Viewing all allowances across a family
The Family Allowances Overview is a single screen that lists every active and paused allowance assigned to your children. Use it before making bulk changes, running a monthly review, or checking which child has an upcoming payment due.
What is an allowance? In KiddyCash, an allowance is a scheduled, automatic transfer from your account into a child’s wallet. Allowances can be weekly or monthly — see how to create a weekly allowance or how to create a monthly allowance if you have not set one up yet.
Before you start
Make sure you have:
- A KiddyCash parent account with KYC verification complete
- At least one child added to your family
- At least one allowance created for any child in the family
Steps to view all family allowances
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Open KiddyCash and sign in to your parent account.
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Go to the Family Allowances screen. Navigate directly to https://kiddy.cash/families/allowance or tap Family in the bottom navigation bar, then select Allowances.
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Review the allowances list. Every child in your family appears as a grouped row. Under each child you will see all their assigned allowances.
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Check the status column. Each allowance shows one of three statuses:
| Status | What it means |
|---|---|
| Active | The allowance is running and will pay on the next scheduled date |
| Paused | The allowance is temporarily stopped; no payments will go out |
| Ended | The allowance has completed or was manually stopped |
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Check the next payment date and amount. For parents in Kenya sending KES to a child’s wallet, this column helps you align allowance dates with M-Pesa top-up cycles or school-term schedules.
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Tap any allowance row to open its detail view, where you can edit the amount, change the schedule, pause, or delete it.
What you can see on this screen
| Column | Description |
|---|---|
| Child name | The child the allowance belongs to |
| Allowance name | The label you gave when creating it (e.g. “Weekly pocket money”) |
| Amount | The scheduled transfer amount in your local currency (e.g. KES 500) |
| Frequency | Weekly or monthly |
| Next payment | The date of the next automatic transfer |
| Status | Active, Paused, or Ended |
Tips for families with multiple children
- Sort by Next Payment to see which transfers are going out soonest — useful if you are managing a Nairobi household where multiple children attend different schools with different term calendars.
- Use the Paused filter to quickly spot any allowances you may have forgotten to reactivate.
- Teaching children why regular saving matters is part of a wider picture. Research shows that schools play a bigger role in financial literacy than most parents realise, and there are practical ways that schools and families can collaborate on financial education — the allowance habits you build at home reinforce what children learn in the classroom.