How We Use Amazon Household For Our Family
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ย. 2024
- Hi, everyone! This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar Channel and in today’s video, I’ll show you how we use Amazon Household in our family.
For a long time, my family operated with just one Amazon prime account. That was all we really needed. After all, I’m the chief procurement office for our house, so I do the vast majority of the shopping. And for whatever reason, no one really watched Amazon Prime videos but me.
Fast forward to now, my kids are teenagers - one is in high school, one in college. For a whole host of reasons, having multiple accounts now seems much more attractive. The biggest things was that my son is
- Not Trustworthy - with my credit card. If he has access to my account he can not only order stuff to be sent to himself without approval, but he figured out how to just create cash by sending himself gift cards. I had to shut this down. And because he can’t be trusted with the login credentials on my account, it became kind of a
- Hassle - Any time he wanted to order anything, he either had to use my phone or send me links to what he wanted. Which would inevitably necessitate a long back-and-forth about sizes and colors and so forth. If I've already approved the basic purchase, I really don’t need to be that involved in the specifics of the product selection process. Another issue, is that you can only have one
- Default Credit card - on your account. Anything you buy with “One Click” gets charged to the default credit card. In addition, digital purchases (like Kindle books and movies) also get charged straight to your default card. This was fine for a while, but my husband has his own bank account for personal expenses and recently he has bought A LOT of action movies from Amazon. Every time he does that, I have to transfer money between accounts through our banking app. It’s annoying. And finally, everyone in our family has different taste in
- Movies and Books - Amazon Household let’s you share all of the movies and books that you have purchased with one other adult. Teens can’t see purchased digital content, but they can play anything that is free with Amazon Prime. And whenever they watch something, it doesn’t show up in my feed, so I’m not constantly getting recommendations for new teeny bopper sitcoms or the latest anime movie.
So, that means that everyone has their own account, but everyone also has access to the household's Amazon Prime status, which means fast shipping and access to Prime content. So those are what I see as the benefits.
Now let me walk you through the nuts and bolts of how to make this happen. First, make sure you are in your main account -- this should be whichever account already has an Amazon Prime membership. If you click on the account link up here, it will take you to a page where you can manage your account. Scroll down to "Shopping programs and rentals" and choose "Amazon Household." You can see that there are 3 different kinds of household roles. You can add one other
- Adult - who can not only share Prime status, but also share payment methods and share digital content like Games, Audiobooks, and eBooks. You can turn this sharing on or off under Managed Your Family Library. I think purchased movies are shared by default, but in order to access a movie purchased on another family member's account, you will need to switch to their account in the Prime Video area. My kids are both set up as
- Teens - This is for kids aged 13 to 17 and allows them to shop with Amazon Prime privileges, but you have 3 options for purchase approval: you can require that they receive your approval before purchasing, you only require approval if the purchase is over a certain amount, or you can allow them to shop without approval. You can set addresses that your teens can ship to and one payment method. Whatever addresses and default payment method you set up will be available for all the teens on your account. In other words, I wasn't able to enter my daughter's debit card for her account and my main credit card for my son's account -- you have to choose one that works with all of the teens on your account. Every time one of my kids makes a purchase, I get a text notification and an email sent to me for approval. Once I approve, the order is placed. My kids can also use their accounts to log in and watch free Amazon Prime movies and access other Prime services. The last type of account is for . . .
Done very well. Other people's videos were a little confusing and long so thank you for the effectiveness and efficiency.
The chief procurement officer. Lmfao
At the 2:20 mark is when the explanation starts
Great video , I've Amazon music unlimited family, but I can't add a account for my 11 year old that has explicit filter ?? It's basic a copy of mine ?? Any ideas
Note: Prime Music and purchased video subscriptions are not sharable.
Nor is kindle apparently
Congrats on an amazing explanation.....Keep up the great work Laura....
Great Job! I needed to know how to add myself as an adult and this helped a ton. I happen to have my mother in law living with us too so we may not be able to add the three of us as adults to the Prime account. That is unfortunate but totally understand why.
Still not clear to me if each household member is actually given their own login credentials. Are we actually creating new Amazon accounts that then get linked? Thanks
Each member has their own login credentials and they are linked to form a family.
