A new CB Invites release is now available with some great new features for simplified invite only sites! Check out the details below!
Invite Only sites previously were only doable by setting the Invite Code field to Required. This limited how invite only sites could function as it required adding another field to registration, which adds friction to registrations and it couldn't work with external registrations from APIs.
This has been improved with a toggled to enable invite only registrations through CB Invites directly with a new simple parameter in CB Invites > Parameters > Invites. Once toggled on frontend registrations, regardless of where they come from, will be required to have a valid invite to join.
You maybe wondering how this would work with things like CB Connect or custom registration forms. Well the invite links now set a 24 hour cookie to assist with this. Once an invite link is accessed it will set a cookie that will be checked during registration, if it's available, to authenticate the registration invite. This will allow you to use whatever registration workflow you like for an invite only site.
A great example of how to use this is to disable registration then exclusively use CB Connect for registrations. Now with invite only enabled you've and SSO invite only site. This completely eliminates all friction for registering!
In addition to this invite links no longer have to send the user to registration. You can now customize where to send them when an invite link is accessed. This is great for adding intermediary pages to explain your site or to custom forms and thanks to the cookie their registration will still validate and accept the invite fine.
Another great feature is being able to know who invited you. The Invite Code field when display on profile will now display the linked profile name of the user that invited you.
Some other great improvements have been made as well like the invite form at the top of the tab being a bit more dynamic to spacing to ensure the inputs to squash too much in smaller displays. This was especially a problem with searching is enabled.
For a full list of changes please feel free to visit our forge.
To find out more about CB Invites take a look at its page.