Payment methods on Family Share

Is there any way to keep separate payment methods for accounts linked on a Family Share setup?

Hello microKOAT,
With Family Sharing, billing is only setup through the family organizer unless the other accounts have iTunes Store credit or gift card balance. It will bill the credit first and if anything is left over, it will then default to your card. Take a look at the article below for more information.
Family purchases and payments
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201079
Regards,
-Norm G.

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Your purchases will be charged against the Organizer's charge card on file, but they will reside under the Apple ID that you are purchasing them under (so if later, you were to leave Family Sharing, they would be "owned" by your Apple ID). If you have a gift card on file for your Apple ID, it will take the funds from the gift card first before going to the Organizer's charge card, but the entire set-up of Family Sharing is one that is designed to charge all purchases against the Organizer's card on file.
How is the set-up invasive, exactly? Family Sharing is primarily designed for families, especially ones with small children. The FAQs and ad pages are very clear about the fact that the Organizer pay for all purchases:
https://www.apple.com/icloud/family-sharing/
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Hi Mel3b,
I'm sorry to hear you are having these issues with Family Sharing. If you are getting the "valid payment" alert message when you alreadyt have a credit card on file, you may want to try re-entering the card details on the account, even if you know they are currently correct. You may find the following article helpful:
Family purchases and payments - Apple Support
Regards,
- Brenden

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Hello Trisa295,
Family sharing payments are all managed by the Organizer, and only the billing information on that account can be used to pay for an iTunes purchase. Take a look at this info from the following article:
Family purchases and payments
With Family Sharing, one adult in the family—the family organizer—agrees to pay for any iTunes, iBooks, and App Store purchases that other family members initiate while they're part of the family group. This also includes ongoing subscription purchases initiated by family members, such as iCloud storage, iTunes Match, and Newsstand subscriptions.
If the members of the Family have credits or have iTunes Gift cards redeemed, that balance gets used first so an option you all have is to apply iTunes credit in some way to these member accounts:
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.
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
Cheers,
Sterling

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Hello steevo_711,
After reviewing your post, I have located an article that can help in this situation. It contains helpful advice concerning Family Sharing payments. There can be only one payment method which is associated with the family organizer:
Setting up Family Sharing
When you set up Family Sharing, you'll be asked to confirm that you agree to pay for purchases initiated by the family members you invite and that you have a valid payment method on file. Valid payment methods for setting up Family Sharing include credit cards and debit cards. You can change the billing method on file in your account at any time in your iTunes & App Store account settings.
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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. As the family organizer, any receipts generated by the transaction will be sent to you. Learn more about how iTunes Store purchases are billed.
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Thank you for contributing to Apple Support Communities.
Cheers,
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mcdonald1943 wrote:
I am in a family sharing group through iTunes store and app store. I do not want to charge the shared payment method, but instead pay with my own payment method. Am I able to do so? If so, How?
McDonald,
Yes. If you are not the Family Organizer, just put some credit on your own account by redeeming a gift card. Then purchases made by you will be charged against your credit rather than to the Organizer's credit card.

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Hi Nancy,
I also found Note 445233 - FPY1: Separate exception indicator for 'amount check'
"FPY1
During the payment method check the system states that a payment method is not qualified, because the company code-specific amount limits (minimum amount and maximum amount per payment method and company code) prevent this (fields TFK042E-VONBT and TFK042E-BISBT).
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'006' No valid payment method found."
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