Teen bank accounts that accept YouTube or AdSense direct deposits
Most teen bank accounts and youth debit cards block direct ACH deposits from platforms like YouTube or AdSense, and lack features for check deposits or high-yield savings. This forces parents to handle transfers manually or juggle multiple platforms, which makes managing youth income unnecessarily cumbersome.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Using apps like Greenlight for allowance while manually handling or transferring external check deposits and funds through parent accounts
- 2Keeping separate business and personal accounts to manage side-hustle revenue and tax implications
- 3Giving teens cash and letting them keep track of it themselves
- 4Setting up teen bank accounts with debit cards
- 5Adding a parent credit card or digital wallet payment method on the teen's phone for emergencies
- 6Using prepaid debit cards like Greenlight
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“Mine is reaching a point where he is getting dropped off with friends and may need spending money. He carries cash, but I'm worried he may lose it, and many places are going cashless.”source ↗
“I was thinking we might start using their cash savings account so opening up with them wouldn't be too bad for us, but I couldn't tell if those youth accounts would allow direct deposits from youtube. If that isn't then we'd need some other way to get the youtube $ into that account, which seems cumberson.”source ↗
“Like - the tax implications for not only him but his friends who are contractors now in the eyes of the IRS seems fairly annoying and potentially not worth the time but we're trying it out for now.”source ↗
“But he can't use it to be paid by AdSense, which is a direct ACH transfer into a banking account and he can't deposit checks (currently grandparents write checks made out to us and we transfer directly to the Greenlight account)”source ↗
“I'm trying to minimize platforms if possible. Our credit union does almost everything we want except for the savings component and also its online app fairly sucks. Is there a better option out there?”source ↗
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