Is there a way to get notified when new users join?
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Two ways you can do it either enable approval of new users.
Or set up a zapier workflow to email upon new user via a webhook
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Hi @mikechristopher
Thanks for your response.
I don’t need to approve new people though. I just want to get a notification when someone joins.
I know I can go to dashboard - new users to see new people who’ve joined. But I would rather get a notification.
Any ideas there?
That was an either/or - you can configure the user webhook to trigger when a user is added/changed without requiring approval of new users.
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as @supermathie beat me to it -
If you want it without approval there is no native way within discourse to do so. Follow the Zapier webook link in my last post and will help set up a workflow in which will send you an email 
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What I’m currently doing in order to check any new signups (and total forum user count) on my forum is using the link yourdiscourseforum(.)com plus /users. So you visit yourdiscourseforum(.)com/users. Additionally I bookmark this url on my iPhone in order to check up on my forum user stats when I’m away from my pc.
Getting an e-mail notification seems great if your getting a “reasonable” amount of new signups per day, so not in the hundreds. What I would prefer to see is a weekly update/stats report about your forum being automatically emailed to you.
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I’ve set the webhook up but it’s emailing more for every change of a persons account so whether they sign up, delete account etc. Is there a way of restricting the User Event to just a signup?
I believe that you either need a plugin or to have wherever you are calling do the filtering.
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You might check out https://github.com/fantasticfears/discourse-user-created-webhook
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There is no need for a plugin, just filter the webhook event type for only user created.
Read the whole guide, it shows exactly this Discourse Webhooks and Zapier
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The problem that I think I understand, though, is that Zapier charges more to filter those calls and also counts each of those unnecessary calls against how much you have used it
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As Jay mentioned, this integration method works but wastes operations in Zapier (or Make). There is a cost for these operations so it is not ideal. Is it possible to only call the webhook on a new user registration?