How To Add Accounts To Amazon Prime

For almost people, Amazon Prime seems to be a groovy deal, even if y'all only utilize it for its main benefit: gratuitous 2-twenty-four hour period shipping. But Amazon has expanded Prime to include a host of other benefits to brand the $119 almanac fee even harder to decline.

What makes the deal fifty-fifty sweeter is that you tin share those benefits with other members of your family. Here's how.

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What is an Amazon Household?

Previously, you could share Amazon Prime with practically whatsoever of your friends and family. But Amazon cracked down on this back in 2015, likely because information technology was being abused and overshared. Sharing was always intended to mean shared with members of your family living inside the same house, only there were few limitations to enforce that.

At present Amazon calls its sharing Prime membership do good an Amazon Household. Your Household can stretch to ane other developed, four teens and four children. The grab is that you have to enable shared payment methods between the two adults in gild to share all the available benefits.

Second-adult benefits

After linking a second adult account, you tin share existing purchased digital content between the two accounts, such as apps and games, audiobooks and e-books. The 2nd adult also gets access to:

Prime Shipping
Prime At present
AmazonFresh (if the main account has that add-on)
Prime number Video
Prime Photos Family Vault
Audible Channels
Kindle Owners' Lending Library
Amazon First Reads
Prime Early Access
Prime member discounts on Amazon Music Unlimited and Kindle FreeTime Unlimited
Up to 20 percent off subscriptions on diapers, baby food and other products
2 percent rewards when reloading an Amazon Gift Card balance

Teen benefits

When you add together a teen (13 to 17 years old) to your account, the teen gets a separate Amazon login. The shared benefits are not nearly every bit extensive equally with an adult account.

Teens in a Household will be able to create orders that have Prime number Aircraft, but the order has to be canonical by an adult on the business relationship before information technology'southward finalized. The adults on the account tin can cull to share Prime Shipping, Prime Video and Twitch Prime with the teens on the business relationship.

Child benefits

Adding a child (12 and younger) to your Prime number Household is more about parental controls than anything else. Kid accounts don't have access to shopping, but they can view digital content that has been allowed past the adult accounts through Kindle FreeTime.

Adults can ready parental controls for children accounts for Burn down tablets, Kindles and Fire TV ($forty at Amazon).

How to add family unit members to your Amazon Household

To begin sharing Prime with your family, you'll either need to know their login info or have them present when you gear up them up. Log in to your Amazon business relationship and hover over Accounts & Lists and click Your Account. Under Shopping programs and rentals, click Amazon Household. Click Add Adult and so log in to the 2d adult's account.

One time an developed has been added to the account, if you decide to remove that person, y'all volition not exist able to add another adult or join some other Household for 180 days. (In that location is a grace flow in which y'all can reactivate the previous adult, in case the deletion was a mistake.)

To add together a teen or child, go back to Amazon Household and click either Add together a Teen or Add a Kid. Then click Get started at present. Every teen you add to your account will need to enter either a mobile number or e-mail and a altogether.

To remove whatever member from the Household, go dorsum to Amazon Household and click Manage Your Household. Underneath the name of the member y'all want to remove, click Remove.