Ten minutes, nine moves, in an order that is not decorative.
The path, at a glance
The order is not a suggestion: each move unlocks the next, and every empty screen in rega points you to the furthest upstream step that is missing — never to its own.Step by step
Set the language before you fill in anything
The language switch sits at the top of the invitation page, above the title.
Create your workspace
The page title tells you what the link opens:
Your REGA trial, Your REGA plan or
Your REGA access. Just underneath, the duration: {n} days of full access, no card needed.
— a trial is 7 days by default, and an unopened link expires after 30 days.Three fields, two boxes:- Required box:
I have read and accept the terms of use, the terms of sale and the privacy policy.The three links open in a new tab. - Optional box:
I ask for the service to start immediately and I acknowledge that I lose my 14-day right of withdrawal once it has been fully performed.— with, underneath it,Optional — without this box, access opens after 14 days.
Create my workspace, which becomes Creating….The button stays off until the terms box is ticked. That is not a fault: it is the only required
box on the form. Tick it first and the button lights up.
A double click does not create two workspaces. The seat is reserved in one indivisible move:
measured, 12 simultaneous attempts, exactly one succeeds. The others get
This link has just been used. Invitations are single-use.And a failed sign-up does not burn your link. If you read
An account already exists with this address., start again with another address — the same
link. There is no need to ask for a new one.Paid plan: pay from the message, not from the screen
If your link carries a price, the screen shows the
What this link offers panel — the name of the
plan, then the amount with on subscribing, then and per month.The payment link is named but not clickable there, and the screen tells you why:
Create your workspace first: the payment link is waiting in the message you received.A lifetime link never shows a price, and that is not an oversight:
0 € is never written in this
product — zero means “standard rate”, never “free”.Confirm your e-mail address
A confirmation message goes out at sign-up. Its link is valid for 7 days.
This is not a gate: nothing is blocked if you do not click. The screen says so itself:
Your account works normally: this confirmation is not a prerequisite. You can ask for another one from your settings.But it is the only channel for your receipts, for password resets, and for the notice before
your data is deleted, sent at D-3 and then D-1. Confirm it now, it takes five seconds.Connect a Vinted account
The Accounts screen: two doors, and underneath the panel that names the account which pays.
Start by connecting a Vinted account and explains
why: This is the account that will buy, with its card and its delivery address. Connecting asks for a code sent by SMS.1
Add an account
The
Add an account button opens the connection window: Vinted username and Vinted password.2
Your Vinted password is not kept
The screen tells you:
Your Vinted password is not kept: it is used to open the connection, then forgotten. Vinted will then send a code by SMS.3
The SMS code
The step is called
SMS code, the field CODE RECEIVED BY SMS, and the status
Vinted has sent a code by SMS. Keep the phone of the Vinted account in your hand: this code
is not rega’s.Create a filter: it is what starts the radar
The Filters screen: this is where the radar gets its instructions.
Create a filter to start the radar and the reason, in
plain words: A filter describes what you are looking for — brands, price, size, category. The radar only sweeps what a filter asks for: with no filter it cannot detect anything, so nothing will reach this screen.The + New filter button, the FILTER NAME field — the example offered is e.g. Prada bags — then
CREATE THE FILTER.A filter left as a draft never buys, whatever you tick. It is the one condition nothing can
switch off: confirm the filter before you rely on it.
Watch the stream fill up
The dashboard: listings arrive as they are born.
A blank screen for a few hundred milliseconds on the first load is normal, and deliberate. As
long as rega does not yet know what you are missing, it writes nothing: showing “no sales” and then
correcting itself 200 ms later with “connect an account” would give two answers to the same question.
Make your first purchase by hand
On a card in the stream, the button reads
BUY. Click it on a cheap item: this first purchase
teaches you the product, and it saves you time on every purchase after it (see the tips, below).The same spot then changes state, without ever moving:Switch on two-step verification — last, never before
The Settings screen: the security of your rega access is set here.
