Want to link your EA Account to your family members’ accounts? If you have an adult account, you can link your teens’ accounts to yours and have more control of what they’re spending.

There’s no limit to how many teen accounts you can add to your Family, so you can easily monitor all of your family’s accounts.

What’s a teen account?

The age for a teen account varies by country. Once a teen account has been created, you or your teen can request to link their account to your account to create your Family.

Teen accounts have default spending limits, whether or not they’re linked to an adult account. The only way to modify those limits is to link a teen account to a parent or guardian’s Family.

How to link

Linking is easy. You can do it right from your EA Account and Billing settings in Origin:

1. Go to origin.com.
2. Hover over your EA ID in the bottom corner and click on EA Account and Billing.
3. Click on the Family tab.
   • Here you’ll see the option to Add Teen Account.
4. Enter your teen’s email address that’s linked to their account.
5. Click Add.

We’ll send an invitation to your teen’s account. They’ll need to accept the invite within 24 hours to become a part of your Family.

There are two different limits that you can adjust for you or your teen’s accounts:

• Game and expansion limit - Includes base game and deluxe edition purchases, expansion packs, and additional downloadable content (DLC).
• Microcontent limit - Includes virtual currency purchases and other purchasable content.

To change an adult account’s spending limit:

1. Go to origin.com.
2. Hover over your EA ID in the bottom corner and click on EA Account and Billing.
3. Click on Player Controls.
4. Click Edit next to Spend Limits.

As of September 25, 2020, the new default spend limit for teen accounts is $0.

• If you create a new teen account after this date, it will automatically have a $0 default. Link the teen account to a Family to change the default spending limit.
• If you already have a teen account set up for yourself or someone in your family, the default will change to $0 if the account hasn’t had a default amount other than $25 set.

To change a teen account’s spending limit:

1. Go to origin.com.
2. Hover over your EA ID in the bottom corner and click on EA Account and Billing.
3. Click on the Family tab.
4. Click on the teen’s account whose spend controls you want to change.
5. Click Edit next to Spend Limits.

Here you can change the limits for games and downloadable content (DLC) as well as for microcontent purchases. You can also click Reset to Default if you want to put the settings back to their default settings.

What about taxes and fees?

Spending limits are pre-tax and fees. That means that any taxes and fees for the purchase will be charged to the payment method on the account directly instead of coming out of the teen’s spending limit.

We don’t take tax and fees into account when calculating total spend, so the total amount charged to the payment method on the account might be more than the spending limits on the account once any taxes and fees are added.