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: [afbeelding] Automate sending Discourse invite emails with Zapier Integr…

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) 23 november 2025 om 11:13 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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