New Members

When a new member registers for an account on your site, they can't immediately login. They must be approved as a member (which can be set to automatic), and you may wish to have them verify their email.

You can edit these settings in your site's dashboard.

Email verification

You may want to check that a new member is using their own email address, not using someone else's or a fake email address.

To run this check, require members to verify their email address once they've signed up in one of the following ways:

• In your site's dashboard, under Ask new members to confirm their email.
• Using code. This example includes email verification through code.

Manual vs automatic approval

The register function behaves differently depending on your site's member signup settings.

Manual approval

When manual approval is enabled, everyone who signs up must then be approved. Immediately after signing up, a new member's status is "PENDING".

You can approve a new member by:

• Passing the returned approvalToken to approveByToken().
• Calling approveByEmail().
• Navigating to your site members list in your dashboard and approving the new member there.

Automatic approval

When automatic approval is enabled, everyone who signs up is approved. Immediately after signing up, a new member's status is "ACTIVE".

They can immediately log in to the site, or you can log them in by passing the returned sessionToken to applySessionToken() from wix-members-frontend.

You can have more control of who can become a site member using custom site registration and Velo code.

If you are implementing code to automatically approve emails in a collection, make sure to set the collection Permissions to private and to never expose the collection in your frontend code.