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 ====== User Account Settings ======
+Admin Page: **Site Setup > User Account Settings**
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 Here, you can choose the maximum number of rows you would like to appear in information tables on the My Account Page (this setting has no effect if you are using the old User Account Home Page)
+==== Show icons for addons in "My Account Links" ====
+The icons that appear alongside entires for addons in the My Account Links module are disabled by default. You can turn them on by checking this box here.  Note that we recommend to keep this turned off as it can result in an inconsistent look for my account links, it is mainly provided as a backwards-compatibility option.
+===== Verify Account Settings =====
+Add ability to charge a user $1 (or any amount that you choose), and when payment is received, it shows a "verified" icon next to their username and/or next to the title for any listings the user places.  This is done as an anti-spam measure, since most spammers are not willing to pay money to spam a site.
+<tip c n>Note that there is a "Verify Account" order item, that charges $1 to verify the user's account. That order item has additional price plan specific settings in **Pricing > Price Plans Home > [edit button] > Cost Specifics**, such as turning the item off, or changing the price.
+Those price plan item settings will only be available if **Enable account verification system** is enabled (checked). </tip>
+See [[how_this_software_works/advanced/verified_account/start]] for more information about this feature.
+==== Enable account verification system ====
+Check this box to enable the account verification system, and to display additional settings available only when enabled.
+==== All order items "require admin approval" for Non-verified accounts (including anonymous listings) ====
+If checked, **anything** done by a non-verified account (including anonymous listings), would require admin approval, regardless of the normal price plan item settings.  This includes placing listings, editing listings, renewing, upgrading, etc.
+You can find the normal "require admin approval" settings that this is over-riding for non-verified accounts, in the admin at:
+**Pricing > Price Plans Home > [edit button] > Cost Specifics**, near the bottom of the page, in the section [[admin_menu/pricing/price_plans_home/plan_items/start|Price Plan Items]].
+Note that anything done by a **verified** account, would continue to follow the normal settings for the price plan for that user mentioned above.
+=== Example: ===
+**User account verify settings** are set as illustrated:
+{{ :admin_menu:site_setup:user_account_settings:verify-account-sample-settings.png?200 |}}
+**Price plan item settings** are set as illustrated:
+{{ :admin_menu:site_setup:user_account_settings:plan-item-example-settings.png?200 |}}
+**Result:**
+**User is not yet verified**:  Everything they do, placing a new listing, editing listings, renewing listings, etc. will require admin approval because it is set to require admin approval for all items for non-verified accounts.
+**Once user is verified**:  They can place listings, renew listings, etc without needing admin approval.  The only thing that would require admin approval is editing a listing, because that is what is set in the price plan item settings illustrated above.  Note that this is just an example, it could just as easily be set so that nothing requires admin approval in the price plan item settings, or however you wish.
+==== Verify account when user pays for something ====
+When this is checked, if the user pays for anything on the site, they do not need to specifically purchase the "account verification" as it will automatically verify the user.  This goes along with the theory that the spammers are not going to be paying for things.
+Note that any transactions paid for with **account balance** do **not** auto-verify the account.  This is because being able to pay with account balance, does not necessarily mean that the user actually paid money: the account could be "going negative", or the account could have started out with a balance, etc.
+===== User Ratings =====
+User Ratings allow site users to rate one another on a scale of 1-5 stars. The listing tag **{listing tag='user_rating'}** can be used to display the UI for rating the seller of a listing. Functionally, someone viewing the output from that tag will see a graphical representation of the seller's average rating from all users until he clicks on a star to place his own rating. From then forward, he will instead be shown the selected rating for that seller anywhere that seller's rating is shown.
+==== Low Rating Threshold ====
+This can be configured to send a warning email to a user and/or the site admin if the user's Average User Rating drops below a set level. To prevent abuse, no Low Rating Threshold messages will be sent until a user has received at least 10 total ratings, and once a user's Average Rating has fallen underneath the threshold, he will receive only a single notification email until his rating is once again above the threshold level.
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