Family Sharing, Ask to buy and iTunes cards

my son got a iTunes Gift card for christmas. Is it possible to add the gift card to his Apple account, but still have the Family Sharing Ask to Buy feature work? Or will he get to make purchases without the Ask to Buy feature working?

Hey there jccamp95,
Your son will be able to redeem the iTunes Gift Card and it will apply to his Apple ID in the iTunes Store. Take a look at this info from the following article about Family Sharing payments and billing:
Family purchases and payments
After you set up your family, any time a family member initiates a new purchase it will be billed directly to your account unless that family member has gift or store credit. First, their store credit will be used to pay the partial or total bill. The remainder will bill to the family organizer's card. As the family organizer, any receipts generated by the transaction will be sent to you. Learn more about how iTunes Store purchases are billed.
Once paid for, a purchased item is added to the account of the family member who initiated the purchase. In other words, the content belongs to them, much as it would if you were buying them a book or a DVD. If Family Sharing is ever disabled, each member will keep the purchases they initiated, even though they were paid for by the family organizer.
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
Cheers,
Sterling

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How Lame is this… are you telling me that kids/young adults/even grown adults over 18 are responsible enough (or naturally mature enough) to NOT have to seek their parents/payer's approval for spending their money on "entertainment" for themselves? Give me the DANG option as the OWNER and pay source to turn them off if/when I want to. Its like keys to the car. Irresponsibility or disregard to responsibility will get you grounded and the key taken away. I see this PRIVILEGE no different and thus MUST be revokable (at the payer's discretion at any time).
If I am paying for it.. I want to know about it.. no matter how old the person is I am sharing my library with. Its a check and balance / courtsey thing… not a trust thing.
GIVE ME THE 'ASK TO BUY' OPTION FOR FAMILY MEMBERS 18 or older. Or Apple can build roles other than child(less then 18) or adult (18 or more) that I can place them in that role myself with the desired permissions (like a College Student)!
I DO NOT think is it safe or secure to assume that the Ask to Buy option can be disabled permanently for anyone 18 or over. What if the device is left unattended or stolen and somehow accessed without permission .. that's way to easy for a dishonest person to empty you out!
I will not be using this feature until this is an option. I love the idea and it would be very helpful/useful if this only this option existed.
I'm the parent, I decide this type of thing in my household, not Apple!
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Thank you Ms. SJ!!!!
I was having this problem with my youngest daughters account. Your post about establishing the payment history apart from family sharing made a lot of sense. My oldest daughter has had an account for some time that she had been adding iTunes gift cards to, so her account was "established" before it was added to our family sharing group. I had no trouble approving her purchases.
I had set up an account for my youngest daughter a long time ago, but used it only for email and iMessage on her iPod. My ID was used for purchases on the device. After Family sharing was launched and she got an iPad for Christmas, I decided to set up her ID as the primary account on her new iPad and added her to family sharing.
The first problem I ran into with Family Sharing was enabling the "Ask to Buy" function because since I set up accounts for my daughters a long time ago they were both showing as adults. I learned from another post that the fix for this was to change their birthdates to January 1, 2001. I did this and it has them listed as Age 14 on their family sharing profiles - fine.
I then ran into the same problem with Ask to Buy that David Wilkie described above. My fix was a little different from yours and less intensive.
Removed my youngest daughter from family sharing
Purchased an app using her account alone (with an iTunes gift card attached) to establish a purchase history.
I then re-added her to our family sharing group.
I had her purchase a song using "Ask to Buy" and it worked as expected.
Thanks for going through the legwork with support to find this fix and share it. I hope my experience can be helpful as well.

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I see lots of posts on this, so I will try to be very specific in hopes someone can solve this and others can learn from it too.
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I cannot seem to get any of my kids iPhones, with all of us on Family Sharing, to send a request to my iPhone for purchases they want to make. Despite what I believe is the correct setup for Family Sharing, they get asked for the security code of my credit card. I will go through the setup and steps in painstaking detail in hopes this helps:
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Son #2 = ditto above, except for this son
Daughter = ditto above, except for my daughter
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In each of my kids' iPhones, in Settings > iCloud, it shows the same @icloud account as mentioned above. In other words, each of them have as their iCloud account the same ID as what I see in the Family Sharing on my iPhone.
Similarly in each of my kids' iPhones, in Settings > iTunes & App Store, the Apple ID is the same @icloud account for that respective kid's iPhone.
When I go to make a purchase on any of my kids' iPhones, here's exactly what happens…the example being to buy the movie Godzilla
Videos > Store > Search > "Godzilla" > "$19.99 BUY" > "BUY MOVIE" … up comes the "Sign In to iTunes Store" box that asks "Enter the Apple ID password for the [email protected]" (correct ID for that phone) … I enter the correct password for that kid's account … and then get the "Payment Verification Required" which says "Your Family Organizer, <my correct iTunes account> must enter the security code for the payment method." … I then press Continue and this is where it really surprises me … instead of sending any request to my iPhone (I get nothing) it brings up "Account Settings" and asks for the Security Code for my credit card. What the heck? Shouldn't this instead trigger a request to my iPhone? At this point there's no way to proceed. If I hit Cancel it exits out. If I hit Done (without entering the credit card security code) I get the notice "Confirmation Required" which says "Do you still want to buy Godzilla (2014) for $19.99?" … if I say Continue, I get the very same "Payment Verification Required" as mentioned above, which returns me again to the page asking for the credit card security code, essentially an endless loop.
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Thank you Ms. SJ!!!!
I was having this problem with my youngest daughters account. Your post about establishing the payment history apart from family sharing made a lot of sense. My oldest daughter has had an account for some time that she had been adding iTunes gift cards to, so her account was "established" before it was added to our family sharing group. I had no trouble approving her purchases.
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The first problem I ran into with Family Sharing was enabling the "Ask to Buy" function because since I set up accounts for my daughters a long time ago they were both showing as adults. I learned from another post that the fix for this was to change their birthdates to January 1, 2001. I did this and it has them listed as Age 14 on their family sharing profiles - fine.
I then ran into the same problem with Ask to Buy that David Wilkie described above. My fix was a little different from yours and less intensive.
Removed my youngest daughter from family sharing
Purchased an app using her account alone (with an iTunes gift card attached) to establish a purchase history.
I then re-added her to our family sharing group.
I had her purchase a song using "Ask to Buy" and it worked as expected.
Thanks for going through the legwork with support to find this fix and share it. I hope my experience can be helpful as well.

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