Paid Memberships Pro – Approvals

The Approvals add-on lets the Admin, Membership Manager or a new Approver role approve or deny memberships after signup. Pending approval, members cannot access members-only content. Upon approval, they gain access to all content in their membership level.

You can set a level to require an approved membership from another level to finish checkout. That gives you a two-step application: an optional application fee on the application level, then the full recurring fee on the primary membership for approved members.

The applying member and the admin receive email notifications along the way. If a membership is denied, the add-on does not automatically refund the initial payment or cancel the recurring subscription.