Magento - Customer Approval - Extension User Guide

1. Store Backup.

• Go to System > Tools > Backups.
• Backup your magento files by clicking on the button System Backup.
• Backup your database by clicking on the button Database Backup.

2. Log out of Admin.

3. Unpack the extension file downloaded from our site and upload the contents of the file to the root directory of your magento installation.

4. Log back in to Admin.

5. Clear Cache: Go to System > Cache Management. Click on the Flush Cache button to clear all cache.

6. If compilation is enabled, turn it off under System > Tools > Compilation.

• Go to System > Tools > Compilation.
• Click on the Disable button to disable compilation.
• You can switch it back on once you've installed the extension.

7. If you see a 404 error on your configuration page. Please log out of the admin and log back in.

• Enabled: Select Yes/No to Enable/Disable the extension respectively. This can be done at a store view level. This is particularly helpful when you have a mutli store setup and want the module to be enabled only on a few stores and disabled on the rest of the stores.

• Notify Customer when approved or rejected: Select Yes to notify customer when the customer's registration is approved or rejected. Select No otherwise.
• Email Sender: Select the email sender from list of email senders available in magento. If you haven't configured the email senders, go to System > Configuration > Store > Store Email Addresses and specify the contact name and email address for each of the contacts you want to use in your store.
• Approved Email Template: Select the email template you want to use to send when the customer's registration is approved. A default email comes with our extension package. You can also override the email by creating a transactional email of your own by going to System > Transactional Emails, creating your own email template by selecting the Customer Approved Template in the dropdown under Load default template fieldset. Once you've saved the new transaction email go back to System > Configuration > Customer > Customer Approval. Select the new template for the field Approved Email Template.
• Rejected Email Template: Select the email template you want to use to send when the customer's registration application is rejected. You can override the default template by following the steps mentioned in Approved Email Template except that select Customer Rejected Email Template in the dropdown under Load default template fieldset.

• Redirect Customers: Select Yes if you want the customer to be redirected to another page. Either redirect to an external page or redirect to the appropriate CMS page.
• Unapproved Customer Message: Enter the message you want to display when the customer's account has not been approved. Show or hide message by entering text into this field or leaving it empty respectively.
• Redirect to CMS page: Select the CMS page you want the customer to be redirected to, when the customer's application is not approved.
• Custom Redirect URL: Enter the URL you want the customer to be redirect tom when the customer;s registration application is not approved. Custom Redirect URL

• Notify Admin after account creation: Select Yes if you want to notify the admin upon registration. Select No otherwise.
• Email Sender: Select the email sender from list of email senders available in magento. To configure please check Email Sender under Email Settings explained above.
• Email Template: Select the email template you want to use to send to the admin when a customer registers on the site. You can override the default template by following the steps mentioned in Approved Email Template except that select Account registration admin notification in the dropdown under Load default template fieldset.
• Recipients: Enter admin email(s) separated by a comma(,). Example: johndoe@example.com, janedoe@example.com,...

• Click on a row corresponding to the customer to go to the customer edit page.

• On the customer edit page, click on Approve button to Approve customer and Reject button to Reject customer.

• To Approve / Reject customers in batch, go to Customer > Manage Customers.
• Select the checkboxes on each row corresponding to the customers you want to approve/reject.
• On the top right corner of the grid, select Approve / Reject against Actions and click on the Submit button to Approve / Reject the selected customers respectively.