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title: New user registration approval and e-mail confirmation
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By default, users can sign-in to the site immediately after successful registration. However, you can also use the **Registration requires e-mail confirmation** and **Registration requires administrator's approval** options, which can be enabled in **Settings -> Security & Membership**. By enabling these options, you can include additional steps in the registration procedure.

## Registration requires e-mail confirmation

If this option is checked, newly registered users will receive a confirmation e-mail to the e-mail address specified during registration. This e-mail contains a confirmation link that the user has to click, in order to activate the account. The e-mail is based on the **Membership - Registration confirmation** e‑mail template.

After clicking the link, the user is redirected to the page specified in one of the following settings:

- the **Registration confirmation page path** setting in **Settings -> Security & Membership**.
- the **E-mail confirmation page** property of the web part used for registration.

The page must contain the **Registration e-mail confirmation** web part to work correctly.

By default, the _\~/CMSPages/Dialogs/UserRegistration.aspx_ page is used.

## Registration requires administrator's approval

If this option is enabled, users will not be able to sign-in immediately after registration. Their registration will have to be approved by the site administrator. At this point, users will receive an e-mail based on the **Membership - Registration waiting for approval** e-mail template.

If the option is enabled, the **Waiting for approval** tab will be displayed in the **Users** application. On this tab, site administrators can **Approve** () or **Reject** () a user's registration.

![Registered users that are waiting to be approved by an administrator](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k8/new-user-registration-approval-and-e-mail-confirmation/Waiting_for_approval.png "Registered users that are waiting to be approved by an administrator")

After the administrator's approval, users receive another e-mail, confirming that their account has been approved and can be used. The e-mail is based on the **Membership - Registration approved** e-mail template.

## Enabling both e-mail confirmation and administrator's approval

When both of the options mentioned above are enabled, the e-mail with the confirmation link is sent first. After the user's confirmation, registration will have to be approved by the administrator.

#### Default redirection

If you have one or both of the options enabled, it is important to properly set the **Redirect to URL** property of the web part used for registration. This means that users should not be redirected to any page displaying information about their user account (like the **Members -> Profile** page on the sample Community Starter site), because the account will not be active yet (it is waiting for e-mail activation or approval). Such a page would display an error message, which might be misleading for the users.

#### E-mail notification addresses

In case you wish to use notification e-mails to inform administrators about new user registrations that require approval, the target address cannot be specified via the registration web part itself if the e-mail confirmation is also enabled.

Instead, it must be entered into the properties under the **E-mail settings** category of the **Registration e-mail confirmation** web part placed on the used confirmation page.

#### Third party authentication issues

Using the e-mail confirmation or registration approval in combination with third-party authentication services ([Windows Live ID](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/managing-users/user-registration-and-authentication/windows-live-id-authentication.md), [Facebook](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/managing-users/user-registration-and-authentication/facebook-authentication.md), [OpenID](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/managing-users/user-registration-and-authentication/openid-authentication.md), [LinkedIn](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/managing-users/user-registration-and-authentication/linkedin-authentication.md)) may cause certain problems for first‑time users. In these cases, new users are by default created without an e-mail address when they log in for the first time. This means that they cannot activate their account via e-mail confirmation or receive notifications informing that their account must be approved by an administrator.

These issues can be avoided by creating a **Required user data page** where users must enter an e-mail address for their account.

If using Facebook authentication, you can [load the required data from the user's profile](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/managing-users/user-registration-and-authentication/facebook-authentication/loading-user-information-from-facebook-profiles.md) automatically.