Documentation
Guides, references, and tutorials for getting the most out of Kops.
Getting started
- Getting startedWhat Kops is, how its pieces fit together, and the shortest path from an empty account to a purchase that happened while you were asleep.
- QuickstartFrom an empty workspace to a purchase that happens without you — one filter, one connected account, one ceiling. Ten minutes, and the three places where people get it wrong.
- GlossaryEvery word Kops uses that does not mean quite what you would guess — match, attempt, ceiling, quarantine, readiness, stage, hold, seat. What each one is, and the page that goes deeper.
- Plans and limitsThree plans, and the line that matters is not price — it is whether Kops may buy for you at all. What each one unlocks, how many Vinted accounts it carries, and the two ceilings you raise with an add-on rather than an upgrade.
Filters
- Creating a filterA filter is one saved search Kops watches in real time. Create one from scratch or from a Vinted URL, then decide whether it just notifies you or buys on its own.
- Filter criteriaCategories, brands, price, sizes, condition, colours, materials — plus the sections that only appear for video games, electronics and books. Every criterion you leave empty accepts everything.
- KeywordsTwo fields — include and exclude — with group logic behind the first. Multi-word keywords match as exact phrases, and some punctuation deliberately stops a phrase from crossing it.
- Zones, sellers and verificationWhich countries a filter watches, which sellers it will buy from, and whether Vinted's own authenticity check is requested at purchase. Three sections that decide who you end up trading with.
- Automatic acquisition — buy now or negotiateOne number on your filter decides whether Kops buys a match outright, opens a negotiation, or only notifies you. Set that ceiling, then say how the opening offer is built.
- Folders and sharingGroup filters into folders, pause a whole folder at once, give a folder its own autocop rules — then share individual filters with your team, or a whole folder by public link.
- Bulk actions and importEdit dozens of filters in one pass — toggles, price, zones, keywords, seller criteria, verification — and bring a whole library in from the Chrome extension or from Vinted URLs.
- Example purchasesPin the buys a filter actually won, add what you resold them for, and the filter carries its own track record — visible to everyone it is shared with.
Vinted accounts
- Adding a Vinted accountConnect a Vinted account with its email and password, or with tokens when login is blocked. What each method costs you, what 2FA looks like, and what every error at this step actually means.
- Account states and readinessActive, quarantined, inactive, over capacity — what puts an account in each, how long quarantine lasts, and the exact four conditions that decide whether autocop will use it at all.
- Payment cardsAn account with no card never buys. Add one, keep several, and understand why a card can be refused by Vinted even when your bank is perfectly happy — and why 3D Secure is not the enemy.
- Address and shippingThe address decides where parcels go and which pickup points exist. The shipping preferences decide which one Kops picks under time pressure — and that choice is where a purchase is won or lost.
- Account groupsA group is a coloured label on a set of accounts — and the unit every automation restricts itself to. Bind a folder to a group and only those accounts buy for it.
- Creating a Vinted Account SafelyStep-by-step guide to creating Vinted accounts without triggering anti-fraud detection — covering device isolation, anti-detect browsers, and best practices.
- Account troubleshootingThe failures that actually happen — an account that dies minutes after being added, one that keeps getting quarantined, one autocop refuses to touch — and what each one really means.
Automatic buying
- AutocopThe mechanism that buys without you — two switches that both have to be on, what a match actually sets off, and the six reasons a filter that looks armed never fires.
- Automatic negotiationWhen a seller counters above your price, Kops answers for you — with counter-offers that get smaller each round and touch your maximum only on the last one. Here is how it decides, and every reason it stops.
- Execution modesOne account per item or several at once, what happens after a payment is refused, the four separate pools that decide which accounts each kind of purchase may use, and how one folder can run more cautiously than the rest of your workspace.
- Messages to sellersFour moments where Kops can write to a seller under your name — with an offer, on your last counter-offer, after a purchase, and when you cancel. Each has its own copy and its own translation setting, only three have a switch, and two send nothing until you write something.
- Pre-ordersA standing instruction to buy an item that is not on sale yet, the second it is released. How to place one, the eleven ways it can end, and why the price says "Revealed at release".
Feed
- Reading the feedEvery match from every active filter, live. The counters along the top, what a card carries, the five columns you can split it into, and everything a card lets you do without leaving the page.
- Item statusesVerifying, Available, Reserved, Sold, Removed — what each badge means, which of them are reversible, and how Kops keeps watching an item after it lands in your feed.
Attempts
- The Attempts pageYour logbook — every purchase Kops tried, won or lost, with what it cost and why it ended that way. The six columns, the five filters, and what the detail panel is actually for.
- Attempt errorsThe twelve error families, what each one is actually telling you, and the short list of failures where pressing retry is worth anything at all.
Orders
- The Purchases pageEvery order your accounts have placed, in one table — eight tabs along the journey a parcel takes, a View panel that groups, sorts and filters the whole set server-side, and an export that writes the file your spreadsheet actually expects.
