Welcome to a Greenlight Summer!
Save, Spend, Play - All Summer Long
Summer is the perfect time for kids to learn money skills while having fun. With Greenlight, they earn, save, and spend smartly, while you stay in control by tracking spending, setting limits, and guiding their choices. Open a Greenlight account today—if you’re a Central Bank customer, it’s completely freedisclosure 1 (normally $5.75/month).
Greenlight is a Parent-Approved Summer Tool
- Parental Control: Set limits, monitor transactions, and guide spending, saving, and giving.
- Money Skills in Action: Teach kids real-world lessons about saving, planning, and growing their money.
- Chore & Earning Management: Assign tasks and rewards to show the value of earning.
Make Summer Fun and Educational
- Set Summer Savings Goals: Help your child save for something special, teaching planning and patience.
- Plan and Budget for Fun: Teach budgeting for ice cream, pool toys, and summer adventures.
- Earn While Playing: Chores and small jobs help kids connect effort to reward.
Benefits for Your Kids and Teens
Independence
They get their own debit card, which is pretty cool. They'll love the freedom to make their own spending decisions, no cap! (with a little guidance from you, of course).
Financial Literacy
From saving for that must-have gadget to understanding the difference between a credit and debit card, Greenlight makes learning about money fun and engaging.
Safety
With FDIC insurance and top-notch security, their money is safe. Lost card? No problem! Freeze it with a tap.
Easy to Get Started
Greenlight is free if you use your Central Bank account as a funding source!
- Enroll in Greenlight using the below button.
- Use your Central Bank account as the funding source.
- Download the Greenlight App. (Both you and your child should download the app - you'll each receive different views!)
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Greenlight FAQs
Greenlight is the money and safety app built with families in mind, and designed for kids of all ages. 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.
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Greenlight is bigger than a debit card. It’s an all-in-one money and safety app for families to learn to earn, save, and invest together.
- Greenlight parents can:
- Transfer money instantly to your kids
- 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 instantly reward a job well done)
Yes, you and your kid will need to download the Greenlight app. From there, 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.
Kids and teens can request and receive money instantly from you in their Greenlight 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.
- Bank Account: if you are prompted to verify your bank account when manually adding your funding source, you will receive 2 small deposits of $1.00 or less in your account within 1-2 business days. To verify your bank account as a funding source, you will need to input the 2 micro-deposit amounts into your Greenlight app when prompted to verify.
- If you do not see these deposits within 3 business days, please contact your banking service provider directly and have them take a look at the status of your bank account. Once you complete verification, the 2 micro-deposits will be removed from your bank account to offset the deposit amounts.
- Debit Card: Once you add your debit card as a funding source and make your initial funding load, you should see 2 transactions on your debit card that add up to the initial load amount. You will need to confirm these transactions within 3 business days in the Greenlight app to verify your debit card.
- If you do not see these transactions within 4 business days, please contact your banking service provider directly and have them take a look at the status of your bank account.
When your child’s card arrives, follow these simple steps to activate it right away:
- Open your Greenlight app. From your Parent Dashboard, you should see a notification prompting you to activate your child’s card.
- Tap on the notification and input the card’s expiration date in the app to activate it.
- Next, visit your child’s dashboard by clicking their square at the top of your Parent Dashboard.
Select “Manage Card” then “Set debit card PIN.” After the PIN is set, your physical card is activated and ready to use!
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Central Bank customers are eligible for the Greenlight SELECT plan at no cost when they connect their Central Bank account as the Greenlight funding source for the entirety of the promotion. Subject to minimum balance requirements and identity verification. Upgrades will result in additional fees. Upon termination of promotion, customers will be responsible for associated monthly fees. See terms for details. Offer ends 07/07/2029. Offer subject to change and partner participation. Back to content
The Greenlight® prepaid card is issued by Community Federal Savings Bank, member FDIC, pursuant to license by Mastercard International. Greenlight Select families can earn monthly rewards of 2% per annum on an average daily savings balance of up to $5,000 per family.
To qualify, the Primary Account must be in Good Standing and have a verified ACH funding account. See Greenlight Terms of Service for details. Subject to change at any time.
