I have 2 Questions regarding the customer authorization / approval status options.

I am using the setting of 1 for both options (Must login to browse and must be authorized to browse)

1. Once the custromer requests an account they receive a welcome email saying their account is being reviewed - i get the same email and go in and manually approve them. My questions is - is there any possible way to have an email automatically sent to them when their account is approved? Now i have to manually go into my email and send them a note informing them their account is approved and they can now login.


2. I have been playing around with the different approval statuses that can be used. I thought it may be useful to utilize the "Pending approval - may browse with prices but may not buy" option. I like this because there are some people I want to be able to let into the sie to see what we have but not be able to buy (This is like a demo mode) Then if they want to be able to buy form us they have to fax us an agreement. Whenever i set a customers status to this option - it doesnt even let them login at all. I have made test accounts and for some reason if you set an account to this status when they try to login the page just loads and loads and does not let them in at all.