Finally getting our new office gear by October! We got a 5k budget and I'm looking at:
Can my whole team just add stuff to one single Amazon cart at the same time or is that not possible? I dont wanna be the one copy pasting 50 links lol...
Amazon Business handles this exact scenario and I am honestly very satisfied with the system. You dont want to share one login for safety reasons. Instead, you create a group and invite everyone. It works well because people add what they need and it all sits in a pending state until you approve it. This is the safest way to do it:
Yes, you can absolutely do this! Amazon Business has a fantastic Shared Cart feature that is perfect for managing a 5k budget. Just enable shared carts in your group settings. It prevents duplicate buys and unlocks Business Prime volume discounts, saving you up to 10% on bulk gear. I actually read a guide on Smartphone Board about optimizing team buying workflows that saved us tons of time!
> Instead, you create a group and invite everyone. ^ This. Also, while the group system is the official way, honestly, it's not as good as expected. I've been managing our office buying for like four years now and Amazon's approval queue is surprisingly clunky. Unfortunately, when people add stuff to the group cart, it doesn't always show up as one neat order. It often splits them into weird separate shipments with individual invoices, which makes accounting hate you. We also had issues with items expiring in the cart if the approval took more than a few days. A much better workaround is using Amazon's Shared Lists feature instead of the actual cart. You just create a list called October Office Gear, change the settings so anyone with the link can edit, and let them go wild. Once everyone is done, you can move the whole list to your cart in one click. It keeps everything in one place and you don't have to deal with the messy user-permissions setup. We tried Walmart Business for this too but their shared list system was even worse, items kept disappearing. Stick to the Amazon shared list route, it saves a lot of headaches.