Amazon ends the main shared shipping

Amazon closes the Prime Invitee program, which allowed members to extend free shipping to people outside their families. Updated Support page He says that participation through Invitee will end on October 1 and the previously invited guests will be notified by September 5 of the changes.

freedom It is reporting Users who do not live with the basic account owner will be asked to create their Amazon Prime accounts and a reduced price of $ 14.99 will be offered for the entire year and then the standard rate of $ 14.99 per month after that. We have contacted Amazon to find out the measures that the company is planning to take to prevent the participation of the account beyond reducing delivery operations on one address, but the company had no details to participate.

The company encourages users to benefit from Amazon familyAllowing the initial benefits to share among many people under the same ceiling. This arrangement is limited to two adults, including the basic account holder and up to four children. Up to four teenagers can also be included if they are added before April 7, 2025. Family members who participate in the Amazon family can access free shipping, major video and more.

Many online services based on major subscriptions are divided into participation recently, especially banners such as HBO Max and Disney+. Reuters newly I mentioned Despite the four -day record day, Amazon is less than its goals for the new subscriptions in the Prime account.

Update, 2 September, 2025, 5:05 pm East time: This story was updated to note that Amazon had no details about the measures it would take to reduce the account sharing under this new policy.