Title: Additional filter inside create_user
Last modified: January 9, 2020

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# Additional filter inside create_user

 *  [Edgars V](https://wordpress.org/support/users/veidenbaums/)
 * (@veidenbaums)
 * [6 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/additional-filter-inside-create_user/)
 * Hi!
 * I wanted to ask if it’s possible that in feature release you would add one additional
   filter inside create_user() method, so this part
 *     ```
       			// User account already exists
       			if ( get_user_by( 'email', $payment_data['user_info']['email'] ) ) {
       				return false;
       			}
       ```
   
 * would look like
 *     ```
       			// User account already exists
       			if ( get_user_by( 'email', $payment_data['user_info']['email'] ) ) {
       				return apply_filters( 'edd_auto_register_email_exists', false, $payment_data, $payment_id)
       			}
       ```
   
 * Or in a perfect world an action.
 * The idea is that we don’t want to force the user to sign up, if he already has
   an account, instead we would just add the purchase to his existing account.
    -  This topic was modified 6 years, 3 months ago by [Edgars V](https://wordpress.org/support/users/veidenbaums/).
      Reason: Updated code

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 * Last activity: [6 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/additional-filter-inside-create_user/)
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