Answers about buying, payment, delivery, returns, your account and OREA points. If you cannot find an answer, send a request — we reply within one business day.
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How ordering works, what happens next, where to follow an order.
You can buy without an account (as a guest). With an account you see all orders in one place and check out faster.
OREA is a marketplace: each product is made and shipped by its shop. With items from two shops in the cart you pay once but receive two parcels, each with its own delivery and timing.
| Status | Meaning |
|---|---|
| New | The shop has received it and not picked it up yet. |
| Processing | The shop is packing or making your product. |
| Sent | Handed to the courier. A tracking number, when there is one, shows on the order. |
| Delivered | The parcel arrived (or you picked it up). |
| Cancelled | Cancelled by you, the shop or OREA. Card payments are refunded. |
Once the parcel is sent, cancellation is no longer possible — use a return after delivery instead.
Not delivered, damaged, wrong, charged twice, the shop is silent… For each case: what to do first and how to send a request that already carries your order number.
If the parcel is never delivered you get a full refund — card payments go back to the card, cash on delivery was never paid.
Check the order for what you actually bought (variant, quantity). If it does not match what arrived, the mistake is the shop's and you pay nothing for the exchange or return.
Made-to-measure or personalised items usually cannot be cancelled once the shop has started. Write as early as you can.
When a payment does not complete, the bank sometimes holds the amount on the card. That is not a charge — the hold disappears by itself within 3–10 working days.
Most shops answer the same day; 2 working days without an answer is a reason to contact OREA. The shop gets a notification and an e-mail for every message, so it is not on you.
| How you paid | When the refund arrives |
|---|---|
| Card | OREA refunds the day the cancellation/return is confirmed; the bank shows it in 3–10 working days, sometimes only on the next statement. |
| Cash on delivery | Nothing was paid in advance; for a returned product the shop refunds to the account you give it. |
| Gift card | The amount goes back to the gift card, right after confirmation. |
10 working days passed? Send a request — OREA sends you the refund confirmation (transaction ID) your bank can trace.
Card, cash on delivery, coupons, gift cards and failed payments.
Type the code into the Coupon field and apply. A shop coupon works only on that shop's products; an OREA coupon works everywhere.
Buy one on the Gift cards page: choose the amount, the recipient's name and e-mail and a message. It arrives by e-mail, immediately or on the day you pick. Redeem it in the Gift card field at checkout; the rest stays on the card.
Times, prices, tracking, pickup and free delivery.
Delivery is set by the shop: at checkout you choose the method per shop and see the price and time before confirming. Usually 2–5 business days in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 5–10 to Croatia and Serbia. Made-to-order products add their making time.
When the shop hands the parcel to the courier the order becomes Sent and you get an e-mail. If the courier provides tracking, it shows on the order with a link.
No movement for more than 5 business days? Message the shop from the order — it checks with the courier. No answer in 2 days? Send a request to support.
When a product is wrong, does not fit or never arrived.
Most shops accept returns within 14 days of delivery for unused products; each shop's terms are on its page. Returns are usually not possible for made-to-measure or personalised items, food and cosmetics — unless they arrived damaged or wrong.
Registration, password, e-mail confirmation, addresses, deleting the account.
Register with an e-mail or a Google account. You get a Confirm your e-mail message — the button confirms the address is yours. You can sign in without it, but order notices only go to a confirmed address.
For you, Following and Latest, how we choose what you see and how to change it.
Open the feed from the main menu (Feed), from the Shop menu where it comes first, or with Start exploring on the home page.
What you looked at today weighs more than last month, so the feed follows what you are after right now. We always mix in something popular and new as well, and from shops you already know we single out what they published in the last two weeks ("New from …"). A product or shop you hid with "Not interested" stays out of the feed, the home page and product-page suggestions.
You meet the same picks elsewhere: on a product page ("You might like"), at the top of a category ("For you in this category"), on the home page ("Recently viewed", "Because you looked at …") and, very gently, in the order of search results — a product from a shop you like moves up a place or two, but a search stays a search.
Every recommended card carries a short reason ("Because you like: ceramics", "People also looked at this"), and the Why am I seeing this? link leads here. Tap ⋯ on a feed card to see the reason, or choose Not interested / Hide that shop. It changes at once and can be undone.
Without signing in, views are remembered only in your browser (an anonymous cookie) and are deleted after 60 days. When you sign in they move to your account.
Click Follow on a shop page, in the feed or on a shop card. Its posts, new products and collections show in Following, and the bell at the top lets you know.
Choose what comes by e-mail in Profile and settings › Notifications. Every e-mail has an unsubscribe link.
Who the shops are, what OREA Verified means, how we protect data.
The OREA team reviews every shop before activation: company or craft details, contact, delivery and products. OREA Verified shops have proven local production, known material origin and sustainable packaging.
How to reach us and what happens with your request.
We answer within one business day, weekdays 9–17. For questions about a product itself or its making time, messaging the shop from the order is faster.
Urgent? Live chat is at the bottom of the Contact page. Use it for what cannot wait — the chat cannot see your order and the conversation is not kept in your profile, so for anything about an order a request is better.
A picture settles things fastest: a damaged parcel, the wrong product, an error on screen. Next to the message box there is a paperclip — click it and pick files, or take a photo right away on a phone. Attachments work in three places: on a support request (both the new one and every reply), in the conversation next to an order, and in a message to a shop.
You do not have to prepare a phone photo. Before it is sent it is turned upright and shrunk by itself, so a few hundred kilobytes go up instead of ten megabytes — quick even on a weak connection, and everything on the picture is still clearly visible. PDFs and other documents are sent as they are, so for those the 10 MB limit applies to their actual size.
| If it says… | What to do |
|---|---|
| “… is not a supported file type” | The file is not on the list above. Save it as JPG, PNG or PDF and send it again. |
| “… is an Apple HEIC file” | An iPhone picture in a format that cannot be opened. On iPhone: Settings → Camera → Formats → “Most Compatible”, or save it as JPG. |
| “… is damaged or incomplete” | The file is not whole. Save it again or send another one. |
| “… is larger than 10 MB” | The document is too big. Send it in parts or at a smaller size. |
| “Could not reach the server” | The connection dropped mid-upload. Check it and try again. |
| “Your session has expired” | You were on the page too long. Sign in again and send the attachment. |
Pictures show as thumbnails in the conversation and open full size. Only the person you are writing to sees the attachment — the shop in a conversation with it, the OREA team on a support request.
Never send a picture of a whole card, a password or an ID. For a payment, the last 4 card digits, the date and the amount are enough.
Send a request to support — you get a request number and a reply by e-mail, and follow the conversation on OREA.