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Prime Day deals have already been rolling out for days—but keeping up and keeping track of the best discounts yet to land on July 11 and 12 and figuring out which deals are worthwhile may be almost impossible. As an alternative, you can have Alexa give you a heads-up about deals on products you already know you want to purchase so you don’t have to spend time sorting through the noise.
Amazon Prime subscribers in the U.S. who also have Echo smart speakers can enable deal alerts to receive notifications 24 hours before discounts go live and even have your Alexa purchase these items for you. Here’s how to do it.
How to set up Alexa deal alerts
First, open the Amazon Shopping app or go to Amazon’s website via browser and add products you want alerts for to your Wish List, your Shopping Cart, or a Saved for Later list.
Then head to the Alexa mobile app and go to More > Settings > Notifications > Amazon Shopping and toggle on Deal Recommendations under the Shopping Recommendations options. This ensures you’ll receive notifications for items that appear in your shopping activity.
If Alexa finds an upcoming deal on something on your Saved for Later, your Wish List, or in your Shopping Cart, you’ll receive a pop-up alert on your Echo Show display or see a yellow light ring on your Echo speaker. You can also ask, “Alexa, what are my notifications?” to hear a list of deals she’s compiled thus far.
Alexa can detect deals up to 24 hours in advance, so you can either ask her to remind you again when a deal starts or request that she buy the item when the deal goes live. Simply say, “Alexa, buy it for me” and it’ll charge the default payment and send the item to the default delivery address on your account.
