Managing your account

    Managing your Kaarakauppa account

    Your Kaarakauppa account holds everything in one place: the listings you publish, your messages, your saved searches, your boosts, and — on a business account — access to the company dashboard. The same account also signs you in to the support center. Knowing where each section lives saves you time every time you come back to handle something.

    1. Open the avatar menu

    Once you are signed in, your avatar appears at the right end of the top bar. Click it to open the account menu. A private account shows:

    • Profile — your name, default location, profile picture, and notification preferences.
    • Messages — your conversations with buyers and sellers.
    • My listings — your own listings (published, drafts, parked, sold).
    • Boosts — extra visibility tools for your listings.
    • Saved listings — listings from other sellers you follow.
    • Saved searches — search criteria that notify you when a matching new vehicle is published.
    • Payments — your payment history.

    A business account shows the same personal items except My listings, Boosts, and Payments — on a business account, listings, boosts, and payments are handled from the company dashboard instead. In their place, the top of the menu carries its own group with a Dashboard shortcut, and the menu header reads Company account. The dashboard's sidebar holds every company tool: Dashboard, Company listings, Analytics, Boosts, Locations, Homepage (with the add-on), Team, Company & billing, Subscription, Payments, and External integrations — some require at least the Admin role. You can also reach the dashboard from the orange Dashboard button in the top bar.

    The bottom of the menu always carries Sign in as a different account and Logout — see below.

    2. Update your profile

    From the avatar menu, choose Profile. The profile page is where you edit your displayed name, default location, profile picture, and email-notification toggle. Your account type is chosen when you register and is not edited in the profile — see Private vs business accounts.

    💡 Tip: Keep your default location current. It affects both your listings' default location and your search results, so update it whenever you move.

    Detailed walkthrough: Setting up your profile.

    3. Switch accounts or sign out

    The bottom of the avatar menu carries two account-level actions:

    • Sign in as a different account — signs you out and re-opens sign-in so you can sign in with a different email address. Useful on a shared device when you want to switch users.
    • Logout — ends both your Kaarakauppa marketplace session and your identity-service session, so you will need to enter your email address again next time. The same sign-out also covers the support center if it is open in the same browser.

    ⚠️ Heads up: On a shared computer, always sign out when you are done. Closing the tab or the browser window does not end your session, and the next user could send messages on your behalf without realising.

    What happens next?

    The avatar menu is your entry point to every part of your account — messages, listings, saved searches, and, on a business account, the company dashboard. Whenever you come back to manage something, start from the same menu so you do not have to hunt for the path again.

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