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You got a wrong answer. Tradeshift does not use the email as a primary key in any way, we just require uniqueness (all keys are uuid in Tradeshift). It is true that you cannot change the email yourself, but that's simply because of priorities - at the moment that functionality has been postponed in order to improve the core app instead.

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I was told by your supporter that I won't be able to change my email address since my "entire Tradeshift profile is tied to the email address." I naturally assumed that meant that you use email addresses as primary keys, since I see no other reason why it would take a long time to implement email address change (especially since the form for it is already implemented, although the input field is read-only).

Anyway, didn't mean to give you bad press or anything - I like your product, and as a Dane I think it's great to see Danish startups doing well. Good luck with your product.

This is not bad press, just a discussion about uuid's - no worries.

You are right it's not a big thing to change and that it can be done quickly, the reason for not spending too much time on it yet is that we have handled the relatively small amount of requests to change email via the support - expect it to go into one the not too distant releases.

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