# How to complete chores and tasks

Open the Home tab, pick the chore from the list for today, and check off each task as you finish it. A chore is done once every task is checked off.

Kids and parents check off chores from the **Home** tab.
Each chore has one or more tasks, and the chore is done when every task is checked off.

## Complete a chore

1. Open the **Home** tab.
2. Check the name at the top of the screen.
   It shows whose chores you're looking at.
   To change it, tap the name and choose from **Select Member**.
3. The calendar shows today by default.
   Below it are the chores due that day.
4. Tap a chore.
5. Check off each task as you finish it.
6. If the chore needs a photo, tap **Take Photo** and add one.

When everything is done, a celebration plays and any reward is added to the balance.

If there's nothing to do, you see "You're all caught up! No chores for today."

## Finish a one-task chore in one tap

On today or an earlier day, a chore with just one task, like "Brush teeth", shows an empty circle on its card instead of an arrow.

1. Tap the circle.
   On a parent's profile, a shared chore asks **Who did it?** first: pick who gets the credit, or tap **Several people** if more than one person did it.
2. The chore is done, and a message says so, with what it earned.
   Tap **Undo** in that message right away if you tapped it by mistake.

If the chore needs a photo, the task is checked off and **Add a photo to finish** opens.
Tap **Take a photo** or **Choose a photo**, or tap **Later**: on today's list the card then shows a camera button, and the chore counts once its photo is in.

The circle also shows on a one-task chore in **From earlier days**.
When a chore can't be finished from its card (its time window is closed, it needs a before photo, or it's someone else's turn), it shows the arrow, and tapping it opens the chore so you can see why.
A **Household Manager** can still finish a chore outside its time window.

## Who can complete a chore

It depends on how the chore is assigned:

- **Shared**: anyone assigned can complete it for everyone.
  If no one is assigned, anyone in the home can complete it.
- **Individual**: each person has their own copy.
  Only that person can check it off, so switch to their profile to do it for them.
- **Rotate**: only the person whose turn it is can complete it.
  A **Household Manager** can complete it on anyone's turn.

On the **Home** tab, a **Household Manager** sees everyone's chores.
Other members see their own chores and chores that aren't assigned to anyone.

## When several people did a task together

On a **Shared** chore, more than one person can get the credit for the same task, like two kids emptying the dishwasher together.
They share that task's part of the reward equally.

- On a parent's profile, checking off a task on a shared chore asks **Who did it?**.
  Tap one name, or tap **Several people**, pick everyone who did it, and tap **Save**.
- On a kid's profile, the first kid checks off the task as usual.
  The other kid opens the chore, taps the checked task and taps **I helped**.
- Next to a checked task you see the faces of everyone who did it.
  Tap them to add or remove people: a parent can change anyone, and a kid can add or remove only themselves.

Parents who don't earn rewards can be picked too, and they don't take a share.
On an **Individual** chore each person already has their own copy, so this isn't needed.

## Completing a chore late

You can complete a chore on a past day.
Pick the day on the calendar, or tap the chore in the **From earlier days** section on today's date.
See [How to handle overdue chores](https://www.kidplay.ai/help/how-to-handle-overdue-chores).

## Finishing a chore early

You can finish a chore before the day it's due, and it counts for that day.

1. On the **Home** tab, pick the chore's due day on the calendar.
2. Tap the chore and check off its tasks.

The one-tap circle doesn't show on a future day, so open the chore to finish it early.

When you open a chore from a reminder or from the **Chores** tab on a day it isn't due, it opens on its next due day.
A chore can only be checked off on a day it's due.

## Unchecking a task

Tap a checked task to uncheck it.
A kid with **Limit Access** can only uncheck tasks they checked off themselves.
When several people did a task, a kid unchecking it removes only themselves, and a parent unchecking it removes everyone.

Parents can also flag a task as not done properly.
On a shared task several people did, the flag removes only the kid you're looking at.
See [How to flag a task as incomplete](https://www.kidplay.ai/help/flagging-tasks-as-incomplete).

## Photos

Some chores need a photo before they count as complete.
You see "A photo is required to complete this chore" until one is added.

1. Tap **Take Photo**.
2. Choose **Camera** or **Gallery**.

Adding photos is a premium feature.
On the free plan, a parent sees **Add a photo** with a **Premium** badge under the tasks instead of **Take Photo**.
See [How to require photo proof for a chore](https://www.kidplay.ai/help/how-to-require-photo-proof).

## Troubleshooting

- **"Select a member to complete tasks"**: no member is selected on this device.
  Tap the name at the top of the **Home** tab and pick one.
- **"It's not your turn to complete this chore."**: it's a rotating chore and it's someone else's turn.
- **"You are not assigned to this chore."**: the selected member isn't assigned, or it's someone else's copy of an individual chore.
  Switch to the right member.
- **"You can't complete this chore yet."**: you picked a day after the chore's due date.
  Go back to the due date or today.
- **"This chore isn't due on ... Its next due day is ..."**: the chore doesn't repeat on the day you picked.
  Pick its next due day on the calendar to finish it early.
- **"You can't uncheck this chore because someone else completed it."**: only the person who checked the task, or a parent, can uncheck it.
- **"That didn't save. Open the chore to try again."**: the one-tap circle couldn't save; open the chore and check off the task there.
- **"That can't be undone here anymore. Open the chore to change it."**: open the chore and uncheck the task there.
- **"This chore is closed right now."**: the chore's time window closed before the photo was saved.
- **The chore isn't on today's list**: check the date on the calendar, and check that the right member is selected at the top of the **Home** tab.
  Chores can also be in a different home, see [How to switch between homes](https://www.kidplay.ai/help/switching-between-homes).

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Source: https://www.kidplay.ai/help/how-to-complete-chores-tasks