# Notification of new users joining
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-of-new-users-joining/77506
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [January 8, 2018, 8:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-of-new-users-joining/77506 "2018-01-08T20:01:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@communitygal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/communitygal)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2018, 8:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-of-new-users-joining/77506/1 "2018-01-08T20:01:03Z")
Is there a way to get notified when new users join?
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### Author:  [@mikechristopher](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mikechristopher)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2018, 12:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-of-new-users-joining/77506/2 "2018-01-09T00:00:11Z")
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
> [@Trigger a Zapier task with Discourse Webhooks](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-webhooks-and-zapier/56753):
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> Want to use Discourse Webhooks to trigger a task via [Zapier](https://zapier.com)? Let’s get started! bulb Tip: Zapier now has an [official Discourse integration](https://zapier.com/apps/discourse/integrations) with built-in triggers and actions (e.g. “New Post”, “Create Post”). For common use cases, this is simpler than configuring generic webhooks manually. The guide below covers the manual webhook approach, which gives you more flexibility and access to all Discourse event types. Zapier requires a trigger and an action. In this howto the trigger…
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### Author:  [@communitygal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/communitygal)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2018, 4:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-of-new-users-joining/77506/3 "2018-01-09T16:20:39Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@supermathie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/supermathie)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2018, 4:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-of-new-users-joining/77506/4 "2018-01-09T16:30:44Z")
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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### Author:  [@mikechristopher](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mikechristopher)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2018, 4:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-of-new-users-joining/77506/5 "2018-01-09T16:32:09Z")
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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### Author:  [@jaevanryssel](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jaevanryssel)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2018, 7:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-of-new-users-joining/77506/6 "2018-01-09T19:53:36Z")
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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### Author:  [@Chris\_Taylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Chris_Taylor)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2019, 10:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-of-new-users-joining/77506/7 "2019-07-24T10:27:43Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2019, 12:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-of-new-users-joining/77506/8 "2019-07-24T12:07:33Z")
I believe that you either need a plugin or to have wherever you are calling do the filtering.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2019, 9:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-of-new-users-joining/77506/9 "2019-07-24T21:23:34Z")
You might check out [GitHub - erickguan/discourse-user-created-webhook · GitHub](https://github.com/fantasticfears/discourse-user-created-webhook)
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2019, 10:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-of-new-users-joining/77506/10 "2019-07-24T22:07:13Z")
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 [Trigger a Zapier task with Discourse Webhooks](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-webhooks-and-zapier/56753)
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2019, 2:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-of-new-users-joining/77506/11 "2019-07-25T14:20:01Z")
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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### Author:  [@mush490](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mush490)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2023, 4:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-of-new-users-joining/77506/12 "2023-07-31T16:35:11Z")
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?