Households Both

Households give families, partners, and roommates a shared workspace for home management, chore schedules, and away-from-home errands. TapTidy supports personal privacy alongside shared accountability.

Household Roles & Permissions

Each adult in a household holds a specific role:

• Owner / Co-Owner: Can invite or remove members, configure rotation rules, manage child accounts and PINs, approve reward redemptions, and reopen child-completed tasks.
• Member: Can view, create, self-assign, and complete shared tasks, chores, and errands.

Child Accounts & PIN Login

On a family-operated community server with family mode enabled, parents or legal guardians who own the household can create child PIN profiles after accepting the family notice. TapTidy Cloud does not offer child accounts. See the family server setup guide.

• Login Codes: Each child receives a friendly login code (e.g. avery-k7m2) and a 4-to-6 digit PIN. No email or complex password required.
• Child Session Boundary: Child sessions are restricted exclusively to the Household workspace. On Web, an HTTP-only cookie carries the eight-hour session; browser session storage keeps non-secret identifiers. On Android, entering Child Mode switches the interface to a child-focused view with quick exit back to adult mode.
• Task Reopening & Approvals: When a child marks a task complete, it moves to pending approval (unless the owner has granted the Complete without approval capability). Child sessions cannot reopen completed tasks; only owners can reopen them.
• PIN Protection: After 5 failed PIN attempts, login is locked for 15 minutes to prevent brute-force entry.

Reviewing and withdrawing child access

In the household Members tab, open the child's member controls to review consent. Existing profiles without the current family notice stay suspended. Accept the notice as a parent or legal guardian to enable access. This is a declaration, not independent parental verification.

Choose Withdraw consent and confirm to suspend subsequent online requests and PIN login. Restoring access requires a fresh notice acceptance and PIN login. Withdrawal keeps the profile and household records; use the separate Remove child action to remove the profile. Downloaded data and backups are not remotely erased. The family operator controls retention and integrations.

Standalone child mode without a server is future work.

Household Points & Rewards Board

Motivate household members with a built-in points and rewards economy:

• Earning Points: Completing assigned "hustle" chores automatically credits points to the assignee's balance.
• Redemptions & Approvals: Members can claim rewards from the custom household catalog. Member redemptions enter a pending state until an owner approves and settles the points deduction.

Household Inbound Email (Pro)

Owners on TapTidy Pro can publish a shared household email address. Incoming emails automatically convert into shared household tasks, or into errands if the subject includes errand.