Require approval before registration
Updated August 28, 2026
Hold free-page sign-ups for your review, then approve or reject them before anyone is registered for the event.
What it’s for
Require approval captures registrations on Venue first. Visitors submit the form as usual, see a pending confirmation, and wait until you decide. Only an approval registers them for the event.
Use it when the guest list must stay curated: invite-only webinars, partner events, or any free page where an automatic enroll is too open. Paid registration keeps its own path and does not use this queue.
Open your page in the builder, on step 4 · Settings. The “Require approval” block sits below the access rules (free pages only).
Turn on “Require approval”. New sign-ups stay pending: nobody is registered for the event until you decide.
You cannot turn the setting off while anyone is still waiting in the queue. Open the Registrants tab. The approval queue lists pending and failed requests. Approve or reject one row, or bulk-approve a selection (or all pending).
Failed rows can be retried (with a limit) or discarded.
Good to know
- Approve one runs the same registration path as a normal free sign-up, including capacity and sessions, and enrolls the visitor on the page’s event platform when the event comes from a connector. Bulk approve runs in the background and shows progress on the Registrants tab.
- Changing the linked event discards pending and failed rows in the queue: those submissions were captured for the previous event.
- Unavailable while registrant retention is “Don’t store on Venue”: Venue needs a place to keep the pending form answers.
Related articles
- Control access and privacyPassword-protect the page, set its visibility, redirect after registration, and cap sign-ups.
- Create and revoke API keysIssue workspace keys to call the Venue API from your own code — then revoke them when you no longer need them.
- Set how long registrant data is keptChoose a retention window for the personal data collected through your pages — or keep none on Venue at all.
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