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How to Find Your Steam Trade URL (and Avoid Trade Holds)

Where your Steam trade URL is, what it does and doesn't let a site do, why skins can be held for up to 15 days, and how to stop that.

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Your Steam trade URL is a link that lets someone send you a trade offer without being on your friends list. Skin sites use it to send you what you withdraw or win, including the skins from our daily free case.

Where to find your trade URL

The quickest way: open steamcommunity.com/my/tradeoffers/privacy while you're signed in to Steam. Your trade URL is in the Third-Party Sites box. From the Steam app it's the same page:

  1. Open your Inventory.
  2. Click Trade Offers, then Who can send me Trade Offers?
  3. Under Third-Party Sites, copy the Trade URL. It looks like https://steamcommunity.com/tradeoffer/new/?partner=…&token=…

What a site can and can't do with it

With your trade URL a site can send you a trade offer. Nothing leaves your inventory unless you accept it in Steam (and confirm it on your phone if you use the Steam Guard Mobile Authenticator). So check every offer before you accept: the items you give, the items you get, and who it's from.

If you ever paste your trade URL somewhere you don't trust, use Create new URL on the same page. The old link stops working straight away, so update it on the sites you use.

Why your skins are on hold for up to 15 days

Steam holds items for up to 15 days after a trade if your account hasn't been protected by the Steam Guard Mobile Authenticator for at least the last 7 days. The hold gives you time to cancel the trade if someone else got into your account.

To stop holds, add the Mobile Authenticator in the Steam app on your phone. After it has been on your account for 7 days, items are no longer held. One thing to know: if you cancel a trade while it's on hold, Steam assumes someone else made it and puts a 7-day trading cooldown on your account that support can't remove.

Make your inventory public

Sites can only see the skins you want to deposit if your inventory is public. In your Steam profile, open Edit Profile, then Privacy Settings, and set Inventory to Public.

Using it on Betrefs

Our free case only asks for your trade URL when you win something, so we can send you the skin. Paste it in the box on that page; it has to belong to the Steam account you signed in with.

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