Customer Email Verification for WooCommerce

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“Amazing support and plugin: Support helped me integrate their plugin with another plugin and I am really grateful for it. The best verification plugin out there at the moment with awesome support” – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ mountainbirb

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In the dynamic world of e-commerce, ensuring the authenticity and engagement of your customer base is crucial.

That’s where the “Email Verification for WooCommerce” plugin comes in, addressing a vital aspect of customer management.

By integrating email verification into your WooCommerce setup, this plugin enhances the security and reliability of user registrations.

It’s designed not just to verify new users but also to streamline customer management for existing accounts. Let’s take a quick look into how this plugin can transform your WooCommerce experience:

1. New User Registration Verification: New user accounts require email verification, bolstering the security and authenticity of each registration.

2. Verification for Existing Users: Have an existing user base? The plugin offers the flexibility to implement email verification for already registered users, enhancing the integrity of your existing customer base.

3. Role-Based Verification Flexibility: Skip the email verification process for selected user roles, allowing you to customize the verification process based on user hierarchy.

4. Customizable Emails & Messages: Tailor the verification messages displayed to users on your site and emails, ensuring a seamless and brand-consistent experience on the frontend of your store.

5. Admin Control and Management: Admins gain significant control, including options to manually verify or unverify users, resend activation links, and even delete unverified users either manually or on an automated schedule.

By integrating these features, the “Email Verification for WooCommerce” plugin not only secures your user registration process but also offers significant flexibility and control in managing your customer base.

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🚀 Main Features: FREE Version

🚀 Verify Customers Emails on Signup

  • Require new users to verify their emails on signup
  • Block login from unverified users
  • Login the user automatically after the account is verified
  • Verify guest user billing address on checkout

🚀 Enforce Email Verification for Current Customers

  • Enforce all your current users to verify their email addresses before logging back in to your store
  • Resend verification emails by admin when needed

🚀 Skip Validation based on user role ()

Select to skip validation for any user role based on your store needs (wholesalers, admins, authors, etc.)

🚀 Add Verification status to “My Account” Page

  • Show account verification info on “My Account” page
  • Add account verification info widget
  • Customize verification message text (Pro)

🚀 Control Redirection On Verification Status

  • Redirects customers after successful verification
  • Select where to redirect: Homepage, “My Account”, Shop, previous URL or Custom URL
  • Redirects customers after unsuccessful verification
  • Select a custom URL after unverified customer tries to login

🚀 Control Activation/Verification Link Expiration

  • Expire link immediately after first click
  • Define a custom period (in seconds, days) when the link will be expired (Pro)
  • Customize text message to show when has expired (Pro)

🚀 Activation Email Customization

The plugin allows you to effortlessly customize emails that will be sent to your customers to activate their accounts, you can:

  • Delay WooCommerce “Customer new account” email until account is verified
  • Select to customize the email from plugin template, or create new email type in WooCommerce >> Emails
  • Select from 15+ placeholder (like site_title, user_id, user_email) to be used in email subject & body
  • Choose to send separate activation email or embed it in the standard WooCommerce “Customer new account” email
  • Configure your preferred mail function (PHP, WordPress, WooCommerce)

🚀 Verification Confirmation Email Customization

Once your customers are verified, you can customize the confirmation email that will be sent to them, you can:

  • Send a verification email immediately once customer activates their account
  • Delay sending the emails so customers don’t get too many emails in short time
  • Send notification email to admin (or any email) when a user is manually verified by admin
  • Customize admin email title & body

🚀 Block Unverified Users

  • You can block content for unverified users (including guests) by preventing access to any page of your site
  • Block non-paying users: Block activation link until the customer places an order and its status is considered paid
  • Check & Logout unverified users on “My Account” page or any other page

🚀 Handy Admin Tools

  • Allow any user role (non admins) to manage & interact with the admin interface of the plugin
  • Add a “Verified” column in “All users” page
  • Filter users on “All users” page based on verification status
  • Add links for manual email verification, un-verification and email resend by admin
  • Bulk action options to Resend email, Verify, or Un-verify users in “All users” page

🚀 Customize Verification Messages

Once your user clicks on activation link, you can customize messages that appear based on activation status, you can customize:

  • Success messages appearing after customer verifies their account
  • Messages appearing after signup if you block login for unverified users
  • Failed activation messages (expiry, broken link, etc) and include a %resend_verification_url%
  • Resend link, error & already-verified messages

🚀 Delete Unverified Users (Manual & Automatic)

  • Delete unverified users from the database for one time
  • Delete unverified users from the database automatically (Hourly, Daily, Twice a day, Weekly)

🚀 More Advanced Options

  • More options to control authentication filters, auth cookies, custom logout function
  • Encoding options (Base64 or HashIDs)
  • Prevent user automatic login after registration on “My Account” page
  • Prevent user automatic login after registration on “Checkout” page

“Excellent Support + Plugin: As the title states, brilliant plugin with great free functionality – support was excellent and very helpful in solving a customisation issue.” – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Masidus

“Good flexibility and support: Plugin does what it says, and provides lots of configuration options. Had a minor issue that required support, and the problem was resolved very quickly, with great communication. Highly recommended.” – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ reefables

🏆 Do More: PRO Version

All what’s listed above (and more) is available in the free version, but for those who would like to go further and beyond, we have a premium version of Customer Email Verification for WooCommerce plugin.

