Membership Type "Require Approval" Effect

When you add or edit a membership type, if the "Require Approval" checkbox is checked, every application of this membership type signed up by a user will be set to pending and requires approval by an admin.
 
*** RA - if the "Require Approval" box is checked.
 

Free Memberships

Non-Free Memberships

RA
NOT RA
RA
NOT RA
pending
active
pending or
paid - pending approval
if paid, active
otherwise, pending

Note that this does not affect the membership renewal. On renewal, memberships will be automatically set to active if it's free or if it's paid. Otherwise, it will be set to pending.