This is driving me crazy. I disabled the force Login and auto user creation as well as user sync in registration forms but when someone tries to register a friend the below error is happening:
An error has occurred:
You have entered an email address that matches an existing user account in our system. You can only submit registrations for your own account or for a person that does not exist in the system. Please use a different email address.
Within the WP user integration add-on is a check which runs when the user enters their email address into the registration form, it checks to see if there is a valid user for that email and then blocks the registration showing the error you mentioned.
This is to try and make sure that registrations for a specific user are actually linked to that user (as they need to be logged in to register).
However, you can disable that check if preferred using a snippet like this:
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