- Order statusesSeventeen statuses, not three. Each one says what is happening to the parcel right now and which tab holds it — plus what to do when Vinted stops answering for an order and its status freezes where it stands.
- DeadlinesFour clocks can run on an order and only two of them draw a ring — the two whose expiry takes something away that no later action gets back. Here is which clock is on which status, how long each one is, and why some parcels show no clock at all.
- Pick-up points and codesWhere the parcel is waiting, what it takes to get it out — a QR, a code, or an identifier and an opening code typed into two different fields — and what to do when the carrier moves it to a shop you never chose.
- Pick-up codes by emailMost carriers send the code that opens the locker by email and by nothing else. Forward that mail to one private Kops address and the code appears on the purchase it belongs to, whichever account bought it — one rule for the whole workspace.
- Actions on an orderUp to eight buttons sit at the end of a row, always in the same order and never rearranged — and one of them is not in that column at all on a desktop. Which ones appear, which ones are greyed out and why, and which write to Vinted rather than to Kops.
Inbox
- The InboxEvery conversation from every connected account in one place — filed by where each thread stands, translated as you read, and able to send an offer, buy, open a dispute or answer Vinted support without leaving the page.
- The buy barThe strip at the bottom of a conversation is the whole purchase in one control — offer, buy, arm an auto-buy on this one listing, follow a purchase live, clear 3D Secure, and retry a failure without losing the thread.
- BundlesBuy several items from the same seller in one order, with one lot of postage and whatever discount they offer. Build it from inside the conversation, see the total move as you tick, and end up in a new thread you can negotiate or auto-buy like any other.
- DisputesReport a problem, send the item back, follow the refund and answer whatever the seller or Vinted proposes — the whole complaint, from the conversation it belongs to, without bouncing to the app.
Workspace & team
- WorkspacesThe container everything belongs to — your filters, your Vinted accounts, your orders, your team. Personal versus team, the two places you can switch from, and the one thing only its creator can do.
- Members and rolesInviting people, what each of the two roles can and cannot do, and why seats are the thing that actually decides whether an invitation goes out.
- Shared filters and accountsThe admin's view across everybody — which Vinted accounts each employee is allowed to buy with, and every filter in the workspace with its subscribers.
- Audit log and danger zoneWho did what and from where, how long it is kept, and the two actions in the workspace that cannot be undone.
Your account
- Profile and securityYour identity on Kops, what the community can see of it, and the two screens that decide who can get into your account — plus the thing a passkey changes about signing in, which is more than it looks.
- NotificationsFive things Kops can tell you about, three places it can tell you, and the two settings people get wrong — the per-device switch and the per-filter one.
- PreferencesTheme, which Vinted domain your links open on, card size, shoe sizes, language, the magnifier, streamer mode, and the two purchase settings that decide what you see while a buy is running.
- Privacy and blocked sellersSellers you never want to see again — with a duration, a reason and a visibility mode — plus exporting your data, resetting the setup wizard, and deleting your account for good.
Subscription
- Changing planUpgrades land immediately and are prorated, downgrades wait for the end of the period, and one of the two can be refused outright. Plus annual billing, promo codes, and what "sold out" means.
- Account packs and seatsRaising your account ceiling or your headcount without changing plan — and the asymmetry that catches people out: adding is instant, removing waits for the end of the period.
- Pausing and cancellingStopping without losing anything — how a pause is scheduled rather than immediate, what actually stops while it runs, what restarting costs, and where cancelling actually lives.
- Payment problemsA failed payment gives you 48 hours before the dashboard is walled — and your filters keep running behind it, right up until your bank stops trying. What each message means, and what actually restores access.
Tools
- Listing toolsThree tools for the selling half of the job — pull a listing's assets from a link, write a listing from photos, and crop carrier labels down to a printable size. Plus the two things about them worth knowing before you rely on one.
- Sales and resale toolsWhat a seller has actually sold, and what an item is worth before you buy it — with the four market signals, their thresholds, the comparables underneath them, and the two answers the estimator gives instead of inventing a number.
Private content
- Cop FasterWhat actually moves your win rate, in the order it matters. Not a list of settings — a set of judgement calls, with the numbers behind them.
- Conference replaysFour recorded sessions, each on one thing that decides whether a reselling operation works — accounts that survive, listings that write themselves, the visibility rules on the other side, and the gear worth buying. They are held live and kept here afterwards.
Help
- TroubleshootingStart from the symptom. Nothing in the feed, nothing buying, races lost, an account that will not stay connected, a notification that never arrives, a team you cannot invite — each with the checks in the order that resolves them fastest.
- Error messagesEvery error in Kops has a title, a fact and a next step. This is where to look up the ones that are not about a purchase — sessions, invitations, uploads, tools, messages, streams and billing.
AI assistant
- Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code or CodexThe address to paste, where to paste it in Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code and Codex, the code a terminal assistant needs, and how to tell in thirty seconds that it worked.
- What your assistant can doEvery permission a connected assistant can be granted and every tool it can call, generated from the connector itself rather than written by hand.