<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>

<h3>Keep your WooCommerce customer data accurate and reliable</h3>
<p>Over time, WooCommerce stores can occasionally experience spikes in automated or scripted traffic that create large numbers of customer accounts.</p>
<p>These accounts often pass basic validation checks and may not be blocked by CAPTCHA or anti-spam solutions, especially when they originate from real checkout attempts or payment flows.</p>
<p>As a result, stores may end up with:</p>
<ul>
<li>Hundreds or thousands of customer accounts with no orders</li>
<li>Repeated failed checkout attempts linked to the same customers</li>
<li>Rapid growth in the users table without real business value</li>
</ul>
<p>Left unmanaged, they can:</p>
<ul>
<li>Inflate customer counts</li>
<li>Reduce the accuracy of reports and analytics</li>
<li>Slow down admin pages on large stores</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/woo-customers-cleanup-spammy-users.png"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-18734006243237 size-large" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/woo-customers-cleanup-spammy-users.png?w=980" alt="" width="980" height="465" /></a></p>
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<h3>What this plugin does</h3>
<ul>
<li>Detects customers with no orders</li>
<li>Detects customers with multiple failed orders</li>
<li>Collects results using a safe background process</li>
<li>Stores results in optimized cache tables for fast access</li>
<li>Displays customers in clean, paginated admin tables</li>
<li>Generates summary reports and optional admin email notifications</li>
</ul>
<p>The plugin runs background processes to safely collect customer data in batches, avoiding timeouts or memory issues — even on large stores.</p>
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<h3>Smart customer identification</h3>
<p>Instead of relying on simple rules, the plugin analyzes real WooCommerce data to detect customers who:</p>
<ul>
<li>Have no orders</li>
<li>Have multiple failed orders</li>
</ul>
<p>This approach makes the results reliable and specific to your store.</p>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/customers-cleanup-settings.png"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-18734006243243 size-large" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/customers-cleanup-settings.png?w=980" alt="" width="980" height="554" /></a></p>
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<h3>Clear review before action</h3>
<p>The plugin does <strong>not</strong> delete anything automatically.</p>
<p>Instead, it provides:</p>
<ul>
<li>Paginated admin tables</li>
<li>Detailed customer information</li>
<li>Order references for failed checkout attempts</li>
<li>Optional email summaries</li>
</ul>
<p>You stay fully in control of every decision.</p>

Customers Cleanup

<p>Maintain a healthy WooCommerce customer database by identifying inactive and unsuccessful checkout accounts.</p>
<p>Automatically identify and manage fake customer accounts created by bots, failed checkouts, and abandoned payment attempts.</p>

Approve New User Registration vs Customers Cleanup