# Invite someone to join and give them a staged user account

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/invite-someone-to-join-and-give-them-a-staged-user-account/47996
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [30 ביולי,‏ 2016,‏ 10:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/invite-someone-to-join-and-give-them-a-staged-user-account/47996 "2016-07-30T10:47:46Z")
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### Author: ![tobiaseigen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tobiaseigen/32/539204_2.png) [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [30 ביולי,‏ 2016,‏ 10:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/invite-someone-to-join-and-give-them-a-staged-user-account/47996/1 "2016-07-30T10:47:46Z")

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I still don’t fully understand how the staged user functionality works but am wondering if it can be employed to support our outreach workflow.

We spend alot of our time inviting people to join our network. It would be really helpful if moderators could send a PM to an email address and for it to be associated with a new staged user, so if they reply the message remains with there so we can keep an eye on it and follow up. When they do join the staged user would become a full user, and we can mark it completed.

As it is, we use PMs actively to support people once they are signed up and have to use email before they sign up.

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