Rowbuy walkthrough: seven stops, each with the pair that trips people there

How to use Rowbuy and this Rowbuy Spreadsheet together, from sign-up to the doorstep. Each stop names the step, shows the Rowbuy screen where we could reach it without logging in, and points to the pair that causes trouble at that moment.

Side doors
Register
Find
Pay goods
Stored, QC
Choose items
Pay freight
Doorstep

Before the first stop: the Fill&buy and Forwarding side doors

The main door, the Fill&buy side door and all seven stops in 50 seconds, without sound. Made by rowbuy.org: the homepage, Fill&buy, registration and product screens are rowbuy.com captures from October 24, 2026; the signed-in screens are our illustrations, carrying the same three pieces and the same numbers as the stops below. Not an official Rowbuy video.

Most orders go through the main door: search or paste a link, open the product page, add to cart. Rowbuy also has two side doors in its top menu. Fill&buy is a form for listings the search cannot open: you type the link, the product name, the options and the price in yuan, and Rowbuy places the order. Forwarding is for things you bought yourself and had sent to Rowbuy's warehouse.

Fill&buy runs five steps, Forwarding four; the warehouse pairs set them side by side. If you are new, use the main door first. Rowbuy publishes no step-by-step video, so this walkthrough is built from screenshots we took of public pages on October 24, 2026. The clip above is our own illustrated version, not a Rowbuy video, and the signed-in stops below carry illustrations we drew from Rowbuy's help articles and published prices, each one labelled as an illustration.

Rowbuy Fill&buy form with fields for warehouse, product link, product name, specifications and notes — Fill&buy product details form, 860 px view, October 24, 2026.

Stop one: register, then find the coupon bundle

The sign-up form wants an email and a password, entered twice over; an invitation code box sits below them and may stay empty. A Chinese phone number is never requested. You can also sign in with a Google, Facebook, LINE or Discord account. Two links beside the tick box, for a registration agreement and a user statement, led nowhere when we clicked them on October 22, so there was no text to read before ticking the box.

Once in, Rowbuy says a new-user shipping coupon bundle is waiting on your coupons page. The pair to know here: that bundle is not the Lucky Wheel coupon, which needs an influencer code at sign-up. Both apply to freight, not to goods. Rowbuy's registration page is the place to start.

Rowbuy Create Account form with email, password, confirm password and invitation code fields — Rowbuy registration form, 1280 px view cropped, October 24, 2026.

Stop two: a link pasted, or a photo searched

Rowbuy's ordering article gives two ways in. Drop a Taobao, 1688 or Weidian product link into the search bar, or upload a screenshot and let image search look for the original. Then choose colour, size and quantity and add to cart. Typing a product word works too; that is how we found every pick on the Spreadsheet shelves.

The pair at this stop is headline price and product amount. The big figure under the title is usually the cheapest option; the total beside the buttons follows whatever option is ticked. Also read the stock counter and the purchase hours line before paying.

Rowbuy product page with price, colour options, quantity, minimum order quantity and product amount — A Rowbuy product page as we saw it on October 24, 2026, 1280 px view cropped to the order panel.

Stop three: the goods payment

Illustration of a Rowbuy goods payment: a grey hoodie, khaki jeans and a knit beanie priced in US dollars with the yuan price beneath, a message to the buyer, seller delivery at $0.00, a service-fee line without a published rate, and the pair goods payment versus freight payment — Illustration drawn by this site, not a real account screen. The three pieces are picks from our Spreadsheet shelves at the prices Rowbuy showed on October 24, 2026: CNY 65.81, 84.37 and 20.58, which Rowbuy displayed as $9.72, $12.46 and $3.04 at its rate of 1 CNY = 0.1476 USD, $25.22 together. All three product pages showed $0.00 domestic freight. Rowbuy publishes no service-fee rate, so this bill reads $25.22 plus whatever the fee line says; freight comes later, at stop six.

Submitting the order triggers the first of two payments: what the item costs plus what the seller charges to courier it to the warehouse, billed in US dollars by card or from a top-up balance. The checkout page needs login, so we show the Fill&buy fee block instead; it asks for the same two figures: a per-piece yuan price and a courier cost.

Pair at this stop: goods payment versus freight payment. Whatever you pay now, a second bill for the international line will follow once your items are weighed. If the service fee appears on this bill, note it; Rowbuy does not publish its rate.

Rowbuy Fill&buy fee block asking for unit price in CNY and quantity — Fee block on the Fill&buy form, 860 px view, October 24, 2026. The logged-in checkout was not captured.

Stop four: Stored, then QC photos

Illustration of a Rowbuy QC photo page for a grey hoodie: a front photo and three close-ups, a Stored warehouse status beside a separate not-yet-approved QC status, the size ordered, an example weight, the free storage day count, and buttons to approve or raise a concern — Illustration drawn by this site, not a real account screen. The pictures are the seller's listing photo and crops of it; real QC photos are taken of your own piece at the warehouse, and Rowbuy publishes no photo count per piece. Check colour, lining and the size label against what you ordered before you approve. The 780 g weight is an example.

