How to enable admins to add users directly instead of only sending invitations in Memberstack? Answered
Hi everyone! I'm developing a corporate file-sharing portal for an in-house team. I want only listed people to be able to sign up and log in, which could be managed through Passwordless user import in the admin panel. Thanks to the community for the suggestion!
Is there a way to create users with an admin role who can add other users directly to the platform, not just invite them? If that's not possible, I might set up a database of invited/added users and verify them during sign-up to control access.
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Hey Olha Shulha, if you want the users to be able to add a user from the site interface, you could probably have a form where they pass the email they want to add as a member and connect the form to a workflow (via Make / Zapier) and have a 'Create member' module from Memberstack, create a member for that email along with any plan assigned accordingly (w/o password filled up). You can also have an email module in the workflow which sends them an email regarding the platform with a link to the passwordless login form for ease of access.
You can make sure that such feature is only available for members who have a specific plan assigned which gives them such privileges to ensure this feature is not misused.
You can also take the database approach and it should work as well. You can achieve this with any approach that fits your use-case. Hope this gives you some idea.
Thank you, @A J!
The first solution is perfect for me and I thought about it, but I'm not sure if I can do this: 'have a Create member module from Memberstack, create a member for that email along with any plan assigned accordingly (w/o password filled up)."
As this article mentioned, we should not add new users via automations https://docs.memberstack.com/hc/en-us/articles/14052704355483-Passwordless-Signup-Login, "Meaning, we do not recommend using Make, Zapier, or the Dashboard to create members at this time."
Do you know if this is possible, but just not recommended? Ray said that such automation will be blocked by memberstack
Yes, I read that too and I am guessing this has to do with platforms which want users to set their own passwords for signup (it was also when passwords were a required field and if we create one via automation and set a password, it will just add on a step for users to reset their password / confuse them if they were not provided credentials as such).
I did test it out on my end to proof check and it does work via automation, i.e. Password is not required to be filled up via automation / dashboard (as shown in screenshot). I was able to login via such created member using passwordless login.
Since you want users to be able to login passwordless method on your platform, I believe it would work well for your use-case. You also have the option of collecting passwords from the users if they wish to set one (later via profile forms) so you have that facility available in the long run too.
A J Awesome, thanks a lot for your help, and especially for the testing out! I appreciate it a lot!
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