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This is the screen where you set what rega does without you — how much it buys for, which pick-up point it chooses, what it writes to the seller, what it erases on its own — and where you manage your own access: password, two-step verification, subscription, invoices, export and account deletion.
rega's Settings screen, Account tab

The Settings screen, “Account” tab, on a populated account.

Three well-spent minutes. If you only set one thing today, go to the Buying tab and check that “Automatic pick-up point” is switched on. It is the only setting on this screen that, when off, makes a purchase fail.

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What you are looking at

The Settings screen with numbered markers on its controls

The same controls, numbered.

Markers 1, 2, 4 and 5 are not specific to Settings: they are the landmarks you find at the top of every rega screen. Markers 6 to 12 cover the first seven tabs; the last two, Sales and Devices, are visible to their right in the capture, without a marker — there are nine tabs in all.
In this capture the demo account already carries everything you will see on yours: the server “Connected”, a display name (“La Boutique”), a “Verified” address, “2 open, including this one” on the open sessions, and two-step verification “switched on 28 July 2026”.

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Three natures of setting — the only model to remember

Every switch looks alike, but they do not live in the same place. That explains nearly every surprise on this screen.

On this device

Theme, density, animations, text size, contrast, accent, and switching on this browser’s alerts. Immediate effect, nothing to wait for — and nothing follows you to your other screens.

On your account

The language, the notifications, the messages to the seller, the delays in the Sales tab, your password. You find them again wherever you sign in.

At rega

The Buying tab, the Radar tab, “Remember the connection”. Every change goes to rega, and can come back if it is not kept.
Switching tabs re-reads the tab you open and throws away the one you leave. A saved setting is safe; text typed and not saved is not. That is the trap of the Messages tab, whose “Save” button stays inactive until something changes — and is therefore easy to forget.

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The BUYING tab — the one that costs money

Do not touch “Automatic pick-up point”. It is on out of the box, and the screen says so plainly: “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 does not pause and asks you nothing: it fails, with “No pick-up point could be selected for this order.”, and it fails after the item has been reserved. Faced with a purchase that fails for no visible reason, this is the first box to check.
Every value that is kept is announced at the bottom of the screen: Purchase ceiling — {montant} €, “Pick-up point — nearest”, Preferred carrier — {nom}, Upkeep — every {h} h. Clearing a ceiling gives “Purchase ceiling removed”.
Input fields are validated when you click away or press Enter, never as you type: otherwise a ceiling being typed would be worth 1, then 12, then 120, and a purchase would be refused between two keystrokes. Esc puts the previous value back.

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Setting up buying in five minutes

1

Check “Automatic pick-up point”

It must be on. It is the only setting on this screen whose switching off makes a purchase fail, and it fails late — after the item has been reserved.
2

Choose “Which point”

Nearest suits almost everyone. “Cheapest” only means something if your sellers offer several carriers; “Usual” only has an effect after you have ranked pick-up points on the Accounts screen.
3

Leave “Preferred carrier” on “No preference — the nearest”

A preference never makes a purchase fail, but it can cost: “A carrier other than the default one may cost a little more.” Only set one if a carrier genuinely causes you collection trouble.
4

Set your real ceilings elsewhere — in the filters

Open the Filters screen, then each armed filter, and fill in its “€ max” field. That is the ceiling that follows your account and bounds automatic buying.
5

Check the Notifications tab in the same pass

A purchase that needs bank confirmation calls you by notification. If no device is switched on, nobody answers — and the confirmation expires.

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The three ceilings, and the one that really acts

There are three of them, in three different places. They do not protect the same purchases — this is the most expensive confusion in the product.

Purchase ceiling

Settings → BUYING. The widest: every purchase, manual and automatic, on every machine. Empty out of the box.

Cap per item

AUTOBUY panel on the dashboard. Worth €120 out of the box, and remembered in this browser only — another machine, a private window, and it is back to €120.

A filter's “€ max”

The filter’s dialog, Filters screen. Bounds automatic buying for that filter only — and this is the one to rely on.
The ceilings compare the ITEM price, never the amount actually debited. The charge adds delivery and buyer protection. So set your ceilings to the item price you accept, not to your total budget.
Automatic buying runs on our servers. The AUTOBUY pill arms the server: buying survives closing the tab, closing the browser, and shutting the machine down. The only thing that stops it is disarming it. The dashboard’s “Where automatic buying runs” line — “on our servers — closing the tab does not stop it” — states that fact; it is not a switch you set.

