Financial literacy, reimagined

Kids learn money
by running businesses

A sandbox game where children build and manage real-world businesses, from lemonade stands to sneaker shops. Budgeting, accounting, and entrepreneurship, taught the way kids actually learn: by playing.

🎮 Choose Your Business For Schools ↓
✅ Free to play  Â·  No download needed  Â·  Ages 5+
Choose Your Business
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Lemonade Stand
Set prices, buy supplies, track profit margins
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Barbershop
Manage appointments, payroll, and customer flow
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Clothing Store
Inventory management, seasonal trends, markup
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Sneaker Shop
Supply and demand, resale markets, branding
The Gameplay Loop

Earn. Budget. Spend. Grow.

1
Earn
Serve customers, make sales, collect revenue from your business
2
Budget
Decide how to split income between savings, expenses, and reinvestment
3
Spend
Buy supplies, upgrade your shop, hire helpers, pay rent
4
Grow
Expand to new locations, unlock new business types, level up
64%
Average student score on the
National Financial Literacy Test
23
States requiring personal
finance courses in school
$908B
Projected K-12 EdTech
market by 2034
For Schools

Built for the classroom

Sense for Cents is designed to meet state financial literacy mandates through gameplay that kids actually want to play. Curriculum-aligned, teacher-friendly, Chromebook-ready.

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Standards Aligned
Mapped to Jump$tart and state financial literacy frameworks so teachers can justify it with learning outcomes
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Runs on Chromebooks
Browser-based. No installs, no IT tickets. Works on every device schools already have
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Progress Dashboards
Teachers track which financial concepts each student has mastered, in real time
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District Licensing
One license, every student in the district. Volume pricing that makes procurement simple

Every kid deserves to understand money before they have to manage it

Sense for Cents is building the game we wish we'd had growing up. Financial literacy shouldn't be a privilege. It should be play.