Stop the scam before your account is drained.
With Greenlight Family Shield, financial account monitoring watches your family's linked bank, savings, credit, and investment accounts and alerts you to suspicious activity before an account is drained.
Financial account monitoring at a glance
Financial account monitoring links your family's bank, savings, credit, and investment accounts so you can watch them all in one place and get alerted to suspicious activity. Greenlight Family Shield sends real-time push alerts tuned for the scams that target families — and lets you monitor a loved one's accounts alongside your own, on a single $19.98/month plan.
- Watches linked bank, savings, credit & investment accounts.
- Read-only connection — Greenlight can never move money.
- Alerts within minutes; one tap to confirm or flag.
- Monitor your own accounts and a loved one's together.
Last updated: June 2026. Pricing, coverage limits, and bureau details reflect Greenlight Family Shield as of June 2026.
Why monitor my accounts if my bank already does?
A family's money usually lives in many places — checking at one bank, savings at another, a credit card, investments, and a parent's accounts elsewhere. Each institution only watches its own slice, every one has different alert settings you have to find and switch on yourself, and none of them let you keep an eye on a loved one's accounts. That fragmentation is exactly how fraud goes unnoticed: losses add up in the gaps between accounts before anyone catches them. Account monitoring closes those gaps by bringing every account into one view with consistent, real-time alerts.
One dashboard for the whole family's money.
Greenlight Family Shield lets you link your own accounts and a loved one's, watch them all from one dashboard, and get real-time push alerts tuned for the scams that target families — imposter calls, romance and grandparent scams, tech-support fraud, and wire-transfer schemes. Connections are read-only through Plaid, so Greenlight can surface alerts but can never move money, and alerts route to the family member who can actually act on them.
Why it matters
When monitoring is scattered, fraud slips through the cracks.
Your money is spread across different banks, cards, and accounts — and each one only watches its own slice. Fraud hides in the gaps between them, often going unnoticed until the losses add up.
$81.5B
Estimated total lost by older adults to fraud in a single year.
How it works
Monitoring your whole family's money, in three steps.
Connect once and Greenlight watches everything together — setup takes about two minutes.
Link your accounts
Securely connect the bank, savings, credit, and investment accounts you want watched — yours and your loved ones' — through a trusted, read-only connection. Greenlight can see activity to alert you, but can never move your money.
Greenlight watches everything together
Instead of juggling alerts across every institution, all your family's accounts are monitored in one place — tuned for the scam and fraud patterns that target families.
Get alerted the moment something's off
Suspicious activity, large transactions, and low balances trigger a push alert within minutes — so you can confirm it's fine or act fast, before a problem grows.
What families actually ask.
Straight answers to the questions families ask most.
What is external account monitoring and how does it work?
With account monitoring, you can sync your external financial accounts to the Greenlight app so you can track activity and get suspicious-activity alerts across all your accounts.
You can link checking, savings, investing/Invest, 401k, and credit card accounts, with no limit on how many you connect. Linked accounts are read-only — you can view transactions, balances, and alerts, but Greenlight cannot add, transfer, or withdraw funds.
What kinds of activity get flagged?
Account monitoring alerts you to suspicious activity, large transactions, low balances, and more on your monitored accounts.
Alerts are configurable per family member, so you can tune what each person is notified about. If you spot activity that looks like identity theft or deceptive transfer fraud, you can file a claim right in the app on the Family Shield plan.
How current is the account data?
Account data is synced multiple times a day, but may lag since it depends on how quickly each institution reports it.
The app automatically refreshes monitored accounts when you view them, though some institutions can take 24 hours or more to update. There's no limit on the number of accounts you can link, and you can add more at any time.
Does Greenlight access my family's bank logins?
No - Linking is handled through Plaid — you sign into the financial institution with your own credentials.
Linked accounts are read-only for monitoring, so Greenlight can see transactions and balances to surface alerts but can't move money out. Account owners control whether others see their balances and transactions.
Can I monitor my senior loved one's and kids' accounts?
Yes. The Primary Accountholder can always monitor linked older-adult and child accounts and set alerts.
You can also grant an Authorized Approver permission to help monitor those accounts. Older adults and children control whether the Primary or Approver can see their own linked accounts' balances and transactions.
Aren't the bank's own alerts enough?
No — the bank's alerts protect the bank, not the family.
Bank alerts go to the account holder, who in fraud cases is often the one being manipulated. Family Shield routes alerts to a designated family member, with a one-tap workflow to call the bank, mark the transaction suspicious, or open a restoration claim. The alert reaches the person who can stop the scam, not just the person who's already in it.
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About Family Shield
About Greenlight Family Shield.
The essentials about how Greenlight Family Shield works.
What Greenlight Family Shield includes in one subscription
Greenlight Family Shield combines identity and credit protection, family location safety, and kids' & seniors' debit cards in one $19.98/month subscription — so most families don't need a separate app for each. Here's how to choose:
Choose an identity-protection service like LifeLock if you want credit and identity monitoring for individuals; they do not include kids' money tools or family location tracking.
Choose a family-safety app like Life360 if you want location and driving tracking; they do not include credit lock, ID theft protection, or kids' money tools.
Choose a money app like Cash App if all you want is a free debit card; they typically do not include credit-bureau monitoring or family location tracking.
Choose Greenlight Family Shield if you want financial, digital, and physical protection for your whole family — kids, parents, and grandparents — in one place.
Covered all in one app
Greenlight Family Shield
Identity & fraud protection apps
Family safety apps
Kids' money apps
FINANCIAL PROTECTION
3B credit, identity, and dark web monitoring§§
Automatic suspicious activity alerts
Credit lockNEW · LAUNCHED MAY 2026
Financial account monitoring
Up to $1M identity theft coverage§
Up to $100K deceptive transfer fraud coverage§
VPN, password manager & antivirus
SAFETY
Real-time location monitoring††
Location alerts, crash detection & driving reports
FINANCE FOR KIDS
Debit cards for up to 5 kids and 2 seniors
Chores, allowance, and direct deposit
Investing with parent approval
6% earned on savings*
1% cash back**
Financial literacy content for adults & game for kids
Free debit card with no monthly fee
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More Family Shield features.
Coverage
$100K deceptive transfer fraud
Reimbursement when the scam succeeds and money was sent willingly.
Detection
Credit alerts
TransUnion alerts on new inquiries, accounts, and score changes.
Human help
Caregiver support
A real person to call when an alert turns out to be real.
Join Greenlight. Love it or it's on us.
Family Shield covers up to two adults, two senior loved ones, and five kids on a single $19.98/month plan — with credit lock, monitoring, identity coverage, and more. Cancel anytime during the 30-day risk-free trial.‡