Hi Jo - Just convinced our users here that the need to use the private area of the website. I thought I'd give it a try just to check how it works but I encounter a couple of issues. 

These are the steps I take:

1) I go to the Members Zone area of our site

2) I send an email to invite new members (just me) using this link:

https://e-voice.org.uk/manningtreeanddistrictphotographicsociety/members_zone/admin/members/member-invite

3) I receive an email to register but I get a warning that the email already exists. Whilst I did register that email address in the past, it doesn't currently exist because I already deleted that user.

4) Anyway, I continue and Instead I register with a different email address. This time I'm successful at registering. However, when I access the members zone, I get a "Permission Denied" error. When I check the members zone page, and the public site pages, I find that the user isn't registered anwhere on the site.

These are the issues I've spotted during the process:

• Deleting users doesn't seem remove them from the site completely as re-registering doesn't seem to work
• Registering with a different address to the invitation address seems not to create a user on the site
• I can't find a way to create a link to the Members Zone from the main site page navigation menu. It's confusing because it's not clear in the default invitation email that there is a seperate web address for the members zone compared to the public area.
• Invitations arrive in spam folders (might be harder to solve!)

Thanks, Kev