How to Share Your Amazon Prime Membership With Family (Even If You Don’t Live Together)

A lesser-known feature of Amazon Prime is that you can share the perks of membership with your family and pay only one membership fee. You can add one more adult and up to four teens and four children to Amazon Household, allowing everyone in the family to access all of the standard benefits, from free shipping to streaming.

With an Amazon household, everyone creates or maintains their own Amazon account, but gets shared Prime benefits even if they don’t actually live together. Here’s how to customize it for your family.

How to share Amazon Prime benefits with your family

To get started, you’ll need an Amazon account and a Prime membership (here’s how to sign up for Amazon Prime if you don’t already have one). Once logged in, go to the Amazon Household page and select “Add Adult” , “Add Teen ” and/or “Add Child” depending on who you want to share your account with.

If you want to add an adult, you will be prompted to enter their name and the email address associated with their Amazon account. You will then need to agree to link your payment wallet and choose which types of content – apps, audiobooks and/or ebooks – you want to share. Amazon notifies you if a family member moves one of your payment methods to their wallet.

From here, your family member will receive an email invitation to join your family. To agree, they click “Get Prime Benefits” and follow the instructions to agree to wallet sharing and cancel their own Prime membership if they have one. Invitations are valid for 14 days.

If the person you want to invite doesn’t have an Amazon account, they can create one during registration.

To add a teen aged 13 to 17 or a child aged 12 or younger to your household, you’ll need to follow the instructions for setting up a teen or child profile – for teens, this includes specifying if and how you want to view and approve orders and choose the associated payment method. Children cannot shop on Amazon, but they can access Amazon Kids content and features.

A few restrictions:

• Amazon households can only support two adults and up to four teens and four children.
• Household members must have an address in the same country (but not necessarily the same address).
• If an adult leaves an Amazon family, no adult in the account can join another family for 180 days.

If you need to remove someone from your family, you can do so on the Family Management page .