<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>
<ul>
<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>
</ul>
<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>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6403748" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Approve-new-user-registration-1-2.jpg" alt="" width="980" height="566" /></p>
<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>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6403798" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Email-Settings.jpg" alt="" width="980" height="801" /></p>
<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>
<ul>
<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>
</ul>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6403792" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Approve-new-user-custom-messages.jpg" alt="Approve new user custom messages" width="855" height="555" /></p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6403781" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Custom-Notifications.jpg" alt="" width="847" height="622" /></p>
<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>

<h2><b>Blacklist Unwanted Customers from Your Store</b></h2>
<p>Not every order comes from a genuine customer. Fraudulent buyers, repeat offenders, and bad-faith shoppers cost you time, money, and inventory. Left unchecked, they lead to chargebacks, wasted fulfillment costs, and unnecessary strain on your support team. Blacklist for WooCommerce gives you a proactive way to stop these users before they ever reach checkout, without disrupting the experience for your legitimate customers.</p>
<p>Block customers using a wide range of conditions, including name, email address, phone number, IP address, billing country, shipping country, and order total range. Combine multiple conditions to build precise, targeted rules and choose exactly what happens when a match is detected: prevent the order, cancel it automatically, or block the customer from registering on your store altogether.</p>
<h2><b>Features of Blacklist for WooCommerce</b></h2>
<ul>
<li>Blacklist or block customers from your store</li>
<li>Block customers by first name, last name, or full name</li>
<li>Filter orders by email address or entire email domains</li>
<li>Restrict transactions linked to specific phone numbers</li>
<li>Block repeated purchase attempts from the same IP address</li>
<li>Restrict orders from specific billing or shipping countries</li>
<li>Set minimum and maximum order total limits to flag suspicious transactions</li>
<li>Create individual rules with custom names, priority settings, and status toggles</li>
<li>Combine multiple conditions within a single rule for more targeted blocking</li>
<li>Choose the action triggered when a rule is matched: block, cancel, or restrict registration</li>
<li>Display a custom customer-facing message when a block is applied</li>
<li>Monitor all blocked activity from a single dashboard</li>
<li>Search and filter detailed activity logs by name, email, IP address, or rule</li>
</ul>
<h2><b>Block Unwanted Customers from your Store</b></h2>
<p>Not every order comes from a genuine customer. Fraudulent buyers and bad-faith shoppers cost you time, money, and inventory. The Blacklist and Block plugin for WooCommerce lets you block customers by name, phone number, IP address, or country. When a match is detected, you choose what happens: prevent the order, cancel it automatically, or block the customer from registering altogether.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-18734006557973" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Block-Unwanted-Customers-from-your-Store.png?w=896" alt="Block Unwanted Customers from your Store" width="896" height="490" /></p>
<h2><b>Block Customers Using Multiple Conditions</b></h2>
<p>Every fraud case is different. Sometimes you need to stop a specific person, and other times you need to restrict entire regions. Blacklist and Block for WooCommerce lets you define precise blocking rules using one or more of the following criteria:</p>
<h3><b>First Name Blocking</b></h3>
<p>Target individuals by their billing first name. Add names one per line or as comma-separated values for quick bulk entry, which is useful when dealing with repeat offenders who share a common first-name pattern.</p>
<h3><b>Last Name or Full Name Matching</b></h3>
<p>Block by last name alone, or combine first and last name for more accurate, pinpoint matching. This reduces false positives and ensures legitimate customers with similar names aren’t caught in your rules.</p>
<h3><b>Phone Number Restrictions</b></h3>
<p>Some buyers swap emails and names but reuse the same phone number. Add specific numbers to your blocklist to catch these cases and stop suspicious orders before they go through.</p>
<h3><b>IP Address Blocking</b></h3>
<p>Prevent the same source from making repeated purchase attempts. Blocking by IP is particularly effective against automated bots, scripted attacks, and users who create multiple accounts to bypass other restrictions.</p>
<h3><b>Billing Country Filtering</b></h3>
<p>Restrict orders originating from high-risk or unsupported billing regions. Ideal for merchants who have identified specific countries as consistent sources of chargebacks or fraudulent activity.</p>
<h3><b>Shipping Country Control</b></h3>
<p>Define exactly where your products can and cannot be shipped. Whether you’re managing logistics limitations or avoiding problematic delivery regions, shipping country rules give you direct control over your order destinations.</p>
<h3><b>Order Total Range Blocking</b></h3>
<p>Set a minimum and maximum order total to block orders that fall outside your accepted range automatically. This is particularly useful for flagging unusually large orders that may indicate fraud, or suspiciously small orders that could be testing stolen payment details.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-18734006557971" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Block-Customers-Using-Multiple-Conditions.png?w=869" alt="Block Customers Using Multiple Conditions" width="869" height="382" /> <img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-18734006557974" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Block-Customers-Using-Conditions.png?w=865" alt="Block Customers Using Conditions" width="865" height="335" /></p>
<h2><b>Create Rules to Manage Your Blacklist</b></h2>
<p>Blacklist for WooCommerce gives you a structured, rule-based system to manage who can and cannot place orders on your store. Each rule comes with its own name, status toggle, priority setting, and optional customer-facing error message, giving you complete control over how and when each rule is applied.</p>
<p>Define your conditions using customer identity fields such as first name, last name, email, phone number, and IP address. You can also filter by billing country, shipping country, and order total range to cover location-based and value-based restrictions. Combine any of these fields together to create precise, targeted rules that match exactly the type of order or customer you want to block.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-18734006557975" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Create-Rules-to-Manage-Your-Blacklist.png?w=896" alt="Create Rules to Manage Your Blacklist" width="896" height="237" /></p>
<h2><b>Keep Track of Activity Logs in a Dashboard</b></h2>
<p>Get a real-time overview of every blocked action from a single dashboard. Track blocked emails, IP addresses, names, and countries alongside your total blocked actions and active rules. Dig deeper with a detailed activity log that records the date, username, email, action type, and IP address for every blocked event, with search and filter options to quickly spot repeat offenders and refine your blocking strategy over time.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-18734006557972" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Keep-Track-of-Activity-Logs-in-a-Dashboard.png?w=896" alt="Keep Track of Activity Logs in a Dashboard" width="896" height="301" /></p>

Blacklist and Block Customers and Orders

<h2><b>Blacklist unwanted customers based on name, IP address, phone number, or email. Reduce spam traffic and stop fraudulent orders before they reach checkout.</b></h2>

Approve New User Registration vs Blacklist and Block Customers and Orders