Buy Amazon Prime Day with Microsoft Edge

While you can shop online during Black Friday or the holidays with any browser you want, there are several good reasons to use the Microsoft Edge browser already on your PC: built-in coupons and an automatic check of an item’s price history. Also buying something in installments is coming.

Both of the Edge features offer a fantastic way to ensure you get the best deals for Prime Day, or any day for that matter.

Microsoft Edge is on your Windows PC

The Microsoft Edge browser is built into all Windows PCs. While the most popular browser is still Google Chrome, you can open Edge (if you haven’t already) and quickly import bookmarks (Favorites), passwords, and more from another browser. (We have a detailed tutorial on how to import bookmarks into Edge.)

Now let’s see how Edge can help you find the best deals on Amazon Prime Day.

Edge’s shopping skills should work with any page, but it’s honed for Amazon and Prime Day. If you open any product page, you will see a small blue price tag icon at the bottom of the URL bar, right next to the small star icon to bookmark the page.

That price tag icon will start popping up little notifications: “This site has coupons!” It will inform you that Edge will apply any automatic discounts that it knows about at checkout. “You have the best price!” it’s an indication that Edge has already verified other retailers and knows that Amazon offers the best deal. You may also receive a small notification that the price has recently increased or decreased.

How to use coupons in Microsoft Edge for Prime Day

Sometimes Amazon itself will show that a coupon can be applied and offer you the opportunity to activate it directly on the product page. Edge is a bit more shy – you’ll need to click the blue price tag icon in the URL bar and manually copy any coupons Edge finds into the discount field.

Please note that there are third party alternatives. The Honey plugin, for example, also automatically searches for discount codes.

How to use price history in Microsoft Edge

Edge’s ability to track prices is much more useful. Edge works a bit like Amazon’s tracking site camelcamelcamel.com, which can take an Amazon product page and show you how the price of the item has fluctuated in recent months. Edge does this automatically.

To view the price history, you will need to click on the blue price tag icon in the URL bar. If you see an offer to “clip coupon” instead, don’t worry, the price history is in a small drop-down menu below. Once you click on it, you will see a small graph with noticeable price movements in the last few months. You should get the best deals on Prime Day, but not always.

You can explore further by scrolling down to Compare other retailers, which opens a small list of tiled cards, each with the item’s price at another retailer. It’s a quick and easy way to compare prices without leaving Amazon. Smart shoppers may even want to take a look the Collections feature within Edge, to create groups of items to compare.

The only place where Edge’s price history sometimes struggles is where Amazon combines multiple product listings on the same page, like on an SSD or hard drive, for example, where it can be available in multiple capacities. I found that Edge works best when there is only one setting available.

Microsoft is testing Buy Now, Pay Later

BNPL is currently available in the Microsoft Edge beta testing program, specifically the Canary and Dev channels, and will be available by default to all users on Microsoft Edge version 96. Microsoft said earlier this month. Buy now, pay later allows you to simply pay for something in installments, rather than paying for it all at once. It is also a feature that is generally offered on a retail basis.

Now, Microsoft says it plans to add this BNPL capability to the browser through a partnership with Zip. It means that any purchase between $ 35 and $ 1,000 that you make through Microsoft Edge can be divided into 4 installments over 6 weeks, says Microsoft.

“With BNPL on Edge, you can simply link your Microsoft account to your zip account with one click and then skip the login from the Zip side. It can speed up the application process, ”according to Microsoft.

This story has been updated to add Microsoft’s BNPL capabilities and to update this information for Black Friday.