# Affiliate Activation

*Article Topics:* [*Affiliates*](https://docs.toomuchmedia.com/getting-started/common-topics/affiliates)

NATS offers the ability for [program owners](https://docs.toomuchmedia.com/additional-resources/common-terms#program-owner) to require additional steps or verification when a new affiliate is signing up. You can do this by either requiring e-mail verification for affiliates or by requiring manual activation by the program owner to activate new affiliates.

## Required E-mail Verification

NATS gives you the option of requiring new affiliates to verify their e-mail address after signing up. To do so, you must follow these steps:

**1)** Enable the RESELLER\_VERIFY config option in the Affiliates tab of the Configuration Admin.

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**2)** Turn on the EMAIL\_AFFILIATE\_SIGNUP in the Emails tab of the Config Admin.

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**3)** Place the verification link below in your 'mail\_affiliate\_on\_signup' template in the [Special Templates](https://docs.toomuchmedia.com/nats-admin/skins-and-templates).

{% hint style="info" %}
**Please Note:** If you are on NATS 4.0.75.1 or a newer version, the link below should contain *{$affiliate.verify}* instead of *{$verify}*.
{% endhint %}

{% code overflow="wrap" %}

```
https://{$config.PROJECT_HOSTNAME}/signup_verify.php?lid={$loginid}&verify={$verify}
```

{% endcode %}

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Once you have done this, your affiliates will not be able to login until they have verified their e-mail address. Other templates you can customize for this are:

* external\_signup\_done
* external\_signup\_verify

These can be found in the "Standard Skin" option in the [Skins & Templates Admin](https://tmmwiki.com/index.php/NATS4_Skins_and_Templates_Admin)

## Requiring Manual Activation

Another method of adding steps to affiliate registration is requiring that the program owner manually activates new affiliates. To do so, you must follow these steps:

* Enable the RESELLER\_MANUAL\_ACTIVATION config option in the Affiliates tab of the Configuration Admin.

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* Affiliates can now be approved or denied in the Affiliate Admin

For additional verification measures, you can require both manual activation and e-mail verification. This will require the affiliate to first verify their e-mail, and then to be manually activated by you (or the program owner).