# How to set up your home when you first open Chore Boss

Tap New Home, then choose Chat with the Assistant to set up by describing your family, or Set it up myself to add members and chores step by step. Smart Setup can also create chores for you.

The first time you open Chore Boss, you choose how to get started:

- **New Home** creates a new home for your family.
- **Sign In** opens the home you already have.
- **Join a Home** connects you to a home someone has invited you to.

When you tap **New Home**, you can set up your home in two ways.
If you don't see this choice, you go straight to **Your family**.
Either way, you can change anything later.

## Chat with the Assistant

Tell the Assistant about your family, and it adds your members and suggests chores that fit their ages.

1. Tap **New Home**.
2. Tap **Chat with the Assistant**.
3. Sign in.
   The Assistant opens once your household is ready.
4. Tell it who lives with you and how old the kids are, or tap a suggestion like **We have two kids, 7 and 11**.
5. Review each change it suggests, then tap **Confirm** to save it.

Good to know:

- The setup chat is free, but you need to sign in.
- On the free plan, the setup chat ends after a limited number of messages.
  With premium, this limit does not apply.
- The free plan's limits still apply, so it cannot add more than 5 chores, or any custom rewards, unless you have premium.
  It can add your own rooms and tasks on any plan.

## Set it up myself

1. Tap **New Home**.
2. Tap **Set it up myself**.
3. On **Your family**, type your name, then each kid's name and age.
   Tap **Add another kid** for more.
   For each kid, choose **This phone** if they'll use your phone, or **Their own phone** if they have one.
4. On **Rewards**, choose how you want to reward your kids:
   - **Points**: kids earn points and spend them on rewards you choose.
     Tick a few rewards to start, like **Screen time** or **Movie night**.
   - **Money**: kids earn an allowance you pay out.
     Tap the currency to change it.
   - **Just track chores**: no rewards, just who did what.
5. On **Pick a few chores**, tap a ready-made set like **Morning routine** and then **Add this set**, or tap a few single chores and then **Add 3 chores** (the button counts what you picked).
   If a set doesn't fit in your free chores, the button says how many it adds.
   Every kid you added is picked under **For**.
   See [How to add chores](https://www.kidplay.ai/help/quick-tasks).
6. On **Know when chores get done**, tap **Allow notifications** to hear when a chore is finished, or tap the arrow to skip.
7. Tap **Sign In** to keep your data safe and in sync across devices, or tap **Continue As Guest**.

If you skip sign-in, your chores stay on this phone only.
You can sign in later from the **Settings** tab.
After your first chore is finished, the **Home** tab also shows **Save your home**: tap **Sure** to sign in, so you keep your chores if you change phones.

If a kid uses **Their own phone**, the **Home** tab on your phone shows a card saying their phone isn't connected yet, until it joins.
Tap **Send the link** to send them the invite, or **Hide for now** to hide the card for a week.
See [How to sign a child into Chore Boss](https://www.kidplay.ai/help/how-to-sign-a-child-into-chore-boss).

## After setup

- Tap **+** to add more chores; see [How to add chores](https://www.kidplay.ai/help/quick-tasks).
- If your home has no chores yet, the **Home** tab shows **Add your first chore** with **Suggest Chores**, which picks chores room by room for your family.
- Ask the **Assistant** to add chores for you, which needs premium.

See [How to use the Chore Boss Assistant](https://www.kidplay.ai/help/how-to-use-the-chore-boss-assistant).

## Troubleshooting

- **"Remove a room to add this one."** or **"Remove a room to add another."**
  In **Suggest Chores**, the free plan has up to 5 chores, and the rooms you picked already use them.
  Remove a room or lower the number of bedrooms, bathrooms or vehicles, or tap **Go unlimited** to upgrade to premium.
- **"That's the end of the free setup chat. Upgrade to Premium to keep chatting with the Assistant."**
  You've used all the messages of the free setup chat.
  You can keep setting up your home yourself with the **+** button.
- **"This is taking longer than usual. Check your connection, or skip and set up your household yourself."**
  Check your internet connection and wait, or tap **Skip** to set up your home yourself.

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Source: https://www.kidplay.ai/help/how-to-set-up-your-home-when-you-first-open-chore-boss