My last programmer hard coded into the signup.php and member.php pages error checks. I am selling products and if there is no prooduct in stock it is set to not allow the sell. from what I have been reading I can use a hook to do the same thing (just might be at different time) If you know php, amember and how to create hooks please contact me asap via MSN spankyxeon at msn dot com. the two hooks I am looking at using are validate_signup_form(&$vars) and the validate_member_form(&$vars) as explained on this page http://manual.amember.com/Using_site.inc.php_and_hooks please contact me asap, no emails sorry I do not have emailbox set up with this account