🏆 The Pro version unlocks more advanced features like:

🏆 Block Content for Unverified & Guest Users

  • Block unverified users from accessing specific products
  • Block unverified users from accessing all shop pages, categories, tags, or cart
  • Block by custom URLs
  • Customize messages appearing when unverified customers try to access blocked content
  • Blocks checkout process for unverified users
  • Blocks guests from adding any products to the cart
  • Block WooCommerce order emails for all non-verified users
  • Block account verification by email (and customize the message for them)
  • Block “Thank you” (i.e. “Order received”) page access for non-verified users

🏆 Customization Options

  • Verify the user on password reset
  • Verify customers as soon as any of their non-free orders are considered paid
  • Unverify, logout and resend activation link when a customer changes their email
  • Customize email template to be used (Plain, WooCommerce, or Smart)
  • Customize titles, heading & content for activation & verification emails
  • REST API: Add endpoint allowing to verify users via REST API
  • Premium support

🏆 Compatibility Options

Our plugin offers several compatibility options with third party plugins, like:

And much more to come soon.

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“The best verification plugin at the moment with amazing support – they helped me with compatibility with Yaymail.” – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Mr Bird

“Friendly Author fast response to fixed the problems and high efficiency to dev “Smart” template.” – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ pvpasia

“Very good plugin, which is perfectly suited to WooCommerce. The support is really responsive and very competent! Do not hesitate to invest in this plugin if you want to set up an activation system.” – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Michel Pompas

“Excellent Plugin: Great plugin, it works perfectly, it’s light and has great management options. Fantastic support as well. It’s worth it!” – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Therus

Installation

Follow these simplified steps to get your plugin up and running:

From the WordPress Admin Panel:
1. Navigate to “Plugins” > “Add New”.
2. Use the search bar and find the plugin using the exact name.
3. Click “Install Now” for the desired plugin.
4. Once the installation is finished, and click “Activate”.

Manual Installation Using FTP:
1. Download the desired plugin from WordPress.org.
2. Using your preferred FTP client, upload the entire plugin folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory of your WordPress installation.
3. Go to “Plugins” > “Installed Plugins” in your dashboard and click “Activate”.

Manual download & upload from the WordPress Admin Panel:
1. Download the desired plugin in a ZIP format.
2. On your site, navigate to “Plugins” > “Add New” and click the “Upload Plugin” button.
3. Choose the downloaded plugin file and click “Install Now.”
4. After the installation is complete, click “Activate”.

Post-Activation:
Once activated, access the plugin’s settings by navigating to “WooCommerce > Settings” and look for the relevant tab.

FAQ

User registration clears shopping cart?

If your cart is getting empty after a new account is created, there are some things you could try:
– Enable the option Advanced > Custom logout function.
– Set the Advanced > Prevent login after register > Login prevention method option as Use login filter from WooCommerce.

When a user registers, it gives an error. How can I fix it?

Set the Advanced > Prevent login after register > Login prevention method option as Use login filter from WooCommerce.

How to eliminate spam registrations?

If you use some options combined, you’ll be able to remove the unverified users automatically, eliminating spam registrations.
This is what you can do:

  • Disable General > Enable email verification for already registered users (This is optional, however it’s more safe)
  • Enable Advanced > Delete users automatically
  • Set General > Expire time (This is optional but it’s more safe, because you’ll be removing only unverified users whose activation have expired. This is a Pro feature though)

What can I do if I get a 403 error or have issues when trying to save settings?

Some servers have security solutions that do not allow saving settings with HTML tags.
You can try to contact them asking to disable it, or you can try our option:

  • Advanced > Replace HTML tags

It will try to convert the angle brackets from HTML tags by other characters.
After that, you’ll just need to save the settings page once more. On the frontend the characters will be converted to HTML tags again.

Why the activation message (“Thank you for your registration…”) is not getting displayed after registration?

Please try to make sure that at least one of the above options are enabled.
If just some of them are already enabled and even so it doesn’t work, try to enable all of the them:

  • Advanced > Prevent login after register
  • Advanced > Prevent login after checkout
  • Logout unverified users on “My Account” page
  • Logout unverified users on every page

How to prevent duplicated success message after account verification?

Please try to use General > Redirect on success option as Do not redirect

If a unverified user tries to login how to priorize verification error message over incorrect password ?

Try to set the Advanced > Authenticate filter option as authenticate filter

What can I do if the error messages are not showing?

If an unverified user is trying to login and the error message (Your account has to be activated before you can login…) is not getting displayed you can try two different approaches:

  1. Use the Redirect on failure option.
    Even if the Custom redirect URL option is empty, there will be no problem.
    A ?alg_wc_ev_email_verified_error argument will be added to the URL that could help you displaying the message.

  2. Change the Advanced > Authenticate filter option.

How to use the alg_wc_ev_verification_status shortcode ?

