Update: Bumping this post as a reminder to review your subscribe and save items orders before Pesach 2021! It is a good habit to check the page at least once a month to review your current subscriptions.
Please Note: The post below is outdated for some accounts as there are many reports of getting charged a higher price for items when changing the delivery date for subscriptions, while there are also some reports the instructions below are still valid. Best practice may be to cancel subscription items and reorder them when they go on sale.
Originally posted: 3/23/18.
Amazon Subscribe & Save is a great way to save money. If you subscribe to an item you can save 5%-20% off the regular price of the item.
How to properly push off a delivery:
With Pesach around the corner it’s important to check your upcoming subscriptions to make sure you’re not going to receive food items over the holiday.
When pushing off the delivery of an item it’s important to do so by changing the delivery date of your subscription rather than skipping the item from your order.
Don’t press skip:
Normally when you subscribe to an item you lock in the pricing for your first shipment. When you push the skip button it will move the item from this month’s subscription to next month’s subscription. However it will also cancel the original order you made and invalidate any coupons or sales that you took advantage of. You will pay the regular price when the item ships with your next order without any coupon savings!
Instead, you should change the date of your subscription delivery by clicking on “Settings” and then clicking on the “Arrive by” date. This preserves the sale price and coupons used in your original order:
Note that items often arrive several days before the schedule delivery day, so allow for time after Pesach when using this method.
Of course there are other reasons to change your date besides for Pesach.
- You can keep pushing off a subscription delivery date until you have 5 items in your order. Once you have 5 items in your order you will retroactively save 15% on everything in that subscription delivery. Note that all 5 items must be shipped to the same address to get 15% off.
- You can choose the next available delivery day to expedite your order to ship as soon as possible and still save 5-20% off the items.
Here are some other Subscribe & Save tips:
- Carefully manage your subscriptions here to be aware of any surprises before they ship.
- If an item is being added to your cart instead of the subscribe and save checkout, you need to click “Change” by the first delivery date. See how to do that here.
- You can save 5% by agreeing to future subscriptions and get a no-rush shipping credit. See how to do that here.
- If you want multiples of the same item, create a separate subscription for each one. If you subscribe to multiple items in one order then it will only count as 1 item towards the 5 required to unlock bigger discounts. However if you subscribe to them in separate orders then each item will count towards the 5 item requirement.
- When you subscribe to an item only because of a sale or coupon, be sure to cancel future subscriptions after you get the email that your item shipped. If you don’t cancel the item after it ships you’ll keep receiving it in future orders without coupons or sale pricing. The regular pricing at the time of the new shipment will apply for all subscriptions after your first subscription ships.
- Add-on items that require a $25+ order will ship free when you subscribe to them when that option is available.
- If you have Amazon Prime, don’t forget to signup for Amazon Family for free. If you have 5 total subscriptions you’ll get 20% off Diapers, baby food, and more!
- Look for filler subscriptions to get to 5 items. With inexpensive filler items you can wind up saving more than the cost of the item as all of your subscriptions will drop in price! For example, TetraColor Tropical Flakes Fish Food will be just $1.67 with 5 subscriptions, Avery 75225 Triangle Shaped Sheet Lifter for Three-Ring Binder, Black (Pack of 2) will be just $1.67 with 5 subscriptions, etc. Post what Subscribe & Save filler items you find!
- If you have Amazon Prime you can share Prime with another household member. Amazon coupons are typically limited to just one use per account, but with 2 accounts you can take advantage of coupons on each account. Just don’t forget to watch the subscriptions on both accounts!
- Don’t forget that you can save even more if you have a Chase Ink Cash Business Card or Ink Plus card and get 5 points per dollar spent. By buying Amazon gift cards from an office supply store. You’ll earn 5 point per dollar and those points can easily be redeemed for air travel or hotel stays that make this an effective 7.5-10% rebate on your Amazon purchases. Read this post for more info.
- Save 10%-15% off Amazon purchases with an Amazon Mover’s coupon!
Have any more Subscribe & Save tips? Hit the comments!
don’t you own the chametz @ time of purchase not delivery L’Halacha
Amazon only charges you when they ship the item.
Dan, haters will hate. Glad you can just ignore them, as you should! This post is another example of providing clear and useful guidance. How “greedy!”
The most valuable thing I got from this post was about multiples, as I always wondered if I could do this:
“If you want multiples of the same item, create a separate subscription for each one. If you subscribe to multiple items in one order then it will only count as 1 item towards the 5 required to unlock bigger discounts. However if you subscribe to them in separate orders then each item will count towards the 5 item requirement.”
Many thanks, Dan. Shabbat shalom.
Thanks, Shabbat shalom to you as well.
How come my S&S orders got canceled when I only changed the setting of how often I should get the item ?
” I did not select skip this monthly delivery date”
Better to just wait until the item ships and then cancel it.
That way you can order it at a good price the next time you need it.
Just added to items. Oddly they said 0% savings and increased to 5% after I had 5 items? This was subscribe and save. I’m grandfathered into Prime from my mom. What’s going on?