Two-step verification →
not switched on — your password alone protects your workspace. The button is called Switch on,
and switching on happens in three moves:1
Prepare
Scan this code with your authenticator app. The code is drawn inside your browser, never
anywhere else. If your app cannot read it: Your app does not scan? Enter this key by hand: —
the key is shown in plain text under the code.2
Confirm — nothing is switched on yet
Enter the code showing now. This step exists for a reason: a badly read code, an app that
recorded something else, a phone with the wrong time — without this confirmation you would be
locked out at your next sign-in.3
Write down the ten recovery codes
The screen is headed
Keep these codes and adds: They will never be shown again. Each works once, in place of the six-digit code. A Download button, an I have kept them button.
Do not click the second before you have used the first.The code comes from an authenticator app — the screen says so:
The code comes from an authenticator app: no SMS, no charge. It is not Vinted’s SMS code. Two
different codes, possibly two different phones.The dashboard, control by control
This is the screen you will live on. Here is what each marker carries.
The same controls, numbered.
What happens during your first purchase
You click once. The rest runs on our servers, without you. A real purchase measured end to end takes 7.88 s cold, 5.93 s when the order had already been prepared.The price on show is not the amount charged
Three numbers are in circulation, and they do not say the same thing.A payment is never replayed after an interruption at the moment of paying. The outcome is unknown
there, and replaying would risk a double charge. That is why the
TO CHECK — OUTCOME UNKNOWN row
never offers a retry button, and why it tells you: Outcome unknown: tracking stops here. Check in Orders BEFORE retrying — a payment may still go through.Coming back tomorrow
The invitation link works once only. From now on your way in is your address and your password — and most of the time, nothing at all.How long a session lasts
The special cases
I have forgotten my password
I have forgotten my password
From the sign-in screen:
Forgotten your password? → the Forgotten password screen, then
Send the link.The screen then moves to Check your inbox, with the sentence that matters:
The link is valid for 30 minutes and works only once.- The answer is the same whether the account exists or not — including in timing:
If an account exists with this address, a link has just been sent to it.The server addsCheck your junk folder too. - The new password is validated before the link is used up: a typo does not burn the link.
- Once set:
Password changed—Your password is up to date, and every device that was signed in has been signed out. - Dead link:
This link is no longer valid. Ask for a new one.— one message for three causes (unknown, already used, expired). - Truncated link:
Part of this link is missing. Open it from the message you received, without retyping it.
I am being asked for a six-digit code
I am being asked for a six-digit code
This is rega’s two-step verification. The screen says:
Enter the code shown by your authenticator app. and, just below,
You can also enter one of your recovery codes.The refusals, word for word:
Incorrect code. Check the time on your phone, or use a recovery code.Too many tries. Start again from your password.This sign-in request has expired. Start again.Two-step verification is temporarily unavailable. It is not your code: get in touch.— that one is a fault on our side, never yours.
I have lost my phone — the recovery codes
I have lost my phone — the recovery codes
You have ten of them, ten characters each. Each works once only, in place of the
six-digit code.
- They are shown only when you switch verification on. No page replays them.
- Asking for new ones destroys the previous ones:
New recovery codes. The old ones no longer work.— including any you had printed. - Their alphabet deliberately excludes ambiguous characters (no I, no O, no zero, no 1), because they are copied out by hand, often from a piece of paper, by someone who has just lost their phone. A separating dash is tolerated when you type them.
- The screen reminds you how many are left, and what happens when there are none:
none left — losing your phone locks you out of your workspace.
I want to sign a device out
I want to sign a device out
rega keeps no register of connected devices — so there is nothing to revoke remotely, and showing
a list of “devices” would be inventing data.The only global move is in Settings → Account:
Close every session? — and the confirmation window
is blunt: 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.The server then confirms: All your connections have been closed. Sign in again to carry on.Changing your password from Settings has the same effect:
on change →
all your other devices are signed out.I am refused sign-in: “Too many attempts”
I am refused sign-in: “Too many attempts”
After 4 failures with no delay, a delay appears and doubles with each further failure: 2 s,
4 s, 8 s, 16 s, 32 s… capped at 5 minutes. A single success cancels the running penalty, and an
hour of quiet clears everything.The message is
Too many attempts. Try again in {n} minutes.The refusal never says whether the account exists. That is a security constraint, not a tone:
this form must not become a directory of our clients.