You can use the [alg_wc_ev_verification_status] shortcode to display the verification status, showing if current user is verified or not.
Params for the [alg_wc_ev_verification_status] shortcode:

  • wrapper_template: <div class="alg-wc-ev-verification-status">{content_template}</div>
  • content_template: Verification status: {verification_status}
  • verified_status: Verified
  • unverified_status: Unverified
  • hide_if_verified: false
  • hide_for_guests: false

wrapper_template params:

  • {content_template}

content_template params:

  • {verification_status}
  • {user_display_name}
  • {user_nicename}

How to use the alg_wc_ev_resend_verification_url shortcode ?

You can use the [alg_wc_ev_resend_verification_url] shortcode to display a message with a link to the verification url.
Params for the [alg_wc_ev_resend_verification_url] shortcode:

  • wrapper_template: <div class="alg-wc-ev-resend-verification-url">{content_template}</div>
  • content_template: You can resend the email with verification link by clicking <a href="{resend_verification_url}">here</a>.
  • hide_if_verified: true
  • hide_for_guests: false

content_template params:

  • {resend_verification_url}

How to use the alg_wc_ev_email_content_placeholder shortcode ?

You can use the [alg_wc_ev_email_content_placeholder] shortcode to append the verification email to some custom email template.
In order to use it, it’s necessary to:

  • Enable the option Email > Activation email > Fine tune activation email placement
  • Disable the option Email > Activation email > Send as a separate email
  • Most probably the option Emails > Activation email > Email template should be set as Plain

Params for the [alg_wc_ev_email_content_placeholder] shortcode:

  • user_email

Reviews

أكتوبر 22, 2024 3 replies
I host at WPEngine and its showing your plugin has a security rick. Says this: Email Verification for WooCommerce – Active Version 2.8.10 Security risk Security risk: sqli. The plugin contains a vulnerability wherein unauthenticated visitors could inject SQL statements into WordPress. SQL injection could allow an attacker to gain control of your site. Severity: high Fixed in: no fix yet You might want to check into this because I uninstalled it. Once people see this, they should uninstall it too until you get it fixed.
يونيو 14, 2024 1 reply
I recently integrated the Customer Email Verification for WooCommerce plugin into my online store, and I must say, it has been a game-changer for both security and customer satisfaction. I run a small but growing e-commerce store specializing in handmade jewelry. With an increasing number of orders, I noticed a rise in fraudulent transactions and fake accounts, which not only hurt my revenue but also caused significant headaches with inventory and shipping. Implementation: Setting up the plugin was incredibly straightforward. The installation took just a few minutes, and the configuration options were clear and easy to understand. I was able to customize the verification email to match my brand’s tone and aesthetic, which was a nice touch. I recommend it totally!
يونيو 6, 2024 1 reply
I have to recommend this plugin, not only because of the problem it solves but because of the support received. We have received assistance when we needed it in a timely and correct manner. The support team was always willing to solve different problems that we experienced during the implementation.
مارس 19, 2024 3 replies
Hi, We have updated your plugin to the latest version (Email Verification for WooCommerce 2.6.9), and now the activation emails are not being sent to users. Consequently, newly registered users are unable to login. Therefore, we have deactivated the plugin. Could you please provide answers to the following queries: How can we resolve the issue of activation emails not being sent?Is there a method to send activation links to users in bulk via email for them to activate their accounts? Please reply. Thanks.
فبراير 7, 2023 1 reply
Support helped me integrate their plugin with another plugin and I am really greateful for it. The best verification plugin out there at the moment with awesome support
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Changelog

3.0.3 – 30/04/2025

  • Fix – Fixed a security vulnerability issue.
  • WC tested up to: 9.8.
  • Tested up to: 6.8.

3.0.2 – 09/04/2025

  • Dev – Email – Added new option to set the From email address.

3.0.1 – 07/04/2025

  • Fix – Blocking – Block checkout – Verified guest users were asked to log in.

3.0.0 – 18/03/2025

  • Dev – Advanced – Prevent login after checkout – Improved notice display.

2.9.9 – 04/03/2025

  • Fix – Translation loading was triggered too early.

2.9.8 – 28/02/2025

  • Fix – User was getting verified from Guest even if guest option was disabled.
  • WC tested up to: 9.7.

2.9.7 – 15/02/2025

  • Fix – Fixed a security vulnerability issue.
  • Fix – Guest users – Already existing emails was not getting tested.
  • Fix – Guest users – The newly registered user was not being verified if the guest email had already been verified.
  • Dev – Guest users – Code refactoring.

2.9.6 – 10/02/2025

  • Fix – Fixed a security vulnerability issue.

2.9.5 – 29/01/2025

  • Fix – Fixed a security vulnerability issue.

2.9.4 – 28/01/2025

  • Dev – Improved Composer loading by delaying its initialization.
  • WC tested up to: 9.6.

2.9.3 – 17/01/2025

  • Dev – Messages – Guest checkout email verification – Added options for customizing text and messages related to guest checkout email verification.
  • Add – General Options – Token Verification option.
  • Dev – Added nonce verification for send/resend verify email in checkout.
  • Dev – Code refactoring.
  • WC tested up to: 9.5.

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