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    1 year ago

    My sons after school care had some fundraising stalls run by the kids with cookies, raffles etc. The first day was cash on,y and many parents didn’t carry any. Day 2, they had set up a cashless payment method.

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      Our school’s PFA has cashless available for things like the 2nd hand uniform stall, democracy sausages, things like that.

      But the Father’s Day and Mother’s Day stalls are a rite of passage for primary school kids, and tap and pay is impossible in that scenario.

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        Whys that? I don’t see it as different.

        This was for kids run stalls and games. I don’t think they did tap and pay, from memory. It was scan a QR code and pay online.

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            Ah, ok. We don’t have that. Ours are after school. However for other kid purchasing activities (they ran a games carnival for fund raising) they could purchase things with tokens rather than cash. Tokens could be bought electronically.

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              Yeah, I don’t know why our school hasn’t done something similar. We have an app where we can order and pay for lunch orders. Surely they could implement tokens or vouchers for stuff like this.

              That said, I think a big part of it for the kids is having some coins in their hands, and shopping for stuff, calculating what they can afford, how much they’ll have left, etc.

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                Yes, we have a similar app for lunches. Not clanky but it works fine.

                It should help to train them for a cashless future, lol. I was in a toystore recently and I noted the check out had a contactless payment terminal and phone!

                I did note myself that playing shop in the playground, my kids were unfamiliar with the process of shopping due to covid meaning I didn’t take them into supermarkets much up until last year. They had no concept of change. I pay everything on phone and don’t carry cash.