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Greenlight®: Fast, Easy, Convenient Way to Manage Kids Spending

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By Nicole Donnelly August 18, 2017

Try Greenlight free for 30 days and get $20 in your account*!


Parenting is hard! I mean, we are put in charge of shaping the minds of the future. There are so many lessons to teach. Language, manners, potty training. Brushing teeth, reading, playing well with others.  And so much more. At Macaroni Kid, we are all about ways to make parenting easier. So, when it comes to teaching kids about spending and money management, we turn to Greenlight®.


Greenlight is a debit card for kids that parents can manage from their phones with flexible control options. You can select the types of stores (or even specific stores) where your child can spend! That means you can send your teenager to the mall for back to school shopping and know they’re not going to blow your budget on video games or snacks. Or, you can send them to the mall with their birthday money and let them spend it on whatever they want. It’s all adjustable within your parental controls.

That’s not all. Greenlight is smart, easy and fast! You can set Greenlight to pay allowances automatically, and send it straight to your child’s card instantly with a tap on your phone. Plus, as the parent, you can get real-time notifications that tell where and when your child spends money.  Greenlight can notify you when and where your child spends, or wants to spend. Or when and where their card gets declined. Or when balances run low. It’s all up to you. And reporting allows you and your child to review spending choices. Super cool lesson in money management!

Greenlight cards cannot be used to withdraw cash at an ATM or even get cash back from a purchase. Not only does this avoid fees, but it helps ensure that the controls you as a parent place on the card are definitely followed.  Also, Greenlight accounts are FDIC insured. So the funds you put into Greenlight are insured up to applicable limits. 

Honestly, Greenlight’s features are enough to make me jump on board. But these extra benefits are the icing on the cake. Like, how awesome is it that Greenlight can be shut off from your phone in the instant your child loses it? It’s safer than cash and has your kid’s name right on it. It works internationally; perfect for vacation or studying abroad. And for your older kids with phones, it works with Apple Pay, so they don’t even have to physically carry the card!

Try Greenlight free for 30 days and get $20 in your account*!  Take a month and see how Greenlight works for you, on them. After your trial ends, pay just $4.99/month for your whole family (up to 5 kids).

*Greenlight will deposit $20 in your account approx. 2 weeks after your first monthly payment.