Stop Re-Sorting Your Search Results: Set Your Defaults Once

If you use Mercala every day, you probably have a routine: open the listings page, switch the sort order to price high-to-low, filter down to Aruba, and then start working. Every session. Every time.

One of our users, a real estate agent who works only with Aruba listings, told us she changed the order to highest price first every single time she opened the dashboard. A few wasted clicks per session, dozens of times a week.

You can set both permanently. Mercala remembers your search defaults on your account, so every new search opens already sorted and filtered the way you work, on every device you sign in on. Here is how.

Sign in and click your profile picture (or your initials) at the right end of the header, then Account Preferences. Your settings open on the Account tab. Click the Search tab next to it.

Prefer a direct route? Go straight to mercala.org/user/search.

The Search tab comes with Mercala Pro. If you do not see it, your account is on the free plan; the Billing tab shows the plans.

Under Defaults, the Sort by row has three options. Tap the one you want:

• Latest: newest listings first (the standard default)
• Lowest price: cheapest first
• Highest price: most expensive first

There is no save button. The choice is saved the moment you tap it, and a short "Saved" confirms it.

Below it, the Island field sets the island filter every new search starts with: All islands, Aruba, Curaçao, Bonaire, Sint Maarten or Saba. Open it, pick your island, and press Done. Clear this field takes you back to All islands.

That is the whole setup. The next time you open the listings page, your results are already filtered to your island and sorted your way. Two things worth knowing:

• Your defaults live on your account, not your browser. Your phone, your laptop and a colleague’s computer all open the same way once you sign in.
• Defaults are starting points, not locks. You can still change the order or the island during any search. Your defaults only decide how every fresh search begins.

View

Mercala shows results three ways: Table, a spreadsheet-style layout for scanning and comparing many listings, Card, a photo-first layout for browsing, and Map. Pick the one you always start in. Until you pick one, the dashboard opens in whichever view you used last.

Map style

The style every map opens in, on the dashboard and on each listing: Streets, Satellite (handy for a property’s surroundings, lot lines or distance to the beach), Outdoors for terrain, Light and Dark, or Auto (match theme), which follows your light or dark theme.

Hide broker

Further down, Hide broker leaves chosen brokers’ listings out of every search. Type a name, tick the brokers you never work with, and press Done. The field’s label turns red while any broker is hidden, so you always know your results are narrowed.

Set your defaults once, and let Mercala open the way you work.