The “Customer Email Verification” extension for WooCommerce is a valuable tool designed to enhance the security and authenticity of customer accounts on your online store. This extension introduces a process of email verification, requiring customers to confirm their email addresses during registration and before completing the checkout process. Here’s a summary of its key features and functionalities:

Key Features:

1. Registration Spam Prevention:
   • Reduce the occurrence of registration spam by ensuring that customers verify their email addresses during the registration process.
2. Fake Order Prevention:
   • Prevent fake orders by validating customer email addresses before allowing them to place an order. This is particularly useful for stores selling digital products, memberships, or offering free trials.
3. Avoid Bouncing Emails:
   • Eliminate the risk of undelivered “new account” and order confirmation emails due to typos in email addresses. Verification ensures that emails are sent to valid and functional addresses.
4. Customizable Verification Workflow:
   • Personalize and edit the content of the email verification workflows. Additionally, customize the design of the verification popup overlay using a customizer with a live preview.
5. Management of Unverified Customers:
   • Easily manage and delete unverified customers. Store admins can verify or resend the verification email to customers directly from the users admin. There’s also an option to schedule auto-deletion of unverified customers after a certain period.
6. Email Verification for New Customer Accounts:
   • Require customers to verify their email addresses during the registration process. Newly registered accounts are flagged as “Unverified Email” until the verification process is complete.
7. Email Verification Before Checkout:
   • Customers, especially guest customers, are required to verify their email addresses before proceeding to checkout. This step is enforced before the checkout or cart page, ensuring a secure checkout process.
8. Automatic Account Email Verification:
   • Apply the email verification process for users who create a customer account during the checkout process.
9. Fully Customizable Verification Process:
   • Customize the verification popup overlay and the verification email using the Customizer, providing a personalized and branded experience for customers.
10. Management of Unverified Customers:
    • The email verification status is visible for each user on the WordPress user admin. Admins can manually verify, un-verify, and resend verification emails.
11. Delay New-Account Email:
    • Delay the sending of the WooCommerce New Account email notification until after successful email verification.
12. Re-Verify Customer Email Address:
    • When a customer updates their email address, re-verification is required before the change is applied.
13. Verification Expiration and Limits:
    • Set the expiration time for verification codes/emails. Limit the number of times users can resend verification emails.
14. Bulk Actions Menu:
    • Bulk verification options are available in the admin Users list, allowing efficient management of customer accounts.
15. Bulk Resend and Auto-Delete:
    • Bulk resend verification emails to all unverified users. Set a time period to automatically delete customer accounts that did not verify their email addresses.