First, I am very new to this ... Second, I've been looking for an answer, but none of the answers I found really fit my situation.

I want my customers and potential customers to be able to browse my store and see the prices, however I do not want them to be able to add anything to their carts unless they are logged in. When I set the Customer Approval Status - Authorization Pending to 3, it looks like I'm getting what I want, but now I need to "approve" any new customers. I want any new customers to be automatically approved mainly because I'm not sitting at my computer all the time.

I have a reason for this ... when a customer is not logged in and begins the checkout ... if they click on the PayPay button on the first screen it takes them directly to PayPal. After logging in, they are brought back to Step 2 of 3 and the price has been reduced (for example something that was $3.15 ends up being $ .65).

If the same customer clicks on the "Check out" they are brought to the "Welcome, Please Sign In screen where they can either login, sign-up or checkout via PayPal. If they sign in, nothing is discounted. However, if they once again click on the PayPal express button (also on that page) the product gets discounted.

I am only using the included Payment Modules and only have the Free Order and PayPal Express Checkout (Debug) active.

Rather than get into the guts of all this, I feel the easiest way to control this issue is to find a way to "automatically" approve new customers while at the same time have Customer Approval Status - Authorization Pending set to 3.

This is the link to my store -- https://www.jilbert.org/shop/

Thanking you all for any help or insights you can provide this noob ...