How to Find Your Steam Trade URL

Steam is one of the most popular digital distribution platforms in the world, and it is mostly used for video game distribution. It was developed in the early 2000s by Valve primarily as a software client that can automatically update its games.

By 2005, Steam became available for the distribution of other third-party video games. Steam is now available in 29 languages and virtually all OS platforms, such as Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, and Android.

Steam is used for matchmaking, as a social network (including direct messages between users), to store progress made, and as a game streaming service. It takes gaming with friends to the next level. This article will help you understand Steam better, including how to trade Steam items and where to find the Steam trade URL.

Trading inventory items is a unique Steam feature that makes the platform so popular for gamers. Owners can trade Steam items, game items (skins, weapons), and extra copies of video games. However, once the game is added to the game library, it will no longer be available for trade. Inventory privacy settings determine who will be able to see the inventory of a profile. It can be set to public, friends only, or private. Trades can happen between everyone who can see each other’s inventory or with the unique steam trade URL.

Making a trade offer can be done from a player’s profile, or it can be done through a friend’s profile. The process is not complicated. Here is a short guide on how to make a trade offer from your profile:

• Open the Steam client or website
• Hover over your username at the top of the screen
• Click inventory
• Click trade offers
• New trade offer
• Select a friend
• Drag items you wish to trade from both inventories
• Confirm
• Make offer

It is a slightly different process if you want to make a trade offer from your friend’s inventory.

• Open the Steam client or website
• Hover over your username at the top of the screen
• Click on friends
• Select the friend you wish to trade with
• Click the “…” button
• Offer a trade
• Drag items you wish to trade from both inventories
• Confirm
• Make offer

Steam trade URL is an account-specific link that helps users exchange steam inventory items. Users control the visibility of this URL, they can set the privacy to private, friends-only, or public. For it to work, the privacy needs to be set on Public. However, this link is safe to send to strangers, even third-party trading websites. Seeing your inventory or being able to make trade offers cannot do any harm to your Steam profile, as you will be able to reject any offers you feel are not fair.

Before you can see and send your Steam trade URL, you have to enable trading on your Steam profile. That can be done by following this short guide:

• Open the Steam client or website
• Click your username
• Click profile in the menu
• Edit profile
• My privacy settings
• Select your privacy to Public

After you set your profile privacy to Public, this is where to find your Steam trade URL:

• Click your username
• Click inventory in the menu
• Click trade offers
• Click “Who can see my trade offers?”
• Your Steam trade URL is in the Third-Party Sites section

If you wish to stop receiving trade offers or make your profile private, repeat the first process and select your privacy to Private or Friends-Only.