The Debit Card For Kids and Teens. Managed by Parents.
Learn to earn, save, and spend wisely with Greenlight's award-winning money app and debit card. Kids and teens build lifelong healthy financial habits by earning money through chores and allowance, setting savings goals, spending wisely, and more. Parents assign chores, automate allowance, send money quickly, set flexible controls, and get real-time notifications.
Greenlight Teaches Kids and Teens to be Smart with Money
Kids and teens learn by doing. With Greenlight's debit card and app, they put money skills into practice as they learn to earn, save, and spend wisely.
Greenlight Gives Parents Peace of Mind and Convenience
Parents send money to their kids quickly, set flexible controls, set up chores, automate allowance, and more, saving them precious time.
Greenlight Empowers Kids and Teens with Fun and Engaging Financial Literacy Education
Level Up, Greenlight's financial literacy game for kids and teens, takes learning beyond K-12 national standards for personal financial education.
Greenlight FAQ
What is Greenlight?
Greenlight is the money and safety app built with families in mind. With Greenlight’s debit card and app, parents can pay allowance, assign chores, and help their kids learn to earn, save, spend wisely, and invest.
Is it different from a traditional debit card?
Greenlight is bigger than a debit card. It’s an all-in-one money and safety app for families to teach kids and teens to manage money, keep everyone safe, and protect senior loved ones.
As a Greenlight account holder, you can:
- Send money quickly
- Turn the card off via the app, if needed
- Receive alerts whenever the card is used
- Set store-level spend controls to help kids learn to budget
- Automate allowance payments
- Manage chores (and reward a job well done)
Is there an app for kids?
Kids and parents log in to the same Greenlight app but have two different experiences. Parents can send money, set flexible controls, and more. Kids learn how to manage their own money while staying safe and connected to the family.
Is Greenlight safe? Is there a minimum age?
We support kids and adults of all ages. No minimum (or maximum) age here.
Greenlight Card Accounts are issued by Community Federal Savings Bank, member FDIC and the funds are FDIC-insured up to the applicable limits. Greenlight Card Accounts also come with fraud protection through Mastercard’s Zero Liability Protection Policy.
Greenlight also blocks unsafe spending categories, sends real-time transaction notifications, lets parents turn cards off at any time, and gives parents flexible ATM and spend controls.
How can kids and teens receive money?
Kids can request and receive money instantly from you right in their app. They can also use their pay link to receive money from friends and family — with your approval on every payment. First job? Set up direct deposit to get paid into their Greenlight account.
Does Greenlight work with mobile payments?
Yes! As soon as your child’s card has been activated, they can add their Greenlight card details to Apple Pay or Google Pay to tap and pay in an instant.
Subject to Apple Pay and Google Pay age requirements.