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

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.
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.

After setup

• Tap + to add more chores; see How to add chores.
• 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.

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.