# Create staged users via API?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-staged-users-via-api/279052
**Category:** Development
**Tags:** rest-api
**Created:** [September 14, 2023, 7:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-staged-users-via-api/279052 "2023-09-14T19:23:28Z")
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### Author: ![supermathie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/supermathie/32/507518_2.png) [@supermathie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/supermathie)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2023, 9:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-staged-users-via-api/279052/4 "2023-09-14T21:33:04Z")

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If passing `staged: true` to the admin user create call doesn’t work, I suspect we’d be open to a PR to enable that.

(It’s somewhat of a niche feature outside of your use case I think?)

Perhaps you could use the handle\_mail route to post a fake email as the user? (Oh, as @blake [suggests](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-a-staged-user-with-an-api-call/84667/4))

That would create the staged user if necessary and the topic at the same time.

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