Amazon’s Black Friday event should offer massive price drops for many products, from air fryers and vacuums to smartphones and laptops.
If you currently have your eye on a certain product then it’s understandable that you might want to hold off from ordering until Black Friday starts, however this could mean that you end up wasting a lot of time keeping an eye on the item listing.
Luckily Amazon’s assistant, Alexa, takes the hassle out of keeping track of discounts yourself and will notify you via your smartphone or a compatible Echo device when a saved product or something of interest drops in price on Amazon.
Setting up Alexa deal alerts is simple and takes a matter of minutes. Keep reading to learn how to set up Alexa deal alerts.
What you’ll need:
- An Amazon account
- Alexa smartphone app
The short version:
- Open the Alexa app on your smartphone
- Tap More
- Tap Settings
- Tap Notifications
- Tap Amazon Shopping
- Enable Deal recommendations
-
Step
1Open the Alexa app on your smartphone
We’ll demonstrate using an iPhone but the steps are the same with an Android. You’ll find the Alexa app eithr on your Home Screen or in your App Library.
-
Step
2Tap More
At the right hand bottom corner of the Alexa app homepage, you’ll see the More icon.
-
Step
3Tap Settings
This is next to the cog icon towards the bottom of the More screen.
-
Step
4Tap Notifications
The Notifications option is one of the first options on screen, so you shouldn’t need to scroll down to find it.
-
Step
5
You should find the Amazon Shopping option at the top of the screen. If you can’t find it, tap the magnifying glass icon (search) at the top right-hand side of the screen to manually search.
-
Step
6Enable Deal recommendations
You’ll need to scroll to about halfway down the page in order to find this. Tap the toggle on to enable deal alerts to come through, as shown here.
Troubleshooting
No, you can just use the Alexa app on your iOS or Android smartphone to use Alexa. Having said that, owning an Echo means the deal alert can be announced through the device alongside your smartphone app.
Whenever you show interest in a product, either by adding it to your shopping basket, wish list or saving for later, Amazon will notify you about upcoming or current deals for those products.
