Vinted Bundles: How Shipping, Parcel Size and Discounts Work

A buyer builds a bundle from your wardrobe by tapping 'Buy bundle' (or by making an offer on several items), adding up to 100 of your listings. Vinted works out the parcel size from the items, applies any bundle discount you have set, adds the buyer protection fee and postage, and the buyer pays once. You get a single sale in your app with one shipping label — you never send a bundle as separate parcels.

If the parcel size Vinted calculated changes before checkout — because the buyer added a heavy or bulky item, say — you receive a request from the buyer to approve the change. You need to select a suitable parcel size for the order so the buyer can complete the purchase. Choose honestly: the size you pick decides which carriers the buyer is offered and what they pay, and an undersized choice can be refused or surcharged at drop-off.

Bundles cannot be split or changed once paid. If the buyer wants to add another item after checkout, that is a separate order with its own label and postage. And as with any Vinted sale, you ship with the Vinted label within five working days or the order is cancelled automatically.

Bundle discounts are set once for your whole wardrobe, in your profile settings under 'Bundle discount' (Vinted's help centre calls it setting up a discount for your closet). You choose a percentage for bundles of 2 items, 3 items and 5 or more items, and the matching discount is applied automatically to the combined item price when a buyer's bundle reaches that size — they see the saving before they pay. You can leave any tier blank, or switch bundle discounts off entirely. New accounts may have a default discount pre-set, so check the setting before your first sale.

Only standard sellers can offer bundle discounts; Vinted Pro business accounts cannot, although their buyers still save on postage by bundling. The discount comes off your item prices, not off the postage, so price your listings with the discount in mind. A common approach is a modest 2-item discount, a bigger 3-item discount, and a generous 5-item discount to shift low-value stock in bulk.

Vinted has two weight tiers. 'Standard' items — clothing, shoes, bags, accessories, books, toys — allow up to 2 kg, and in that tier the buyer can be offered InPost (64 × 38 × 41 cm, QR code at any locker or InPost Shop), Evri (combined size up to 245 cm) or Royal Mail (61 × 46 × 46 cm, QR code only), plus DPD or Relay in some regions. 'Heavy' items allow up to 15 kg with Evri or 20 kg with Royal Mail, and InPost is not available.

This is why bundles need weighing. Three T-shirts in a mailing bag weigh 500–700 g and stay comfortably in the standard tier. Two pairs of jeans and a hoodie can pass 2 kg, at which point the parcel is a heavy-tier item, InPost disappears from the buyer's options and Evri or Royal Mail postage applies. Vinted chooses the size automatically from the listing details, so accurate item categories and honest approval of size-change requests are what keep the tier right.

The parcel must also physically fit. For an InPost bundle, everything has to go into one compartment: Small is 8 cm deep, Medium 19 cm and Large 41 cm, all 38 × 64 cm and up to 15 kg. A five-item clothing bundle in a large mailing bag is typically 15–25 cm thick, so plan for a Medium or Large compartment and check availability in the InPost app before you travel.

Fold every item flat and stack them, heaviest at the bottom, rather than rolling or stuffing. Put the stack in the smallest polythene mailing bag it fits — 35 × 50 cm handles most three-item clothing bundles, 45 × 60 cm or 50 × 70 cm a five-item one — and press the air out before sealing. Air is what makes bundles bulky; a squashed-flat bag is often half the depth of a loosely packed one.

Avoid boxes unless the bundle contains something rigid such as shoes or a game. A shoe box inside a bundle is what usually pushes it past an InPost Large compartment's 41 cm depth; if the buyer does not need the box, ask, and if they do, expect the bundle to go by Evri (locker up to 62 × 57 × 39 cm, ParcelShop up to 120 cm long) rather than InPost.

Write the buyer's username or name on the bag and put a note inside listing the items. Bundles are where 'an item was missing' disputes start, so photograph the packed stack before it goes in the bag, and keep the photo until the buyer has confirmed everything arrived.

• Fold flat, stack, heaviest at the bottom; one mailing bag, air pressed out
• Measure the packed depth: under 19 cm is InPost Medium, under 41 cm is Large
• Weigh it: over 2 kg means the heavy tier and no InPost
• Photograph the packed items before sealing the bag

Buyers pay one postage charge for the whole bundle plus one buyer protection fee, which is the main reason they bundle. They choose the carrier at checkout from the options the parcel size allows, and they can collect from an InPost locker, a Collect+ shop or a Royal Mail locker if they prefer. You cannot change the carrier after payment; if the parcel genuinely will not fit the carrier chosen, contact Vinted support rather than sending with your own postage, which would void the order's cover.

Two problems account for most bundle complaints. The first is a missing item — avoided by packing from a written list and photographing the stack. The second is a parcel refused or surcharged at drop-off because it is heavier or bigger than the size Vinted assigned — avoided by weighing before you approve a size change and by packing flat. If an InPost door will not close, tap 'My parcel doesn't fit' on the screen and try a larger compartment or another locker; your QR code stays valid.