Is it just me or “is Logged In / is Logged Out” doesn’t seem to work that great considering how Webflow handles Account creation?
Consider this scenario:
- User click on “Subscribe now”
- He’s brought to Sign Up form
- Fills in the form, receive validation email. So far so good.
- Use clicks on link in the email and lands on the site again. User is now a validated user.
- User decide not to pay and navigate the site instead.
- Every element that’s gated on the site is available to him --he’s logged in-- although he never paid.
Back as a site operator, it’s really not that great.
- I have a bunch of “verified” users which are in fact dead wood. I can’t even pin on the user list the User Group a user belong to.
Is it something I’m doing wrong or that’s the current state of affairs?
Thankfully SA5 helps a lot to determine user subscription and show/hide elements. This thing is SO cool. But it’s hiding elements. Content is still generated and loaded in user’s browser.
My 2 cents is that Webflow should consider users that are on a journey to subscribe but DO NOT complete the subscription (aka pays for it) the same thing as an abandonned cart => user has initiated a subscription process but have not yet completed it with:
- reminder emails every n days
- a “subscription not complete” page that allows him to pick up where he left as soon as he sign in
- for us, a process to delete these users automatically after n days (30?)
I’m working on workarounds but these feel like hacks. Not really clean.
Someone else going through the same thing?