"This iTunes account is not setup to allow family sharing"

I have turned on family sharing. The person whom I invited to my family has accepter successfully. But she cannot see my account on her purchases page, and I can't see hers.
When I go to my Purchased page in the iTunes store either on my iphone or within iTunes on my Yosemite mac, I see the message at the tope "This iTunes account is not setup to allow family sharing". However in the iCloud setup page, it is the iTunes account I have entered to share content.
Any ideas how to fix this?
I don't know if this is relevant, but my iCloud account that I use on my phone to setup family sharing is different to the one I am using to share content. But this should be okay as family sharing is meant to specifically cater for this.

Hi stepheninhk,
There a few things to make sure that you can share content with Family sharing if it is not showing up or saying that it is set up to use Family Sharing. Make sure that you have set it up since you are not using your account as the main account. Also I would sign out of your account make a free purchase and then sign back in with your Apple ID when it prompts for one. Take a look at the articles below for more information. 
If you don't see your family's shared content
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201454
Take it easy,
-Norm G. 

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