Household Management

Tasks, events, lists and inventory all belong to the household, not to you. Every member sees the same thing.

Creating a household

Sign in for the first time and OneHaus offers to set up a home for you. On the Let's set up your home screen, tap Set up a new home. The home is created straight away and named after you, for example "Sarah's Home". You are the owner.

Everything else is optional and comes later, from Settings:

Home name sits at the top of Settings. Owners can edit it in place, 3 to 20 characters, and everyone sees the new name.
Address stores where you live. OneHaus uses it for maps and the weather forecast, and it never leaves your household.

Joining with an invite code

If someone has already set up a home, join theirs instead of creating your own:

Open OneHaus and sign in
On the setup screen, tap OR JOIN ONE
Enter the 8 digit invite code, or tap Paste code if it is already on your clipboard
Check the home you are about to join, then tap the join button, which carries the owner's name, for example Join Sarah's home

Before you commit, OneHaus shows you who is already there and what is running: recurring chores, the shopping list, subscriptions. If it is the wrong home, tap Re-enter the code.

Member roles

Owner: Full control over the household. Can edit household settings, manage members, change roles, and remove members. The person who sets up the home is the owner.
Member: Full access to all features, including tasks, calendar, shopping, inventory, contacts, and chat. Cannot edit household settings or manage other members.
Family member: someone in the home without their own OneHaus login, added by an owner so they can be assigned tasks. An owner can change their name or remove them. Their role is fixed.

Owners and members can both create, edit and complete anything. Owners additionally control the household itself.

Managing members

Open Settings, then Members, to see everyone in the home. Owners can tap any row other than their own to open that member's actions:

Change a member's role: make a member an owner, or move an owner back to member. You cannot demote yourself, and you cannot change a family member's role.
Remove a member: tap Remove from home and confirm. They lose access to household data straight away.

Making someone an owner adds a second owner rather than handing yours over. Both of you keep full control.

Removing someone also generates a new invite code for the household, so the old code stops working for everyone. Reshare the new one with anyone still waiting to join.

Only owners can do either of these. If you are a member and need someone removed, ask an owner.

Owners can also tap Add Member to add a family member: someone who lives in the home but does not have their own account.

Your name in the household

The name everyone else sees is your Nickname, which you set in Settings under the YOU section. Set it early, because until you do there is very little for other members to identify you by. Owners set the name for family members when they add them.

Household settings

Owners can update these from Settings:

Home name: edit it in place at the top of Settings. Everyone sees the new name.
Invite code: copy it or share it with Share invite code.
Allow new members: toggle whether the invite code works. Turn it off once everyone has joined, and turn it back on when you need to invite someone new.
Address: your home address, used for maps and the weather forecast.

Leaving a household

There is no Leave button in the app. To come out of a home, ask an owner to remove you from the members list. Your access ends straight away.

An owner cannot leave while other people are still in the home. Make someone else an owner first, then ask them to remove you.

If you are the only person left, there is nobody to hand the home to, so leaving means deleting your account. Settings, Delete Account removes your account and the household with it. If you have an active subscription, cancel it in the App Store or Google Play first, because deleting your account does not cancel billing.

Privacy and security

Only members of your household can see its contents.

Private by default: No one outside your household can view tasks, events, lists, or inventory.
Controlled access: Turning off Allow new members prevents anyone joining, even if they have the invite code.
Removal is immediate: a removed member loses access straight away, and the household invite code changes at the same time so the old one cannot be reused.

For more on how OneHaus handles your data, see our Privacy Policy.

Tips

Turn off Allow new members once everyone has joined.
Name the home something everyone recognises, so members can confirm they are in the right one.
Make a second person an owner. Otherwise everything to do with the household waits on one person being available.
Add your home address under Settings. It is what the weather forecast and map links use, and it never leaves your household.

Troubleshooting

Invite code not working Check that Allow new members is on in household settings. If it is off, the code will not accept anyone. Also check that nobody has been removed recently, because that generates a new code and retires the old one.

Cannot remove a member Only owners can manage members. If you are a member and need someone removed, ask an owner to do it from Settings.

I am the only owner and want to leave Make another member an owner from the members list, then ask them to remove you. If you are the only member at all, use Delete Account instead, which removes the household too.

Member not seeing updates Make sure the member has an active internet connection. OneHaus syncs in the background and whenever the app is opened, so changes from other members appear shortly after. Pull down to refresh if anything appears out of date.