How to have the member area 'invitation only'

Site URL: https://www.fleurswholesale.com/

Hello, I am wanting my members to have to apply and be approved to get the log in information. I can hide the account button from the public pages and just have the 'creating your account' like as something we send out to people once they are approved. 

However, I would like to be able to have the account log in button on public pages so that the approved customers do not have to click the email link everything they log in. The issue with this is that when you click on the account log in button, there is a button to 'create your account' on the pop up that comes up. 

Password - flowerpower

Hmm, could you maybe password protect the page and send people the password once approved?

On 7/29/2021 at 3:50 AM, paul2009 said:

Unfortunately, this isn’t possible with Member Areas because no ‘manual approval’ feature exists. Anyone will be able to sign-up by visiting https://www.fleurswholesale.com/account/login/create, no matter what you do!

I’ve posted about this a number of times because it makes this feature totally unsuitable for around three-quarters 75% of situations where memberships are required, including bodies, societies and clubs, but Squarespace are not listening and do not seem to grasp how important this is.

I recommend you (and others reading this!) log a feature request with Squarespace. You can reach out to them here. I also recommend ‘liking’ and ‘voting up’ the questions about this, to raise the profile of this limitation. Here are some similar threads about this:

 

It's interesting that Squarespace has a forum that they don't monitor or action on. I've said this in another post, they should be explicit about this not accounting for privacy. The term "member" implies privacy or exclusivity. This is just a subscription page. Those that are considering this feature, don't make the mistake I did by paying for it before understanding it's constraints (which aren't clearly communicated).