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

To make the most out of next week's Amazon Prime Day, you need to be an Amazon Prime member for $139 per year or $14.99 per month. Being a Prime member comes with a lot of perks, like faster shipping on many items and access to Prime Video streaming, but a lesser-known feature is that you can share all those membership perks with your family and only pay one membership fee. You can add one other adult, up to four teens, and up to four children to yourAmazon Household, which allows everyone in the household to access all the standard benefits. Amazon "Household" is a loose term, too: When you use it, everyone creates or keeps their own Amazon account and shares Prime benefits, but you don't actually have to live together to do it.

How to share Amazon Prime benefits with your family

To get started, you'll need an Amazon account and a Prime membership (so here's how to sign up for Amazon Prime if you don't have italready). After logging in, head over to the Amazon Household page, which you'll find by clicking Prime Membership in the main menu, and select Add Adult, Add Teen, and/or Add Child, depending on who you'd like to share your account with.

If you want to add an adult, you'll be prompted to enter their name and the email associated with their Amazon account. You'll then have to agree to link your payment wallet and choose which types of content-apps, audiobooks, and/or e-books-you want to share. Amazon does notify you if a Household member moves one of your payment methods to their wallet.

From here, your family member will receive an invitation via email to join your Household. To accept, they'll click Get Prime Benefits and follow the prompts to agree to wallet sharing and to 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 sign-up.

To add a teen who is 13 to 17 or a child who is 12 or under to your Household, you'll need to follow the prompts to set up a teen or child profile-for teens, this includes indicating whether and how you want to review and approve orders and selecting a linked payment method. Children can't shop on Amazon but can access Amazon Kids content and features.

A few limitations:

• Amazon Households can only contain two adults and up to four teens and four children.

• Household members must have an address in the same country (but do not have to have the same address).

• If an adult has left an Amazon Household, neither adult on the account can join a different one for 180 days.

If you need to remove someone from your Household, you can do so via the Manage Your Household page.