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Chewy never puts a number on its Autoship discount, and the cancel window shuts earlier than you think.
I read those terms twice looking for the number, in case it was buried in a schedule at the bottom. It is not there. What is there instead is the sentence that matters more: Chewy reserves the right to change Autoship benefits at any time in its sole discretion, including discount amounts. So the percentage you see beside the button today is a price, not a promise, and the figure the coupon roundups print for a first Autoship order does not appear in Chewy’s own terms at all. Below is what those terms do say, including the one deadline that turns a saving into a charge.
What pays what
| You, on a product flagged Autoship & Save | An extra percentage, never numbered |
|---|---|
| The percentage the coupon roundups print for a first order | Not in the Autoship Terms |
| You, on a new-account promotion | Only if you have never had a Chewy account |
| Anyone outside the 48 contiguous states | Offers void |
| You, if you return the item you used an offer on | Give the benefit back |
| A Chewy customer refer-a-friend reward | We could not confirm it exists |
| A publisher accepted into Chewy’s Impact program | A commission, rate unpublished |
| This site, for writing this page | Nothing |
What the Autoship terms actually say
Autoship is a subscription, and switching it on hands Chewy standing authority. These clauses were last updated in September 2023.
The discount is unnumbered, and movable. The terms describe saving "an additional percentage" on Chewy’s everyday low prices; no figure appears anywhere in the document, and Chewy reserves the right to change Autoship benefits at any time in its sole discretion, including the discount amounts. One protection survives: once you have authorised an order, Chewy will not change the price of that next shipment.
You are authorising future charges, not approving each one. Chewy will submit periodic charges, monthly for example, to your chosen payment method without further authorisation from you, until you give notice to cancel or change it.
A failed card does not stop the order. It moves to another card. If Chewy cannot complete your Autoship order with the payment method you used to set up the subscription, it may charge any other valid payment method associated with your Chewy Account, and the same fallback rule sits in the main Terms of Use for ordinary orders.
Chewy can end your subscription. Chewy may terminate your subscriptions at any time without notice, in its sole discretion, and if it does you are charged only for orders already shipped. Your participation cannot be transferred to anyone else, and subscriptions are void where prohibited.
The terms can change without telling you, and staying is agreeing. Chewy may change the Autoship Terms at its sole discretion without notice, and the document says in capitals that continuing to take part after a change is your acceptance of it.
There are two published ways out. Cancel at any time through Autoship Manager inside Your Account, or by calling customer service on 800-672-4399.
Do this, in this order
- Confirm you are inside the 48 contiguous states. Promotional offers are limited to residents of the 48 contiguous United States and D.C. aged 18 or older, and Autoship ships only within the same 48 states. Alaska, Hawaii and the territories are outside all of it.
- Decide about a new-account promotion before you create the account. New-account promotions are only for people who have never had a Chewy Account, you may not open a fresh account to chase one, and Chewy may refuse to honour a promotion if it decides in its sole discretion you are not eligible.
- Put every qualifying item in one cart, and ignore the tax. Unless an offer says otherwise, all eligible products must be in the cart at checkout and bought in a single transaction, and any required spend refers to the purchase price without tax.
- Set your own cancel reminder two days before the ship date. Miss the window and the order is authorised and a hold goes on your card.
- Check which cards are saved on the account. An old card you forgot about is a live card here. Remove what you do not want charged before the first Autoship order.
- Assume a return takes the discount with it. If you return eligible products under the return policy, Chewy’s promotional terms require you to return your benefit as well, or your refund may be void.
- Never forward an emailed offer, and never accept a forwarded one. Exclusive offers are valid only for the intended recipient of Chewy’s promotional email or direct mail. Duplicate requests are described as fraud, and so are theft, diversion, reproduction, transfer, sale or purchase of an offer. That is why third-party "codes" for exclusive Chewy offers do not work.
The promotional fine print that decides whether an offer survives
Chewy’s Promotional Offers Terms were last updated June 2020, and they govern every promotion you will ever redeem there.
Redemption is Chewy’s call, not yours. Chewy reserves the right to make the final decision on the redemption and fulfilment of any benefit, in its sole discretion. There are no substitutions and no cash redemptions, and any applicable taxes are the recipient’s responsibility.
Order confirmation is not acceptance. The Terms of Use say the confirmation email does not constitute acceptance of an order or an agreement to sell, and that no sale is complete until shipment.
A "Was" price is a real price. A "List" price may not be. "List" price means the manufacturer’s or supplier’s suggested retail price, and Chewy states plainly that it is not necessarily the prevailing or regular price of the product. The "Was" price is calculated from prices actually available on Chewy’s own site during at least 30 of the 90 days beforehand. Check which word the page used before you believe the percentage next to it.
You are inside the United States, or you are not a customer. Products are intended for use in the United States, and Chewy may cancel your order in its sole discretion if it believes you are buying for use outside the country.
Disputes go to arbitration, and class actions are waived. The Terms of Use open with a capitalised notice that disputes are resolved by mandatory binding arbitration, and that both sides give up any right to a class action, a jury trial or class-wide arbitration.
What we could not confirm, and will not pretend to know
Three things about Chewy are repeated everywhere, and we could not verify any of them from Chewy.
The return window. Chewy’s return policy page builds its content in your browser, so the delivered document contained navigation and nothing else. The very long return window quoted all over the internet was not in anything we could read, so we do not publish it. Open the policy yourself before you count on it.
The customer refer-a-friend reward. Chewy’s own affiliate page describes an affiliate track and a creator track and never mentions a customer referral. Five plausible refer-a-friend addresses returned nothing at all, and searching every Chewy policy page that does load found no trace of the phrase. So we cannot tell you the amount, and we will not tell you the program exists.
The affiliate rate and the cookie window. Chewy confirms the program runs through Impact, that Impact transfers commissions monthly, and that the taxes are the partner’s problem. It publishes no rate and no cookie length, and it contradicts itself on the same page: a bullet near the top promises commission on every eligible order from new and existing customers, while the questions below describe commission on new customer orders inside the cookie window.
Skip this offer if
You live in Alaska, Hawaii or a US territory. Promotional offers are void outside the 48 contiguous states and D.C., and Autoship does not ship there.
You are buying once, or you cannot act on a dated reminder. Autoship’s value is the repeat. Set up for a single bag of food it is just a cancellation task you have handed yourself.
You came for a signup bonus. There is no confirmed reward for joining Chewy at all, and if a small cash bonus is what you actually want, the offers at the bottom of this page pay one.
Is it worth your time?
Chasing a Chewy code is close to a wasted evening. The recurring discount is the only saving here that repeats, it applies automatically to eligible products, and no page on the internet can unlock a better version of it for you. What is worth ten minutes: open Autoship Manager, look at your ship dates, and put a reminder in your calendar two days before each one. Over a year that habit beats any first-order percentage. Be sceptical of any figure about this brand that is not printed on chewy.com.