Sell "Member's Area" memberships through the store rather than the "Member's Area"?

I'm looking at setting up a "Member's Area" (as in https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/360050832771) and as far as I understand it they purchase the membership when they try to access the Member's Area.

Is it possible instead to sell that membership in the store? In our use-case a membership provides you with a number of offline perks/features (which is what users are used to) as well as the member's area (which will be new to them). Knowing our clientele it will be much easier if the membership they buy in the store would also allow access to the Member's Area. Or failing that, is it possible to require us to approve the Member's Area membership before they are able to log in, so we could confirm they have paid their annual membership?

Hopefully that explanation is clear enough.

Have a look at this thread where you'll find the answers and/or workarounds:

Hi there, Ward from MemberSpace, 

I'm not sure if you resolved this but you can certainly manually approve your members using MemberSpace, you can check more information about our product here!

Let me know if you have any questions 🙂