Use a family unit payment method on Google Play

When you're in a family group, you tin can make purchases on Google Play using the family payment method or a split up payment method.

How the family payment method works

  • When a family group is created, the family manager tin can add a family payment method.
  • Family members can apply the family payment method to make purchases on Google Play or in-app purchases.
  • The family manager is responsible for whatever purchases made past their family members using the family payment method.
  • The family unit managing director gets an email receipt each time a family member makes a buy.
  • The family unit manager can turn on purchase approvals to require family members to get their approval to make certain purchases.

Brand purchases using the family payment method

Family members can make purchases using the family unit payment method, or another payment method.

Purchases yous can utilize family payment method for

Family members tin apply the family payment method to make in-app purchases and to buy the following content on Google Play:

  • Apps
  • Books
  • Movies
  • Games
  • Boob tube shows
  • Magazine issues

Tip: If content is eligible to exist added to Family Library, yous'll run across the Family Library icon Family Library on the details page.

Purchases you can't employ family payment method for

The family payment method tin't be used for certain kinds of purchases, including:

  • Subscriptions
  • Devices from the Google Store, similar phones and tablets
  • Google Play balance
  • Google Pay purchases

Payment options for the family manager

If yous created your family group, utilise the instructions below to manage your family's payment method and track purchases.

Add a family payment method

Important:

  • You must add together the family payment method to the family manager'due south Google account. Only a family manager tin can add, associate, edit, or delete a family payment method.
  • You must use a credit or debit bill of fare as the family payment method. Other payment methods aren't eligible.

Change your family unit'southward payment method

Cull buy approving settings for each family unit member

Run across purchases fabricated by family members

The family unit manager can see a listing of all the purchases made using the family payment method.

  1. Open up the Play Store app Google Play.
  2. At the top correct, tap the contour icon and then Payments & subscriptions and then Upkeep & history.
  3. Tap Purchase history.
  4. Gyre through all past purchases. If the buy was made by someone else in your family, you'll run into "Purchased past" and their name.

Tip: If y'all share a credit card with your family members, they might already accept admission to the credit menu y'all utilize as the family unit payment method. You lot'll simply see purchases made with this credit menu in your order history if your family fellow member selects the family payment method to make the purchase.

Troubleshoot problems

Family unit payment method option doesn't brandish

If the family unit payment method doesn't display equally an option when you get to make a purchase, it'south because the family unit payment method tin can't be used for that blazon of purchase.

"Your family payment method is invalid" fault

I need a family payment method refund

Either the family unit managing director or the family member who purchased the content tin can ask for refunds for content purchased using the family unit payment method.

Refunds are returned to the family payment method.

Acquire more than about how to make requests and the Google Play refund policies.

Limit kid's utilise of family unit payment method

If your child is under eighteen and their account is managed with Family Link, you can set purchase approvals to limit their use of the family unit payment method.

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