Your Account on Layer5 Documentation

Manage Your Account

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Your profile belongs to you, not to an organization. A change applies in every organization you belong to. This guide covers the four things you can change about your account: the profile, the password, the linked sign-in providers, and the account itself.

Before you start 🔗

You need the View Profile permission to open the profile. The default user role holds it.
Changing your password needs Reset Password. Deleting the account needs Delete Account. The default user role holds both.
Layer5 Cloud signs you in through an identity service. Password changes and account deletion need a live browser sign-in. A script that holds only an API token cannot do either.
Changing a password or linking a provider is a privileged action. If your sign-in is older than the privileged-session window, Layer5 Cloud asks you to sign in again first. The window is 24 hours on hosted Layer5 Cloud and 15 minutes by default in the self-hosted chart.
A user’s profile can also be edited by an administrator who holds Update User Profile in an organization you share with them. Only a Provider Admin can change another user’s email address.

Edit your profile 🔗

The profile form saves itself. About one second after you stop typing, Layer5 Cloud saves the change and confirms it with a short message. There is no Save button, and edits made during a save are queued, not lost.

Set Notification Preferences

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Layer5 Cloud sends email when something happens that involves you: you earn a badge, your role changes, someone comments on your design. Notification preferences decide which of those emails reach you. Preferences belong to your account, so they apply in every organization you belong to.

Email is the only channel. Layer5 Cloud has no per-event choice between email and another channel.

Before you start 🔗

You need the View Profile permission, which the default user role holds. The preferences are on your own account, and you cannot set them for anyone else.

Manage Subscriptions and Billing

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A subscription connects an organization to a Layer5 plan and bills for it. This guide covers what you can see and do with subscriptions, who can do it, and how the amount you pay follows your membership. For what each plan includes, read Feature Availability by Plan. Current prices are on the pricing page.

Who can manage a subscription 🔗

A subscription belongs to an organization, not to a person. Layer5 Cloud checks the caller against the subscription’s own organization, so administering one organization gives you no access to another organization’s billing.