Discord has updated its Family Center, giving parents the ability to keep track of their teen’s weekly spending.

Discord has introduced enhancements to its Family Center, offering parents greater visibility into their teenagers’ usage, including spending habits, key interactions, and time allocation. This aims to enable parents to track potential overspending or excessive Discord usage by their teen.

The communication platform initially launched Family Center in 2023, featuring an activity dashboard displaying the servers their teens have joined and sending guardians a weekly email summary of their teen’s activity. Now, the platform is broadening these monitoring capabilities.

Parents can now view the total amount spent by their teen in the past week, encompassing purchases from Discord’s Shop and Nitro subscriptions (Discord’s premium membership offering).

They are also able to see the cumulative time spent on voice and video communications within DMs, groups, and servers over the preceding week. In addition, Discord will present the five most frequent users and servers their teens interacted with during the last week. This follows similar actions from other social platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat, which have also placed limitations on who can reach out to teens.

Discord is also incorporating new parental controls into the application, featuring settings adjustable only by parents. They now have the ability to manage who can send direct messages to their teen and to activate filtering for sensitive material. Furthermore, parents are able to handle data privacy settings for teens, determining how Discord utilizes their data, including the option to display personalized advertisements.

The company stated that when teens report content on the service, they now have the choice to inform their parents or guardians about their action. However, Discord has stated it will not reveal the specifics of the reported content and encourages teens to discuss the matter directly with their guardians instead.

“The updated features enable guardians who have connected Family Center accounts to take a more proactive role in fostering a secure online environment for teens while still respecting their privacy,” Discord shared in a blog announcement.

In recent months, several organizations, including Meta, YouTube, and OpenAI, have launched updates to strengthen their tools related to teen protection. Companies such as OpenAI and Character.AI have been required to refine their AI offerings to enhance safety for younger users.