Paying for my own purchases in Family Sharing

Have you contacted iTunes Support about it ? Your balance is up-to-date ? The organiser's card should only be used if the member doesn't have a balance (or it doesn't cover the total price, in which case only the excess should be charged to the account) - not sure if auto-renewing subscriptions can use a balance in all countries.

I have spoken to them. We did a test a month ago where they asked me to load a new card onto my iTunes account and see what happened after that. I did, and same thing, it asked for the CC code.. they didn't understand why either.

I did just read on another forum that perhaps the organizer of family sharing has to be the one to redeem the gift cards, and then purchases will be taken from the GC before CC. But then why would anyone buy iTunes cards anymore if they can't be used in this situation

This is not the way it works. I have a credit on my account but when I try to purchase a song, it tells me that my husband, who is the family organizer, must put in the code for his credit card. There is no where to tell it to take the amount needed for the purchase from the iTunes credit listed on my account. Perhaps you can give us the step by step instructions on how exactly to get iTunes to take the money off of the purchasers account credit before it attempts to take the money from the organizers credit card.

I wish there was a better solution than that. Thank you for the work-around though, Roger Jolly.

YES!!!

Fix for what ? How purchases are billed is working as designed, if you would like it to work differently try leaving feedback to Apple.

All you need to do is purchase iTunes gift cards and keep them on your account. Then it will use these before using your mom's credit card.

Have you actually gone through with a purchase to see what is charged for it ?

Have you gone through with any of the purchases, does it actually charge the organiser's card ?

I have. And it does charge his CC instead of redeeming the iTunes balance.

Have you gone through with a purchase and got him to enter the card's code ? Is that card actually charged (except for a temporary store holding charge) for the purchase ?