django-registration vs scratch registration implementation for admin-activated accounts

Question

I need to implement a fairly simple registration workflow:

• User fills a registration request (form).
• Admin(s) recieves a notification about the registration request. (maybe)
• Admin(s) activates desired users from the django-admin interface.
• User recieves a notification about the activation of his account.

I've been reading about the django-registration application.

From what I've read, it seems that this app is used very frequently but I'm not sure of its advantages.

So, my question is: from the following options (I'm open to other alternatives as well), what would be better in this case?

• Implement all the registration from scratch.
• Extend one of the backends on django-registration.
• Write a django-registration backend from scratch.

Also, reasons supporting the choice please.

Answer 1

you might want to take a look at django inspectional registration it fits your use case perfectly. It's an enhanced version of django registration since the latter doesn't have the function to approve/deny user's registration.