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This is where you connect your accounts, where you check they can go all the way to payment, and where you name the one that pays. Everything that decides the card, the delivery address and the pickup point of a purchase is set on this screen — and nowhere else.
rega's Accounts screen: the Vinted and Vestiaire Collective doors, then the WHO PAYS FOR PURCHASES panel

The Accounts screen: the two doors, and below them the WHO PAYS FOR PURCHASES panel.

On this capture, the counters of the two doors could not be read: they show counters unavailable and the panel Accounts cannot be reached at the moment. sits above them. Nothing is lost, nothing is erased, nothing is written — the “who pays” setting stays readable just below and keeps applying. This is exactly what you should see in that case: never an invented 0 in place of a figure we do not have.

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What you see

The Accounts screen annotated, markers 1 to 12

The same controls, numbered.

The AUTOBUY button arms our servers, not your browser. Once armed, automatic buying survives closing the tab, closing the browser and shutting down your machine. The only gesture that stops it is disarming it. The dashboard panel merely states this, under Where automatic buying runs: on our servers — closing the tab does not stop it. It is not a switch you set, it is a fact you are reminded of.

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The three levels of the screen

The WHO PAYS FOR PURCHASES panel only exists on the home view. If you are looking for it after opening a door, go back up through All marketplaces, at the top of the list. It is the only place in the product where you choose the account that pays: three competing selectors used to exist — in the header, on the dashboard, in the Filters screen — and they contradicted each other. They were removed.

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”WHO PAYS FOR PURCHASES”

The panel reads as a sentence, in three cells: Feed → Pays with → At the next purchase. On our test account it says: General feed → compte_demo (Vinted) → It pays for every purchase — no rotation, with the FIXED ACCOUNT pill at the top right. When a rotation is in place, the pill becomes ROTATION and the third cell says It pays, then we switch account in 2 purchases or It pays, then we move to the next account. While reading, it says Reading… — never a random account.

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The three (or four) modes

In One specific account mode, the screen warns you in plain words: If it cannot buy right away, the purchase waits: it will not go out from another account, as that would mean another delivery address and another card. This mode never substitutes, even when the account is saturated. For a drop, prefer A group or Every account.

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Which mode to choose

1

Open the Accounts screen without going through a door

The panel sits below the two marketplace tiles. If you are already inside a list, go back up through All marketplaces.
2

Click the mode

There is no “Save” button: every click writes. The keyboard arrows only move the focus — they do not choose, otherwise walking through a list of accounts would change the payer on every press.
3

Name the account or the group

As long as the intent is incomplete, nothing is written, and the screen says so: Nothing has changed yet — choose the account that will pay. (or choose the group that will pay.) with a CANCEL button.
4

Check ORDER OF PLAY

Rank, avatar, Connected / Disconnected, the ROTATION or NO ROTATION pill, Next: on the one that will pay, and an EXCLUDE button on each line. Excluded accounts stay visible under NOT IN THIS ROUND, with their cause.
Below the order of play sits a sentence many people read too fast: Only “next” is certain: what follows shifts if an account becomes unavailable at the moment of purchase. The displayed order is an intention, not a promise.

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The two marketplace cards

Vinted — PAYS FOR PURCHASESThese are the ones that pay.This card is always shown, even with zero accounts. It then says: No account here — and they are the only ones that can pay today. Connect one from the account list.
Vestiaire — DOES NOT PAY YETVestiaire purchases do not go through this setting yet. Their account page stays editable — address, card, pickup point.It only appears if you have Vestiaire accounts.

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SWITCH ACCOUNT EVERY … PURCHASES

Left empty, the field follows the general setting and carries the GLOBAL SETTING pill. Filled in, it wins for this scope. Escape restores the previous value, Enter confirms. A value below 1 falls back to the applied value — not a silent refusal, a visible return.

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What can refuse a setting

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When nobody can pay

The panel does not merely announce No purchase will go out: it names the cause and the gesture. Six distinct admissions exist.
Connect an account from the account list, then come back to choose who pays.
The only connected accounts are Vestiaire accounts, and they cannot pay from this setting yet. → Connect a Vinted account so purchases can go out.
Add an account to it in the left-hand column, or choose another group.
Put one back in the round, below — an excluded account stays visible, struck through.
Reconnect an account from the account list.
The named account is unavailable: Reconnect this account, or name another one below.

