How to sign up for a Prime membership ahead of Amazon’s Prime Day 2024 in October

With October Prime Day officially launching next week, subscribers of Amazon’s subscription service are ready to reap the savings. But to participate in the event you’ll need to be a Prime member, so it’s time to sign up if you want to take advantage of all the deals.

No one will blame you if you don’t want to add a new subscription to your life, so the fact that Amazon offers a 30-day free trial to try out Prime before committing to it is very helpful. This allows you to take advantage of the Prime Day sale and explore the other benefits of the service to decide if you want to keep it.

Below we’ll show you how to sign up for Amazon Prime and how to cancel it before it renews. To learn more, don’t miss everything you need to know about Amazon Prime Day.

Prime Day requires an Amazon Prime membership, although you don’t have to be pay member to take advantage of the savings. Start your 30-day Prime free trial now and you can get the best deals without paying for a subscription. Don’t forget to cancel the subscription before it renews.

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Amazon Prime plans

Amazon offers four ways to subscribe to Prime, but two of them have qualifications. Here’s the breakdown.

• Prime monthly: $15 per month – 30 day free trial
• Great annual: $139 per year – 30 day free trial
• First access: $7 per month – 30 day free trial
• First student: $7.49 per month – first six months free

The important thing to note is that Amazon does offer a 30-day free trial for new members. You can cancel your membership without being charged as long as you close your membership before your first payment. If you have previously been an Amazon Prime member, you cannot get a free trial with the same account.

Prime Access and Prime Student are discounted plans and you must qualify to participate. Those who qualify for certain government assistance programs can sign up for Prime Access, and to no one’s surprise, only students can sign up for Prime Student.

With the standard Prime plans you have the choice of going monthly or annually, with the latter saving you just over $40 per year over the monthly plan.

How to sign up for Amazon Prime

To take advantage of Prime deals, you must be a Prime member. To sign up, all you have to do is:

1. Navigate to www.amazon.com/amazonprime.
2. Tap the rectangular orange box with the text Start your 30 day trial.
3. If you already have an Amazon account, sign in. If you don’t have an Amazon account, tap Create account.
4. You will be asked to enter your name, email address and password. Amazon requires you to verify your email address with a one-time password.
5. Select your payment method (this can be a credit card, debit card, gift card, or whatever other payment method you choose) and add that information. Then click Continue.

That’s it. You are now a Prime subscriber.

Here’s how to cancel Amazon Prime before it renews

If you decide that a Prime membership is no longer right for you, or you want to end your free trial, you can cancel it quite easily.

1. Sign in to your Amazon account and tap the Account and lists dropdown menu.
2. Then select Prime membership in the Your account column.
3. Then under the Manage membership head, tap Update, cancel and more.
4. Then select simple Terminate membership.

If you don’t want to follow these steps, you can also go to this support page and jump straight to the Terminate membership knob. Anyway, after selecting Terminate membership you are no longer subscribed to Amazon Prime.

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