activation for free subscriptions before approval

the user receives the activation email and sql queries for that plan are being executed, not just the pending approval and confirm message. I have also tried to use the incubator query plugin but I need to have this set up per plan. also the trigger "after approval" for the backend does not work at all in the incubator query plugin. I have tried many other triggers and they all work but this one doesn't. maybe there is a workaround to not automatically activate a free plan and then manually activate a plan in the backend? I could not find an "activate" button and this would be perfect...
your help is really appreciated on this topic.

Only thing I can suggest is to add a price to your plan. A plans integrations fire immediately after the plan becomes active and the plans being free results in immediate activation.

As for the incubator project the approval trigger fires perfectly fine, but you need to approve the user from frontend, edit the user from backend, or click the approval icon in user management.

Best solution is to likely develop a plugin to do exactly what you're wanting after a user becomes active using Triggers in a new CB plugin. You can find more information on trigger usage at the following tutorial.

www.allmysocials.com/tutorials/item/228-event-triggers