For several days now, I've been wondering why I should create my own user manager in Django, since in the end, when inheriting a built-in form, I don't refer to my created manager anyway. class CustomUserManager(BaseUserManager): def create_user(self, email, birth_date, password=None, **extra_fields): if not email: raise ValueError("You didn't entered a valid email address!") email = self.normalize_email(email) user = self.model(email=email, **extra_fields) user.set_password(password) user.save(using=self._db) return user def create_superuser(self, email, password, **extra_fields): extra_fields.setdefault('is_stuff', True) extra_fields.setdefault('is_superuser', True) return self.create_user(email, password, **extra_fields) I have something like this and in the end when it creates a user it doesn't go through that create_user anyway. So my two questions: Why create something for a custom user if I don't end up using it anyway because the form inherits from UserCreationForm. So, for example, form.save() does not use my manager. At what point should this create_user be executed? Continue reading...