Do VIN Lookup report credits expire?
No. An unused report credit stays on your paid order until you spend it on a VIN — nothing in the purchase or the code puts a date on it.
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No. An unused report credit stays on your paid order until you spend it on a VIN. The code that spends a credit checks only two things — that the order is paid and that its entitlement is active — and there is no date test anywhere in that path. The pricing catalogue says the same in plain words: credits stay on your order until you use them, with no subscription and no expiry pressure.
- Credits are not time-limited: the spend path tests payment state, never a date.
- What removes credits is a refund or a lost chargeback, not the passage of time.
- The seven-day guest order link is a separate clock — attach the order to an account and the wallet stays reachable.
What the product actually checks before spending a credit
When you assign a VIN, the order and its entitlement are locked and two conditions are tested: the order must be paid and the entitlement must be active. Capacity is then a simple count — how many report jobs this order already holds against the number of credits it bought. No step in that sequence looks at a calendar.
The entitlement record does carry an optional expiry column left over from the original schema, but the payment path never fills it in and no access check reads it. In practice that column is always empty, which is why an order bought months ago behaves exactly like one bought this morning.
What can take credits away
Three payment events change the picture, and none of them is time. A recorded refund revokes the order's entitlement and cancels any queued reports. A chargeback lost, accepted or expired does the same. While a dispute is open, the entitlement is suspended rather than revoked — the wallet then reads “Report credits under review” and pauses until the dispute resolves.
That is the honest boundary. Credits do not evaporate on a schedule; they stop being spendable when the payment behind them stops being good.
The one clock worth knowing about
The credits do not expire, but the guest link that opens your order does. Checkout issues an order access token that lasts seven days. After that, the way back in is an account: sign in with the verified email you used at checkout and the order attaches itself, so the same wallet, the same balance and the same delivered PDFs stay reachable from your dashboard whether you do it on day one or months later.
Steps
- Sign in with the verified email you used at checkout — there is no deadline; only the claim button on the order page needs the live seven-day guest link.
- Keep the checkout email and the order ID with your car-shopping notes.
- Spend credits whenever you are ready — there is no date to beat.
- Check the balance from the dashboard before buying another pack.
What this does not cover
- The no-expiry statement is product copy on the pricing catalogue, not a clause in the terms of service; the published terms do not contain a written no-expiry guarantee, so read it as current product behaviour rather than a contractual promise.
- Credits are revoked if the payment is refunded or lost to a chargeback, and paused while a dispute is open.
- The seven-day guest order link is a separate clock from the credits.
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Frequently asked questions
Do I have to use all the credits in one sitting?
No. Each credit is assigned to a VIN separately, whenever you decide. The rest stay attached to the same order.
Is a pack a subscription that renews?
No. One report at $14.99, three credits at $29.99 and five at $44.99 are each a one-time purchase, with no membership and no automatic renewal.
Can I move an unused credit to a different order or person?
The current policy does not state a transfer path. Each entitlement is attached to the single order it was bought on, and the wallet spends only that order's credits.