Family sharing feature issue

I want to add the account of my son's iPad email in my list of family sharing as i will be paying for all purchases and want to share some purchases i have with him. I am using USA account but without credit card as i am using iTunes card for all my purchases.
Now when i try to add his email address in my family sharing, it asks me to update my credit card information even though i have already got 15$ iTunes card loaded in my account.
Please let me know what to do now? Should i add the credit card ? if i will add the credit card then during my next purchase, will it ask me to buy it from my iTunes card or credit card ??? i m confused now.

Hello, I wanted to let you know that when you want to use the function of family sharing it will be necessary to add a credit card to the account, and the organizer of the group is the responsible to do so. Each family member can continue to redeem gift card on account and use that store credit on their own. But in order to actually set up the family sharing it is required that the organizer enter a credit card on the account, Without it you won't be able to set it up.
Now, if you have store credit on your account at the moment, and yo make purchase on your account, the store credit will be charge for the purchases you make on your account before it actually charge the credit card, now if one of your family members does not have store credit on their individual account, then the purchase they make will be charge to your credit card, not the store credit that you have on your account.
This article might be useful since it explain the Family Sharing :
https://www.apple.com/icloud/family-sharing/
Family purchases and payments - Apple Support 
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