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November 22, 2021
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Zoom meeting keeps asking approved attendees to register

  • November 22, 2021
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Is anyone else encountering the issue where a Zoom meeting with registration keeps asking people to register for a meeting even if 1) their registration has already been approved and 2) they are using the link sent in their confirmation email? This has always happened to at least a couple attendees for every Zoom meeting I’ve organized with Zoom registration in the past two months. The registration for these meetings usually requires manual approval (for security purposes, automatic approval is not an option for me). I think this is particularly common when the attendee has several Zoom accounts. But oddly, the problem seems to persist even if the user is already using the right join Zoom meeting link, that they received in the same email address that is logged in to the Zoom app and the Zoom browser profile. Clearing the cache doesn’t seem to work either.

 

Please help. I can work around it pretty easily as the host, but it’s hard to help other attendees troubleshoot (while managing the meeting while it’s ongoing), and some of them just end up giving up on attending.

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    Community Manager
    December 2, 2021

    Hey @dna6 if you can reach out to our Zoom technical support and they'll get this resolved for you. They'll further look into ensuring that the registration link is working for you!

     

    Let me know if you need any assistance along the way! ​​​​​​​

    Newcomer
    March 29, 2023

    Hi RN. 

    We have an event with multiple international stakeholders happening next week an upon testing our links we had the same issue. Can we please have an update as soon as possible so we can organise a back up plan asap.

     

    Thanks in advance.

    JHC-Marketing
    Newcomer
    Newcomer
    February 22, 2022

    We had the same problem at our last webinar. Out of 500 attendees, dozens of them were prompted to reregister despite clicking the link Zoom sent them in their registration confirmation. It was a total nightmare being flooded with phone calls and emails when the webinar was starting.

    Newcomer
    February 23, 2022

    We are having this same issue.  We have 3 Training Sessions per week.  Session 1 folks are good.  Session 2 everyone is being asked to reregister.  Session 3, only a handful have to reregister.  I don't know how to fix it.  We do these trainings twice a year and this is the first time we have had this issue and it is irritating to the attendees and for us.

     

    Newcomer
    April 7, 2022

    Same here! Some sessions it happens, some it doesn't. It has been happening for months and seems to get worse right after major Zoom updates. It is a major issue when our presenters can't join because they keep getting asked to register and get stuck in that loop.

    deborahfitzpat
    Newcomer
    Newcomer
    May 10, 2022

    I've had this problem for the last 2 client webinars.  Fortunately, today the one client (to my knowledge) that was impacted was persistent and she re-registered twice.

    Newcomer
    June 10, 2022

    I also cannot get in. We will miss the gathering while trying to connect.

    Newcomer
    July 7, 2022

    I am having this issue as well (7-7-2022) I've had many people who click the link in the confirmation e-mail and they get moved to the registration page. Even when I send them the actual Zoom link that is listed in the meeting and it still doesn't work. 

    Newcomer
    October 2, 2022

    I have the same issue today.  All participants were asked to register (again) and they got stuck in the loop and never able to get in. At the end I have to leave my scheduled meeting and just went on to start a new Zoom meeting...  I think I lost quite a bit of customer attention there....  How to fix??? 

    Newcomer
    October 14, 2022

    I had the same issue today. Some were able to join after registering twice. Suspect many just gave up.

    Newcomer
    November 12, 2022

    We had the same issue today. Manually approved 220 registrants to a meeting. A small handful had the same issue. It was frustrating and I think we lost about 40 attendees.

     

     

    Newcomer
    November 14, 2022

    I worked with support and the engineers found a bug... so after a month they've diagnosed the problem and will hopefully have a fix soon.

    Community Champion | Customer
    March 29, 2023

    Figured I would post this here since other people are reporting this is still happening...

     

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    Nov 9, 2022, 08:49 CST

    Hello Nick,
     
    Our engineers found the root cause of the problem.  Here's what they found.
     
    This webinar has been updated with custom questions for registration on 2022-09-23 at 19:10:59 UTC. 
     
    Some users had already registered before the custom questions were updated and got the old join link from an email. 
     
    Since the join link token includes custom questions, these users who used the old join link to join the webinar would be failed because of the wrong token. 
     
    In this case, these users clicked the join link and were taken to the registration page, and the new join link can work normally. 
     
    Users who had registered after the custom questions were updated got the new join link, which was no problem.
     
    Our engineers found the design bug and are working on fixing this.
     
    I've let the support team know about this bug so that everyone is aware and can assist our customers more quickly.
     
    Meanwhile, as a workaround, please instruct your team to send out a new registration link if any changes are made to custom questions.  
     
    I'll make sure to let you know the progress of this one.
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    FWIW, I haven't heard back about any progress. Since people are still reporting issues in this thread I have to assume there hasn't been any fix to the "custom questions" bug.

    Hello Nick,

     

    thanks for sharing this information. Are you also willing to share your Zoom support ticket number?

    quoting your ticket may help speed up the resolution.

     

    Regards