Creating a wholesale website, preventing people from seeing products and brands

Technical Q&A

Topic summary

A user is building a wholesale website and needs to implement two key restrictions:

Requirements:

  • Visitors must log in to view any products or content
  • New account registrations require manual approval before granting access

Partial Solution Found:
For the first requirement, they discovered an app called “Login to Access Pages” that prevents unauthenticated viewing.

Remaining Challenge:
Customers can still create accounts and immediately see everything without waiting for manual approval. The user needs a way to keep newly registered accounts in a pending state until they manually review and approve them.

Status:
A second user later asks if this was ever resolved, indicating they face the same challenge of needing to approve all users before granting access. The discussion remains open with no confirmed solution provided.

Summarized with AI on November 15. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
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Dear All,

I currently have an issue and i dont know how to fix it. I’m in the process of making a wholesale website.

What i want to do is

  1. People can only see the website when logged in with an account
  2. Accounts can not be automaticly approved. so
    1. Customer makes the account but i still need to approve it myself, or
    2. Customer contacts us, and i make the account manual

For issue 1. i did find an app called: “Login to Access Pages” which exactly fixes this. But customers can still make their own account and see everything.

How could i solve this ?

Kind Regards,

Monica

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Did this question ever get handled? We are in a similar situation where we want to approve all users before gaining access.

All the best, Blake