New York (CNN) — If you’re sharing the Amazon Prime membership of a family member or friend outside your household, prepare to pay up.

Beginning October 1, the company is eliminating “Prime Invitee,” a program that let Prime members outside of their household share their free shipping benefit. Moving forward, customers will have to sign up for their own Prime membership to take advantage of Amazon’s free shipping.

Amazon confirmed the changes on its website .

In a statement to CNN, Amazon encouraged affected customers to switch to a similar program called “Amazon Family,” which lets people share their Prime benefits – but only for people in their same household.

It’s unclear how many people were taking advantage of the Prime Invitee program, which ended taking sign-ups in 2015. A R

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