I’ve successfully got our discourse instances q&a category to allow non-members to post by via email without being signed up. This creates a ‘staged user’ as I understand it. How can we automatically invite staged users to sign up? Kind regards, Stephen

You can use Zapier to listen for newly created staged users (eg: webhooks) and then trigger an invitation email using the Discourse API’s /invites endpoint. This guide might be helpful for setting it up: [image] Automate sending Discourse invite emails with Zapier Integrations The Discourse API can be used to automate sending invitation emails from your forum when an action is performed on an external application. For many applications, you can use Zapier to set this up without having to write any code. A common use case for this is to invite users to your forum when they purchase a product or signup on an external service. For the example in this topic I will use the Zapier WordPress integration to trigger sending an invite from Discourse when a new user signs up o…

Thanks. This makes clear that this is not an existing feature in discourse.

As an alternative, I think it should be possible to use a data explorer query to create a csv of latest or specific staged users and then use the csv to bulk invite them.

How to automatically invite staged users to sign up?

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spdegabrielle (Stephen De Gabrielle) November 23, 2025, 11:13am 5

that’s a good tip, but my volumes are not that high.

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How to automatically invite staged users to sign up?

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