LINE Official Account Manager on One PC: Keeping Each Login Apart With Browser Profiles

Can separate browser profiles keep several LINE logins apart on one PC? #

Yes for logins that happen in a browser, and no for LINE for PC. LINE Official Account Manager for web browsers is a browser tool, so each Business ID can live in its own profile. LINE for PC, the messenger app for Windows and Mac, is a separate desktop program that a browser profile does not contain. LINE's Help Center describes its sign-in as a QR code, biometric information or email address and password, entered in the app itself.

The Help Center pages also mention LINE for Chrome as a download from the Chrome Web Store and list a Chrome browser among sub devices. Check in the Help Center whether it is still offered before you plan around it; this guide does not. For the basics of profiles, read what a browser profile is.

What a profile separates, and what it does not #

Microsoft Edge and Firefox also have profile features of their own, so follow their help pages for the exact menus. The steps below use Chrome.

Which LINE logins happen in a browser #

LINE Official Account Manager for web browsers is used with a Business ID. LINE's help lists two ways to log in. With a LINE account, a verification code appears on the computer and is entered in the LINE app on the phone. With a business account, you use an email address and a password you choose, with optional 2-step verification by email or an authenticator app.

LINE's system page for Official Accounts lists Windows or Mac with the latest version of Chrome, asks you to switch JavaScript on, and says Internet Explorer is not supported. Adding or changing administrators can only be done in the browser version, not in the LINE Official Account app.

Set up one Chrome profile per login #

1. Open Chrome and click the Profile icon at the top right.
2. Choose Add Chrome profile.
3. Pick a name, a picture and a colour. Signing in with a Google Account is optional. Chrome's help says that if you do, your bookmarks, passwords and other settings can be saved to that account and reached on your other devices, so decide whether you want that for a work login.
4. In the new profile open LINE Official Account Manager and log in with the Business ID that belongs to this profile. If asked, enter the verification code in the LINE app on the phone for that LINE account.
5. Repeat for the next login. Switch between profiles from the Profile icon.

Names, hand-over and backups #

• Names. Name each profile after the account and the role, for example the client's name plus the person's name. One profile per person and per account is easier to keep track of than one profile reused for everything.
• Hand-over. Do not pass on a profile with a signed-in session as a way to give someone access. LINE's Terms list handing accounts or passwords to others as prohibited, and LINE's Official Account help describes adding the person as an administrator, who logs in with their own account.
• Backups. Chromium's documentation says profile data such as history, bookmarks and cookies sits in the browser's user data folder, by default %LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\User Data on Windows and ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome on macOS for stable Chrome. Because that includes cookies, treat any copy of the folder like a password.
• Deleting. Chrome's help warns that removing a profile erases its bookmarks, history, passwords and other settings from the computer.

If a login fails inside a profile #

• The verification code never arrives. It appears on the computer and is entered in the LINE app on the phone, for the LINE account whose email address and password you used.
• Manager will not load properly. Check that Chrome is the latest version and that JavaScript is switched on, as LINE's system page asks.
• The wrong account is open in a profile. Log out in that profile and log in with the right Business ID, then rename the profile so it cannot happen again.
• You forgot a business account password. Choose Log in with business account > Reset password in Manager and follow the email.
• A login notice you did not expect. See the article on sign-outs and verification codes.

When ordinary profiles stop being enough #

• You manage dozens of logins and open and close profiles one by one.
• Several people need an orderly way to open the same set of profiles, each signing in with their own access.
• You need different network settings for different profiles.
• You want profile data kept on your own computer and organised in groups.

Where ADSSPEED fits #

ADSSPEED is a desktop app for Windows and macOS that manages many browser profiles. Each profile keeps its own cookies, local data and browser settings, so accounts you manage can stay signed in side by side without signing each other out. A proxy can be set per profile and assigned to many profiles in bulk, and profiles can be opened, stopped and organised in bulk. Profile data is kept on your own computer. For LINE this applies to browser tools such as LINE Official Account Manager; LINE for PC stays a desktop app.

Use only accounts you own or are authorised to manage, and follow LINE's rules. ADSSPEED is not affiliated with LINE.