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When a setting comes back on its own

Two messages exist, and they do not mean the same thing.
On a shop account, “Purchase ceiling”, “Keep pick-up points ready” and “How often” come back with “Setting not saved — …”: those three belong to the service and are shared by all its users. The same goes for “Start with the server” in the Radar tab.Treat them as indicators, not as commands. The ceiling that belongs to you is each filter’s “€ max”.
If rega did not answer at all, the whole tab is replaced by a sentence — and no switch is shown at an invented value: “Settings unreadable — the rega server is not answering. Nothing has been changed.”
On the Accounts screen, the “PREPARE THIS CARRIER” button makes a real purchase of a few euros, once per account and per carrier.It is optional: without it the purchase still goes through — about 1.3 seconds slower. And the gain is not additive: it is the seller who chooses the carrier, so preparing several carriers widens the share of your purchases that gain that time, never the time gained.Not to be confused with “Keep pick-up points ready”, which is a setting on this tab, off out of the box.
The tooltip promises “The one Vinted puts forward for you”. Yet across the 135 pick-up points measured, not one carried that recommendation: the ranking used is yours, the one you set in Accounts → Pick-up points.As long as you have ranked nothing, “Usual” behaves exactly like “Nearest”. And a point you have ranked by hand comes before this setting, whatever it says — so if “Cheapest” never gives you the cheapest, empty that ranking first.

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Notifications tab

Subtitle: “What rega tells you about, and on which devices.”
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Switch on this device

The “Switch on for this device” button. It chains the browser’s permission and then the registration, and becomes “Device switched on ✓”. If it becomes “Permission refused”, the note says where to fix it: “The refusal comes from the browser: allow alerts in its site settings.”
2

Send a test

“Send a test” takes exactly the same path as a purchase alert, with no shortcut. On success: “Test notification sent — look at the bell.” A test that never arrives is a problem you discover before a purchase, not during one.
3

Set the bank confirmation reminder

Five choices: None · 2 min · 5 min · 10 min · 15 min. “ONE second notification, this long after the purchase, and only if the confirmation still has not gone through and you have not stopped the reminder. Never repeated.”
4

Choose your types

Five groups — Purchases · Detections · Watchlist · Sales · System — and one switch per type. A setting that does not go through gives “Setting not saved — the server did not answer.”
Seventeen types are served, and only one ships switched off.
“New sale on a followed filter” is the only type that ships switched off. If you follow filters in order to watch sales, switch it on — otherwise the silence is normal, not a fault.
The “Stop the reminder” button carried by every confirmation notification cancels nothing. The screen says so: “it turns that reminder off. ⚠️ It does not undo the payment — if your bank confirms later, the money leaves your account.” Read it as “stop reminding me”, never as “cancel the purchase”.
The Detections group carries the help that explains the most silences: “Only fires for the filters that asked for it — the switch lives on each filter.” There is no “notify every detection” switch here: it is in each filter’s dialog, on the Filters screen.
Keep “Bank confirmation required” and “Bank confirmation required (autobuy)” on, and switch on at least one phone. A bank confirmation waits for a human hand; without a notification it expires, and the purchase is lost — with no charge, but lost.

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Sales tab — what rega erases on its own

Two delays, three steps each, served by rega: 24 h · 48 h · 72 h. Out of the box: 48 / 48.
The two windows follow each other: it is their sum that counts. At 48 / 48, your readable sales history never goes beyond ~4 days — and neither do your cumulative statistics, since an erased sale leaves them.Before dropping to 24 / 24, read the “At the next pass” line: it is the only place in the product where you can see an automatic deletion before it happens.
There is no “never” option, and that is deliberate: an unlimited option would make the deletion guarantee false for everyone. If a value does not land on a step, rega moves it to the nearest step instead of refusing — and the screen shows the value rega kept, never yours. While waiting for its answer, it shows “State unavailable at the moment” rather than a number.

