Quickstart
From 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.
The first time you sign in, Kops walks you through this itself. This page is the same path, written down — useful if you skipped the wizard, or want to know what each step is really doing.
Pick your goal first
Kops asks What's your goal? and the steps change accordingly. What you can pick depends on your plan.
| Goal | What it sets up | Needs |
|---|---|---|
| Monitor & Secure | A filter and the feed. You buy by hand | Any plan |
| Auto Buy | The same, plus a connected Vinted account so one click completes a checkout | Plus |
| Full Autocop | The same, plus buying that fires on its own the instant a filter matches | Pro |
| Team Setup | Invite the people who will use it with you, then the rest | Pro |
You are not locked in. The goal picks the shortest route through setup, nothing more.
On Starter there is only one route, so the question is not asked at all — the wizard goes straight to the filter.
Whichever you pick, the wizard finishes the same way: Install the Kops App (skipped on a desktop, which cannot receive push anyway), then Enable Notifications, then done. Those two are steps, not extras — a filter that matches while you are not looking is only worth something if you hear about it.
Step 1 — Create a filter
Filters → New filter.
Start narrow. One brand, one category, a price ceiling you would actually pay. A first filter that matches ten items an hour teaches you more than one that matches four hundred.
Two shortcuts worth knowing:
- Import from URL. Search on Vinted until the results look right, copy the address, and paste it into Paste a Vinted search URL… — Kops rebuilds the filter from it.
- Coming from another tool? The Kops Filter Exporter extension exports your existing filters and Kops imports the file, in two steps. See Bulk actions and import.
Details in Creating a filter.
Leaving a criterion empty does not mean none — it means all. An empty brand list accepts every brand; an empty size list accepts every size.
So a filter with a price ceiling and nothing else is not "cheap things I like". It is everything on Vinted under that price, and if you arm it, it will buy exactly that.
Fill in what you care about. Check the preview count before you arm anything.
Step 2 — Connect a Vinted account
Accounts → Add an account.
This is the account that will actually buy. Nothing purchases without one — a filter on its own can only put items in your feed and notify you.
Two ways in, and the page explains the trade-off: with email and password, or with tokens when a login is blocked. See Adding a Vinted account.
Then, before it can win anything, that account needs three things:
| Why | |
|---|---|
| A payment card | An account with no card never buys — Payment cards |
| A delivery address | It decides where parcels go and which pick-up points exist — Address and shipping |
| Shipping preferences | It decides which pick-up point Kops takes under time pressure, and that choice is where a race is won or lost |
The account page shows readiness badges for exactly these. An account missing one is skipped by automatic buying — silently, because there is nothing it could do. Check them: Account states and readiness.
Step 3 — Say what should happen on a match
This is the step that turns a monitor into a buyer, and it lives on the filter itself.
One number — your ceiling — decides everything:
- listed at or below it → Kops buys immediately;
- listed above it → Kops can open a negotiation and work the price down towards it;
- or neither, and Kops just tells you.
That is the whole model. Automatic acquisition is the page to read properly before you arm anything, and Automatic negotiation covers what happens when a seller counters.
Step 4 — Turn autocop on
Two switches, and both have to be on:
- The global switch — the master control for the whole workspace. It is your emergency stop: one click and nothing buys anywhere.
- The per-filter switch — on each filter individually, so you can arm one and leave the rest watching.
A filter that never fires is very often just this: armed on the filter, off globally.
Step 5 — Watch it work
| Where | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Feed | Every match, live. This is where you find out whether your filter is any good |
| Attempts | Every purchase Kops tried, won or lost, with the reason |
| Purchases | The ones that went through, tracked to your door — The Purchases page |
| Inbox | Sellers writing back, across every account — The Inbox |
Give it a few hours before judging a filter. Then tighten it: too many matches means it is too broad, none means too narrow.
What to do next
- A second filter, once the first one has taught you what your niche actually looks like.
- Bringing someone in? On Pro, each member sits on a seat you buy first — the invite refuses while there is none free. Account packs and seats.
- The toolbox at
/tools, for the other half of the job: pulling a listing's photos, writing a description, cropping labels. On every plan. Listing tools. - Cop Faster once you are buying regularly. It is about judgement, not settings, and it is the difference between competing and winning.