Running the whole household

The ERP for your house

A household is a small organisation. It has inventory, a calendar, purchasing, costs to share out and paperwork that expires. Companies stopped running that on loose spreadsheets thirty years ago; households are still spread across six apps, a group chat and the memory of the same person as always.

homeify is what a company would call an ERP, applied to a household: one system where the modules share the same data, instead of a different app for each thing.

What that means here

Four things that set it apart from a folder full of apps

01

One place, not six apps

The chores, the diary, the shopping, the pantry, the accounts and the documents live in the same panel and under the same people. There's no deciding which app each thing gets written into, which is the reason it ends up written into none of them.

02

The modules talk to each other

That's what separates an integrated system from a folder of apps. You mark the shop as done and the pantry refills itself, the receipt becomes an expense split between whoever it's for, and anything that came in with a date starts warning you before it goes off.

03

Everyone sees their own side

With real roles: who can touch the money, who only sees their own chores, which documents are everyone's and which only the admins'. It's what makes it possible to share a house without sharing absolutely everything.

04

What gets calculated, gets calculated properly

An expense is split to the cent and balances are never stored: they're worked out. When you settle up, the system tells you the fewest transfers needed instead of leaving four people making cross-payments.

It isn't a business ERP and doesn't pretend to be: no bookkeeping, no invoicing, no payroll, no taxes. What it borrows is the idea —a system where the modules share the same data instead of each living on its own— applied to what actually takes up a household.

The modules

12 areas, one system

Chores

What needs doing, with someone on it, a date, and rotas that turn on their own.

Expenses

Who paid what, who owes whom, and the fewest transfers that settle it.

Shopping

Everyone's list — and when you pay, the pantry refills and the cost is split.

Pantry

What's in the house and what goes off this week, before you buy it again.

Calendar

Appointments, birthdays and plans that one person stops having to remember.

Notes

The wifi, the move, the plumber's number. Shared, not forwarded.

Subscriptions

What gets charged each month, what it adds up to, and who's paying it.

Meals

What you're eating each day of the week, decided once and in plain sight.

Documents

The contract, the policies and the warranties where anyone can find them, with a warning before they run out.

Bookings

The living room, the washing machine or the car: who has them and when, without asking the group chat.

Vehicles

The plate, the MOT and the insurance, with a warning before they run out.

Pets

The microchip, the vet, and when the jab and the worming are due.

Each home turns on the ones it uses and turns off the rest: a module that's off disappears from the sidebar and stops existing for that household.

Questions

About the household ERP

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.

Set up your household's system

In under a minute and with no card. You pick whether it's a family or a flatshare and the system adapts to what you are.