Quick guide for parents and guardians
DomusXP turns the household routine into a cooperative game: you define what needs to be done, your children complete it, and every approved completion becomes visible progress. This guide covers the essentials, in the order you will need them.
Create your family
When signing up you set the family name, the language, the time zone and the currency. The time zone matters more than it seems: it is what decides what counts as “today” for routines and for automatic deductions.
You sign in as the guardian, with e-mail and password. Your children do not need an e-mail address.
The setup assistant
On first access, a wizard walks you through three steps: adding your children, each with their allowance; building the weekly routine; and balancing how much each chore is worth.
You do not have to get it right the first time. Everything can be edited later, and the assistant can be run again at any moment from the menu.
How your child signs in
There is no e-mail-and-password account for a child. On their device you type the family access code once; from then on a profile picker appears, and each child signs in by tapping their own avatar.
You can protect each profile with a four-digit PIN. The PIN says who someone is, not what they may do: permissions still come from the profile.
No device for your child? You can act on their behalf from your own app, in the child's page.
Chores, routines and quests
These are three different things, and mixing them up is the most common early mistake.
- Chore The catalogue item, worth an amount of XP and coins. It can apply to everyone or be assigned to a single child. Marked as shared, it becomes cooperative: the coins are split among those who took part.
- Routine Each child's schedule: which chores fall on which days. It accepts weekly, monthly, bimonthly, quarterly, half-yearly and yearly recurrence. A routine chore left undone that day triggers an automatic deduction overnight.
- Quest A set of chores with a bonus for completing them all. There are also corrective quests, which are mandatory: while one is pending, bonus quests stay locked.
Every chore goes into a fixed category — Bedroom, Kitchen, Home, Studies, Pets, Self-care, Health, Family or Other — each with its own emoji, in the app's language. It's what keeps the tabs organised and the same for everyone.
Approval is what pays
Completing pays nothing. When your child marks a chore as done, it goes to your approval tab, and it is your approval that credits XP and coins.
Rejecting requires a reason, and the reason is shown to the child. That is deliberate: “denied” with no explanation teaches very little.
Once reviewed, a completion is not reviewed again. A shared chore is approved as a group, all at once, so the split adds up exactly.
XP, coins and reputation
These are three measures with different purposes. Understanding the difference is understanding the whole app.
- XP — progress It only grows. It is never spent or deducted, not by a penalty, not by a forgotten routine. The level comes from XP, so it never goes back down. It is the memory of the effort.
- Coins — resource They are meant to be spent. They come in with an approved chore and go out on a redeemed reward, a penalty and a routine deduction. They never go negative: the floor is zero.
- Reputation — the current moment It runs from 0 to 100. It rises one point per approved chore — three while it is below 70, so no one gets stuck at the bottom — and falls with penalties and unmet routines. From 90 it unlocks special quests; from 95, every chore pays 10% more in coins.
Rewards, redemptions and penalties
You register the rewards and the price of each one in coins. The child asks to redeem; you approve or decline. Coins only leave the balance when you approve — but the request already reserves the amount, so the same balance isn't promised twice.
Penalties are the other side: they deduct coins and reputation (at most 20 points per penalty), take effect immediately with no approval — and never take XP. Any applied penalty can be reversed, which gives back the coins and reputation and removes the record from the history.
A tip from people who use it: keep few penalties, with small values. What sustains the habit is the reward, not the punishment.
What a coin is worth
You decide what a coin is worth in money. That rate is what lets you offer cash rewards, set an allowance and see how much the routine costs per month.
The app shows a projection of the monthly cost per child, calculated from each one’s routine. It helps you calibrate values before the bill arrives.
Alerts, TV and therapist
The app notifies you on your phone when something needs you: a completed chore waiting for approval, a redemption request, a finished quest. The child gets the outcome of approvals and a reminder at the time you choose, if there is still routine left for that day.
On an Android TV, the family panel stays on the living-room screen. Pairing is by code, and the TV’s access is read-only and can be disconnected by you at any time.
If your child is seen by a professional, you can invite them by e-mail and choose which children they follow.
Subscription and your data
The family starts with a free trial period and then moves to a single subscription for the whole household, with no per-child charge.
If the subscription lapses, nothing is deleted or hidden: the app switches to read-only. You keep seeing balances, history and achievements, and you can record again as soon as you reactivate.
At any time you can export all the family data or delete the account. Deletion is permanent and does not depend on having an active subscription.
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