<p><strong>The Approve New User Registration extension, for WooCommerce and WordPress, allows you to manually validate new user registration requests for specific, or all, user roles.</strong></p>
<p>This tool, therefore, assists in deterring both unwelcome fake registrations and spam by isolating your digital store for selective customers.</p>
<div class="woo-sc-box normal">If you want to add custom registration fields and user roles dropdown along with approve new user, please buy our <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/custom-user-registration-fields-for-woocommerce/">Custom Registration Fields Extension</a>. See FAQs below for more details.</div>
<p>The areas where the extension can help include:</p>
<p><strong>Limiting Access </strong></p>
<p>If you are a B2B merchant, or sell unique products, limiting access could require extensive customer verification — but permitting customers to peruse your website before you grant permission might not be secure. Manual approval, therefore, is an effective way for you to restrict access and take control of new users until they have been properly verified and approved.</p>
<p><strong>Avoid Fake/Spam Accounts</strong></p>
<p>With spamming and fake accounts a real concern for merchants, it’s important to be able to identify true prospective customers from the start.  This plugin will help you filter out potential clients and maintain a valuable consumer base for recurring business.</p>
<h2><strong>Features:</strong></h2>
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<li>Employ manual approval for specific user roles or all new registrations</li>
<li>Customize user status notifications</li>
<li>Email notifications to customers and admins</li>
<li>Add approval/disapproval link in admin email</li>
<li>Bulk user approval option available on <em>Users Listing</em> page</li>
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<h3><strong>Manual approval for particular or all user roles</strong></h3>
<p>When you require your user to wait for approval in order to visit your site this plugin will come to the rescue with its manual approval function. You can choose to apply this to a particular type of user role, or you may want to apply it to all user roles. The plugin will support you in either scenario.</p>
<p>Limiting your users’ access to the website, based on user roles is particularly helpful if you have specialized products, prices, and other offers associated with VIP user roles.</p>
<p><strong>Note:</strong> To display user roles dropdown on your registration form you can use our <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/choose-user-role-at-registration/">Choose User Roles at Registration</a> extension or the <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/custom-user-registration-fields-for-woocommerce/">custom user registration fields</a>.</p>
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<h3><strong>Customize email notifications</strong></h3>
<p>Easily convey the message of a pending approval, or a declined request, with completely tailored email templates communicating all the details you want of the registration process to your customer. Effective communication between site owners and customers is a great start to a healthy business-consumer relationship. Use the customizable email notifications to additionally alert your admin account users of all pending registration requests.</p>
<p><strong>Approve and disapprove link in the email</strong></p>
<p>The extension automatically adds user approval and disapproval link in the admin emails to let merchants approve or disapprove new user requests on the go.</p>
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<h3>Customize Error Messages</h3>
<p>Along with email notifications, this extension allows you to display custom messages to inform customers about their account status. You can show messages in the following instances:</p>
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<li>When a new account is created and awaiting approval</li>
<li>When a user tries to login but the account is pending for review</li>
<li>When a user tries to login but the account is delined</li>
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<h3>How to get started?</h3>
<p>To get started with WooCommerce approve new user registration, install the extension and go to WooCommerce > Approve New User Registration and navigate to the general settings tab. Here you can,</p>
<ul>
<li>Enable approve new user option</li>
<li>Select the user roles for which you want to enable this manual approval</li>
</ul>
<p>Go to the custom message tab to configure the error messages that will be displayed to users who are waiting for pending approval or their request has been declined.</p>
<p>Navigate to the email settings tab to enable email notifications for admin and customers. You can customize emails as per your requirements and include the approval link in the admin email.</p>
<h2>FAQs:</h2>
<p><strong>If I need to approve new users and add custom fields as well, do I need to buy 2 extensions?</strong></p>
<p>No, just purchase <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/custom-user-registration-fields-for-woocommerce/">custom user registration</a> fields as the approve new user feature is available in custom registration fields.</p>
<p><strong>Does it work for WordPress only?</strong></p>
<p>Yes, if WooCommerce is not installed, the extension will help you approve/disapprove users created from WordPress.</p>
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Approve New User Registration

