permits might be activated. The hunter can log again into the app earlier than the hunt to confirm their tags. After that, they could use these tag places within the app to test their deer, bear or turkey, even and not using a cell sign. As soon as the telephone is again in vary of knowledge alerts, the data might be despatched to the data, however the proof of the crammed digital tag on the hunter’s telephone will function proof that the hunter has electronically tagged their deer.
“Folks can nonetheless tag their deer with a paper tag they make themselves till they attain cellular phone service and name it in, however the app provides a stage of comfort for our hunters to get their deer checked and get it residence to take pleasure in as rapidly as doable,” Griffith stated.
