<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>
<div></div>

Approve New User Registration

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

<p>Stores selling products to B2B and B2C customers must often adjust product prices and catalog visibility for different user roles. However, before that, they must assign user roles to hundreds and thousands of customers. This extension allows you to display a user role dropdown on the registration page to allow customers to choose their role. Previously registered customers can change their user role from the “My Account” page.</p>
<p>You can display selected user roles in the dropdown, enable manual approval for specific user roles, and leave the rest for auto-approval.</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></div>
<h3 id="item-description__main-features-included-in-choose-user-roles-plugin"><strong>Features</strong></h3>
<ul>
<li>Display a user role dropdown on the registration and checkout page (account creation section).</li>
<li>Display selected user roles in the dropdown.</li>
<li>Option to auto-approve and manually approve user roles.</li>
<li>Allow/disallow customers to request a user role from my account page.</li>
<li>Email notifications for admins and customers.</li>
<li>Display custom messages to notify users about user role status on the My Account page.</li>
<li>Customize field label.</li>
<li>Works for both WordPress and WooCommerce registration forms.</li>
</ul>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6334824" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/User-Roles-Dropdown-on-WooCommerce-Registration-Form.png" alt="User Roles Dropdown on WooCommerce Registration Form" width="870" height="559" /></p>
<h3><strong>Display selected user roles in dropdown:</strong></h3>
<p>Instead of showing all user roles, this extension enables you to show only relevant user roles in the dropdown and keep VIP user roles at the admin’s disposal, to assign from the backend as they see fit.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6334853" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Display-selected-user-role-in-dropdown-1.png" alt="Display selected user role in dropdown" width="855" height="901" /></p>
<h3><strong>Manual and auto-approval: </strong></h3>
<p>You can enable manual approval for specific user roles and keep the rest on auto-approval. This feature allows you to validate customers before they can enjoy the benefits of special user roles. The customer will be able to login and will be assigned the default user role until the new user role request is approved.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6334860" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Select-User-Role-for-manual-and-auto-approval.png" alt="Select User Role for manual and auto approval" width="798" height="413" /></p>
<h3>Add dropdown to My Account page</h3>
<p>This plugin allows you to display the same user roles dropdown on the My Account page. This is completely optional, given that you may not want to give your user the option of changing their role once it has been assigned.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6334868" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/User-role-dropdown-in-my-account-page-woocommerce.png" alt="User role dropdown in my account page woocommerce" width="856" height="956" /></p>
<h3>Email and notification settings:</h3>
<p>You can customize the following emails and custom messages displayed on My Account page.</p>
<ul>
<li>Pending and declined status messages display on the My Account page under the user roles dropdown.</li>
<li>Email to admin when a new user registers and requests a user role that requires manual approval.</li>
<li>Email to the customer notifying them that a requested user role is awaiting approval.</li>
<li>Email to the customer when a requested user role is approved.</li>
<li>Email to the customer when a requested user role is declined.</li>
</ul>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6334891" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Custom-Messages-on-my-account-page.png" alt="Custom Messages on my account page" width="792" height="429" /></p>
<p>You can enable/disable any email.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6334889" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Email-settings-for-user-roles.png" alt="Email settings for user roles" width="980" height="802" /></p>

Choose User Role at Registration

<p>Add a user role dropdown on the registration form to allow customers select the relevant role during registration.</p>

Approve New User Registration vs Choose User Role at Registration