Manage a supervised payments profile

Supervised payment profiles are for kids under 13 (or the applicable age in your country) who have a supervised Google Account managed by their parent through Family Link. When payment-related information is saved to a child’s Google Account, a payments profile is created.

A Google payments profile stores info such as:

• The name and address of the user that the payments profile belongs to.
• Credit cards, debit cards, and other payment methods which have been used to buy through Google in the past.
• Other addresses which have been added across Google services, like autofill on Chrome.

Payments profile settings

Your child’s payments profile contains the following settings:

• Payments profile ID: The payments profile ID is the unique number used to identify the payments profile which can be used if reaching out to support.
• Country or region: The legal country or region associated with the current payments profile.
• Name: The legal name associated with the payments profile. Learn how to change your child’s payments profile legal name.
• Address: The legal address of your child's home. Learn how to change your child's payments profile legal address.
• Document language preference: The language your child prefers for documentation.

Manage a payments profile

Your child can manage some tasks in their payments profile, but may need your help for other tasks. If they need your help, they'll be notified in their profile.

The following tasks can be completed in a payments profile:

• Update a card’s expiration date and address
• Verify a card
• Remove a card
• Fix a payment method

Close a payments profile

When a payments profile is closed:

• Your child still has access to their Google Account, but payment methods and related information (like a card billing address) are no longer available to use with Google.
• You can create a new payments profile for your child by adding a new payment method (like a credit card) to their Google Account.

Learn how to close a payments profile.

What happens when the child turns age of consent

Important: The child’s age of consent may vary by country. Learn more about your country’s age requirements.

When your child turns 13 (or the applicable age in your country), they can choose to:

• Take no action and continue their current parental supervision.
• Update their Google Account and continue their current parental supervision.
• Update their Google Account and stop parental supervision.

Learn more about what happens when a child manages their own account.

You and your child will receive reminder emails to notify you that your child can update their Google Account and stop parental supervision. You'll receive these emails leading up to your child’s birthday that marks the age of consent, including:

• 30 days prior
• 7 days prior
• On their birthday

If they decide to update their Google Account, you'll receive another email.

Learn how Google processes your child’s data by reading the Google Payments privacy guide for children.

What happens when parental supervision stops