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Pocket-money pots for your kids.

For parents who have kept the pocket money in their heads or in a spreadsheet so far.

Every child has their pots: part of the pocket money to save, part to spend. Each week or month you put in an amount per pot, and the kids look on with you. Set an interest rate, and the app works it out from the history.

An example year, one square per week. 3 weeks are open. They stay grey. 32 weeks are recorded, 3 are open, 17 still to come. A frame marks the current week.
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Pocket money looks different in every family.

Two made-up families, two ways to split. For each, the pots and the amount per week.

Two francs a week go into Mia's saving pot.

The Keller family · Mia, 8 years old

Mia puts two francs aside every week. The rest she gets in cash, for small things she wants.

Two pots
Spending cash in hand CHF 3.00
Saving CHF 2.00
Pocket money per week CHF 5.00

One of Nora's pots has a name of its own.

The Nguyen family · Nora, 13 years old

Nora is saving for a bike, so she got a pot of its own for it. Spending, saving and gifting sit beside it.

Four pots, one of them for the bike
Spending cash in hand CHF 5.00
Bike CHF 6.00
Saving CHF 3.00
Gifting CHF 1.00
Pocket money per week CHF 15.00

How you split it, and what shifts with age

The interest comes from the history

Nobody types the interest in. The app works it out from the history every time. Correct a week from months ago and the figures after it settle again on their own.

After 52 weeks
CHF 6.48 Interest Contributed CHF 260.00 Balance CHF 266.48
After 260 weeks
CHF 176.13 Interest Contributed CHF 1'300.00 Balance CHF 1'476.13
Five francs a week into one pot, at 5 percent interest.

How the interest is worked out, with an example

No pressure

Exact to the Rappen. Nothing counts how many weeks you have managed in a row, and nothing pushes anyone to save or to spend. Miss a week and you have a gap. The gap does not turn red.

What parents ask before they start

We missed a few weeks. Can we add them later?

Yes, even months later. The year grid shows every open week, and you fill it in when you get to it.

And if an amount is wrong?

Then you change the entry. Any week can be edited or deleted, even far back. The app then recalculates the interest.

How much pocket money is normal?

That's your call. For a starting point, there are Swiss guideline figures by age. The app doesn't prescribe an amount.

The Swiss guideline figures by age

Does our kid need their own login?

No. You keep the book, and your kid looks at it with you. There are no kid accounts.

Is a bank account connected?

No. batzenbox moves no money and pays nothing out. The app records what you handed over at home. The money itself stays with you.

Who pays the interest?

You do. The family is the bank, and you set the rate.

Can the two of us run it together?

Yes. You invite the other parent with a link. After that you both see the same thing, and both of you can record.

What does batzenbox cost?

Nothing today. Whether it will cost something one day, and how much, isn't decided.

Where does our data live?

The database is in the EU. What you record is seen only by your own family.

What we store and what we don't

Start with this week.

batzenbox is the pocket-money notebook for your family: one amount per pot each week. Set up your family, put in the first week.

Built by a family in Switzerland that uses it every week. Name and address are in the legal notice.

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