Can't purchase minecraft for family account as can't update region for purchase address

Hi and thanks for reaching Microsoft Xbox gamer's community. My name is Josef.

I'm an Independent Advisor and a Microsoft Xbox user like you.

Hope you're doing great today despite this Andrew

Can you try purchasing or gifting minecraft using this link?

PC Java and Bedrock: https://www.xbox.com/en-gb/games/store/minecraf...

Xbox: https://www.xbox.com/en-GB/games/store/Minecraf...

Or this one: https://www.xbox.com/en-GB/games/store/minecraf...

**If you need to gift/purchase the game in another account you can click on the little gift card icon

Unfortunately, you can't transfer purchases to another account.

You CAN however allow another account on your PC to play Minecraft. However, that account still won't be able to access "consumable" purchases like Minecraft Coins and the purchases you did with these coins (like skin packs), or purchased realms.

To allow your second account to at least play Minecraft, you need to sign in with your "buyer" Account on
https://account.microsoft.com/familyand add your second account to the family there.

Then sign in with your second account on your PC and open the store. Sign out of the store with the account picture in the upper right of the store app.

Sign in with your purchaser account, and download Minecraft again (it will not download the whole game again, just the usage license).

Now sign your other account back in, and you can play Minecraft.

But as I said before, you can't use Minecoins and you don't own a realm on that account.

Thank you for the information!

Oh, no worries, the Xbox account, and Microsoft account are one and the same.

Minecraft accounts are also migrated/linked to Microsoft accounts.

In order to check your purchases made in your Minecraft account, you can sign in using the same email address as your Minecraft account on account.microsoft.com from there you should be able to see the "Services and Subscription" tab to check if the subscription for Minecraft Education is active.

As for the purchases, you can also check all of your Minecraft purchases on account.microsoft.com > Payment and billing > order history.

If the subscription and purchase can't be found, it is possible that it was made on a different Microsoft account.

This code can't be redeemed. It was purchased in a different region from your account.

The issue is because the account has an address for Australia, but the system is seeing you make the purchase with an IP address in a different region. This makes a red flag go up which is only to protect your account from unauthorized purchases. I would
suggest having a trusted family or friend make the purchase for you in Australia or maybe using a prepaid card to bypass this issue. I hope this helps!