Guide

How invitations work: starting your family and adding another adult

Updated 15 November 2026 · 3 min read

HomeHum is invite-only while it’s in beta. That keeps families’ calendars private and lets us look after each new family properly. This guide walks through the whole path: getting an invite, creating your family, adding the people you look after, and inviting a second adult to share it.

Step 1: get an invite to HomeHum

To start a new family you need an invite from HomeHum. Ask for one by emailing household.homealerts@gmail.com. When you’re invited, you get an email from no-reply@homehum.com.au called “You’re invited to HomeHum”, with a Get started link.

Only the email address that was invited can start a family, so use that address when you register. If the email doesn’t arrive, check your spam or junk folder.

Step 2: register and create your family

1. Tap Get started in the invite email. It opens HomeHum in your browser with your email already filled in (you can also install the app and tap Register).
2. Read and accept the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. You must be 18 or over.
3. Enter your first name and invited email, then tap Send code. We email you a 6-digit code to prove the address is yours. There’s no password to remember.
4. Enter the code, then choose Create family and give your family a name.

You’ll get a welcome email with a few next steps, and your family is ready to use on your phone, in a browser and on a spare tablet as a kitchen display.

Step 3: add the people you look after

Children don’t need accounts or email addresses. Add them, and anyone else you organise, as people in Settings → People. Each person gets a colour and an emoji or avatar, so everyone can see at a glance whose activity is whose.

Once your people are in, you can add activities by typing them, or snap a school newsletter and let HomeHum suggest the dates for you to check and add.

Step 4: invite one more adult

A family can have two adults for now: you and one more, such as a partner or co-parent. The second adult gets their own sign-in and their own reminders, and sees the same family calendar.

1. Go to Settings → Invite to the family and enter their email address. If you’ve set a parent PIN, enter it too.
2. They get an email with a Join link and your family code. The invite works for 48 hours.
3. They open the link, register or sign in with the invited email address, and enter the 6-digit code we email them.
4. They tap Join your family. The family code is already filled in when they use the link.

You can also share the invite from your phone with the Share invite button. Only one invite can wait at a time; cancel it if you need to invite someone else instead.

Why joining needs three things

To join a family, a person needs all of these: an invite to their email address, the family code, and the 6-digit code we email to that address. The family code on its own lets nobody in, so it doesn’t matter if it gets forwarded. Codes stop working after 48 hours, and you can make a new one at any time in Settings.

Each account belongs to one family. Someone who is already in a family needs to leave it first (Settings → Members) before joining another one.