Deliveroo SMS VERIFICATION Receive the Deliveroo code on a rented number.

Deliveroo confirms accounts with a code sent to a mobile number, and in the UK that means a +44 7 number. The number has a second job on a delivery app that it does not have elsewhere. Riders and support use it to reach you about an order in progress, so the right plan for a rented number differs from a social app.

A rented UK number is the right fit for opening the account, testing an ordering flow, or keeping your personal number off a marketing list. Before you order food to a door, change the contact number in the account to one you can answer.

When the number matters after sign-up

A delivery can need a phone call. The rider cannot find the entrance, the restaurant is out of an item, or support wants to confirm a refund. Those contacts go to the number on the account, and a rented number is back in the pool within minutes of your code arriving. Order notifications also come by push and email, so the app still tells you where the order is.

So treat the rented number as the sign-up number. Once the account exists, add the number you carry under account details, or keep the account for purposes that never need a courier to call.

Who opens a Deliveroo account on a separate number

Restaurant partners and the agencies that run their listings place test orders to check menus, modifiers and prices as a customer sees them. Developers working on delivery integrations do the same. Office managers set up a work account kept away from their personal one. In each case the account needs to exist, and nobody needs to call it. A separate account also keeps test orders out of a personal order history.

Deliveroo refuses many internet telephony and free-site numbers. The numbers here are real UK mobile ranges, which is what its check expects. In other markets, pick a number from that country, and see Uber or Wolt for similar apps.

Offers and one account per person

Deliveroo's promotions for new customers are limited to one per person, and its terms let it cancel credit or accounts opened to claim them repeatedly. It links accounts through payment cards, addresses and devices as well as numbers, so a new number does not make a second welcome offer legitimate. Our acceptable use policy rules it out too.

Test accounts and privacy are the fair uses. If a code does not arrive, the activation refunds on its own.