After signing up as a host family, you'll go through onboarding to set up your household.

Creating your household

During onboarding, you'll provide:

• Household name — e.g., "The van der Berg Family"
• Country — determines default hour limits
• Timezone — for accurate scheduling

Your household is created with default hour limits based on your country. For the Netherlands, that's 30 hours/week and 8 hours/day.

Configuring hour limits

You can adjust the default limits in Dashboard > Settings:

• Weekly hour limit — maximum hours per week (Netherlands default: 30)
• Daily hour limit — maximum hours per day (Netherlands default: 8)

These limits are used to show warnings when your au pair is approaching the maximum.

Inviting your au pair

Each household has a unique invite code. To invite your au pair:

1. Go to Dashboard > Settings
2. Copy the invite link
3. Share it with your au pair (WhatsApp, email, etc.)

When your au pair opens the link, they'll be prompted to create an account. Their profile is automatically linked to your household with the au pair role.

What's next?

Once your household is set up and your au pair has joined, you're ready to create tasks. You can also add children and set up house rules from the settings.