Receive Glovo verification SMS online

Code length

Numeric code sent by SMS

Customer signup

A rented number often clears verification

During an errand

A courier may need to reach the sender and the recipient separately

Courier registration

Separate document-based flow; not for a rented number

Strongest markets

Southern and eastern Europe, parts of Africa and central Asia

Payment

Card or cash on delivery depending on the market

Glovo delivers more than a restaurant order

Plenty of delivery apps stop at food. Glovo built its name on doing the opposite: a pharmacy run, a grocery basket, a parcel from one address to another, a courier sent to fetch a forgotten set of keys or drop off a document. Signing up as a customer starts the same way any of these apps do, with a code sent by text to the number on the account, and a fresh rented number in a range Glovo's provider currently reaches will usually collect that code without trouble. The country table on this page tracks which ranges are getting Glovo codes through today, since that changes by range and by day rather than staying fixed for a whole country.

What separates Glovo from a single-purpose food app is what the number has to do once an order leaves the restaurant, pharmacy or shop shelf. A courier carrying a parcel between two addresses, or shopping a list nobody at the address has seen yet, is not always calling the same person twice, and that is the part of this article worth reading past the signup screen for.

People most often use one of our numbers for Glovo to:

• Ordering food, groceries or a pharmacy item without listing a personal number
• Testing Glovo's signup flow before committing a personal line to the account
• Setting up a customer account while travelling in a city Glovo serves
• Keeping a personal number off an account used only for occasional errands

Many apps expect the number you keep. We help with the cases above; we do not help anyone reach an account that is not theirs — see our acceptable use policy.

One number, two people who might need to answer it

A food order has one obvious contact: whoever is waiting at the delivery address. Glovo's wider catalogue breaks that assumption. Someone can order a parcel picked up from a friend's flat and dropped at a different address across town, or send a courier to buy something at a shop and hand it to a third person entirely. In those cases the account's phone number is the courier's only line to the person who placed the order, while the person actually opening the door has no account and no number of their own on file.

That matters for a rented number because it can only be one side of that conversation. If the account holder is the one who needs to clarify a gate code, confirm a substitute item, or explain where to leave a parcel, the number behind the account has to be answerable at the moment the courier is standing there, not just at the moment the signup code arrived. A number that goes quiet mid-errand strands the courier exactly as it would strand any other delivery.

"Buy for me" orders put a courier's money on the line

Some Glovo orders are not a listed menu at all — the customer describes what they want and the courier goes and buys it, whether that is a specific loaf of bread, a print at a shop, or a pharmacy item that needs picking from a shelf. That kind of errand depends on back-and-forth while the courier is standing in the aisle: an item is out of stock, a size differs, a substitute needs approval before the courier pays for it out of pocket.

A number that cannot take that call turns a quick clarification into a stalled courier and an unhappy customer arguing about a receipt afterward. Settling up also happens through the app once the errand is done, so an account that goes unreachable partway through a "buy for me" order leaves the courier holding a purchase nobody confirmed and a receipt nobody signed off on.

Glovo's markets and cash on delivery change what a number is tied to

Glovo's strongest footprint sits across southern and eastern Europe, with a presence reaching into parts of Africa and central Asia, and how an order gets paid for differs sharply from one of those markets to the next. Some markets lean almost entirely on a saved card; others still rely heavily on cash handed to the courier at the door. Where cash on delivery is common, the account's verified number is tied less to a stored card and more to a live handoff of money that has to be counted and confirmed in person.

This is not a case where one rule covers every country Glovo operates in, and this article will not pretend it does. What holds everywhere is simpler: whichever payment method a market uses, the number on the account is the courier's way of resolving a payment problem at the door, and it needs to answer for that market's version of the handoff, cash or card.

Pharmacy and age-restricted items get checked at the door

Certain goods Glovo carries, including some pharmacy items and age-restricted products, come with a check at the moment of handover in markets where that check applies, separate from anything verified at signup. A courier confirming that kind of order may need to reach the account holder about it directly rather than relying on the app alone, especially if the recipient at the door is not the person named on the account.

A rented number sitting behind an account used for these orders needs to be reachable for that conversation the same way it needs to be reachable for any other doorstep question. This article covers ordering as a customer; it will not walk through using a rented number, or anyone else's identity, to get around an age check that exists for a reason.

