Your Child's Portal

Access from your Home page

Click anywhere on your child's picture to log in to your child's view of Active Allowance - a simplified portal where he/she can:

• write a check
• view his/her account history
• view his/her budget
• change the look of the Responsibility Checklist

Direct access

Your child can also log directly into his/her account by going to the Active Allowance log in page and entering the user name and password you created on your Set Up page.

Quick Access for younger children

For younger children, a really easy approach is as follows:

1) many browsers enable you to hi-lite the URL (in the address bar) and drag it to the desktop. That creates a small file.

2) Your child can simply double-click that file and her browser will open and load the log-in page.

3) Most browsers will remember the log-in information

Your Child's Home Page

Your child has similar views to yours. However, your child:

1) can only see his own information, not that of his siblings.

2) can only view Checklists and Budgets and Allowance History, but cannot change them

3) Can write checks from her account.

4) Does not have several of your controls, such as transferring funds, making deposits and deleting transactions.

Writing a Check

When she clicks Write Check, the Family Bank window changes and she can enter the appropriate information.

You can use whatever convention you'd like for the Pay to and Description fields. Our kids like to put the retailer's name in the Pay to field and "what they bought" in the Description field.

Then click Print Your Check.

The Check Window

After he clicks on the Print Your Check button, 3 things happen.

1. He'll see a screen that looks like a check.

2. The amount will be deducted from his account.

3. A message will be sent to your Message Center with the check details. This is handy because, if an error is made, you'll be able to check it in your own portal and make the correction.

Printing and signing the Check

He clicks Print, signs the printed check and gives it to you.

Note:
1) While printing and signing the check is optional - the dollars have already been deducted from your child's account - we do recommend you have him do it. It makes the whole process more "real' for children.

2) If for some reason your printer fails to print (printer glitches do happen!), it's probably not worth trying again. The effort involved in recreating the transaction, then deleting extra transactions may outweigh the teaching benefit of printing and signing.

You can always tell your child the electronic transaction happened anyway.