- What is a family ERP?
- A single system where everything a household has to sort out is run —chores, calendar, shopping, inventory, expenses and documents— with the modules connected to each other, instead of a different app for each thing. The term comes from business software, where an ERP is the system that ties an organisation's areas together; here the organisation is a home.
- How is it different from a to-do app or a spreadsheet?
- The pieces talk to each other. A to-do app lets you write “buy washing powder”; here you put it on the shopping list, paying the receipt refills the pantry, the cost is split between whoever it's for and everyone's balance updates. A spreadsheet can do the maths, but it doesn't warn anyone, it doesn't share out rotas, and nobody else in the house opens it.
- Does it do bookkeeping or invoices like a business ERP?
- No. There's no bookkeeping, no invoicing, no payroll and no taxes. Expenses are shared expenses between people who live together: who paid what, who owes whom, and how to settle it in the fewest transfers.
- Does it work for a flatshare or only for families?
- For both, and not with the same vocabulary. When you create the home you choose what it is, and that changes what the roles are called, which module comes first and what the summary answers first: in a flatshare the accounts come first, in a family the week does.
- What does it cost?
- There's a free plan to get started, no card. And for the launch, any home created now starts on the most complete plan for free.