Audience: Parents.

Short answer: From your Parent Dashboard, click Make
Payment for {child} on the team that has a balance, pick
Credit/Debit Card from the payment-method dropdown, and check
out via Stripe. Your child's ledger updates as soon as the payment
clears.

Prerequisites

• You must have an approved parent-child link to your player.
  (The Parent Dashboard menu item only shows up for parents with at
  least one approved relationship.)
• The team must have:
• Stripe connected (see FAQ #5), and
• Stripe enabled in their Payment Settings.

If the team hasn't enabled cards, the Credit/Debit Card option
won't appear in the dropdown — only the methods they accept (Venmo
/ CashApp / etc.).

Step-by-step

1. Log in and click Parent Dashboard in the menu.
2. Find your child's team card. If they have a balance owed, you'll
   see a gold Make Payment for {child} button.
3. Click it. A "Pay for {child} — {team}" modal opens showing
   the balance due.
4. Enter the Amount (defaults to the full balance — change it
   for a partial payment).
5. From the Payment Method dropdown, pick Credit/Debit Card —
   Pay online via Stripe.
6. Click Submit Payment. You'll be redirected to Stripe's
   secure checkout. Enter your card and confirm.
7. On success, you're returned to the dashboard — the payment shows
   on the team Payments page right away and the balance drops.

What happens behind the scenes

• The team's "Pass card processing fee to players" toggle (FAQ #6)
  also applies to parent payments — if it's on, you'll see the
  small surcharge at checkout.
• Team admins (and anyone with the FINANCE role) get an email
  and push notification the moment the card payment completes —
  no manual confirmation needed.
• The payment shows on the Payments page as Credit Card (it
  used to show as "Other"; that was fixed 2026-04-28).

Notes / gotchas

• If a payment can't start, the alert shows the specific reason
  (missing setup, team disabled cards, network problem) instead of
  a generic "Network error."
• The payment dropdown won't show methods the team has disabled
  in their settings — even if you've used them in the past.
• New teams have payment settings initialized correctly from
  creation, so card payments work as soon as Stripe is connected.

Video

• File: videos/07-parent-pay-card.mp4 (to be recorded)
• Suggested length: 45–60 seconds
• Suggested script:
  1. Parent Dashboard → child's team card (10s)
  2. Click Make Payment for {child}, pick Credit/Debit Card
  from dropdown, set amount (15s)
  3. Submit Payment → Stripe checkout, enter test card, confirm
  (15s)
  4. Show updated balance + Credit Card row on team Payments page
  (10s)