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Account tab

Six panels stacked, from the most everyday to the most final.
A single read-only line: “Server” is “Connected”, “Connecting…” or “Unreachable”.When it says “Unreachable”, a subtitle appears under the screen title: “rega is not answering — appearance and alert settings can still be changed, they live on this device.” That is useful information, not a fault to report: half of this screen keeps working.
  • Display name — field + “Save”, inactive until something changes. When empty, the line says “not chosen yet — you appear under your address”. On failure: “The name could not be saved.” rega trims spaces and keeps at most 60 characters: the name may come back slightly different from what you typed.
  • Address — your e-mail, with the “Verified” chip or the “Verify the address” button. The button asks for no address: it sends the link to yours, and to yours alone. On failure: “Sending not possible at the moment.”
  • Open sessions — {n} open, including this one, or “Not measured”. “Not measured” is not “zero”: it is rega saying it does not know, rather than showing a false number on the very line that serves to spot an unknown session.
  • Sign out everywhere — opens “Close every session?”: “Every signed-in device will be signed out, including this one. Nothing rega has collected is touched, and your sign-in methods stay in place.” Then “All your connections have been closed.” and the page reloads: that is normal, you have just closed your own.
  • At the bottom, two facts: “created on” and “last activity”. They disappear if rega does not know them.
The fact is shown before the click: “on change → all your other devices are signed out”. Three fields: “Current password”, “New password”, “Confirm the new one”.The refusals, in order:
  1. an empty field → “Enter your current password and the new one.”
  2. the confirmation does not match → “The two new passwords are not the same.” — your browser sees this; rega never receives the confirmation
  3. the current password is wrong → “Change refused.”
  4. the new one is too weak → rega explains why, for instance that it must be at least 10 characters
No composition rules: no capital, no digit, no special character. A phrase of several words beats a complicated word. On success — “Password changed.” — the three fields are emptied: a password left on screen is readable by anyone walking past.
“The code comes from an authenticator app: no SMS, no charge.” While it is not armed, the state says: “not switched on — your password alone protects your workspace”. Once armed, it says switched on {date}.The second step is not a formality: “Enter the code showing now. Without this check, a bad scan would lock you out of your workspace at the next sign-in.” If your app does not scan, the key is written just under the QR code: “Your app does not scan? Enter this key by hand:”.Then the ten codes: “They will never be shown again. Each works once, in place of the six-digit code.” Three buttons — copy, “Download”, “I have kept them”. The downloaded file repeats the instruction: “Keep them away from your phone: they are for the day you no longer have it.”After that, the “Recovery codes” line shows {n} of {total} still valid, or “none left — losing your phone locks you out of your workspace”.Regenerate gives you ten new ones: “You will get ten new ones, shown once only. The old ones stop working immediately — including any you have printed.” Switch off is just as blunt: “Your password will become the only thing protecting your workspace — your Vinted accounts included. Your recovery codes will be destroyed.” Both ask for your password.
One “Password” line (“Active”, or “no password set”), then one line per service offered by your installation:The refusal that matters: “This is your only way of signing in. Add a password or another account before removing this one.” rega decides that refusal, not the screen: you cannot lock yourself out by mistake.And when a linking fails, the most frequent message states the action: “This linking link is no longer valid — it comes from a tab or a page that has already been used. Start again from the “Link” button below rather than reloading or going back.”
Export my data: “A reusable file: filters, tracked sales, settings, accounts. Passwords are not in it.” On success: “Export saved.”Under the “Actions that cannot be undone” subtitle — set apart by a rule and an indent, with no alarm colour at all, because a permanently red surface stops being read:“Delete my account — erases everything, with no way back”. Two windows that do not say the same thing, on purpose:
  1. “Delete your account?” lists what goes — your filters, tracked sales, watchlist and saved items · your saved marketplace accounts and their credentials · your settings, your notifications and your purchase history in rega · the account itself. Then: “We keep only the accounting records — amounts, dates and billing references — for ten years, as the law requires. They contain none of your usage data.”
  2. “Confirm”: no list any more, just “The deletion is immediate and cannot be undone.”, your password, and “Delete permanently”.

