Team & Collaboration

Sharing Profiles

Share browser profiles with team members. Control access levels, manage permissions, sync data across collaborators, and handle concurrent sessions.

Amanda Foster
6 min read

Multiple people managing the same account? Share profiles instead of passing credentials. Team members get their own access with controlled permissions.

Why Share Profiles?

Without sharing, everyone creates their own profiles for the same account. That causes problems:

  • Multiple browser fingerprints for one account (red flag)
  • Different IPs logging into same account (suspended)
  • No coordination on who's working when
  • Lost cookies and sessions when someone else logs in

Shared profiles solve this. One profile. Multiple authorized users. Synced data. Coordinated access.

How to Share a Profile

Profile → Settings → Sharing → "Add Team Member" button.

Step 1: Select Member

Choose from your team members. Only Members and Viewers need explicit sharing. Admins and Owner already have access to all profiles.

Step 2: Set Permission Level

PermissionCan ViewCan LaunchCan EditCan Delete
Full Access
Launch Only
View Only

Recommended permissions:

  • Full Access: Trusted team members who configure accounts
  • Launch Only: Operators who just need to use the browser
  • View Only: Supervisors who monitor but don't operate

Step 3: Save

Click "Share". The team member sees the profile in their dashboard immediately. No email notification.

Data Synchronization

Shared profiles sync data across all users automatically.

What syncs:

  • Cookies (login sessions persist)
  • Local storage
  • Session storage
  • Bookmarks
  • History
  • Extension data
  • Form autofill

How it works:

  1. Alice launches shared profile, logs into Facebook
  2. Alice closes profile → Data syncs to cloud
  3. Bob launches same profile → Gets Alice's logged-in session
  4. Bob posts update, closes profile → Data syncs
  5. Alice relaunches → Sees Bob's post in history

Sync happens on profile close. Takes 2-5 seconds depending on data size.

💡 Pro Tip

Close profiles when done. Don't leave them running overnight. This ensures your changes sync to team members and reduces memory usage.

Concurrent Access

What happens when two people launch the same profile?

Desktop App Behavior:

First person to launch gets access. Second person sees:

"Profile is currently in use by Alice Chen. Launch anyway?"

Options:

  • Wait: Notification when Alice closes
  • Launch Anyway: Forces Alice's session to close (she gets warning)
  • View Only: See what Alice is doing in real-time (observer mode)

Best practice: Coordinate launches. Use Slack/Discord to say "Taking Facebook profile now."

Managing Shared Access

Profile → Settings → Sharing → View all shared users.

You'll see:

  • Team member name
  • Permission level
  • Last launched timestamp
  • Currently using? (Yes/No)

Change permissions: Click member → Change dropdown → Save.

Remove access: Click "Remove" → Confirm. They lose access immediately.

Bulk Sharing

Share one profile with 10 team members? Don't add them one-by-one.

Profile → Settings → Sharing → "Bulk Add" button → Select multiple members → Set permission → Share.

All selected members get the same permission level.

Shared Profile Notifications

Enable notifications to know when shared profiles are in use.

Settings → Notifications → "Shared Profile Activity" → Enable.

Get notified when:

  • Someone launches a profile you're using
  • Your shared profile has been idle for 30+ minutes
  • Profile permissions changed
  • Profile was deleted by another user

Conflict Resolution

What if two people edit at the same time?

Rare, but possible:

  1. Alice and Bob both launch profile
  2. Alice saves bookmark "Site A"
  3. Bob saves bookmark "Site B"
  4. Both close at same time

Last-close-wins. Bob closed last, so his bookmark saves. Alice's disappears.

Prevention: Don't launch same profile simultaneously. Coordinate access.

Sharing with External Clients

Client needs to see your work but shouldn't edit profiles?

Option 1: Viewer Role

Invite them as Viewer. Share profiles with View Only permission. They can see everything but can't launch or change anything.

Option 2: Screen Recording

Use Loom or similar. Record browser session. Share video link. No Multilogin access needed.

Option 3: Screenshots

Take screenshots of profile activity. Share via Slack/email. Simple but not real-time.

Revoking Access

Team member left? Revoke their profile access.

Option 1: Remove from individual profiles

Go to each shared profile → Settings → Sharing → Remove their access.

Option 2: Remove from team

Settings → Team → Remove member. This automatically removes their access to all shared profiles.

Their active sessions close immediately. Data they modified before removal stays.

Track Team Activity

Profiles shared. Now monitor what team members do. Audit logs track every action: profile launches, edits, deletions, and permission changes.

Amanda Foster

Collaboration Engineer

Amanda Foster builds collaboration features at Multilogin.io. She's designed profile sharing systems used by 3,000+ teams managing 50,000+ shared profiles daily.