Activate account confirmation link

[solo_400]

A have a good percent of accounts based on fake email addresses . Is there a module/config which activate new accounts after customer click a confirmation link received in Welcome email ?

[stevesh]

There's nothing built in, and no mod I'm aware of.

[responsivezc]

Hi,

You can ban customers with fake addresses.
Take a look at the screenshot:

[solo_400]

@DrByte : In some cases I would not complicate the process by adding a step but in some countries CC payments are not so common and I prefer to prevent fraud orders by adding this step . Would be nice having a feature like this and be free to use it ( or not ) by clicking a button .

@responsivezc : manual or default blocking of all new accounts without having this future is dangerous for business . New customers must know before create account that must be activated .

[solo_400]

I wrote some code and solve it in some way . Considering that I'm not a serious developer I would like to share the code here and have your validation , maybe I done stupid-dangerous mistakes .
How can I share it in order to be easy to follow ?

[solo_400]

I'm trying to go ahead with the code but I'm stuck on this issue :

Customer May Browse and May see Prices but Must be Authorized to Buy . I need to let customer add products to cart , see cart content and block him until is Authorized , any idea please ?

[DrByte]

A have a good percent of accounts based on fake email addresses . Is there a module/config which activate new accounts after customer click a confirmation link received in Welcome email ?

Consider this from the other end: Are you really wanting to prevent a legitimate customer from proceeding thru checkout until they first receive a welcome email and click a link in it ... while they put their credit card away and close their browser since you prevented them from buying when they were ready to pay?