![]() Now, any real purchase will get instantly rejected, but this allows you to download all the free apps and games you want and you don’t have to worry about your kids charging your real account. Voila, you now have a dummy card setup with your Amazon Kindle 1 Click Payment system. Set up the expiration date as any future date.Īdd your real address and shipping information on the next screen. Setup a new 1 Click Payment Method and use Visa Card #4111111111111111 as your Visa Card. Sure enough it works fine and now you don’t have to monitor your credit cards to see if your kid made 100 purchases! I was researching on how to do this, when I found that PayPal gives you a list of “test credit card numbers” I figured why not test out one of these as a One Click Payment method and see if it allows you to download free apps and games. Setup a Dummy Credit Card as your 1 Click Payment Method If you only have 1 Kindle Fire or have Amazon Prime tied to your account only and want to keep it that way, then you can just set your default 1-click payment for the Kindle Fire to what is explained in Step 2. This way you can assign a default one click payment option without affecting your normal 1 click and Amazon prime accounts. If you use the Kindle Fire or you have more than one Kindle Fire, you will want to make sure your child has a separate Amazon account for their Kindle Fire. Here are the steps: Setup a separate Account for Kindle Fire So I found a good solution at least one that works that will allow you to setup your Kindle Fire for your kids without worrying about your card being charged to infinity. He does this with the iTunes app store now and constantly tries to download free games but doesn’t always notice the price tag next to some other games. The second is that you can’t put password protection on purchasing apps from the App store on a Kindle Fire, this would have potentially allowed my 5 year old who can only read a little from randomly installing apps and charging my card for them. You needed this credit card setup even to download and install free Android apps for the Kindle Fire. ![]() The Kindle Fire had a few limitations that made it less than ideal for little kids, 1 is that it required a credit card tied to “One Click Purchase” to the Amazon account the Kindle Fire was registered too. ![]() But in learning and experimenting with the Kindle Fire I came up with the best way to give it as Christmas presents to my two kids who are 8 and 4 years old. I have been heavily vested in the Kindle Fire in recent weeks and am even gave away 2 Kindle Fire gadgets in a contest that is ended last week. This post contains affiliate links, most which go to Amazon and are Geo-Affiliate links to nearest Amazon store. ![]()
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