Debit Cards for Kids and Teens - 1st Source

A kids debit card with guidance

Practice with real money

A debit card for kids and teens gives them a way to check a balance, make purchases, and see where their money goes. You stay involved with spending controls, purchase alerts, and conversations that help build good habits.

A child uses the Greenlight app for savings goals and financial education games

Learn through play

The card gives kids hands-on practice, while Greenlight Level Up™ adds structured learning through games. Kids can explore money concepts in a fun, easy-to-understand way, then connect what they learn to the choices they make with their own money.

The 1st Source Bank Greenlight kid's debit card and app

Spend, save, and earn

Build everyday money skills

Make spending choices

Kids and teens can choose when and where to spend within the limits you set. They can review each purchase and learn how everyday choices affect their money.

Save for a goal

Kids and teens can choose a savings goal and decide how much to set aside. They can track their progress and see how small amounts add up over time.

Connect chores to allowance

Kids and teens can complete chores, earn allowance, and decide how to use what they earn. They can see how everyday effort affects spending and saving choices.

More freedom, with your guidance

Support for the whole family

Parents stay involved

Send money, set spending limits, manage card use, and get real-time purchase alerts. You can also turn the card on or off when needed.

Kids learn by doing

Kids and teens can make purchases, check balances, review spending, work toward savings goals, and build money knowledge with free financial literacy games.

Quick actions in the 1st Source app

Connected to the way you bank

Use your eligible 1st Source checking account to fund the card. In the 1st Source Bank app, you can send money, check your child’s balance and recent activity, and turn the card on or off.

Open the Greenlight app for more tools, including detailed spending controls, chores, allowance, savings goals, and financial education.

Get started
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Support for each new step

Tools that grow with them

Start with simple choices

Use basic spending limits, chores, and allowance to introduce money in a way that fits your family.

Build everyday habits

As they gain experience, children can check balances, review purchases, and decide how much to spend or save.

Prepare for more independence

The card gives teens practice managing money before they open a checking account of their own.

More for your family

Free* with your checking

The Greenlight debit card and app are free* with EssentialAspire, and Premier  checking, subject to eligibility and account terms. You can add up to five accounts, each with its own debit card. This is a $71 a year value per account ($5.99 a month per account).

Ready to begin?

Already bank with us?

Sign in to the 1st Source Bank app and tap the Greenlight tile. Review the program details, provide the required consent, and complete registration in the Greenlight app.

Need a checking account?

Open Essential, Aspire, or Premier Checking. Once your account is ready, sign in to the 1st Source Bank app and tap the Greenlight tile to enroll.

Start in the 1st Source app

How enrollment works

1

Sign in

Open the 1st Source Bank app and tap the Greenlight tile.

2

Review and consent

Review the program details and consent to sharing the required personal and account information with Greenlight for registration.

3

Complete registration

Follow the prompts to set up your family and download the Greenlight app.

4

Activate the cards

Greenlight will mail a debit card for each child you enroll. Activate each card in the Greenlight app when it arrives.

A next step when they're ready

More independence as they grow

When your teen is ready for their own checking account, Essential Checking can give them more responsibility for deposits, purchases, and everyday banking. Visit a banking center with a parent or guardian to open an account.

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Disclosures

  • 1st Source Bank customers are eligible for the Greenlight SELECT plan at no cost when they connect their 1st Source Bank account as the Greenlight funding source through the duration of Greenlight use provided by Candescent. Should Candescent stop offering Greenlight, customer’s Greenlight account will remain open unless cancelled by the user, with pricing and terms to be agreed upon between customer and Greenlight and all monthly fees being owed by customer to Greenlight. Subject to minimum balance requirements and identity verification. Upgrades will result in additional fees. See terms at greenlight.com/promotionsgeneralterms for details. Offer subject to change and partner participation. 
  • Greenlight is a financial technology company, not a bank. The Greenlight app facilities banking services through Community Federal Savings Bank (CFSB), Member FDIC.  
  • The Greenlight® prepaid card is issued by Community Federal Savings Bank, member FDIC, pursuant to license by Mastercard International.