Multiple Apple ID's tied to one iTunes account

We have three people with Apple devices in the house: My MacBook Pro & older iPod, my daughter's iPod Touch & iPhone and my wife's iPhone and (not yet set up) Mac Mini.
We all have Apple ID's, but am wondering how to tie them to my iTunes account so we only have one source of billing? I sync my iPod to my MacBook, but no other local syncing is happening currently.
We do not want to necessarily share music, just billing. Whatever we did with my daughter's iPod and iPhone seems to be working, I see her purchases, but do not see her music, nor her mine. Not sure how we did it and don't want to screw it up going forward.
Also - Should we sync the phones and iPods to local computers or just iCloud?
Thanks

You cannot do that. Each Apple ID needs to be tied to each separate account. Each of you must purchase your own copies of music and apps and sync to separate iTunes Libraries on the computer. The computer must have to user accounts set up - one for you and one for your fiance.
Sharing Stuff From Different iTunes Accounts (or Computers)
Here's how to do so using different computers:
Transfer what content you want to the separate iTunes library on each computer. To transfer content from your library to another library do the following. We'll assume this is between husband and wife separate accounts and different Apple IDs.
Launch iTunes under your wife's login;
Sign her out of iTunes, then you sign in;
Select iTunes -> Preferences -> Devices -> Disable auto-sync when an iPod/iPhone is connected;
Connect your phone, DO NOT SYNC;
Select Store -> Authorize this Computer (only have to do this once);
Select File -> Transfer Purchases (all of the purchased content on your phone will be transferred to your wife's library);
When complete eject your phone, sign out of iTunes, sign your wife back in.
You can now sync whatever content you want to your wife's phone. Just remember all updates to apps obtained using your account must be done while signed in using your account: sign wife out, you sign in, update apps, you sign out, sign wife in, sync her phone.
This way you can share content (permitted under the EUSLA) and still maintain your separate logins. Do the same on your computer if you want to share content from your wife's library.
Just load whatever content you want to share on each others phones, transfer the content, then delete it from the respective phone if you don't want to keep it there.
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Connect your phone, DO NOT SYNC;
Select Store -> Authorize this Computer (only have to do this once);
Select File -> Transfer Purchases (all of the purchased content on your phone will be transferred to your wife's library);
When complete eject your phone, sign out of iTunes, sign your wife back in.
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This way you can share content (permitted under the EUSLA) and still maintain your separate logins. Do the same on your computer if you want to share content from your wife's library.
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"Can Itunes on their PC/Mac, handle having purchases from multiple accounts in the same local DB?"
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Our home now has multiple apple products (imacs, ipads , iphones etc) we have previously shared the one itunes account and each has basically loaded whatever apps, movies or music we want from the one account to each of our own devices. Now with the advent of face time everyone is now wanting their own apple id to do so, which was no big issue but now that everyone has their own apple id, they now want to have their own itunes account to match so that they can have their "own" money to buy apps, misic etc whenever they wish (also to stop some people spending others vouchers!!!!).
Can this be done and everyone still have access to all previously and future apps, musice movies downloaded by whoever? Or would they only be able to load items from own account?

Your question is in the wrong forum: this needs to be in the iTunes for Mac OS X forum.
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https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1203

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