<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>

<p><strong>Smart Email Recipients</strong> for WooCommerce gives you complete control over how your store emails are routed — ensuring the right people receive the right notifications based on what customers purchase.</p>
<p>By default, WooCommerce sends emails to fixed recipients. This plugin replaces that limitation with a flexible rule-based system that dynamically assigns recipients depending on products or categories in each order.</p>
<hr />
<h3>Route Emails Based on Products</h3>
<p>Create rules that trigger when specific products are included in an order.<br />
This allows you to notify the exact team members responsible for handling those products — whether it’s sales, fulfillment, or support.</p>
<hr />
<h3>Use Product Categories for Smarter Automation</h3>
<p>Instead of selecting products one by one, you can assign recipients based on entire categories.</p>
<p>This is especially useful for:</p>
<ul>
<li>Stores with large or frequently updated catalogs</li>
<li>Teams organized by product type</li>
<li>Automating workflows without constant rule updates</li>
</ul>
<hr />
<h3>Full Control Over To, CC, and BCC</h3>
<p>For every rule, you can define recipients across:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>To</strong> – primary recipients</li>
<li><strong>CC</strong> – additional visible recipients</li>
<li><strong>BCC</strong> – hidden recipients</li>
</ul>
<p>This gives you complete flexibility to structure internal and external communications exactly how you need.</p>
<hr />
<h3>Flexible Recipient Selection</h3>
<p>Choose how recipients are assigned:</p>
<ul>
<li>Select individual users directly</li>
<li>Include users based on their roles (e.g., Shop Managers, Editors)</li>
<li>Add custom email addresses manually</li>
</ul>
<p>You can also combine all these options within the same rule.</p>
<hr />
<h3>Create Multiple Rules with Ease</h3>
<p>Build unlimited rules to match different scenarios in your store.</p>
<p>Each rule can:</p>
<ul>
<li>Target specific products or categories</li>
<li>Define its own recipients</li>
<li>Apply to selected WooCommerce emails</li>
</ul>
<p>This allows you to create highly customized email flows for every type of order.</p>
<hr />
<h3>Apply Rules to Specific WooCommerce Emails</h3>
<p>Choose exactly which emails each rule should affect, such as:</p>
<ul>
<li>New Order</li>
<li>Processing Order</li>
<li>Completed Order</li>
<li>Customer notifications</li>
</ul>
<p>This ensures recipients only receive relevant emails — no unnecessary noise.</p>
<hr />
<h3>Works for Bulk and Product-Level Control</h3>
<ul>
<li>Configure global rules that apply across your store</li>
<li>Add product-level recipient settings for more granular control</li>
</ul>
<p>This combination gives you both flexibility and precision.</p>
<hr />
<h3>Real-World Use Cases</h3>
<ul>
<li>Send order emails to different vendors based on purchased products</li>
<li>Notify warehouse teams based on product categories</li>
<li>Alert specific staff members when high-priority items are ordered</li>
<li>Automatically include managers or supervisors in CC/BCC</li>
<li>Route customer-related emails to dedicated support teams</li>
</ul>
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<h3>Why Use Smart Email Recipients?</h3>
<p>Managing email notifications in WooCommerce can quickly become messy as your store grows.<br />
This plugin helps you organize and automate your email flow, reducing manual work and ensuring nothing is missed.</p>

Smart Email Recipients

<p>Automatically route WooCommerce emails to the right recipients based on purchased products or categories.<br data-start="371" data-end="374" />Add dynamic To, CC, and BCC recipients using flexible rules and conditions.</p>

Approve New User Registration vs Smart Email Recipients