Free Amazon Dash Button Sign-up: Stick the Device Anywhere and Reorder items With Just One Click - Amazon Prime Members Only

CLICK HERE to sign up and request an invite for the new Free Amazon Dash Button. If selected they will email you in a few weeks. The Dash Button is a physical button that you can stick anywhere in your house coded to a certain item. Once you run out you click the button and it will re-order the item for you. For Example off you have the Bounty button you just click the button and it will automatically reorder more bounty for you.  A white light illuminates, then turns green to indicate that your order has been placed. If you press the button while an order is already  on the way then it does not place a duplicate order. It sends a note to your phone saying that the extra order was not processed and nothing more is sent. Amazon’s Dash Buttons will be free to Amazon Prime members via an invite system and are free. If you have an order history that includes a product for which there is a button (there are 17 brands represented at launch), Amazon will ask if you want to apply to get a button. When you order one, you can also order two additional buttons for other brands.

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The Button is battery-powered and is supposed to work for “years.” When it dies, you get a new one.

The device connects to your home Wi-Fi to communicate to Amazon. To set it up, you use the Amazon Shopping app on your phone. On an iPhone, the app uses ultrasonic tones to configure the Button for your WiFi network. Android phones use a different method. In either case, once your device is set up, it no longer needs your phone to operate.

The Dash Buttons are branded with specific companies, but they are customizable to an extent. You use your phone’s app to tell the Button what particular product you want to order. For example, the Huggies button can be configured with the type and size of diaper you want to order. You can, of course, change the order as your child grows. But the buttons are locked to a brand: You can’t use your Tide button to order another kind of detergent. Nor can you set up a button to order a product not already on the program. 

(The brands onboard at launch are: Bounty, Tide, Gillette, Olay, Glad, Clorox wipes, Cottonelle, Huggies, Gerber Formula, Lärabar, Kraft Mac & Cheese, Maxwell House coffee, Gatorade, Izze, Smartwater, L’Oréal Paris, and WellPet pet food.)

Beyond the Button: Devices that order for you

Amazon’s Dash Button is built on a new Amazon cloud service called the Dash Replenishment Service (DRS). It allows manufacturers to build automatic reordering into their devices. At launch, four companies are announcing they’ll work with this:

Brother, which will make printers that can reorder ink when they run low.
Brita, which will come out with a water carafe that reorders filters after they’ve been used a certain number of times.
Whirlpool, which will upgrade some of its connected washers and dryers so they can reorder detergent or dryer sheets. (Presumably, you have to tell the machines when to reorder, although I suppose they could also be configured to order after a given number of cycles.)
And Quirky, which is releasing three products in its “Poppy” line, with auto-replenishment built in: a baby formula dispenser, an automatic pet-food dispenser, and a fancy pour-over coffeemaker (it will reorder beans, coffee filters, and its own water filter).
Amazon is making the DRS widely available and hopes that other manufacturers get onboard. A rep told me that by the fall, manufacturers will be able to put DRS in in products with only “10 lines of code” and pretty simple hardware.

And, yes, you’ll be able to turn off auto-ordering. Every DRS product has to connect to an Amazon account, and you can turn off auto-replenishment from your Amazon smartphone app. You can also cancel an automatic shipment as soon as you see the alert on your phone that an order has been placed on your behalf.