Amazon Prime members can now use the cell Amazon Shopping app to ship items to mates utilizing simply their telephone variety of electronic mail deal with — even when they do not have their road deal with. The new function makes it simpler to offer, obtain and even alternate presents for a present card, the corporate announced. 

To do it, you simply want browse for “millions of products” accessible to present on Amazon’s Shopping smartphone app, in accordance with the corporate. Once you’ve got chosen a product, you may choose “add a gift receipt for easy returns” and go to take a look at. You can even choose a brand new choice to “let the recipient provide their address.” To full the transaction, you simply enter their electronic mail deal with or cell phone quantity. 

Once despatched, recipients obtain a present message by electronic mail or textual content. From there, they will select to simply accept the present and enter their most well-liked supply deal with. If they are not eager in your alternative, they will alternate the merchandise for a present card and use that to buy one thing else without having to inform the present giver. 

The function requires the present recipient to even have an Amazon account, a lot as Venmo or PayPal’s Mobile Cash app requires the sender and receiver to have an account. The key good thing about Amazon’s app is that you could nonetheless personalize a present, even when you do not feel snug hitting outlets with a pandemic nonetheless raging. The new function arrives to Amazon Shopping within the US at the moment (October 4th) — when you get an opportunity to attempt it, tell us the way it went within the feedback beneath.