Some items are 0%/5%, not sure why.
That Old site was better person is out of their mind.
If I have student or opt into Medicaid amazon membership am I eligible for amazon family?
Works for me with Amazon Student Prime.
I have this issue every single month. I’ve been doing the method you say: “change delivery date” and every month I have to chat in about the coupon I clipped.
Additionally, 1st level reps do not know how subscribe and save and the coupons work.
Dan, can you still use your Amazon Prime Chase Credit Card to purchase from your “non-Prime” account?
Dan, today I tried subscribing to diapers: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07F6G42R9/?tag=cl03f-20&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&th=1
It’s not an add on item. When i press subscribe now it takes me to the check out page. I don’t see the option to “change” like you mention in the solimo pasta figure above.
Which way to work around this and get the 20% on my first order? If I have to add something, how do I add so that it subscribes with 20%?
Which price do u get charged with s&s, the original price when u signed up for s&s or for the price that item is at the time of delivery each month?
original
Dan, could you publicize the fact that there is an amazon prime option for ebt card holders – wic/medicaid, etc that reduces the cost of amazon prime to just $5.99 a month (plus tax?). Many people don’t know about it and pay full for no reason.
The only disadvantage of this over regular prime – that I know of – is that you can’t share an account with amazon household. For most people that isn’t really an issue.
Thanks!
Hey Y,
Would love to hear how that works!
Care to explain the process?
Thanks!
https://www.dansdeals.com/shopping-deals/amazon/amazon-offering-discounted-prime-for-ebt-cardholders/
Dang-I needed a filler and looked all over for this information last week:( Ended up buying $4 worth of pencils I’ll donate to a school class.
I wonder. Can you add 5 different subscriptions of the same item and get the 15% discount? Even if they are identical items?
If anyone knows this answer for sure, feel free to pipe in and let me know.
Sure!
Some of the ‘cheap’ items listed for Subscribe and Save fillers have changed. The paint for example is now $4.40!
Dan-
Can you explain anything about Amazon Medicaid? Can that be used if you are on Medicare and no EBT?
Interesting I have two separate orders of the exact same item on this months shipment. One was a second time shipment that was ordered before and one order was made for the first time for this shipment. The price went down on the item and it only applied to the the more recently created order, but for the other 2nd time order it only deducted the 15% from the original more expensive price, even though now its cheaper… I guess if any item gets cheaper we have to cancel and reorder…
I just searched in Google “if you skip a subscribe and save delivery do you get the original price on the next delivery” and this page was the first result.
Kudos to you, for this wealth of information. Shalom!
Why when I try changing the date does it only allow me to select a future month instead of the calender drop-down? Did they kill the expedite trick?
Does changing credit card to future deliveries cancel applied coupons?
Good thing dan posted this. Just checked my head and shoulders order as well as a toilet paper order. The shampoo I bought at $6, and I’m being charged $10. The TP I bought at $13 and it is charging me $24. Took over 30 minutes on the phone for their idiot Philippine customer service to even understand what I’m saying. Of course they didn’t help. I had to cancel
Scam company. What a sleazy illegal thing to do.
How do you know what you are being charged?
If you are just looking on your orders page that is not accurate, you have to click on order details to see what you will be charged…
On my order details it shows the higher price, and my emails when I purchased them clearly show the lower price. Not only that, the order numbers have now changed. Amazon literally cancelled my first orders and placed new ones for me at the higher price.
they charged me hundreds of dollars on one of subscriptions!
Buyer Beware!
Can I push of the delivery for each item or once the day is changed for 1item it will change that date for all subscriptions?
I tried changing delivery dates for individual items but was unable to do so. It’s all or none.
If the price goes DOWN on an item I already subscribed to (first order) but my S&S date is still several weeks away, can I cancel that subscription and immediately subscribe again at the lower price? (Again, this would be for the original order, not a subsequent month.)
Worked for me
“When you subscribe to an item only because of a sale or coupon, be sure to cancel future subscriptions after you get the email that your item shipped. If you don’t cancel the item after it ships you’ll keep receiving it in future orders without coupons or sale pricing. The regular pricing at the time of the new shipment will apply for all subscriptions after your first subscription ships.”
Does this method have any risk of being shut down by amazon?
