# Profiles

Profiles are one of the most critical components when setting up Refract and other retail bots. A well-structured profile allows for smooth and efficient checkouts, all handled from Refract locally storing **billing, shipping, and payment information**.

Using multiple unique profiles correctly can **increase success rates** and reduce the likelihood of cancellations or payment declines. Below, we’ll break down different types of profiles, best practices for avoiding errors, and tools that make managing profiles easier.

## **Types of Profiles**

### **Hard Profiles**

A **hard profile** contains real, unaltered personal information and is commonly used for everyday online purchases. It includes:

✅ **Full Name**\
✅ **Email Address** (your real email)\
✅ **Phone Number**\
✅ **Billing & Shipping Address** (unchanged)\
✅ **Payment Information** (your personal debit or credit card)

Hard profiles are useful for sites that don’t impose **order quantity limits** or for making purchases that align with your personal buying habits.

### **Virtual (Jigged) Profiles**

Virtual or **jigged profiles** are variations of your real information, often used to **bypass one-order-per-customer restrictions** imposed by many retailers. These profiles allow multiple checkouts without getting flagged.

🔹 **Modified Name** (e.g., John Doe → J. Doe)\
🔹 **Different Email** (using catch-all emails or unique Gmail variations with dots: `johndoe@gmail.com → j.ohndoe@gmail.com`)\
🔹 **Different Phone Number** (Google Voice, VoIP numbers, or burner numbers)\
🔹 **Modified Billing/Shipping Address** (j1gging techniques)\
🔹 **Virtual Credit Cards (VCCs)** (Issued by services like Privacy, Revolut, or Capital One Eno)

Using virtual profiles correctly **reduces cancellations** and increases the number of successful checkouts on high-demand releases.

### **Further Address Alteration (Jigging)**

Address alteration, also known as **j1gging**, is a method used to slightly modify your shipping details so that retailers **don’t detect duplicate orders**.

#### **Common Jigging Methods**

Retailers recognize and group addresses using pattern detection, so small adjustments can help differentiate multiple orders.

✔ **Spacing or Special Characters**

* `1234 Main St` → `1234 M@in St`
* `Apartment 3B` → `Apt. 3-B`

✔ **Abbreviations & Synonyms**

* `Street → St.`
* `Avenue → Ave.`
* `Apartment → Apt.`

✔ **Rearranging Address Components**

* `1234 Main St, Apt 3B` → `Apt 3B, 1234 Main St`

✔ **Extra Characters or Misspellings**

* `Main Street` → `Main Str.`

However, it’s crucial not to alter addresses so much that the package becomes **undeliverable**. Make sure your modifications remain valid for shipping.

## **Avoiding Errors and Cancellations**

Running duplicate tasks with identical information is one of the most common reasons for checkout failures. Retailers **flag multiple orders from the same profile**, leading to:

❌ **Checkout errors**\
❌ **Payment declines**\
❌ **Cancellations**\
❌ **Account bans on some sites**

### **How to Reduce Order Cancellations**

✅ **Use multiple payment methods** (physical credit/debit cards, VCCs)\
✅ **Jig your billing and shipping addresses**\
✅ **Use different emails for each profile**\
✅ **Avoid using the same IP address for every checkout** (use proxies!)\
✅ **Limit duplicate orders on restrictive sites**

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## **Increasing Success Rates**

When botting for limited-edition products or high-demand releases, using a variety of **profiles, payment methods, and jigging techniques** will give you the best chance at **securing multiple checkouts**.

### **Best Practices for Maximizing Success**

✔ **Use as many profiles as possible** (while staying realistic)\
✔ **Make sure addresses are properly jigged**\
✔ **Test your setup on smaller drops first**

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## **Tools for Managing Profiles**

Handling multiple profiles manually can be overwhelming, but **automation tools** can simplify the process. One of the most popular solutions is **AYCD**, which offers a suite of features tailored to botters.

### **Benefits of AYCD for Profile Management**

🛠   **Profile Organization:** Create, edit, and manage profiles in one place\
🎭 **Address Jigging:** Automatically alters your shipping details\
💳 **Virtual Credit Card Integration:** Easily generate and manage VCCs\
📧 **Account Generator:** Bulk-create unique emails for each profile\
⚡ **Automated Autofill:** Speeds up manual checkouts

Other tools like **Privacy.com, Revolut, and Capital One Eno** are useful for **creating multiple virtual credit cards**, making it easier to manage transactions without flagging duplicate payments.

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## **Final Tips**

✔ **Keep track of your profiles** using spreadsheets or tools like AYCD\
✔ **Test different jigging methods** to see what works best for each retailer\
✔ **Invest in tools like AYCD** to streamline your profile management\
✔ **Rotate payment methods** to reduce flagging risks\
✔ **Follow community updates** for new techniques and retailer policy changes

By following these best practices, you’ll **increase your success rates, avoid bans, and maximize efficiency** when running Refract Bot.


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