Personal profile or page?

A Friym account — that is, an email address — carries one personal profile and some pages. Both are full profiles.

The difference in one line

	Personal profile	Page
Post, follow, comment, chat, buy	✅	✅
Sell	❌	✅
Host a team	❌	✅ up to 5 people

A personal profile can't sell

The refusal is explicit: "A shop opens from a page, not from your personal profile." This isn't a setting to switch on — the shop lives inside a page.

Five profiles maximum

Your account can carry five profiles, your personal one included — so four pages. Beyond that, creating is refused.

Other people's pages don't count

The limit only counts profiles that belong to you. Pages you administer for somebody else don't eat into your quota: you can have five profiles of your own and be on the team of ten other pages.

Where the number comes from. Five is the point beyond which managing them becomes unworkable for the person themselves. Someone who owns five profiles and also holds a role on other people's pages is already juggling a dozen identities: every post, every message means asking which name you're speaking under. The cap is there as much for you as for Friym.

That said, it isn't set in stone. The number was chosen for lack of a demonstrated need beyond it — if a real one appears, it can move. But today it's five, and nothing in the app goes past them.

You don't "switch" to a pro account

There's no converting a personal profile into a professional one. You create a page alongside your personal profile, which stays exactly as it is. The two live on the same account, and you move between them whenever you like.

The active profile decides everything

You only act as the active profile. Posting as a page means having switched to it — otherwise you post under your own name.

Two things follow the active profile rather than the account:

in-app notifications;
search history — each page has its own.

Creating a page

Profile tab → "Profiles", at the top left → "Create a page"

Four screens, with "Back", "Continue" and "Finish": the category, the details (name, username, description, phone, website), profile and cover, then finish.

There's a box to tick before confirming: "I certify that I represent this organization and have the authority to create, manage, and administer this page on its behalf."

The page exists immediately and becomes your active profile.

If it stalls	What you read
Badly formatted phone number	"Invalid phone number"
Badly formatted website	"This link is not valid"
Username already taken	A conflict message
Five profiles already created	The limit has been reached
Server failure	A title and an error message — what you typed is kept

A page's username is chosen — once

This is where it differs from your personal profile, whose @ is derived from your name without you having any say. For a page, you type it yourself, on the details screen.

Take an extra second over it: like your profile's, it can't be changed afterwards from the app.

One shop, however many pages

The refusal is final: "Only one shop per account is allowed."

Why. Friym hasn't yet come across a need that justifies several shops belonging to the same person — and until that need is understood, opening the possibility would mostly create a convenient way to multiply shops and blur the trail. So the rule is deliberately strict, and it's being watched: if a legitimate use emerges, it can change.

What to take from it today is the opposite of a promise: choose the page you open on as if the choice were permanent, because it is. The app says as much: "This store will be permanently linked to your account."

These are two different refusals, and they shouldn't be confused:

Refusal	What it means	The fix
"A shop opens from a page"	You're on your personal profile	Create a page
"This account already has a shop on another profile"	It's elsewhere on your own account	None. Creating another page won't change it

What stays attached to the account

Your email address, your security, any penalties, and your single shop. Closing your personal profile closes the whole account — see Closing your account.