The whole product is replaced by a subscription screen
The whole product is replaced by a subscription screen
When access is cut, every page is replaced by the same screen — never a half-working page. Its
title follows your case:
Activate your workspace, Your trial, Your bespoke plan or
Resume your subscription.You remain able to sign in, to change your password and to reset it: the end of a subscription
must not become the loss of an account.The Your data block tells you exactly what is kept and until when:
Filters, tracked sales, watchlist and history. Retention is 7 days after the cut, and two
notices arrive before it: D-3 then D-1, headed Your data is about to be deleted.When you resume, you redo nothing. Your filters were never unsubscribed, only set aside: they
start again on their own.
Our advice
1 — Copy the link, never retype it — and if it is lost before you sign up, ask for a reissue rather than a new link. A reissue attaches a fresh code to the workspace already prepared for you: it is the only move that preserves the work. The old link is revoked in the same breath, because two live links to one workspace would mean two ways in for one seat. Once somebody has actually entered, however, a reissue is refused: from then on it is your password that opens the door. 2 — Set the language TWICE: on the invitation page, then inside the application. These are two separate worlds, with two deliberate defaults. And your e-mails follow the language recorded inside the application, not the one on the sign-up form. An English-speaking shop that forgets this second setting will get its password-reset letters in French. 3 — Tick the withdrawal box if you want to start today. It is optional, and the screen writes its consequence underneath it:Optional — without this box, access opens after 14 days. It is not a marketing box, it is a legal
obligation — but the consequence is very real.
4 — Open Vinted BEFORE connecting the account, and check three things.
Card saved and set as default, phone number, delivery address. All three take two minutes on Vinted
and head off three separate refusals, each of which would otherwise be discovered at the worst
moment: the one where an item slips away.
5 — On the first day, buy by hand. Arm automatic buying the next day.
A new filter almost always catches wider than expected. Watch what it brings in for a day, tighten
it, then arm it — with its € max filled in.
6 — Make your very first purchase on a cheap item: it saves you ~1.3 s on every purchase after it.
Only a purchase that was actually paid creates the pick-up point Vinted remembers; after that,
rega skips two steps of the chain. Measured: three dry runs change nothing, and four matched
observations out of four show that the remembered point ignores anything that was not paid for. There
is no shortcut — but there is one small purchase.
7 — Rank your pick-up points BEFORE that first purchase, not after.
Your ranking comes ahead of any automatic strategy, but it is at the moment of the paid purchase
that it fixes the point every later purchase will reuse without a round trip. Setting it afterwards
costs you those ~1.3 s every time, until the next purchase through that carrier.
8 — Stay reachable for a quarter of an hour after a purchase.
The 🔐 VALIDATE THE PAYMENT button is exposed immediately, as soon as rega knows your bank’s
link, and a notification goes out at the same instant. Leave the purchase notifications on and accept
the one on your phone: without the click, the purchase dies as an unfinished payment — no charge, but
lost.
9 — Faced with TO CHECK — OUTCOME UNKNOWN, go and look in Orders. Do not click again.
The row is never red, and it never offers a retry: that would be a second purchase on a transaction
that may already have been paid. Tracking stops; the payment may still go through.
10 — Only switch on two-step verification at the end, and write down the ten codes before closing
the window.
It signs out all your other devices, and the codes come out once only. Asking for new ones destroys
the previous ones. Download them, and only then click I have kept them.
11 — Do not delete a connected Vinted account “just to test”.
Deleting and re-creating is not a neutral move: it has already happened to a real shop, on 04/08, and
it cost them their place in that day’s rotation.