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The other tabs

One number dominates the block: “left” then {n} days (or < 1 day). It does not appear if rega does not know it — no invented number.Under it, the strip of facts: the plan, the state (Active · Suspended · Ended · Stopped) and the due date with its nature — “End of trial”, “Next renewal”, “Access until”, “Access stopped on”. The offer is described by rega itself: “standard plan”, {prix} € / month — full.If access is cut, the consequence is written out: “Access stopped. Your data is kept; the service resumes once the account is settled.” And if a deletion is scheduled: Permanent deletion of your filters, tracked sales and history on {date}.Billing distinguishes the absences instead of painting them all as faults:Invoice statuses: Paid · Pending · Draft · Cancelled · Unpaid. And if you read “Test mode: these amounts match no real charge.”, none of those amounts has left your account.There is no “Resubscribe” button, and that is a choice: the standard plan is complete, a button would lead to a closed door. For anything about your subscription, write to us.
The language stands apart: “This choice follows your account, not this device: your e-mails go out in this language.” The two chips read Français and English — the name of a language is always written in that language, otherwise you cannot recognise it when you are lost in the other one.The other six apply to this device only: “These settings apply to this device only: they do not follow you to your other screens.”No free colour picker: each of the five shades has its variant calibrated to stay readable in both themes. And none of these settings recolours a success or a failure — that is guaranteed, not left to chance.
“What rega writes to the seller, on your behalf.” Two lists: After a purchase (“Sent to the seller just after payment.”) and After a cancellation (“Sent to the seller when you cancel an order.”).You can write several variants per list: “One variant is picked at random each time.” The variables {titre}, {marque} and {prix} are replaced when sending and are not translated — written any other way, they would no longer be replaced.Buttons: “Add a message”, “Save” (inactive until something changes, with the help “No change to save”), “Restore the default messages” (which answers “These are already the default messages” when there is nothing to do). Saving an empty list erases nothing: “No message: on saving, rega will go back to its default messages.”
The state, read-only: “Active — the radar is sweeping” · “Stopped” · “State unknown” (rega does not know yet — this is not “stopped”) · “Server unreachable”.Two settings: Start with the server (“The radar restarts after a reboot, without anyone opening the application.”) and Descriptions in French (“The seller’s description is translated into French when an item is opened; otherwise, its original text.”), on out of the box.Then “What the radar looks for → Your filters.”, with an “OPEN” link.And the admission at the bottom of the tab, which avoids the most common misunderstanding: “This setting does not start the radar now.”
“This device”: System, Browser, Mode (“Installed on the home screen” or “Browser tab”) and Alerts (Allowed · Blocked · Unavailable · Not allowed yet).The admission, plainly stated: “rega does not keep the list of devices that have opened it: no remote session can be closed from here.” To close sessions, use “Sign out everywhere”, Account tab.Then your Vinted accounts, with their nickname and “Connected” / “Disconnected” — never their address. When empty: “No buying account for now.”One setting: Remember the connection — “Avoids a new SMS code each time an account reconnects.” And a “Manage the accounts” link to the Accounts screen.

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The states of the screen

Data already on screen is never erased by a failure: if a re-read fails, you keep looking at what rega had served, rather than a panel emptying itself in front of you.

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Our advice

1 · The pick-up point first

Faced with a purchase that fails for no reason, check “Automatic pick-up point” first. Off, it pauses nothing: it makes the purchase fail, after the item has been reserved.

2 · Your ceilings live in the filters

Open each armed filter and fill in its “€ max”. The dashboard’s “Cap per item” field (€120 out of the box) only lives in this browser; the “Purchase ceiling” here does not belong to you.

3 · Count above the displayed price

The ceilings compare the item price; the charge adds delivery and buyer protection. Set them to the item price you accept, not to your total budget.

4 · Switch on the sale alerts

“New sale on a followed filter” is the only type that ships off. Without it the silence is normal — many people take it for a fault.

5 · Test right after switching on the device

“Send a test” takes the same path as a purchase alert. Do it on the phone you will have in your pocket, not only on the office computer.

6 · “Usual” is waiting for a ranking

Until you have ranked pick-up points in Accounts, “Usual” behaves like “Nearest”. And a point ranked by hand comes before this setting, whatever it says.

7 · Read “At the next pass” before lowering the delays

It is a real dry run, and the only way to see an automatic deletion before it happens. At 24 / 24 you keep only two days of history — and of statistics.

8 · Save before switching tabs

The panel you leave is thrown away. An automatic message typed and not saved is lost — and the button stays inactive until something changes, which makes it easy to forget.

9 · Keep the ten codes off the phone

They are for the day you no longer have it. Only regenerate them once you have destroyed the old paper: the old ones stop working immediately, printed copies included.

10 · Export before you delete

“Export my data” produces a reusable file, without your passwords. Do it before any account deletion: afterwards there is no way back.

