Do you want a special new member sign up form, that grants access to specific access groups?
You can, using an invite-driven approach and a bit of automation.
- Create your own forms as normal Webflow forms, however and wherever you like
- Connect them to triggers on whatever automation platform you prefer ( Make, Zapier, n8n )
- In that automation, call the Webflow API’s Invite user endpoint, with the user data you want, and specifying the access group(s) you want them to have.
Here's the user sign-up flow.
- The user will fill in the form.
- In the success message, you’ll say “check your email and click the link to complete sign-up”
- The user will click the email link
- They'll be taken to the standard Membership /sign-up page to complete setup. Their email is already entered, and the access groups have already been specified for their account. They enter their name and password here to complete enrollment.
Do the same thing for each form you want, and any configuration of access groups you like.
Can Webflow Logic do this?
As of 17-Dec-2022;
Logic is 99% of the way to providing the Invite user capability- however checking it just now, there’s a tiny bug where you cannot bind the invite email field to data.
This binding is needed in order to utilize the email address your user submitted in your form, in the invitation step.
Very soon though, I expect they’ll fix that and you can build this entire solution internally, 100% Webflow.
Further Notes
Also note, that if you want to get fancy, your automation can call invite user, get back a user ID and then immediately call update user. This approach allows you to set custom Member fields using data that has been collected in your very first invite form.
There are lots of uses for this;
- Collect the member's country, gender, or other relevant info that you need to deliver a better experience on your site.
- Use it to capture an affiliate tracking code from a URL variable, so you can compensate partners who are bringing you new members.
Note that also though you can set the Member's Name in the update member call, if they haven't completed sign-up yet, it will be overwritten when you complete that step.
Even if they enter nothing.
Best practice here is;
Form 1- your custom enrollment form;
- Collects email, and and custom fields you want
- Knows the access-groups to set, via the automation it’s triggering
Form 2- Webflow’s sign-up form
- Collects name and password and completes sign-up
This discussion was sparked by a Webflow forums post here.
