You can set up security checks to let your customers create an account in Settings > Security.
- Show reCaptcha in registration form: by enabling the reCaptcha on registration, the customers have to prove they are not a robot before creating an account;
- reCaptcha public key: enter your public key. Scroll the page to learn how to get the reCaptcha public key;
- reCaptcha private key: enter your private key. Scroll the page to learn how to get the reCaptcha public key;
- Send a verification email new users: enable this option if you want your users to receive an email with a verification link when they register an account. To complete the account, they will have to verify their email address;
- Without a verified account: choose the action to execute if a user doesn’t verify the account:
- The user can’t log in to the site
- The user can log in but not purchase
- Block email domains: if you want to prevent certain email domains from being used to register an account, add them to this option, comma separated. For example, if you want to block all emails from @hotmail.com domain, you must enter hotmail.com.
How to get the reCaptcha Keys
reCaptcha system refers to Google “No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA”. In order to work correctly, it requires two pieces of data: reCaptcha public key and reCaptcha private key. Follow these instructions to configure the reCaptcha correctly.
First register an account on Google, in case you did not have one yet, go to the Google reCaptcha page and click on the button Get started with Enterprise.
Once logged into your Google account, register a new site for the application and add the required data.
- Display name: enter the name to identify the key;
- Choose platform type: select Website;
- Domains: add all the domains where the Google reCaptcha system will be activated.
Now click on Create key.
After creating the project, go to V3 admin console and recover the keys to be copied and pasted in the plugin settings.
