All of us dread the trip to the supermarket to pick up stuff. Some of us send our staff to the closest general store and pick up things like toilet rolls, kitchen rolls, shampoos, soap etc. This means we have to keep track of the stocks available and then send for items as they are getting over. I found this process extremely painful.
I wanted to figure out how to automate this mundane, time consuming but necessary process.
What is Amazon Subscribe & Save?
I’ve tried various online portals like Big Basket, Nature’s Basket, Grofers, D-Mart etc. All of them require us to manually add products and then check-out and pay.
After trying all these, I happened to stumble upon is the “Subscribe & Save” option while shopping.
My most important issue, complete automation, was sorted out. I could just subscribe to the items I needed, and they would come every month!
Features of Subscribe & Save
- Easy addition of products
- Setting and changing the frequency of the deliveries. You may require some products every month and others every few months. This can be fixed for each product.
- Discount of 10% if subscribed to 2 or more items.
- Discount of an additional 5% if payment is made with Amazon Pay.
- You can choose the delivery date every month.
- Payment is only to be made when the order is processed and not in advance.
- Cancel at any time
- Email Reminders
How Do I use this?
Visit Amazonย and search for any item that you would like to subscribe to. For Example Shampoo.
Once you see the results, select the subscribe and save box (on the left column) to view only those items which can be subscribed to.
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After selecting the item, select the subscribe and save option as shown below. You will notice the immediate discount. After this choose the frequency of the delivery. Amazon automatically shows you what it thinks.
Click Subscribe now.
You will then be asked to select a shipping address.
After selecting the shipping address, you will be asked to choose a payment method. Select Amazon Payย to get an additional 5% discount!
You will be asked one more time to confirm the subscription.
You’re done! You’ve just automated delivery of your first product.
How do I pay for this?
The whole point of this exercise was to make everything completely automatic hence paying with your credit card which requires an OTP for every transaction is not possible.
I personally load money (depending on my monthly expenditure) into Amazon Pay.
Even if you forget to load money into Amazon Pay don’t worry, your order is automatically converted to cash on delivery. So you never miss a delivery.
Start Shopping on Amazon now!