Found the One? Share It, Save It, Build a Collection

The problem

It happens all the time: you find a promising listing, look through the photos, maybe check the price history… and then you close it. Two days later you want to show it to your partner — or your client — and you're scrolling through hundreds of results trying to find it again.

Mercala has a full set of tools for exactly this moment: share a listing with anyone, save it for yourself, sort it into collections, and hide the ones you never want to see again. They all live behind one small button that most users never click.

Meet the actions menu

Every listing has a three-dot button (⋮) — you'll find it at the end of each row in table view, on every card in card view, and in the top-right corner when you open a listing from your search results. Click it and this menu appears:

Let's take them one at a time.

Share it with anyone

Click Share and a window opens with two options. Quick share gives you a Copy link button — one click, the label flips to "Copied!", and the listing's link is on your clipboard, ready to paste anywhere. Below it, Share externally has one-click buttons for WhatsApp, X, Facebook, Reddit, LinkedIn, Telegram, Signal, and Email.

For an agent, this is the two-click client update: found something this morning, on your client's WhatsApp before your coffee is cold. And sharing is available to everyone — no subscription needed.

Save it for yourself

Click Save Listing and the heart fills red — you'll see "Added to Saved Listings" pop up. That's it: the listing is now in your personal saved list, and the same menu item (now reading Saved) un-saves it if you change your mind. In card view there's an even faster route: the heart icon sits right on each card.

Organize with collections

Saving is a pile; collections are folders. Click Add to collection and a window asks: "Which collections would you like to add this listing to?" Tick an existing collection, or type a new name — if it doesn't exist yet, a Create button appears. Hit Done and the listing is filed.

Where collections really pay off: each one has its own page, with buttons to Edit, Delete, Print, and — the good one — Share. Build a collection per client or per project ("Beachfront under $500k", "The Hansen family"), then share the whole shortlist as a single link, or print it before a day of viewings.

Hide what you never want to see

The opposite of saving. Click Hide on a listing in your dashboard and it disappears from your search results — with an "Added to Hidden Listings" confirmation. It's not gone forever: hidden listings live in their own list where you can review and unhide them anytime, and the menu on a hidden listing shows Unhide instead.

If it's a whole broker you want to mute rather than a single listing, that's a different setting: Hidden Brokers, on your Account Preferences page.

The heart button is your filing cabinet

Everything you've just filed away comes back together in one place: the heart button in the header, next to your profile avatar.

Click it and the Saves menu lists your Saved Listings, Saved Collections, Hidden Listings, and Saved Filters — each with a live count, each one click from its contents.

Bonus: save the search itself

That last item — Saved Filters — is the quiet power feature. When you've dialed in a search you'll want again (your island, your price band, your property type), save the filter and tick "Notify me when new listings match this filter". From then on, you don't check Mercala for new matches — Mercala emails you. For an agent watching a specific segment of the market, this is the difference between hunting and being told.

So next time a listing makes you pause: don't just close it and hope you'll remember. Three dots, one click — share it, save it, file it. Future you says thanks.