Becoming a Glovo courier is a separate, document-based application

Registering to deliver for Glovo runs through its own onboarding flow built around the applicant's documents and identity, not a customer's signup screen. That process expects a phone number, and identity paperwork behind it, that genuinely belong to the person applying, and it is not something this article walks through or something a rented number is suited to.

This page is about ordering as a customer. Applying to become a courier under someone else's documents, or with a number that will not still belong to the applicant next week, is outside anything we help set up.

A subscription and promo credit make an account worth stealing

An account carrying a paid delivery subscription, a stored card and unused promo credit is not a throwaway login. Someone who takes it over can place orders against a card that is not theirs, burn through saved credit, or push a referral code through repeatedly to collect a reward it was never meant to pay out twice. That is exactly why a verification code should never be read back to anyone, including a caller claiming to be Glovo support trying to "fix" an order or a refund.

We take the same line on the other side of that coin: this article helps someone set up their own customer account with a rented number, and it will not help anyone farm referral bonuses across accounts, stack promo codes past their intended limit, or take over an account that belongs to someone else.

Installing Glovo and verifying the number

When the code does not arrive

In order of how often each one is the real cause:

1. The number's range is not one Glovo's SMS route currently reaches well
   Check the country table on this page before choosing a number; which ranges get a Glovo code through changes day to day, and switching ranges usually helps more than retrying the same one.
2. Your connection is registered in a different country than the number
   Use a connection based near the number's own country where possible. A large gap between the two is a frequent reason a signup code arrives late or never shows up.
3. A code was requested several times in quick succession
   Wait rather than requesting again right away; repeating the request on the same number tends to delay the next one instead of speeding it up.
4. The market selected does not match the address entered
   Glovo's prices, available shops and payment options follow the market the account is set up in; recheck that the chosen country matches where the order is actually going.
5. The code was entered after the signup screen had already timed out
   Request a fresh code instead of reusing the old one, since an expired code is rejected even when it was correct. Keep the number's inbox open so the new one can be read the moment it lands.
6. A courier tried to call or text mid-errand and got no answer
   This points to the rented number's service having lapsed, or a routing failure, not a fault in Glovo's app. It is the clearest sign that an account placing live orders needs a number that stays answerable for the whole errand, not only the seconds it takes to sign up.
7. A cash-on-delivery order had a mismatch at handover
   Often this comes down to the courier and the person at the door needing to confirm an amount or a substitute item without either side reachable in time. Staying near the number while a cash order is out reduces this.
8. Sign-in stopped working after the rental ended
   Expected once the number no longer belongs to you and nothing replaced it. Update the number in account settings before a rental lapses if the account still matters, since recovery has nowhere to send a code afterward.

Working out which case you are in

1. Are you trying to register as a courier rather than order something? Yes Stop; a rented number cannot support the document checks courier registration needs. Use your own number and identity documents. No Continue with customer signup using the rented number.
2. Did the code arrive within a couple of minutes? Yes Enter it before the signup screen times out. No Check the country table on this page for the number's range before requesting another.
3. Will this order involve a "buy for me" purchase or a cash handoff? Yes Keep the rented number answerable for the whole errand, since the courier may need a decision or a confirmation in real time. No A standard delivery still needs the number reachable, but the stakes are lower than a live purchase.
4. Is someone asking you to read back a verification code over a call or message? Yes Hang up; this matches an impersonation pattern, not a genuine Glovo request. No No action needed on this point.
5. Do you want to keep using the account after the rental ends? Yes Update the phone number in account settings to one you control before the rental expires. No No further action needed once you are finished using the account.

Before you request another code

• Confirm you are ordering as a customer, not applying to become a courier
• Check the country table on this page for how Glovo is delivering to that range today
• Match the market selected in the app to the address the order is actually going to
• Make sure your connection is not routed through a country far from the number's own
• Keep the rented number answerable through the errand, especially for a "buy for me" order or a cash handoff
• Never read a verification code back to anyone who calls or texts asking for it
• Do not use this number, or anyone else's documents, to register as a courier
• Do not stack promo codes or referral bonuses across accounts
• Update the phone number in account settings before the rental period ends

Which kind of number to use

Checked 2026-09-26 by the FreeSmsOtp team. Prices, stock and delivery figures on this page are live and come from our own orders — how we measure.

Countries with Glovo numbers now

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