Customer Activation

Customer Activation

This small extension makes it impossible for a customer to log in to magento, until the account has been activated in the adminhtml interface: Customers > Manage Customers > (select customer) > Account Information > Is activated

This extension supports Magento v1.4 and higher!

It was designed to be used together with the <a href="../../../../extension/490">Netzarbeiter_LoginCatalog</a> extension. <a href="../../../../extension/490">Netzarbeiter_LoginCatalog</a> only shows products to customers that are logged in.
There also is the Extension <a href="../../../../extension/635">Netzarbeiter_GroupsCatalog</a> which may suit your needs better, you have to evaluate yourself what is the best solution for your case.

You can disable the Extension on a global or website level using the options found under System > Configuration > Customer > Customer Activation

You can select email notifications for the admin (when a new customer registers) and for the customer (when her account has been activated).
Sample email templates in english, german and italian are provided.

KNOWN BUGS: - None :D

Changelog:
- Release 0.3.3: Use better logic to figure out the customer store id and use config value variables in sample email templates (Thanks to Ryan Price again!)
- Release 0.3.2: Added check of configuration values if emails should be sent (Thanks to Ryan Price for the patch!)
- Release 0.3.1: Added shipping and billing address models as email variables
- Release 0.3.0: Fix session logout handling for Magento 1.5 compatibility
- Release 0.2.9: Add japanese locale (Thanks to Junya Sano for the translation!)
- Release 0.2.8: Drop support for Magento 1.3, add customer_activated attribute to 1.4.2 (CE) customer_form_attribute table, add renderer for column to display null values as "not activated"          
- Release 0.2.7: Enable mass activation when extension is disabled in global scope
- Release 0.2.6: Add italian locale it_IT, thanks to Chiara Piatti for the translation!
- Release 0.2.5: Magento 1.4 compatibility reease
- Release 0.2.4: Some refactoring and maintainance, no new features.
- Release 0.2.3: Make customer notification email template selectable on store view configuration scope
- Release 0.2.2: Added new config option to keep module active in admin customer interface, even if it is disabled in global scope
- Release 0.2.1: Let through API calls unchecked
- Release 0.2.0: New feature, send email notifications to the admin and the customer.
- Release 0.1.9: Include greek translation, thanks to Erik Hoeksma!
- Release 0.1.8: Include dutch translation, thanks to Toon van Veelen!
- Release 0.1.7: Show activation status in admin grid, support for mass activation (Thanks to PaulE for the code!)
- Release 0.1.6: declared stable
- Release 0.1.5beta: fixes create new customer form in the admin interface

With the latest release this module now also works when customer email confirmation is turned off.
Thanks to SeL for the french translation and the bugfixes and reports!

If you have ideas for improvements or find bugs, please send them to vinai at netzarbeiter.com, with Netzarbeiter_CustomerActivation as part of the subject line.