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.
This tool, therefore, assists in deterring both unwelcome fake registrations and spam by isolating your digital store for selective customers.
<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>
The areas where the extension can help include:
Limiting Access 
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.
Avoid Fake/Spam Accounts
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.
<h2>Features:</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 Users Listing page</li>
</ul>
<h3>Manual approval for particular or all user roles</h3>
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.
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.
Note: 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>.
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<h3>Customize email notifications</h3>
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.
Approve and disapprove link in the email
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.
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<h3>Customize Error Messages</h3>
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:
<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>
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<h3>How to get started?</h3>
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,
<ul>
<li>Enable approve new user option</li>
<li>Select the user roles for which you want to enable this manual approval</li>
</ul>
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.
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.
<h2>FAQs:</h2>
If I need to approve new users and add custom fields as well, do I need to buy 2 extensions?
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.
Does it work for WordPress only?
Yes, if WooCommerce is not installed, the extension will help you approve/disapprove users created from WordPress.
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Approve New User Registration

Manually validate new user registrations.

Custom registration fields for WooCommerce allow you to collect additional information from customers by creating unlimited fields. You can include 18 types of fields, such as text fields, text boxes, select boxes, checkboxes, and many more. Display only relevant fields to users by enabling the conditional logic on the fields. With this plugin, you allow your customers to log in with their Google account.
<h2>Features</h2>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-primary">
<li style="font-weight: 400">Add 18 Types of Fields to Customize WooCommerce registration form</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Enable/Disable or Edit Default Registration Fields</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Drag and Drop to Set the Field’s Order</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Add Conditional Logic to fields</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Enable User Roles on the Registration Page</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Create Custom User Roles and Assign Capability</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Auto or Manually Approve Users and User Roles</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Enable Login via Google</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Email Verification via OTP (New)</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Allow Customers to Register from the Checkout Page</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Display the Registration field on the “My Account” Page</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Display custom fields details to the admin and order email (New)</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Display Custom Messages to Blocked Users</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Add Custom Email Notification for Each User Role Status</li>
</ul>
<h3>Add Multiple Types of Custom Registration Fields</h3>
Personalize your registration process by customizing the form with the help of 18 different field types. Custom user registration fields for WooCommerce enable you to create unlimited fields for your registration form. The field types are:
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-secondary" style="columns: 3;padding-left: 0">
<li style="font-weight: 400">Text</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Text area</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Multi-select box (New)</li>
<li>Email</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Checkbox</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Multi-Checkbox</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Radio button</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Time picker</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Date Picker</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Password</li>
<li>URL</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">State/Country</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Heading Field (Read Only)</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">File upload</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Numeric Field </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Telephone</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Google ReCaptcha </li>
</ul>
Note: The same fields are displayed in the create account section on the checkout page, except for the file upload field.
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<h3>Enable/Disable Default WooCommerce Registration Fields</h3>
User registration for WooCommerce empowers you to disable the default registration fields from the form. This helps you collect only relevant information from the users. You can also edit the default field, such as its label, placeholder, and size.
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<h3>Sort Fields Order with Drag & Drop</h3>
Easily manage custom user registration fields through a user-friendly drag-and-drop feature. In this way, you can sort different fields effectively within a form. This saves users time and allows them to sort the field orders without any hassle.
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<h3>Apply Conditional Logic to Fields</h3>
Display only relevant fields on your form by applying the conditional logic to custom user registration fields. This allows additional fields to appear when specific requirements are met, improving the registration process.
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<h3>Display User Roles on Registration</h3>
Custom registration fields for WooCommerce enable you to specify user roles on the registration page, allowing customers to register with a specific role. You can display all or specific user roles in the dropdown to enable customers to select the preferred role. Set each user role for manual and auto-approval.
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<h3>Effective User Role Management</h3>
The plugin gives you complete control, such as manually approving a user role or automatically approving when customers sign up on the WooCommerce registration form. You can approve or reject user accounts, assign user roles, block users, and provide limited access.
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<h3>Send Custom Emails to User</h3>
User registration plugin for WooCommerce allows you to send personalized emails to your users regarding their account approval and user role. You can notify customers about role grant, reject role, approve user, block user, and limited access. It uses shortcodes to automatically display the user’s name to personalize the text of the email.
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<h3>Display Custom Fields on Checkout</h3>
Custom user registration fields for WooCommerce let you display the custom fields on the checkout page. You can enable registration on checkout from the settings and allow customers to register while checking out.
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<h3>Enable Login with Google Account</h3>
Streamline the login process by enabling customers to log in with a Google account. It eliminates the need for users to remember usernames and passwords when creating or logging into their accounts.
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<h3>Email Verification with OTP (New)</h3>
During sign-up, a one-time passcode is sent to the customer’s email that must be verified before the account is activated, making user registration for WooCommerce more secure. This ensures only valid email addresses are accepted, effectively reducing fake accounts and spam registrations on your store. Enable the OTP verification from the new user settings.
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<h3>Display Fields in the “My Account” Section</h3>
This plugin displays all the data of the WooCommerce registration form in the customer’s “My Account” section. You can allow customers to edit the fields or mark them read-only to prevent any changes in customer information.
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<h3>Display Custom Fields Details to Admin and Order Email (New)</h3>
Display all custom registration field data directly in the admin’s order details and order emails, so no customer information is lost after registration. Store admins get full context about the customer alongside every transaction without having to look it up separately.
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<h3>Block Spam with Google reCaptcha</h3>
Enable Google reCAPTCHA to restrict spam registration on your WooCommerce store. You can select Google reCAPTCHA as the field type to display it on the custom registration form.
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<h2>Additional Features</h2>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Create role-based fields (Display fields only for selected roles).</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Send notifications to Admin when customers edit their profile fields.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Customers can update user roles from the My Account page.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Mark fields as Read-only (non-editable), the customer will not be able to edit in the account page.</li>
</ul>

Custom Registration Fields

Streamline the WooCommerce user registration process and collect relevant information from customers by creating unlimited custom fields for the registration form.

Approve New User Registration vs Custom Registration Fields