Manage household roles and switch households

Household parents can invite another parent, a family member or a caregiver from Settings. Use the intended person's email address when the invitation should be recipient-bound.

1. Open Settings and find Caregivers.
2. Optionally type the name your household uses for them, then create the invitation and share its link with the intended person. If email delivery is unconfirmed, the link remains available to copy.
3. The recipient signs in or creates an account using the invited address, then explicitly accepts.
4. Review the member list after acceptance.

Settings → Caregivers lists members and pending invitations. Open Edit to change a member’s household name, role and access together, or to manage a pending invitation.

On a pending invitation, Copy link creates a fresh link without sending email; Share / resend creates a fresh link and emails it when email is configured. Either action invalidates the old link. Revoke withdraws the invitation. Revoke a membership when access is no longer appropriate.

Parent, family and caregiver

• Parent can see and manage household members, invitations and billing.
• Family can see everyone in the household, but cannot invite, remove, rename or change other people and cannot see billing.
• Caregiver can use the shared care log but cannot see the Caregivers or Billing panels.

An invitation can grant any of the three roles directly. A household can have any number of parents; only the owner is unique. Every role can connect an assistant and revoke the connections that person created. Other people's assistant connections are never listed. A parent can change another member's role under Edit → Access, but cannot lower their own parent role. The household owner is marked separately, always remains a parent, and must transfer ownership before that protected membership can be lowered or removed.

Care for Mother in the phone app

To set up Mother in the phone app, a parent opens the person picker beside the name on Log and chooses Set up Mother. Choose whether to link her profile to your account, then enter her name. Select Mother in the picker to open her Mood and Medication cards. Save a check-in or dose, then open Events to review it in List, Day or Week view. Tap an entry to correct or remove it; the change is confirmed by the saved entry and its updated Events view.

In Settings, open Mother’s profile to manage her name or remove an unlinked profile. A linked Mother controls her own profile. Parents can invite another parent, and can limit each caregiver’s access to Mother separately from access to each baby. People without Mother access cannot view or log her records. The phone app needs an active network connection to load and save these records; if a save cannot be confirmed, check Events before trying it again.

On Mother’s Log on the web or Android, choose Log water, enter the amount in mL, and save. You stay on Log, and Water shows the total recorded for the current day in the household time zone. Add each drink, or record the day’s amount once. In Events, tap a water entry to correct or remove it; the daily total updates with the change.

Names inside a household

An invitation can carry that name from the start: the name you type when inviting someone is applied to their membership as soon as they accept, so they are never listed as a bare email address. It does not change the name on their account, and it is ignored for someone who is already a member of this household.

Edit on a member row lets you set how that person appears to everyone in this household — "Mum", "Grandpa", "Night nanny" — and, when allowed, change their role and which babies, and Mother, they can see. Save applies the changes together; going back with unsaved changes asks whether to discard them. The name belongs to the household, not the account: the same person can be "Mum" at home and go by their own name in a family they work for. Parents can rename any member; family and caregivers can rename themselves. Leave the field blank to fall back to the account name. A pending invitation’s Edit page can change the name that will be used when the person joins.

Multiple households

An account owns a single household today. Settings → Household names it, offers Rename, and manages the babies in it; Request multiple household support at the foot of the panel opens the report form so you can tell us why you need more than one. If your account has been added to another household as well, a selector appears at the top of the panel — confirm the household name before recording care, because switching changes which babies and records you see.

Settings → Household holds the household and the babies in it: the name and Rename at the top, the babies underneath, and the single-household limit at the foot.

Expected result: accepted members appear with the selected role and only the controls that role permits.

To plan who is looking after the children and when, see Shifts and notifications.

Future dates and timezones

Care records more than one minute ahead of the server clock are blocked by default, including API, assistant, import and correction requests. Check the timestamp first: local clock times use the household timezone and its daylight-saving offset on that date. In Settings > Preferences, a parent can turn Prevent future events off for intentional future records. This does not change existing records or allow future running timers.

Refer another family

During a referral campaign, verified parents can find their sharing link in Settings → Plan. New campaigns reward both families with the number of Pro months displayed beside the link. The referred parent must create a new household, verify their email, log at least 10 activities across five different days, and connect an AI assistant and complete a successful Cozibud request through it. Imported records and duplicate retries do not count. Days need not be consecutive. Campaign requirements and months are configurable; open How rewards work for the full offer. Existing referrals keep the terms saved at signup.

Your lifetime totals show families referred, completed referrals, and free months earned from those referrals. The totals remain available after the free time has been used. Reload the page to see the latest progress.

Both families see the same progress bar. The referrer sees the referred parent's chosen display name, with a numbered family label when no name is supplied. The referred family also sees its own remaining steps and a link to connect an assistant. Signup explains that the display name and overall progress are shared. Care records, dates, and assistant conversations remain private. Older referrals retain their original anonymity and rewards.

Once qualified, Cozibud automatically adds the displayed free Pro time to both families. There is no claim step. Free families receive Pro without a card. For an active subscription, Cozibud moves the next renewal date so the free time comes before the next charge. Canceling stays canceled; any free time begins after paid access ends. The panel shows when the automatic reward is ready and, for promotional access, when it ends.

Pause access during a break

A parent can open Settings → Caregivers → Edit for a caregiver or family member, choose Pause access, and save. That person stays in the household, but cannot view, add or change baby or Mother records. Their existing records remain. To restore access, edit the same person and choose Resume access, then Everyone or Selected people, then save; no new invitation is needed. Pausing does not remember the previous selection, so review the people you grant access to when restoring it. You cannot pause yourself or a parent. The phone app also offers Caregivers directly in household Settings.

On web and in the phone app, Pause access (or Resume access) sits above Remove access. It appears only when a parent edits another caregiver or family member and removal is available; it never appears alone. Transfer ownership appears only when the current household owner edits another member. Pending invitations have Revoke instead of Pause. The information icon explains that pausing is temporary, while removal leaves the household and requires a new invitation to return.