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SCOPE, FEED BY FEED

One line per feed group, expandable, only one open at a time. Without a setting of its own, a feed group carries the INHERITS pill and the note Without a setting of its own, a feed group follows the general feed: it still buys. At zero: No feed group. Every feed pays with the general feed's scope. The badge on the Filters screen lands directly here and expands the targeted line — you do not have to hunt for it.

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The left-hand column: accounts and groups

Once a door is open, the list takes the left and the account page the right. The states of a line: SMS code expected · Connecting… · Connected · Last connection failed · No password · Disconnected. Hovering shows the masked address, never the whole one. A group header carries its colour, its name, its count, and the ACTIVE SCOPE pill, whose tooltip lists the feeds actually paid for (Buying scope of: …). Its second line says 2 connected, or, if none is: No account connected — this group will buy nothing, followed by · last used: …. The ⋯ menu offers Edit the group (Name, colour, rotation and accounts) and Delete the group, whose tooltip reassures: The accounts are not deleted.
A group is an ORDER, not a permission. The window says it: A group gathers accounts in an ORDER. Deleting a group deletes no account. — and for Vinted it adds: It pays nothing until a buying scope designates it — that is set at the top of this screen, under “who pays for the purchases”. A group without the ACTIVE SCOPE badge is decorative.
Name, colour (Accent · Soft · Neutral · Subtle — four intensities, never colours), a Rotation between the accounts of this group toggle, a Change account after N purchases — default value field, and the ACCOUNTS OF THE GROUP — ROTATION ORDER list with its arrows and the BUYING pill.The toggle explains itself: rotation on, When a buying scope designates this group, purchases move from one account to the next, in the order below.; rotation off, … purchases always start from the first available account — without rotating.Two notes worth reading: A disconnected account is skipped without shifting the others and Excluding an account for a single feed is done in the buying scope: removing it here would remove it for every feed.⚠️ The Change account after N purchases field in this window is global, not specific to the group: 1 = next account on every purchase. A scope that sets its own overrides this one. It is saved separately from the SAVE button, and the screen re-reads what the server kept: Value not kept — we keep 2.
· A mixed Vinted + Vestiaire group is refused — not only by the screen, by the server, with the offending account named.· A group’s marketplace never changes after it is created.· Deleting a group that no longer exists: Deletion refused. Otherwise Group deleted — … · the accounts are kept.· A group with no connected member says so in its own window: None of these accounts is connected: as it stands, this group will buy nothing.· Search with no result: No account matches. Empty list: No account. Add one to get started.

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Adding an account

1

Click + ACCOUNT, then ADD AND CONNECT

The window announces: The credentials of your Vinted account. rega keeps them to reconnect on its own when the session ends; it will never show them to you again. then Vinted will then send a code by SMS, to be entered on the page that opens right after.
2

Wait for the verdict — the window does not close on its own

It waits up to 90 seconds. Success: … — credentials accepted, enter the code received by SMS. Beyond that: … — the connection is taking longer than expected, the rest is on its page.
3

Enter the SMS code on the account page

A four-step strip: Preparation · Check · SMS code · Connected. Field CODE RECEIVED BY SMS, button SUBMIT, then New code possible in … and RESTART — NEW CODE.
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Name it straight away

Name this account → This name replaces the address everywhere in rega — lists, groups, messages. It stays with you: the Vinted account is not modified. A button offers Use the Vinted username “…”.
If the password is refused, the account is ALREADY saved. The window stays open with the cause given by Vinted, then: The account **has been saved**: correct the password below and start again, or remove it. Three buttons appear: Remove this account · Later · TRY AGAIN.Use Remove this account rather than closing the window. Closing leaves an unusable line in your list, and the clean removal gesture will no longer be offered in the same place.
Your password will never be shown back to you, and it is not kept in the clear: Your Vinted password is not kept: it is used to open the connection, then forgotten. Vinted will then send a code by SMS. If you enter a code out of time: No code expected — start the connection again. Wrong code: Code refused.

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An account page

As long as the account is not connected, the page is deliberately bare: Connect this account to see its profile, its address, its payment methods and its pickup points. The connection needs a code sent by SMS.

