Authorising and linking your Tax-Free Childcare account to the eyparent app

Authorising and linking your Tax-Free Childcare account to the eyparent app

When you go to the Invoices & Payments screen on your parent app, you may see a yellow banner at the top of the screen. This is to indicate that Tax-Free Childcare (TFC) has been enabled for your childcare setting, which will allow you to pay your childcare provider through your TFC account, once it's been set up on the app. To do this, you need to give permission to the HMRC for eyworks to access your TFC account. Once the app is authorised, you'll be able  to link each TFC account you wish to use.

Authorising with HMRC
  1. From the homepage, tap on View Details in your Account Summary. You'll be taken to the Invoices/Payments screen.
  2. Tap on the  icon to view your Payment Methods, where you can see if TFC has been authorised for your account.
  3. Tap on Tax-Free Childcare to bring up a pop-up, which includes details of the steps you must take to use a TFC account to pay through the eyparent app.
    1. You'll also be re-directed to this pop-up if you attempt to Pay Now using Tax-Free Childcare before it has been set up properly
  4. Tap Give Permission on HMRC and to be redirected to gov.uk. 
  5. Tap Continue > Sign in to the HMRC online service.
  6. Sign in to your HMRC account.
  7. Tap Give permission.
  8. If authorisation is successful, you'll be taken back to the Payment Methods screen where you can start linking TFC accounts.
Linking a child's TFC account
  1. Once your eyparent account is authorised, a list of all your children will appear under the Tax-Free Childcare heading on the Payment Methods screen.
  2. Tap on your child's name to select them. You can select more than one.
  3. Check that your child's Date of Birth is correct.
  4. Enter your child's unique TFC Reference Code (you'll find this within the HMRC account portal). 
  5. Do this for every child you'd like to link.
  6. Tap Link Child(ren) to link every selected child.
Unlinking a child's TFC account
  1. Under Tax-Free Childcare on the Payment Methods screen, tap on a child's name to see their details. 
  2. Tap Unlink TFC Account.

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