Product update: Now earn tokens faster!
Effective December 1st, 2021, all-new Goodtimers include a software update allowing kids to earn tokens faster! Read below to learn more:
To determine if your Goodtimer is an original or new version, set your Goodtimer to Level 1 and note the time. The original version of Goodtimer takes 40 minutes at Level 1 for the first segment to light up and the next segment to begin to pulse, while the new version takes just 15 minutes for one of the 12 glowing segments to be earned. When a segment is earned, Goodtimer will chime and the next segment will begin to glow. If it only takes 15 minutes, you have a new version of Goodtimer. The number of tokens your child will earn depends on how much 'Good Time' your child is earning on any given day (some days are going to be more challenging than others) but you can usually expect them to earn 2-8 tokens per day depending on the difficulty setting.
Maximum Tokens/Day with New Version
Goodtimer has 10 difficulty levels, allowing it to work for kids of different ages. When set to Level 1, one of the 12 segments will light up every 15 minutes, so your child will earn one token every 3 hours of Good Time, for a maximum of 8 tokens in a 24-hour period. On Level 10, new segments light up once every 60 minutes, taking 12 hours to fully light up the Goodtimer and earn a token, giving them a max of 2 tokens a day. Knowing this, you can set appropriate token values for the available rewards your child can earn. These are the maximum rates for each level on a new version of Goodtimer:
Level 1, up to 8 tokens/day
Level 2, up to 7 tokens/day
Level 3, up to 6.5 tokens/day
Level 4, up to 6 tokens/day
Level 5, up to 5.5 tokens/day
Level 6, up to 5 tokens/day
Level 7, up to 4 tokens/day
Level 8, up to 3.5 tokens/day
Level 9, up to 3 tokens/day
Level 10, up to 2 tokens/day
If you have an original version of Goodtimer it will earn tokens as follows. At Level 1 it takes 40 minutes for each of the 12 segments to light up, 8 hours for the whole Goodtimer to light up and a token to be earned. This gives the potential of earning up to 3 tokens per day. At Level 10 it takes 60 minutes for each segment to light up and 12 hours for the entire thing to light up and a token to be earned. This gives the potential of earning up to 2 tokens per day. Each level in between adds about 2.22 minutes to how long it takes for each segment to light up, so you can fine-tune how fast your child earns tokens.
Please reach out to us at hello@gogoodtimer.com if you have any questions about this.