Price alerts without an account

You don’t need an account to use price alerts. A guest alert works just like a member’s, with one extra step at the start and a few differences in how you manage it.

Creating a guest alert

1. Go to Price alerts, or press Price alert on a results page.
2. Choose the route, the date or month and, if you like, a target price.
3. Enter your email address and press Create price alert.
4. Open the email we send you. Its subject usually asks you to confirm your price alert.
5. Press Confirm price alert. You see a message that your alert is on.

Until you confirm, the alert is not checked and no price emails are sent. This double opt-in protects you: nobody else can sign your address up for alerts.

Managing guest alerts

Each price-drop email has links to pause or stop that alert. Keep at least one email from each alert in case you want to stop it later.

Guests don’t have a dashboard, so there is no single page that lists all your alerts and no link that resumes a paused alert.

Moving to an account later

If you start to collect several alerts, a free account makes life easier:

1. Create an account with the same email address you used for your alerts.
2. Confirm your email if asked.
3. Open Price alerts in your dashboard. Your guest alerts are listed there, and you can pause, resume or remove them.

Members’ new alerts start immediately, without a confirmation email.

Limits

• Each email address can have a maximum number of alerts, guest and member together.
• You can’t create the same route and date twice.
• To prevent abuse, there is a limit on how many alerts can be created from one connection in a short time. If you see “Too many alerts created”, wait and try later.
• On some sites, alerts may require an account. If you are asked to sign in, create a free account to continue.

If this, then that

• If the confirmation email doesn’t arrive, check spam and promotions, add our address to your contacts and try again. Our troubleshooting article on emails has more steps.
• If you confirmed but still see nothing, that is normal until the price drops. The confirmation step only starts the alert.
• If you mistyped your email, create the alert again with the right address. The mistyped one will never be confirmed, so it never sends emails.
• If you want to stop everything, use the Stop link in each alert email, or create an account and remove them in one place.

Read our privacy policy to see how we use the email address you give us.

Still stuck? Contact us, choose the price alerts topic and tell us the route and the email address the alert uses.