Changing User Accounts Sign-Up Flow

Webflow has a rigid sign-up process;

• It requires an email address, which cannot be changed
• It requires email verification, through a link click. Without it, the account will not be considered verified

However;

• Sign-up can be initiated by the user, or by the site admins ( by API invite )
• An automatic login occurs at the completion of the sign-up process
• With custom code, you can detect this and handle it differently from other logins- we refer to this as "first log-in"

Initiating Sign-Up

There are a lot of different approaches to the Sign-Up process, depending on the needs of your business;

• Public sign-up, anyone can join
• Public sign-up, as part of a membership purchase
• Public sign-up, while gathering additional information like a user profile
• Private sign-up, email invite-only
• Private sign-up, with a "secret" shared link

All of these scenarios can be handled by User Accounts in various ways.

Public sign-up, anyone can join

Notes;

• This is the simplest and most common approach, just give a link to Sign Up.

Public sign-up, as part of a membership purchase

Notes;

• Initiated as part of ECommerce membership sale

Public sign-up, while gathering additional information like a user profile

Notes;

• For added user information like City, Birthdate, etc, you can create custom user fields and add them to the sign-up form.

For more complex setups, we recommend you either;

• Create a form to collect your info ( such as an event registration ), and then after capturing that data, you initiate the email User Account invite using an automation, or
• Capture minimal information at sign-up, and then after the account is verified, get additional information on the User Accounts screen or through additional profile forms

Private sign-up, email invite-only

Notes;

• Use the API to invite users, using their email address
• Clicking the link in the Webflow email they receive will initiate sign-up and they can enter details like Name

Private sign-up, with a "secret" shared link

Notes;

• Webflow always has the Sign-Up page at _/sign-up
• You can simply hide links to it, to make it non-obvious and that may be enough
• Another approach is to create your own hidden form anywhere you like, and to have it trigger an automation that sends the email invite

Specially-routing first log-in

An automatic login occurs at the completion of the sign-up process, see the Log-in flow lesson for discussion on how to control this.

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