12 — Confirm your e-mail address even though nothing forces you to.
It blocks neither sign-in nor payment. But it is the channel for your receipts, your password reset
and the two notices before your data is deleted. The confirmation link is valid for 7 days; you
can ask for another one from Settings.
What surprises people
“2 seats left” can become 0 while you fill in the form
“2 seats left” can become 0 while you fill in the form
Reading the link commits nothing — that is deliberate, otherwise merely opening the page would use up
a seat. The accepted consequence: between the reading and your submission someone else can take the
link, and the sign-up will answer
This link has just been used. Invitations are single-use. That is
the right behaviour.You sign up, and the product refuses you anyway
You sign up, and the product refuses you anyway
If you signed up without an invitation, your workspace exists but is not active:
Your workspace is not active yet: choose a plan to begin. Everything is ready, there is nothing to set up again. This is neither a fault nor an expired trial — telling you “your trial has ended”
would be false.A lifetime link shows no price at all
A lifetime link shows no price at all
And that is not an oversight.
0 € is never written in this product: zero means “standard rate”,
never “free”.The first screen is blank for half a second
The first screen is blank for half a second
Deliberate. As long as rega does not know what you are missing, it writes nothing rather than writing
a sentence it would have to correct 200 ms later.
“Close every session” signs you out too
“Close every session” signs you out too
This is not “close the others”. The confirmation window puts it in bold:
including this one. A
blunt move that is announced beats a partial one.The dashboard’s €120 “Cap per item” does not cap your automatic purchases
The dashboard’s €120 “Cap per item” does not cap your automatic purchases
It only applies to automatic buying when it runs in the tab. But it runs on our servers — the
screen writes it itself under
Where automatic buying runs:
on our servers — closing the tab does not stop it. The only cap that counts is each filter’s
€ max. The whole detail is on the Money page.A purchase’s progress bar never reaches the end
A purchase’s progress bar never reaches the end
It is capped at 96 % before confirmation, on purpose: it is not proof of payment, and it must
never look like it.
A failed purchase still used up its turn in the rotation
A failed purchase still used up its turn in the rotation
The account is committed at click time — it is reserved before the purchase completes. A useful
corollary: “Retry” starts again on the next account, which is the right behaviour, an account
that has just failed being the worst placed.
An item detected more than two minutes ago is no longer bought automatically
An item detected more than two minutes ago is no longer bought automatically
This is not a cap, it is freshness: an item detected several minutes ago has almost always gone. The
default threshold is 120 seconds.
On a phone
The stream on a phone: one listing at a time, BUY across the full width, tab bar at the bottom.
- What informs gives way, what acts stays. The
AUTOBUYbadge and the account that pays never drop: they are the only two things that touch money. - The
Tableview is not offered below a certain width — it needs a very wide window. On a phone there is a single layout, and it is the right one.
What rega does not do — said plainly
- No register of connected devices, so nothing to revoke remotely. The only global move is “close every session”, which signs you out as well.
- Two-step verification is compulsory for nobody. It is offered, never imposed.
- No bank card is ever entered in rega. The product offers no card form at all: your payment method lives at Vinted, and nowhere else.
- No monthly budget, no cumulative spending alert. Nothing adds up your charges to compare them
against a threshold. The
Spendtile in the statistics is descriptive and incomplete: it adds up item prices, without postage or buyer protection, and it counts cancelled orders too. - Two rare messages stay in French even on an English screen: they announce a temporary unavailability at the moment of creating a workspace. In both cases your link stays valid.
What next
Money
The three caps, where automatic buying really runs, and the amount actually charged.
Writing a good filter
What filters for free, what costs, and how not to miss what you are after.
Accounts
Connect, check, and name the one that pays.
The dashboard
The screen where the stream lands and where races are won.
Winning races
Where an item gets lost, and everything you can change to lose fewer.
Settings
What rega does without you — and the security of your own access.