Why won't my seller account update my email address?
Platforms often fail to process email changes due to technical errors or account mapping restrictions, frequently reverting the change or displaying failure messages. This prevents sellers from updating crucial account details like name changes, often forcing them to abandon the attempt or risk breaking their account history.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1continuing to use the old email address instead of the new one
- 2Refusing to update user UPNs or primary identifiers
- 3Maintaining multiple Okta accounts for a single user
- 4Keeping display names and email aliases static instead of changing primary attributes
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“Etsy will not change it.”source ↗
“I have tried three times and it keeps reverting back to my old email even though I received a new email verification and clicked it from my new email address in Apple.”source ↗
“I keep getting an error at the top of my shop saying that they are unable to change my address.”source ↗
“yeah change the users upn, it will break it. it will create a new account and they will lose all history”source ↗
“name changes, thus email changes. they don't support it even if you map to the old name in your idp”source ↗
“Every other app in existence more or less supports mapping email addresses to different accounts for things like name changes when people get married. Naw Claude it just breaks and says go f yourself.”source ↗
Where this came up
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