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The “Ready to buy” strip — the five points

It is the most useful summary on the screen, and it triggers no reading at all: it makes do with what the page has already loaded. The title switches between Ready to buy, Ready to buy — one setting could still be improved and 2 things to sort out before buying. The subtitle settles it, and that is the line to read: A purchase started from the radar will go through to payment. or A purchase would stop before payment.

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Where each of the five points falls during a purchase

Each button on the strip scrolls to the panel concerned and outlines it for a second and a half. It is the shortest path to repairing an account: start from the strip, never from the table of contents.
An interrupted payment is never retried automatically. When the link is cut exactly at payment time, the outcome is unknown — retrying would risk a double charge. rega would rather have you check in Orders than pay twice. That is why the four blocking points above matter so much: they make a purchase fail before the money moves, which is always the right moment to fail.

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The panels, one by one

The button says Replace my address — never “edit”, because Vinted offers no way to edit or delete an address: Saved on your Vinted account, it will be used for all your orders. Vinted does not allow it to be edited: this one replaces the previous.The window works in two steps: Check first — Have Vinted check the address first — checking writes nothing. — then REPLACE. Any edit cancels the check you had obtained.The refusals, word for word: Check the address first — checking writes nothing · Incomplete address — street, postcode and city · Address refused by Vinted · Replacement refused.Without an address: No address saved on this account. A purchase cannot go through without one.
VINTED PROFILE and ACCOUNT TRUST complete the page: username, name, location, member since, items for sale, followers on one side; a score out of 100 with RATING PUBLISHED BY VINTED and WHAT MAKES UP THE SCORE on the other. The score is an in-house indicator: Vinted publishes none.

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WHERE YOU COLLECT YOUR PARCELS

This is the panel that saves time on every purchase — and the one everybody gets wrong. The summary announces 2 carriers ready out of 3 (or No carrier ready for the moment), then puts a figure on the cost: A pickup point will be chosen during the purchase, the closest to your address. It works, but it costs 1.3 s on every purchase. And it names the real decider: It is the seller who chooses the carrier, not you: as long as MONDIAL is not ready, those purchases will take 1.3 s longer. When everything is covered: — and they are all ready: no purchase will pay the pickup point step.

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The life of a pickup point

A dry run neither creates nor maintains anything. Measured: on a fresh account, three successful dry runs had no effect on the duration of the step (1365 / 1414 / 1359 ms before, 1445 / 1255 / 1271 ms after); and on 4 observations out of 4, the kept point ignored the dry run — gaps from 21 seconds to 15 hours, 3 accounts, 3 carriers. The point panel says as much: Last dry run: … — a dry run never creates the memory, only a paid purchase does.

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PREPARE THIS CARRIER — the only window in the product that spends

This window triggers a real, charged purchase. It explains itself without hedging: Vinted only keeps a pickup point after a purchase actually paid with this carrier. rega will therefore buy, for real, a cheap item shipped by it — once. After that, every purchase shipped by … will be 1.3 s faster.Two fields — MAX ITEM PRICE (€) at 3 out of the box and MAX TOTAL WITH DELIVERY (€) at 8 —, a mandatory tick box I understand that this purchase will be charged, the reminder Up to 8 € in total, on account …., and the BUY AND PREPARE button. Without the tick: Tick the confirmation — this purchase is real.
It is optional. Without preparation, the purchase still goes through — it is simply ~1.3 s slower on items shipped by that carrier.
The gain is not additive. Since it is the seller who picks the carrier, preparing a second carrier does not make a purchase any faster: it widens the share of your purchases that gain those 1.3 s. The three carriers targeted out of the box are MONDIAL, CHRONOPOST and VINTEDGO-SHOP-FR — a budget of the order of 8 € per carrier and per buying account, once.

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The map and the ranking

The map shows the points found around your address, with the legend The cross ✛ is your delivery address. Points without an exact position do not disappear: they stay in the list below. If the address could not be located, nothing is approximated: We could not locate this account's address. No pick-up point is offered: showing none is better than offering points in another town. Below the map, YOUR PICKUP POINTS, IN ORDER: a ranking you move up, move down, remove, with PREFER THIS POINT on a point’s panel. And if this point is closed? unfolds the chain of fallbacks, each with its reason (used if the previous one does not suit). REVIEW THE NEARBY POINTS returns Pickup points refreshed — 12 found or Pickup points already up to date: a reading is only redone if the previous one is more than 6 hours old, and never more than once a minute. It costs less than a second and opens no order with a seller.
This choice does not change the point already kept: it steers the one Vinted will keep next time. Rank before you prepare, never after.

