How to check allowance history from the family view
Allowance history is a record of every automatic payment KiddyCash has sent to a child’s wallet. Reviewing this list helps you spot missed payments, confirm amounts, and understand your current schedule before making changes — whether you’re switching from weekly to monthly, or adjusting the amount before the next cycle.
What you’ll need
- A KiddyCash account with at least one child added to your family
- At least one active or past allowance schedule
What “allowance history” means
When you set up an allowance schedule, KiddyCash automatically generates payments on your chosen dates and sends them to your child’s wallet. Each of those generated payments appears in the allowance history list. You can see the date, amount, status, and which child received it.
This is different from a manual top-up, which you trigger yourself. Allowance history only shows scheduled, system-generated payments.
Why this matters before making changes: If you edit or delete a schedule without checking history first, you may not realise a payment was skipped or duplicated — especially around month-end or during public holidays. This is particularly relevant if your family budget runs on M-Pesa disbursements and timing is tight.
How to view the allowance history list
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Open the KiddyCash app and sign in with your parent account.
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Tap “Family” in the bottom navigation bar. This opens your family dashboard, where you can see all the children linked to your account.
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Select the child whose allowance history you want to review. Their profile page will open.
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Tap “Allowances” on the child’s profile. This shows all active and past allowance schedules for that child.
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Tap on a specific schedule to open its detail view.
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Scroll to the “History” section. Here you’ll find a list of every payment generated by that schedule.
Alternatively, you can go directly to your family’s full generated allowance list here:
View generated allowances → https://kiddy.cash/family/:family_id/allowance/generated
(Replace :family_id with your actual family ID, visible in your account settings.)
Reading the history list
Each row in the history list contains the following fields:
| Field | What it means |
|---|---|
| Date | The date the payment was generated by the schedule |
| Amount | The value sent to the child’s wallet (in KES or your local currency) |
| Status | Whether the payment was Completed, Pending, or Failed |
| Child | The name of the child who received the payment |
| Schedule name | The label you gave the allowance when you created it |
A Failed status usually means the schedule ran but the wallet couldn’t receive the funds — check that your child’s wallet is active and your payment source is linked correctly.
Before you change a schedule
If you’re planning to update a recurring allowance, read through the last three to five history entries first. Look for any gaps or failures. Once you’re confident the history is complete and accurate, you can safely edit the schedule.
If you haven’t set up a schedule yet, see how to create a weekly allowance for a child or how to create a monthly allowance for a child to get started.
Teaching children how money moves — including how allowances are tracked — builds real financial habits early. For more on how families and schools can work together on this, read why schools play a bigger role in financial literacy than most parents realise and how schools and families can collaborate on financial education.