I want to share my account with mumtiple monitors becasue i have blogs on different computers and i need links from my amazon associates account that i opened one my first computer so how would i do that...😢
How do the apps work on household prime sharing, Say for insisted you have a Netflix or Apple TV app can your household sharing watch those? Curious
I believe two adults can share apps, but I don’t know about the children in your household since we don’t use Fire devices. Come back and let us know if you find out!
Really enjoyed this video. Can you make one on how to link the Amazon accounts? I think you said that if they are linked those members can have the benefit of Prime too but you don't have to approve or see their orders as they have their own separate payment and shipping address outside the main account?
Can you hide purchases from your kids in a family account so they can’t see what your buying for them?
I think they can only see their own purchases in their account.
Thank you for getting right to the point in the vide. It is appreciated.
So nice hearing an intelligent woman speak!
Can the 2 household adults apply for separate Amazon credit cards?
Great Qs... one would think a multi-billion dollar company would define this vs leaving customers to dig for the info :(
How do I know if my wife is on my Prime account? Her name shows up under my Shared Household so I think she is on my account. How does she order something and get the Amazon Prime benefits that I get under my subscription? We only want one subscription. No kids, no teens. Empty nesters.
As long as she is signing in with the account that shows up using your Shared Household, she should have all of the benefits of your Prime Membership. We had to do some finagling to get the correct accounts to show up since my kids all had already existing accounts. You may have to work with Amazon's customer service. Hope that helps! And good luck.
Would you know how to update my individual Amazon Music plan to family plan?
THANK YOU!
Hi dear thanks for the video! I am writing this down in case anyone can answer this question. If I am a secondary user in Amazon household account (my account is not the one with prime), and if I wanted to apply for an Amazon prime rewards visa under my name and account, will I still get the 5% back?
Laura, thanks for the video. I also use Amazon Prime Household with my son.......
I have Audible Premium Plus. I have my husband all set up as my family. I set my preferences to share everything with him. How does he access the audible books?
He should be able to see your library in his audible app!
This is useful, thanks, but the part I'm confused about after I send my wife an email invite to join my Prime account (as part of my "Household")
and after she accepts that email link, is what to do next? Does she have to setup her own account using the email address that I invited her with, and if so, how does she then "link" that account to my account as being part of my household? I'm worried that when she sets up her own account (if that is what is needed), then she will be billed as a separate Amazon account, which has happened in the past. Please help! Thanks!!!!
Hi, Barry - if they sign up using the link, that account should automatically link to your account. If, for some reason, that doesn’t happen, you can call customer support and they can do it manually for you!
@@marblejarchannel Thanks so much for the reply! Finally figured out that she had to share her wallet with me after I invited her, and that's what linked our accounts. Not very clearly laid out but finally got there... thanks again!
@@marblejarchannel what about if the added adult already has an existing account? How do they join the household and cancel their existing account with the same log in info?
i dont have that option
How does the child sign in to access content ? Does the parent have to provide there main email ID/PWD ? no clear info on amazon
You will send them an invitation from your account and they will sign in with their email or cell phone number.
Very useful, thanks a lot :)
Very detailed video, thanks for the detail. So does it require multiple Amazon accounts, or can one Amazon account that’s already shared be split into multiple, using the same email and password?
This requires multiple Amazon accounts, but they will all be linked as a household!
Lots of great content
Good video! So based on Amazon's wording... "Users within Amazon Household must share payment information"...(?)...
1) Does this mean the 2 adult AH members must share 1 payment method/credit card OR can each adult use their own credit card?
2) If the 2 adults can use separate payment methods/their own CC... will credit card cashback earnings that accrue in my Amazon account stay "isolated" from others OR can others possibly see it and accidentally use (or be tempted to use) my credit card cashback rewards?
I think I understand your question. From my understanding, you can add as many payment options (credit cards) to your account as you want, but both adults will see and have access to all of those methods of payment. And also, if your partner chooses to use your Amazon Prime credit card, they will also have access to the reward points. In other words, they will see what you see. Hope this helps!
I just came across your channel today - fantastic content! Thank you!
W video
Amazon Can launch a rocket into orbit but cannot fathom an Automatic-Archive feature.
Smfh
"Automatic-Archive feature" for what exactly(?)
Did she say anime?!