Allow Fiverr Username Change

[gina_riley2]

I'd vote no on this.

I think it would create too many opportunities for the cheaters, liars and scammers. 

[aarontgladiator]

No? It would make making usernames for the first time meaningless, and it's not like your username affects your ranking unless someone is maybe searching for you specifically and is unable to find you or whatever.

[saiful7373]

No need to change the username.

[nahar_lucky]

There is no option for changing your username.

[arjoy007]

I'm really very interested to know about this😊

[blenddesign1212]

I appreciate this offer!  First time, I thought I'll  do all work using blender but now I would like to work for print design purposes. So, I need to change  my username. 

[bigbeardvo]

I started Fiverr with the intention of doing VoiceOver work, but ended up doing something else. I understand why name changes aren't allowed. They're important for establishing a chain of trust, and the unfettered ability to change a username may result in widespread fraud and abuse. 

In my case, I'd be happy to wait until I reach Level Two status and pay a fee to change it. By that time, It's my hope that I'd be trusted enough to do the fight thing for myself, the platform, and most importantly, the buyers. 

Edited January 19, 2022 by bigbeardvo

[its_zaryab]

On 6/16/2021 at 9:42 AM, zelamedia said:

I hope that Fiveer realizes that Businesses evolve and change and with that also most of the time the Branding of the person/company, and not to being able to change a Username I think is a bad design decision, If Fiverr is afraid of too often changes then just allow it every few months and notify all past customers that the name has changed, I don’t see any problem with this. The only static thing of us should be our ID in the Fiverr Database and not our Usernames.

Yes you're right

[arjoy007]

I wish Fiverr allow this 1 or 2 times after creating the account 🙂

Edited January 26, 2022 by arjoy007

[ruprekha]

Yes!!! this is something we all need. Thank you for bringing up the topic.We dont want to change it many times I guess Two changes will be fair enough. If by mistakenly someone put wrong name or misspell then he/she can change it.

[rakibul_i085]

A wonderful observation here and I also agree with you all.

[timothykoen]

I also agree with this change. It would be nice to have 1 or 2 username change options. I signed up as me, but my brand name is something else. And I might want to update that in the future, but can't. 🥴

[apex_design2]

Changing of username is not so important, the most important is the work your offer to your client.

[briannx]

I think the main reason why fiverr is careful about allowing users to change their user names is to prevent abuse. In what sense?

I'm the sense that if a seller has been providing bad services, they can simply rebrand themselves as someone else and still offer the same poor services. So I guess I understand fiver in this regards. 

[dropshipexpert0]

Fiverr should allows us to change the username at least single time if they can't manage to handle furthermore. But they are stick with their rules. 😌

Edited February 2, 2022 by dropshipexpert0

[vfx_hasan]

I think this will be very helpful for Fiverr sellers. Because sometimes we feel the necessity of changing our username. We don't need to change it so many times but Fiverr should give us chance to change it atleast 2 or 3 times. 

[hanif606]

I think this is a good and timely proposal. Because, many people are indifferent about the name while opening an account and also everyone's branding changes with time. In view of this, the Fiber Authority should formulate a policy that allows a member to change his name at least twice in his lifetime.

[jessicawilso768]

My username has my last name in it. I have recently changed my last name so my username isn't as relevant. I wish at-least once I changed my last name it would have changed the username with it. 

[anwarhossain_]

Really valuable topic and completely agreed to what has been said here

[shafiqulliton]

Good Post

[samus_x]

On 6/16/2021 at 11:17 AM, frank_d said:

I think that’s a great suggestion.

Most people when joining the platform used a very personal screen name, or something that they grew out of. So this would be a great feature actually.

Maybe they could allow a total of 2 changes in a member’s lifetime?

And we would need to apply and have some sort of check on Fiverr’s end?

(so that no one can game the system)

It is really relieving hearing this even from a mod. I believe this is one of the best and most requested features in the whole history of Fiverr.

[zerocrms]

On 2/1/2022 at 9:56 AM, briannx said:

I think the main reason why fiverr is careful about allowing users to change their user names is to prevent abuse. In what sense?

I'm the sense that if a seller has been providing bad services, they can simply rebrand themselves as someone else and still offer the same poor services. So I guess I understand fiver in this regards. 

I agree that sellers should always be forced to be transparent about their previous dealings with buyers. However, stopping users from changing their usernames does not solve this. A seller could simply close and then re-open a new account, leaving all negative reviews behind. The answer Fiverr support gives is that the username is a "unique identifier," which pretty much means the whole website and background systems work off of it. This is not an excuse. It should be quite easy to replace the unique identifier with a number code for each user (only visible to admins), allowing for easy identification of sellers and buyers but with the option to change the username as and when. This is what 99% of companies have been doing for years, like Instagram, to name one.

[adnansiam701]

I hope that Fiveer realizes that Businesses evolve and change and with that also most of the time the Branding of the person/company, and not to being able to change a Username I think is a bad design decision, If Fiverr is afraid of too often changes then just allow it every few months and notify all past customers that the name has changed, I don’t see any problem...

[bimashazamann]

This is something we all need!!

[shawalshajib]

It's a great suggestion.