No
Dan, thanks for the posts. I have so many Subscribe & Save (S&S) items that I told my better half that if something should happen to me, to immediately contact Amazon to stop my orders (!). If I see an item I use offered on S&S, I immediately set up a subscription. If I don’t need the item right away, I postpone the first delivery for the 6 month maximum. I learned the hard way that if you don’t grab an S&S once you see it, you may not be able to get a subscription on the item in the future. I have a fraction of all my S&S items come in a given month. On my monthly cut-off date, I review each order detail and compare it to the current pricing. I have often set up a new subscription for the same item and then cancelled the old subscription to get better pricing. If S&S was no longer available on that item, but the current pricing was better, I skip the current delivery, then once the associated order cancelled, I move it back to the current month (BEFORE 12AM PST/3AM EST on my cut off date (ie: if your S&S cut off date for that month is the 15th, you have until 11:59PM PST on the 15th/2:59AM EST on the 16th). No guarantee the new order will queue up at the lower price, but this trick has worked for me most of the time. For keeping tabs on an item price, you can add an S&S item to your cart as a 1 time purchase and then Save For Later. You are notified of any cart item price changes whenever you login to Amazon or refresh your cart, so you can purchase when the price is right. There was a glitch with my Oct 2019 S&S. An item that should be 15% off (has been and can still be ordered at 15% off) – only 5% was taken off. First time this happened. (Maybe I am capped because I have too many S&S items!). The rep gave me a $2 gift card- more than the difference for that item. So I recommend double checking your Invoice: Payment Information to make sure you were charged correctly. Chat is my preferred contact with Amazon, so I have a copy of the dialog. Thanks and happy shopping!
What day will my card be charged for the S&S item? I see tons of info about ‘delivery date’ but no clarification on what day my credit card will charged. For someone on a fixed budget, this is important for me to know.
It will be charged when they ship your order.
@Dan
Is the option to change delivery date on S & S over? Dont see it anymore
found it. need to go into Settings. maybe update post
How do you turn off Amazon default setting on items that are subscribe and save as I never ever want to subscribe to anything, but if you don’t purposely change the button to buy one time you signed up for a subscription forever. My wife accidentally has done this several times and I see no way to turn off or change the default setting to one item and if I want a subscription which I don’t, Then you can switch the option
I’ve been using the delivery date method for years. However, this month when I pushed back my cart I saw that they canceled all of the original orders which meant that I lost the original pricing. Not sure if this has been pushed out to all accounts but I imagine it is coming soon. I believe this was first mentioned somewhere on ddf but I couldn’t find it with a quick search.
Suggestion, if when you review your monthly s&s right before shipping time you see the order already placed and the price is to high in your order. Check if the price has gone down on the item page if yes then cancel the original order from your orders page and then change your s&s delivery date by another day and Amazon will replace the order with the current price.
I don’t know about you, but changing the date doesn’t work for me anymore the way you say it. Even by changing the delivery date, the original orders get cancelled and replaced by new orders. I don’t know if this applies to all accounts yet.
Are you sure? Did you check on the actual order if the date and amount changed?
I believe it only seems like it’s being cancelled but is later updated with new delivery date.
For me it just worked fine yesterday
The order was cancelled and move to the cancelled orders list. All coupons etc were lost.
Same here. I can no longer lock in an S&S price deal and then change the delivery date afterwards without it cancelling the order and losing the deal. If I want the price deal, I can only select an immediate date or my next delivery date during the setup process.
@Gaby, after my order updated to the new delivery date I looked for it in my orders and found no current record; the only record is of the cancelled order. There is no current order record of the item even though it still shows it as an upcoming subscription item. I suspect once that delivery date draws closer, it will place a new order and charge me the item’s current price, since there is no Amazon record of my order with coupons.
Try from a household account.
Same issue with all S&S orders getting canceled when rescheduling? Has anyone figured out when/why this happens and or if there is any way to get amazon to reinstate Amazon orders that were canceled?
@Dan, can I see which promotions ware applied to my subscriptions?
I see some people here having recent issues with the delivery date change where their original orders get cancelled and lose the original pricing. Anyone else have these issues?
Wonder if this is a permanent change or a temporary glitch (or update due to the COVID issue)? Amazon S&S has glitched before in the past.
I am having the same issue. I can no longer lock in an S&S price deal and then change the delivery date afterwards without it cancelling the order and losing the deal. If I want the price deal, I can only select an immediate date or my next delivery date during the setup process.
Fels Naptha laundry stain remover is an awesome filler at just $.75.
Carbons Color Run Remover is $2.17
Summers Eve Cleansing Cloth is $1.52
Reckon Nail Clipper is $1.99
Many lipsticks can be real cheap too.
Another point- you can avoid getting deliveries on Shabbos by editing your address (Your Account > Your Addresses > Edit Address), clicking the Weekend delivery link (at the bottom of the page), and unchecking Saturday.
Hi, I’m new to the Amazon subscribe and save functions. Can someone please advise how to add new subscriptions to “my subscriptions” then manage from there? I tried to set up my subscriptions but it went straight to my cart. Even though I have 5 subscriptions in my cart, I still only see 5% savings on e.g. diapers (not 15%).
Thank you!!!
Can someone clarify:These 5 S&S Items in a month, is it in a Calendar month like Jan1-31 or a months time from your 1st order i.e. Jan 16-Feb 16?
Varies by account, check yours here:
https://amzn.to/2Lvd7eb
Just happened to me too, tried to change the date and they canceled all the orders and put them in on the new date at higher prices… Need to come up with some other method to change the date from now on…
Dan if you push off delivery date by a month all coupons and discounts are lost. Perhaps update this
Even if we update… people won’t read it anyway…
How do you know? Why don’t you update it and find out? 🙂
Thank you for updating it.