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The three ceilings — and which one applies

None of them is set on this screen, but all of them decide the fate of a purchase going out from one of your accounts.
A ceiling that is set also refuses an item whose price cannot be read. This is deliberate: better to miss an item than to charge an amount we failed to read. Without a cap, the Filters screen is just as blunt: No cap: this filter will buy whatever the price.
Automatic pick-up point (Settings) is on out of the box — leave it on. The setting says so itself: rega chooses the collection point during the purchase. Turned off, the purchase fails for want of a pick-up point — leave it on. Turned off, the purchase stops on No pick-up point could be selected for this order. Nothing asks you anything at purchase time; there is no manual recovery.Not to be confused with PREPARE THIS CARRIER, which is optional and only changes speed.

Settings

Purchase ceiling, Automatic pick-up point, Which point, the two-step cancel confirmation.

Filters

The per-filter cap, and the badge that sends you here with the right line expanded.

Orders

Where you check the outcome of a payment before retrying anything.

Vestiaire Collective

The second marketplace, and what it can do today.

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Vestiaire Collective accounts

The Vestiaire door opens a list and account pages with six rows: CONNECTION · PROFILE · MY VESTIAIRE ACCOUNT · ADDRESS BOOK · PAYMENT METHODS · DELIVERY, plus the pickup points. The health strip there is computed by our servers: This account can buy / This account will not buy, with Everything is in place: address, card, delivery method. or One thing is missing: …. Each of the five points carries Ready / To watch / Missing and a Fix → button, and sometimes the note Inferred from what we knew — not checked again. A Vestiaire session lasts 30 days: the page shows Connection to be renewed before …. The ⋯ menu additionally offers Set this account aside (It stays on record but will not be used for any purchase) and Reactivate this account, with the SET ASIDE pill on the page.
No purchase goes out from a Vestiaire account yet. It appears in WHO PAYS FOR PURCHASES — on purpose, so you do not spend ten minutes hunting for the account you just added — but it cannot be chosen there: This account cannot pay yet: Vestiaire purchases do not go through this scope.
Three gaps are owned on the Vestiaire side, and said as such: no trust panel, no delivery phone, no favourites sync. Nothing was fabricated “to balance” the Vinted page.

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The states of the screen

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Our advice

1 · Set “who pays” BEFORE creating your filters. A perfect filter is worth nothing if no scope names an account able to pay, and the panel will tell you bluntly: No purchase will go out. The right order is: connect an account → make it Ready to buy → name it in WHO PAYS FOR PURCHASES → create the filter.
2 · For a drop, do not stay on One specific account. That mode will never go looking for another account, even a busy one: the purchase waits, because changing account would change the delivery address and the card. A group or Every account absorbs bursts. Keep One specific account for what it is really for: an order that must arrive at one precise address. 3 · Trust ACTIVE SCOPE, not the group’s “rotation” toggle. A group can have its rotation armed and pay for nothing at all. The only reliable signal is the ACTIVE SCOPE badge, whose tooltip lists the feeds actually paid for. A group without that badge is decorative. 4 · Walk through your account pages before a big day, and aim for Ready to buy everywhere. The five points on the strip are exactly what a purchase checks. A 2 things to sort out before buying left as is means an account that will fail mid-race, on an item the radar had found for you. 5 · Make your card the default ON VINTED rather than imposing it here. A SELECTED card that differs from Vinted’s default card adds a step to every purchase. The panel flags it, but it cannot fix it for you: the free path is on Vinted’s side. 6 · Put a delivery number on every buying account, once and for all. Some carriers require it, and without it the purchase is refused cleanly — not a penny lost, but the item has gone to somebody else. Since rega can only save it on a purchase already open, the simplest route is to set it directly on Vinted, once per account. 7 · Budget carrier preparation as an investment, and aim for coverage. Of the order of 8 € per carrier and per buying account, across the three carriers targeted out of the box. What you need is not a perfect carrier: it is the share of your purchases that is covered, since the seller is the one who chooses. 8 · Rank your pickup points BEFORE an account’s first purchase. The ranking steers the point Vinted will keep; it never overwrites a point already kept. Set too late, it only takes effect at the next purchase through that carrier — which may be several days away. 9 · Maintain nothing. A kept point holds up to 11.3 days without a single gesture (measured over 7 observations), and a dry run changes nothing about that. Re-running trials “to keep it warm” only opens pointless orders with real sellers. 10 · Name your accounts as you add them. On a purchase line, in a group, in a message, that name is what tells you which address the parcel is heading to. A name like Main buyer or Backup beats a thousand masked addresses. 11 · Do not delete a banned account — exclude it. A banned account can still browse Vinted; it can no longer buy, and a ban can be lifted. EXCLUDE in ORDER OF PLAY is enough: the account stays in place, ready to take its turn again. 12 · After a refused addition, click Remove this account. The account is saved before the password is tested: closing the window leaves a dead line in your list, and the clean gesture is no longer one click away.

