How multi-account works

A single Vintedge account can run several Vinted accounts. But it does not work the way you would imagine: there is no account switcher in the extension. Here is why, and what it changes.

The fundamental rule

Vinted, like any site, logs you in through a single cookie. If you are logged in as maison-lila in Chrome, then Chrome is maison-lila. There is no way to be logged in to two Vinted accounts at the same time in the same browser profile — and Vintedge cannot get around that, because it uses your session rather than your credentials.

A "switch account" button in the extension would therefore be a lie: it could not change anything.

The three notions to keep apart

The dashboard handles three different lists; confusing them is the source of most misunderstandings.

An account can therefore be linked but offline: Vintedge knows its history and shows it, but can do nothing on it as long as no browser is logged into it.

One subscription, several accounts

The number of linked Vinted accounts depends on your plan:

Multi-account proper starts with the Growth plan.

The only good method: one browser profile per account

Chrome and Brave can run several profiles in parallel, each with its own cookies. That is exactly what you need: one profile = one Vinted session = one shop.

Each profile has its own instance of the extension, all connected to the same Vintedge account. Your shops run at the same time, each in its own window, and the dashboard brings everything together.

This is the setup Vintedge is designed for, and the only one we recommend as soon as you have two accounts. The procedure is in Add a second Vinted account.

The only cost: you have to keep the windows open, and the machine works a little harder.

What not to do: log out and log back in

Switching accounts by logging out of Vinted and back in with the other account does technically work — the extension detects it and switches everything. But it is strongly discouraged. Here is why.

• Only one account runs at a time. All the agents of the other shop are stopped: no reposting, no answers to buyers, no counter-offers. You are paying for a multi-account subscription to run a single account.
• Dashboard orders stay stuck. A listing to publish or a message aimed at the logged-out account waits, sometimes for days.
• You risk acting on the wrong shop. After a switch, the panel lists still show the previous account's data until you refresh them. That is the number one cause of mistakes: you start a repost thinking you are on one shop, and you are on the other.
• Session round-trips are a signal in themselves. A single machine that logs out and back in several times a day on different accounts is far from innocuous on Vinted's side.
• Your settings and your contact memory stay shared between the two accounts — see What is isolated and what is not.

There is only one legitimate case left: linking an account for the very first time, when you have not yet created its browser profile. Create the profile right afterwards.

How the data stays separate

Every piece of information pushed to the dashboard is tagged with the Vinted account it came from. Sales, purchases, items, messages, agent statuses: everything carries its origin. On the dashboard, you filter by account.

In the other direction, every order sent by the dashboard carries the account it targets, and the extension refuses to carry it out if the browser is logged in to another account. A message meant for atelier-nord will never go out from maison-lila, even if you have just switched sessions.

Some local items, however, are shared between your accounts within the same Chrome profile. That matters and is detailed in What is isolated and what is not.

Read next

1. Add a second Vinted account
2. Switch between your accounts
3. What is isolated and what is not