Amazon is adding more Dash Buttons to include more brands and introduce new categories, while also making the buttons effectively free.
As a reminder, Amazon's Dash Buttons launched back in July to help Amazon Prime customers order their most frequently used items more easily. The adhesive Dash Buttons are Wi-Fi-connected and are designed to stick on any surface in your household, near where you may need to remember to reorder products. For instance, you can place a Dash Button on the coffee maker to easily reorder filters before you run out, stick another Dash Button on the washing machine so you can buy detergent before running out, and so on.
Amazon launched Dash Buttons with support for 18 brands including Tide, Bounty, Cottonelle, Glad, Gatorade, Clorox, Olay, L'Oreal, Huggies and Wellness, Gillette, Maxwell House and others, allowing Prime users to reorder such household items with the touch of a button.
The buttons launched for $4.99 a piece and seemed completely useless to many, considering that placing an order online on Amazon isn't much of a hassle. Although you may not need a Dash Button to order your detergent from Amazon, now that the device is basically free, you might as well try it.
Amazon now announced that is adding 11 new brands to the Dash Buttons program and will refund the $4.99 cost of the button when users make the first purchase. In other words, for each $4.99 button customers buy, they get a $4.99 credit back into their account when they first use it. The buttons continue to be available only to Amazon Prime members.
The newly-expanded Dash Button lineup now brings more categories including trash bags, nutritional elements, table wear, and even gum, while also widening the range of available brands with additions such as Finish Dishwashing Detergent, Ziploc, Dixie Tableware products, Ice Breakers Mint, Digestive Advantage Probiotic Supplements, Orbit Gum and more.
With the latest additions, Amazon Dash Buttons are now available for a total of 29 different brands, covering more than 500 products.
The new push-to-order buttons function just like the first batch of available buttons, automatically ordering and shipping items to Prime members' homes.