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What surprises people

Every click writes immediately. On the other hand, an incomplete intent writes nothing at all and announces it: Nothing has changed yet — choose the account that will pay.
A feed group that inherits buys, with the general feed’s accounts: This feed has no scope of its own: its purchases go out with the general feed's. The two notions were deliberately kept apart — merging them would suggest a purchase that will never go out.
It is visible on purpose: hiding it would have people hunting for ten minutes for the account they just added.
That counter only lives for the life of the tab. There is no history kept behind it — its absence is not lost data.
Measured in production: 1 account in 4 has a Vinted photo. The others show their initials, and that is the common case.
Vinted publishes it on no card. Better to show nothing than an empty field that would look like a fault.
A reading is redone at most once a minute, and only if the previous one is more than 6 hours old — otherwise Pickup points already up to date. And if there is no reusable prepared purchase for this account, the reading is refused and says so.
Vinted’s answer is capped at 15 points in total, grouped by carrier: across 9 real readings, 6 carried two carriers and 3 only one. A carrier can therefore be squeezed out by the cap.
The corresponding flag is empty on all 30 points observed. Only your ranking counts.
The order of choice is: the server’s default account, then the first connected one, then the first in the list — and that choice is frozen once, on opening.
It refreshes every 1.2 s while something is moving, drops to 8 s after 20 s of quiet, and stops entirely if the tab is hidden. It is not frozen: come back to the tab and it starts again.
The tooltip spells it out: (at the end of the rotation). To move it up, go through Edit the group and the Move up in the rotation order arrows.
The new name spreads to every rega screen within moments; the Vinted account itself is unchanged. Clear it and: Without a name, the account is shown with its Vinted username, and failing that with its address.
It is then shown under its raw identifier rather than silently erased. An unusual line beats a disappearance.
Below that, the list is readable at a glance. Its absence is not a fault.

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On the phone

rega's Accounts screen on a phone

The Accounts screen on a phone: the doors stack, and the “who pays” sentence reads line by line.

  • One column at a time. Below 900 px, the list and the account page no longer sit side by side: the Back to the list arrow, at the top of the page, is the only way back.
  • The scope sentence goes vertical: FEED, then PAYS WITH, then AT THE NEXT PURCHASE, one under the other. It reads just as well, it simply takes three lines.
  • Below 600 px, fields and buttons go full width, one setting per line.
  • Everything that acts is at least 44 px tall — including the arrows of the pickup point ranking.
  • The bottom bar replaces the left-hand navigation: Feed · Filters · Orders · Tracked · More. Accounts sits under More.
  • The pickup point map stays usable, but ranking is markedly more comfortable on a large screen: that is the gesture to do at the desk.

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The limits, said plainly

  • You cannot pay with a Vestiaire account yet. The screen says so in all three modes; no Vestiaire purchase goes out from WHO PAYS FOR PURCHASES.
  • There is no card form, and there will not be one. A card is added on Vinted, where your bank validates it.
  • A Vinted address can neither be edited nor deleted — Vinted does not offer it. Replace my address is the only possible model.
  • The ACCOUNT TRUST score is an in-house indicator. Vinted publishes no trust score; this one is computed from public feedback, verifications and the standing of the account. Its labels are not translated yet.
  • No direct link to a marketplace or to an account page. The screen holds the open marketplace in the page, not in the address: you cannot bookmark “that account’s page”.
  • On the Vestiaire page, every point of the health strip shows Fix → — the short label proper to each point is not served yet.