After payment Rowbuy buys from the seller during its working hours, and the seller ships to the warehouse. When the package lands, the orders page shows Stored. Free QC photos follow; a notice tells you they are up, and you look through them in your account.

Two pairs live here. Stored and QC approved: arrival is not approval. And GL and RL: approve when the photos match what you ordered, raise a concern when they do not, before the parcel leaves. The storage clock starts at Stored, with 90 free days.

Rowbuy text explaining that once status shows Stored you can select items in Warehouse — Rowbuy's own description of the Stored status, Forwarding page, October 24, 2026. The QC review screen sits behind login.

Stop five: ticking Stored items for the outbound box

Illustration of the Rowbuy Warehouse list: three Stored and approved pieces ticked, a fourth Stored piece left unticked because its photos are unread, example weights, free storage day counts, the free unpack-and-count option and a Submit parcel button — Illustration drawn by this site, not a real account screen; the weights are examples. Sent one by one to the US on the lower-rate line, the hoodie (780 g), jeans (690 g) and beanie (90 g) would start at CNY 174 + 174 + 135 = CNY 483 before any packing. Packed together at 1.72 kg they bill CNY 252. The cap waits for its photo check; storage is free for 90 days, up to 120 in all.

In the Warehouse section of your account you tick the Stored, approved items that should share a box and send them off as a single parcel. This is the moment consolidation pays: one box instead of three means one first-weight charge instead of three.

The pair at this stop is consolidation and packing reinforcement. Combining saves money; heavy padding can spend it again by adding volume. If anything in the parcel has a battery or liquid, check the restricted and prohibited pair now, because it decides which lines are offered.

Split diagram contrasting consolidation with packing reinforcement — Combining versus padding. The parcel selection screen needs login and was not captured.

Stop six: settling the freight bill

Illustration of a Rowbuy freight payment: a masked US address, scale weight beside box-size weight, two US lines and a Canada-only line with their internal names masked and their prices, the declaration at the value paid, a freight coupon selector and the amount to pay — Illustration drawn by this site, not a real account screen. Rowbuy lists its lines under internal Chinese names, masked here, and the address is masked too. Worked example from the line prices in Rowbuy's estimator data: 1.72 kg on the US lower-rate line is CNY 135 for the first 500 g plus 3 × CNY 39 for the 1,220 g after it, CNY 252 or about $37.20; the other US line comes to CNY 255, about $37.64. The box-size weight, 35 × 25 × 10 cm ÷ 6,000 = 1.46 kg, is lower, so the scale weight is billed. At 1.72 kg the parcel sits in the 1,501 to 2,000 g step, so up to 280 g more would cost nothing extra on the US lines. Sent to a Canadian address, the same parcel would be CNY 30 + 18 × CNY 7.10 = CNY 157.80. The declaration shows what was actually paid.

Rowbuy lists the lines available for your parcel and destination, with estimated delivery times, and you pay the second bill. In the line data behind the public estimator on October 22, the United States had two lines and Canada one, each quoted at 7 to 11 days; other countries we tried had none.

Three weight pairs meet here: scale reading versus dimensional weight, first weight unit and later units, and estimate and carrier-verified charge. Run the weight calculator first so the bill is not a surprise. Coupons apply here, to this payment.

Rowbuy Shipping Estimation form with warehouse, delivery area, weight and box size fields — Rowbuy's public shipping estimator, 860 px view, October 24, 2026. The paid line choice sits behind login.

Stop seven: the doorstep, and what happens if something is off

Illustration of a Rowbuy parcel tracking page: seven events from freight payment to a signed delivery on day eight, a masked recipient and tracking number, a Lucky Wheel spin unlocked after delivery, and the pair import duty versus shipping fee — Illustration drawn by this site, not a real account screen; the recipient and tracking number are masked. Eight days falls inside Rowbuy's quoted 7 to 11 days; the event names will differ by line and carrier. Any duty or tax is set by US customs and paid by you, separately from the $37.20 freight. Each delivered parcel unlocks one Lucky Wheel spin, worth 10% to 40% off the international shipping of one parcel.

Rowbuy says you can track the parcel to your door. Customs in your country may ask for duty and tax on arrival; that charge is yours and is never part of the freight payment.

If the box arrives damaged or something is missing, the route has changed: it is now a claim through support, with your order number and photos, and the timeline depends on the carrier. Keep the outer box and label. The pairs for this stop are caught in QC versus discovered after delivery and import duty and shipping fee.

Timeline showing the QC window before shipping and the claim window after delivery — Why problems are cheaper to fix before stop six. Tracking screens need login and were not captured.