Controlled access to media and app stores

3rdfooter said:

My verbal but profoundly autistic son has a tablet (Android based). He would like to put films and music on it and also download software (yep, games) from the Google Play site.

Does anyone know if it is possible to limit the money spent on these sites? Potentially this could be a good thing and help him to make his own decisions about value and money.

I don't want him to feel every purchase has to be approved by using my bank account. It would also be a pain to set up a specific VISA card account for this kind of trivial purchase.

Any experience or insight gratefully recieved.

3F

He can be set up with an account that allows him to download free apps.  If he does want to purchase apps, then I would get him a pre-paid VISA debit card...

www.visa.co.uk/.../visa_prepaid.aspx

...onto which you can allocate with only a certain amount of money; say £20 each month.  This will prevent him from running up huge bills.  

Alternatively, if he wants to make a purchase, you can password protect the payment option on Google Play, which means you would have to enter the password to authorise payments.  

3rdfooter said:

My verbal but profoundly autistic son has a tablet (Android based). He would like to put films and music on it and also download software (yep, games) from the Google Play site.

Does anyone know if it is possible to limit the money spent on these sites? Potentially this could be a good thing and help him to make his own decisions about value and money.

I don't want him to feel every purchase has to be approved by using my bank account. It would also be a pain to set up a specific VISA card account for this kind of trivial purchase.

Any experience or insight gratefully recieved.

3F

He can be set up with an account that allows him to download free apps.  If he does want to purchase apps, then I would get him a pre-paid VISA debit card...

www.visa.co.uk/.../visa_prepaid.aspx

...onto which you can allocate with only a certain amount of money; say £20 each month.  This will prevent him from running up huge bills.  

Alternatively, if he wants to make a purchase, you can password protect the payment option on Google Play, which means you would have to enter the password to authorise payments.