<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>

<h2>Customize the Login and Registration Experience</h2>
<p>Smart Registration for WooCommerce includes bundled features to enhance the registration and login process for WooCommerce.</p>
<p>The extension empowers store owners to create custom user registration fields, custom user roles, and user-role selection at registration. After registration, login, or log out, it can redirect users to custom URLs. You can also verify new users’ registrations. For new-user registration approval, you have two options: to accept the new registration request, either automatically or manually.</p>
<h2><b>Custom User Registration Fields</b></h2>
<p>Smart Registration for WooCommerce empowers you to add unlimited fields to the registration form. You can add text fields, date, time, radio buttons, checkboxes, numbering, dropdowns, file uploads, and more. It supports up to 15 custom fields, and you decide whether to make fields optional or required. Custom registration fields can be created easily in a drag and drop view.</p>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Custom_User_Fields.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-7522440" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Custom_User_Fields.png" alt="Custom User Registration Fields" width="980" height="577" /></a></p>
<h3><b>Key Features Of Custom Registration Fields </b></h3>
<ul>
<li>Add unlimited custom registration form fields.</li>
<li>Allows adding fields to WooCommerce registration forms.</li>
<li>Field data is visible in registration emails and the user’s “My Account” page.</li>
<li>Supports 15 field types.</li>
<li>Drag and drop custom field orders.</li>
<li>Display user roles in the dropdown.</li>
<li>Admins and customers receive an automated email notification.</li>
</ul>
<h3><b>Default User Fields</b></h3>
<p>It consists of ten by-default user fields where you can add a label name or a placeholder with a short description. You can make fields optional or required.</p>
<p><strong>Key Features</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Drag and drop default user fields</li>
<li>Enable field to display on the frontend</li>
<li>Supports up to ten default user fields</li>
</ul>
<h2><b>Redirect After Login, Logout, or Registration</b></h2>
<p>The user redirects to the My Account page by default, but you can also route them to other internal or external links. The admin can set role-based redirection links for users to redirect after login, logout, or registration.</p>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/web_meteors_smart_registration_redirect_after_login.png"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-7487310 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/web_meteors_smart_registration_redirect_after_login.png" alt="Role based redirect users for WooCommerce" width="980" height="666" /></a></p>
<h3><b>Key features of redirects<br />
</b></h3>
<ul>
<li>Role-based redirection after customer registration.</li>
<li>Redirect users based on their role after user login.</li>
<li>Role-based redirection for logout.</li>
<li>Redirect after login, logout, or registration to specific URLs.</li>
</ul>
<h2><b>Use Google reCAPTCHA</b></h2>
<p>Using Google reCAPTCHA with WooCommerce provides the best verification solution. It is designed with easy settings to enable or disable captcha at required places. Nowadays, the most important concern is the security of any website. reCAPTCHA protects you from spam and unauthorized login attempts. Similarly, it restricts fake registrations and fake guest orders.</p>
<h3><b>Key Features of reCAPTCHA </b></h3>
<ul>
<li>Enable or disable Google reCAPTCHA for the WooCommerce login form.</li>
<li>Enable or disable Google reCAPTCHA for the WooCommerce registration form.</li>
<li>Login user checkout with Google reCAPTCHA.</li>
<li>Protect from unauthorized login attempts.</li>
<li>Stop fake registrations</li>
<li>Use reCAPTCHA for lost passwords</li>
</ul>
<h2><b>Approve New User Registrations</b></h2>
<p>You can approve new user registrations by auto or manual approval. However, methods for manual approvals are secure and effective for fake user accounts. Moreover, you can disable the user accounts for login access without deleting their accounts.</p>
<p><b>Key features of approving new-user registrations</b></p>
<ul>
<li>Allow new user registration auto-approval or manual approval.</li>
<li>Send email notifications to customers after user approval by an admin.</li>
<li>Send email notifications to customers after user disapproval by an admin.</li>
<li>Enable or disable receiving an email by an admin when a new user registered.</li>
<li>Customize statuses for user notification.</li>
</ul>
<h2><b>User Role Options At Registration</b></h2>
<p>You can allow customers to choose their role through a dropdown at the user registration. The chosen roles can be manually approved or auto-approved as set by the admin.</p>
<p><b>Features of user role selection at registration</b></p>
<ul>
<li>User-role selection dropdown field display on the user registration form.</li>
<li>Add customized-role field labels.</li>
<li>Enable or disable options for notifications sent to users about the approval or disapproval of their requested user roles.</li>
<li>Notify users about user-role statuses on the My Account page.</li>
<li>Admin and customers can receive notifications via emails.</li>
</ul>

Smart Registration

<p>Smart Registration for WooCommerce provides multiple features such as custom user fields, custom user roles, Google reCaptcha, redirections</p>

Approve New User Registration vs Smart Registration