11 · Set the language from the device you use most

It follows your account, and your e-mails go out in that language. If an e-mail arrives in the old language, reopen this tab and set the choice again: the second step of the save may have been missed.

12 · On a shared installation, leave “Remember the connection” alone

It is the only setting on this screen that applies to everyone. If a Vinted account suddenly starts asking for an SMS code on every reconnection, look there first.

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What surprises people

It is written under the setting: “This setting does not start the radar now.” It says what will happen at the next restart, not now. The radar is started from the feed screen.
“Purchase ceiling”, “Keep pick-up points ready”, “How often” — and the Radar’s “Start with the server” — belong to the service and are shared by all its users. They are shown, they can be typed into, and they come back with “Setting not saved — …”. Nothing is broken: nothing was written.
The entire panel — password included — is replaced by a fault message, even though the reading itself had succeeded. Nothing is lost: the “Read again” button puts everything back.
It is rega saying it does not know. Showing “0” on the very line that serves to spot an unknown session would say the opposite of the truth.
That is deliberate: when you do not know where an unknown session came from, you do not want to keep your own along the way. The window says it in bold — “including this one” — and the reload that follows is normal.
rega trims spaces and keeps at most 60 characters. The screen adopts the value it kept, never your input: what you read back is what is actually saved.
Signing in elsewhere within the following half minute can fail: the code you have just used cannot be used again. Wait for your app to show the next one. This is not a fault, it is the protection against replay.
The screen switches immediately, and the save goes out afterwards without being waited for. If it fails, it costs exactly one thing, but a real one: the next e-mail goes out in the old language.
Saving an empty list restores rega’s original messages, as the line says: “No message: on saving, rega will go back to its default messages.” There is no state in which rega writes nothing to the seller.
On the Accounts screen, that button really buys an item of a few euros, once per account and per carrier. Without it the purchase still goes through — about 1.3 seconds slower. And the gain is not additive: it is the seller who chooses the carrier, so preparing several widens the share of your purchases that gain that time, never the time gained.
If the connection drops at the moment of paying, the outcome is unknown — replaying would risk a double charge. rega does not replay. Go and check in Orders rather than clicking again.
“ONE second notification, this long after the purchase, and only if the confirmation still has not gone through and you have not stopped the reminder. Never repeated.” So silence after that reminder does not mean all is well: go and look at the Orders screen.

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On a phone

rega's Settings screen on a phone

Settings on a phone: the tab bar scrolls under your thumb, and the first setting stays above the fold.

  • The tab bar scrolls horizontally under your thumb: it is deliberately cut off on the right after “Appearance”. A stack of nine tabs would push the first setting below the fold.
  • The content does not change: the settings panel is already width-limited on a large screen, so it is the same column, narrower. Long labels simply wrap onto two lines.
  • The bottom bar replaces the side bar: Feed · Filters · Orders · Tracked · More — Settings sits under “More”.
  • The header landmarks stay: the AUTOBUY pill, the bell and its counter, the paying account.
The phone is where the most useful thing on this screen gets done: “Switch on for this device”, in the Notifications tab. On iPhone, add rega to the home screen first — the screen tells you: “On iPhone, alerts require adding rega to the home screen (Share → Add to Home Screen), then opening it from there.”

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The limits, stated plainly

  • No device list, no targeted remote sign-out. The screen says it: “rega does not keep the list of devices that have opened it: no remote session can be closed from here.” The only action available is “Sign out everywhere”, which closes everything, you included.
  • Four settings are indicators, not commands on a shop account: “Purchase ceiling”, “Keep pick-up points ready”, “How often”, “Start with the server”.
  • No “Resubscribe” button. That is a choice: the standard plan is complete, a button would lead to a closed door.
  • The retention steps are 24 / 48 / 72 h. There is no “1 week”, and no “never”.
  • The bell keeps at most 400 notifications: beyond that, the oldest disappear. What really matters lives in Orders and in Sales.
  • The refusal message for service-reserved settings arrives in French, even when your interface is in English.
  • The small screen has only been measured at standard phone width. The in-between widths — a tablet in portrait in particular — have not been checked yet.

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Where to go next

Filters

This is where your real ceilings live, and the detection notification switch of each filter.

Accounts

The pick-up point ranking, carrier preparation, and the state of each Vinted account.

Orders

The real outcome of every purchase, and the queue of items under verification.