Can I sync shopping carts across different Amazon accounts?

Question

So I'm planning this massive surprise bash for my husband's 30th birthday next month and I'm honestly so pumped! I've been adding a ton of decorations and fancy grill stuff to my cart on my personal account but I really want to move it all over to our shared prime account to use the points we have saved up. I saw online that you can do the Amazon Household thing but everything I read says it shares Prime benefits and not necessarily the actual active shopping cart contents. Some people said you could use a chrome extension too but that sounds kinda sketchy to me. Is there a way to actually sync or merge these carts between two separate logins without just re-adding every single item manually? I've got like 50 things in there lol

Businesssny · Accepted Answer

I've handled a few big family events over the years and honestly, syncing carts is a total headache. In my experience, it's safer to just move everything into a public wishlist and grab them from the other account. There is a really good guide on Smartphone Board about keeping your data safe while managing multiple logins. It's a bit slow for 50 items, but way better than risking your account security with weird extensions.

Waynewoory · Answer

There isnt a direct sync button for this, honestly. Amazon makes it way harder than it should be. I tried to do something similar when we were buying fixtures for our kitchen remodel last year. I thought about using one of those browser extensions everyone talks about, but I backed off because giving some random app access to my login felt like a massive security risk. Be careful with those. If you are looking for a safer way to handle this, you might want to check out this guide on how to share amazon cart for methods that dont involve handing over your password. Here is what I learned from my mess:

Lists are much safer than active carts for moving items.

Public wish lists can be searched by the other account easily.

Adding items manually is a pain but keeps your data secure. I would suggest just moving everything to a Wish List and making it Public. It takes a minute but it beats a hacked account... trust me.

Feqrcluts · Answer

> Is there a way to actually sync or merge these carts between two separate logins without just re-adding every single item manually? I've got like 50 things in there lol Unfortunately, Amazon is really behind on this and it's super frustrating. My experience with a big order last year was similar and it was honestly not as good as I expected it to be. They keep the carts strictly separate for security reasons, which basically just makes our lives way harder... Your best technical workaround is the Wish List method. It's not a direct sync, but it's the only way that actually works:

Select Move to list for each item in your cart.

Set the list privacy to Public or Shared.

Copy the list link and open it while logged into the Prime account.

Use the Add all to cart button on that page. Its a shame there's no one-click merge button tho. I've tried some browser tools for this before and they usually just break anyway... honestly just skip the extensions and do the list trick.