How to sign up for Amazon Prime

It looks similar Amazon has decided that 2 days isn’t capable for its annual Prime Day woody celebration. This year, the lawsuit volition past a startling 4 days, moving from 3AM ET connected Tuesday, July 8th, done 3AM ET connected Saturday, July 12th. (Why is it inactive called Prime Day alternatively of Prime Days? Dunno — inquire Amazon.)

The bully happening astir having a longer merchantability play is that you person other days to marque up your caput if you’re not definite you privation a circumstantial point (although determination is the anticipation that immoderate products mightiness merchantability retired earlier the four-day merchantability ends). But these income are lone for members of Amazon’s Prime program. If you’re funny successful the goodies being offered but haven’t signed up for Amazon Prime, don’t interest — Amazon makes it precise easy.

Besides giving entree to Prime Day bargains, Amazon includes a clump of features to entice radical to motion up for its Prime service. These see entree to its streaming video service, Prime Video, which sadly is nary longer ad-free, though you tin pay other for that; escaped and faster shipping connected purchases (with two-day oregon one-day transportation for galore items and adjacent same-day transportation for some); discounts connected a enactment of Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods groceries; Amazon Music ad-free audio streaming (not to beryllium confused with the much extended Amazon Music Unlimited, which is an further $10.99 per period for Prime members and $11.99 per period for non-members); Prime Gaming, which includes a escaped Twitch transmission subscription; unlimited photograph retention (along with 5GB of video storage); and Prime Reading, which gives you entree to a rotating room of comics, books, and magazines arsenic good arsenic aboriginal entree to a curated enactment of caller books. Amazon besides added discounts astatine BP and Amaco state stations past year.

You tin share your Prime account with 1 different adult, too, on with up to 4 teens and 4 children — shared benefits see accelerated delivery, Prime streaming access, purchased ebooks and different media, and aboriginal entree to Lightning Deals. (Some features, specified arsenic Music Prime, are not shared.) And you get a 30-day escaped trial, truthful you tin effort it (and the Prime Day specials) out.

Here’s however to motion up.

Choose a plan

• Go to https://www.amazon.com/amazonprime and scroll down to wherever it says Choose your plan. You tin instantly click connected the fastener that says Start your escaped 30-day proceedings if you want, but don’t you privation to spot what your options are first?
• Choose which program you want. The basal program lets you motion up for the work for $14.99 per period oregon $139 per year, which comes retired to a small implicit $12 a month.
• Prime for Young Adults is for anyone who is betwixt the ages of 18 and 24 oregon tin verify that they are an enrolled student. You’ll get a escaped six-month proceedings subscription (if you’re a caller member), and aft that, you’ll lone person to wage $7.49 a period oregon $69 a year.
• If you’re connected immoderate of a assortment of authorities assistance programs, similar SNAP and Medicaid, you tin besides articulation for little with Prime Access: $6.99 a period with a escaped 30-day trial.
• Is it your day soon? If you person a generous person oregon relative, they tin acquisition you a Prime rank using 1 of Amazon’s acquisition cards.

Create an account

• Once you’ve decided which program you’re going to spell with, you’ll request an Amazon account. If you don’t already person one, you’ll request to motion up. Click connected Start your escaped 30-day trial and past Create your Amazon account to acceptable 1 up with your name, email, and password. We powerfully urge setting up two-factor authentication for your relationship arsenic well.
• On the adjacent page, Amazon volition verify your relationship by sending what it calls an OTP (one-time password) to your email. Go to your email, transcript the OTP, paste it into the Amazon page, and click Verify.
• You’ll past beryllium asked to participate your recognition oregon debit paper information.
• And you’re done!

We should astir apt notation the obvious: you tin motion up for a Prime membership, instrumentality vantage of the escaped 30-day trial, and past cancel it erstwhile the Prime Day merchantability is over. But you tin lone bash that once, truthful you won’t beryllium capable to usage that instrumentality adjacent twelvemonth erstwhile Prime Day comes around.

Update, June 19th, 2025: This nonfiction was archetypal published connected June 9th, 2021, and has been updated to bespeak caller accusation regarding Amazon’s Prime Day sale.