<p>Manually validate new user registrations.</p>

<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Customer refunds are a smart way to establish trust and brand authenticity, creating a loyal customer base. If your customers know they can expect refunds when things go wrong, they are more likely to make purchases. If you are thinking of optimizing refunds on your store, you can consider the Advanced Returns and Refunds for WooCommerce. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">This extension allows you to automatically or manually accept refund requests using a simple rule-based approach. You can allow customers to refund their whole orders or specific products from an order. Additionally, customers can upload files with their refund requests, and each refund request opens a chat thread that helps merchants and customers communicate. This highly customizable extension allows you to customize the refund button, add pre-made refund reasons, or allow customers to add other reasons. In addition to this customize refund coupons, and additionally, you can restrict refunds by user roles, products, country, or payment method and enable refunds per product or for the whole order. </span></p>
<h2>Features</h2>
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<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Streamline product refunds with an easy-to-use refund manager</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Accept refunds automatically or manually</span></li>
<li>Create multiple scenario-based rules for refund requests</li>
<li>Communicate to customers via the inbuilt chat feature</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Allow customers to attach files with refund requests</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Restrict refund requests by:</span>
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<li>Products</li>
<li>Categories</li>
<li>User roles</li>
<li>Amount spent</li>
<li>Days since the order was placed</li>
<li>Order countries</li>
<li>Order payment method</li>
<li>Order statuses</li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Customize refund button text & styling</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Adjust coupon code prefix</span><span style="font-weight: 400"> and expiry</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Allow customers to refund the whole order and specific products</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Show custom messages for nonrefundable items </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Display a custom message when a refund request is successfully sent </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">View a complete request log for on-hold, rejected, approved refund requests, etc. </span></li>
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<h2>Swiftly Offer Refunds to Your Customers – Automatically or Manually</h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">With the Advanced Returns and Refunds for WooCommerce, you can choose to offer refunds to customers manually or automatically. Customers can request refunds through the My Account page, upload files, and add a message. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Once received, you can either manually accept their request from the refund request log or automatically accept it if it fulfills certain criteria. The criteria can be set using a rule-based approach, where you can set restrictions based on products, country, payment method, etc.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Additionally, you can customize the refund button and refund coupon and show custom messages to users once a request is sent.</span></p>
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<h2 style="text-align: center">Multiple Ways to Restrict Refunds</h2>
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<h3>Restrict refunds by products & categories</h3>
<p>Many stores offer refunds on specific products and categories only since some items are non-refundable. To address this issue, the advance returns and refunds extension for WooCommerce allows merchants to offer refunds on specific products & categories or entire stores.</p>
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<h3>Restrict refunds by user roles</h3>
<p>Merchants can choose to offer refunds to specific user roles only. This ensures that refund requirements and eligibility criteria are met when offering refunds. This streamlines the refund management process, leading to improved customer satisfaction and operational efficiency.</p>
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<h3>Restrict refunds by order date</h3>
<p>Almost all stores that offer refunds have a refund policy that returns can be made within x amount of days after delivery. To ensure that store owners can implement a time-bound refund policy, this smart refund extension enables merchants to add days, after which the refund button will hide automatically.</p>
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<h3>Restrict refunds by order status and order amount</h3>
<p>Sometimes, order amounts can be so insignificant that the shipment, taxation, and other charges accumulate to a greater amount than the original order amount. Usually, merchants often reject refunds on such orders. With this extension, merchants can easily restrict orders lower than a specific amount for refunds.</p>
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<h3>Restrict refunds by payment methods</h3>
<p>Managing refunds made from cash and delivery orders can be pretty challenging for some store owners; they are not only required to collect the return package but also responsible for returning the amount to the requester. This extension allows store owners to restrict refunds by payment methods easily.</p>
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<h3>Restrict refunds by user country</h3>
<p>If merchants face difficulties in shipping to a country, then they also tend to avoid accepting refunds from those countries. This extension allows merchants to restrict refunds by customer’s country easily.</p>
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<h2>Enhance User Experience with Intuitive Refund Chat</h2>
<p>Our innovative extension offers a seamless way for you and your customers to communicate through built-in chat features. This feature is beneficial for both sellers and customers. Sellers can now easily request to inspect the condition of products before approving a refund. At the same time, customers can conveniently inquire about receiving a refund in cash or store credit directly through the chat function. Refund chat can not only improve customer service experience but can also boost customer satisfaction levels to all-time highs.</p>
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<h2>Allow Customers to Attach Files with Refund Requests</h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">To ensure a seamless customer experience, allow them to upload file attachments along with their refund requests. Merchants can make file uploads mandatory or optional; in addition to this, allowed file types can be conveyed to customers via customizable error messages.</span></p>
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<h2>View Request History through a Comprehensive Log</h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">You can easily enable manual refund approvals from a log. You can view applications on hold, rejected, or approved. You can also see which requests are new, in process, or have been closed. With this data, you can respond to each application in a timely manner and make informed decisions for the future.<br />
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Advanced Returns and Refunds

<p>Easily process returns and refunds with our cutting-edge, fully automated refund management system. Whether you prefer automatic or manual processing, our system can handle it all seamlessly.</p>

Approve New User Registration vs Advanced Returns and Refunds