title: Implementing e-mail verification in Okta
body: <p>We're using Okta as an IDM provider and are trying to determine how to fulfill a specific use case that we currently use for one of our applications. Here is the current application flow:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>User enters website</li>
  <li>User enters e-mail and password to create an account</li>
  <li>An e-mail gets sent to the address entered in step 2 with a verification link</li>
  <li>User clicks on the link and the IDM system marks them as verified</li>
  <li>User can now log into the system using the credentials entered in step 2</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>As we look at the Okta user creation flows, we only see e-mails being sent for the following two flows/API calls: 1. Create a user without credentials or recovery questions; 2. Create Users with Recovery Questions. </p>
  
  <p>All other flows (at least the ones that we're aware of) create a user with credentials and activate the user right away and allow login without an e-mail being sent.</p>
  
  <p>Can the scenario above be created in Okta with a combination of API calls? Basically, can we create a user and keep it as "staged" until they click on a verification e-mail? Or is this a highly custom scenario? Also, we are not using multi-factor authentication so we don't have that as an option.</p>
  
  <p>Thank you!</p>