Your Settings, Redesigned

Your settings used to be three separate pages, with a grey menu down the side and a handful of switches that did nothing. They are now three tabs, Account, Search and Billing, in the same paper-and-ink look as the filter panel and our articles. Open them from your profile picture, then Account Preferences.

Everything about you and how you sign in, in one place. Security is no longer a separate page; it lives here.

• Profile. Your photo, name, email and phone, each with an Edit link that opens a small window.
• Sign-in. Change your password, and see the accounts you can sign in with.
• Recent sign-ins. Your last ten sign-ins, now with the device and IP address each came from. If one looks unfamiliar, change your password.
• Deactivate. Still here, at the bottom, when you need it.

The defaults every new search starts with, for Mercala Pro members. Set them once and they follow you to every device.

• Sort by and View are rows of buttons now, one tap each. View has a new option, Map, if you like to start on the map.
• Island and Map style open the same list the filter panel uses, with Done and Clear this field. Map style now sets every map you open, including the one on each listing.
• Hide broker lets you leave chosen brokers out of your results: type a name, tick, done. The label turns red while any broker is hidden.

• Your payments are grouped by year, with a count and a total for each, so a year of receipts is one click away.
• The line above them says how long you have been a member.
• Paying monthly? Switch to yearly takes you straight to the confirmation; a year costs 25% less than twelve monthly payments.

Some settings looked useful but did nothing behind the scenes. We took them out rather than leave you wondering:

• The email, text, push and marketing switches. Nothing ever read them.
• Email frequency. Saved-search alerts go out daily, because the point of an alert is to hear about a new listing first.
• Active sessions. Its Revoke button did not actually sign a device out. Recent sign-ins shows you the same information, honestly.

The plans page has the same look. Mercala Pro is one card with a Monthly | Yearly switch, the yearly saving worked out for you. Mercala Corporate, one account for a whole office or group with a seat for each member, is coming soon: register your interest and we will let you know first. The page also shows every island we cover, with the number of live listings on each.

If something does not behave the way you expect, reply to any of our emails or write to support@mercala.org.