Pair of Passports

How to use Pair of Passports

Pair of Passports is a private website for our family and friends. It has four parts:

Why you might not see all four

Each part is opened separately for each person, so strangers can't get in. If one is missing from the top of your page, here's how to get it:

When you accept an invitation, that part switches on straight away. Account settings, in the menu under your name, shows which parts you have.

How to read this guide

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The basics: finding your way around

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Your home page: what needs you

This is your starting page when you can use more than one part of the site. It shows what's waiting on you everywhere, so you don't have to check each part.

Come back here any time by pressing Pair of Passports at the top left.

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Put it on your phone like an app

Add Pair of Passports to your phone's home screen and it opens full-screen with its own icon, just like an app. There's nothing to download from an app store.

Tap the new Passports icon to open it. You stay signed in, and everything works the same as in the browser.

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Getting started

  1. Open the website at pairofpassports.org on your computer or phone.
  2. Sign in. The easiest way is to press Sign in with Google and choose your Google account. No Google account? Use the username (or email) and password you were given, and press Log in.
  3. If you were invited by email, open the link in that email first. It lets you sign in or make an account, then join in one go.
  4. If you see "there's nothing to show yet", nobody has invited your email address yet. Nothing is wrong. Ask the person who told you about the site to invite you. Any invitations to your address appear on that page, and joining one switches that part on straight away.
  5. See what needs you. If you can use more than one part, you'll land on your home page after signing in. It lists what's waiting on you in each part, like votes, chores to approve or new recipes. Switch any time with the links in the top bar.

Forgot your password? On the log-in page press Forgot your password?, type your email address, and a link to set a new one is emailed to you.

Signing in

There are two ways to sign in.

  1. With Google: press Sign in with Google and choose your account. You don't need a password here.
  2. With a password: on the log-in page, type your email or username and your password, then press Log in.

Got an invitation email? Open the link in it first. It takes you through signing in or making an account, then brings you back to join.

Forgot your password? Press Forgot your password? on the log-in page. If you sign in with Google, you don't have a password here.

Making an account from an invitation

You only need this if you don't want to sign in with Google. You can only get here from an invitation.

  1. Type your first name. Your last name is optional. Other people on the site see your name.
  2. Choose a username: one word, no spaces, such as mariaL.
  3. Your email is filled in for you. It's the address the invitation was sent to, and it can't be changed here.
  4. Choose a password, type it again, and press Make my account.

You'll go straight back to your invitation, already signed in.

Signed in, with nothing to show yet

Everything on this site is shared by invitation, so this page is normal for someone new. Nothing is wrong with your account.

  1. Ask the person who told you about the site to invite the email address shown on this page.
  2. Open the link in the email they send, or come back here: any invitation to your address appears on this page as a button.
  3. Press the button to look at it and join. That part of the site switches on straight away.

Invited at a different address? Press Log out and sign in with that one, or open the link in the email.

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A worked example

Here's how a family might plan a week in Italy from start to finish:

  1. Mom creates the trip "Italy summer 2027" and ticks Transportation, Lodging and Activities.
  2. She invites Dad as an organizer and the two teenagers as planners. Grandma joins as a viewer.
  3. On the Dates tab she suggests Jun 10–17 and Jun 24–Jul 1. Everyone marks what works, and Dad clicks Use these dates on the winner.
  4. One of the teens starts a decision, "Where should we stay in Florence?", with three hotels as options. Everyone votes and comments, then Mom picks the winner. Its dates and price become the plan.
  5. Dad adds the flights to the plan with the confirmation number, actual cost $3,280, and himself as paid by. The Money tab now shows what everyone owes him.
  6. They load the International travel starter list, press Edit on "Renew passport" and give it to the teen whose passport is expiring.
  7. In Italy, everyone uses the Today tab for the day's plan, confirmation numbers and notes.

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Your trips

This is your Trips home page. Every trip you belong to is listed here as a card: trips coming up first, soonest at the top, and finished ones under Past trips. A trip is one vacation that a group of people plan together.

To start planning a new trip:

  1. Press the New trip button at the top right of this page.
  2. Type a name for the trip (for example Italy summer 2027). Everything else is optional.
  3. Press Create trip. The trip opens, and you are its organizer (the person in charge).
  4. Press Invite people and add the other travelers.

If someone invited you to a trip:

  1. Look for the You've been invited! box at the top of this page.
  2. Press Accept to join, or Decline if you don't want to go. The person who invited you gets an email saying you declined.

Good to know:

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Starting a trip

Fill in what you know about the trip. Only the name is required. Everything can be changed later: an organizer presses Edit trip at the top of the trip's Overview page to come back to this form.

Step by step:

  1. Name: what everyone will call the trip. Example: Italy summer 2027.
  2. Destination (optional): where you're going. Example: Rome & Florence.
  3. Start date and End date (optional): click the box and pick a day on the calendar. Not decided yet? Leave both empty. The trip's Dates tab lets everyone vote on dates later.
  4. Budget (optional): the total you hope to spend on the whole trip, in dollars, with no $ sign. Example: 8000.
  5. Description (optional): a sentence or two about the trip for the people you invite.
  6. What will you be planning? Tick a box for each kind of thing you'll organize, such as Transportation or Lodging. Each ticked box becomes its own tab on the trip. Not sure? Keep the ones already ticked; you can add more later.
  7. Press Create trip. (When editing, press Save changes, or Cancel to leave without changing anything.)

When editing: unticking a planning area that already has items in it doesn't delete or hide them; its tab stays until the items are gone.

Good to know: nothing is booked or paid by this form. It just sets up a place for the group to plan.

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Inviting people & roles

Anyone on a trip can invite people, with the Invite people button or ＋ Invite someone on the trip's Overview. Enter their email address and choose a role, up to your own. They get an email with a link. If they don't have an account yet, the link lets them create one.

Getting an invitation

Someone has invited you to help plan a trip on Pair of Passports.

  1. No account yet? Press Continue with Google, or Create one with a password.
  2. Already have one? Log in.
  3. You come back here. Press Join the trip. That's it; the trip opens.
  4. Don't want to go? Press No thanks, and the person who invited you is told.

What you can do depends on your role: an organizer runs the trip, a planner adds and changes plans, and a viewer sees the plan, votes and comments.

Invitations last two weeks. If yours has run out, ask the person who invited you to send it again.

Tip: give the people who'll actually book things the planner role, so the work doesn't all fall on one person.

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The Overview

The Overview is the trip's home page. It shows what needs you first, then the whole plan.

The tabs near the top take you around the trip: Overview, Ideas (suggest and vote on things to do), Dates (find dates that work), Checklists (to-dos and packing), Money (who owes whom), Meals, Itinerary (day-by-day schedule), Timeline (a chart of the days) and Today (one day at a time, during the trip).

From top to bottom, this page shows:

To invite someone (anyone on the trip can):

  1. Press Invite people at the top of this page, or ＋ Invite someone under People.
  2. Type their email address and pick what they can do (see below). You can't give anyone a higher role than your own.
  3. Press Send invitation. They get an email with a link. It works even if they don't have an account, and lasts two weeks. To send it again, press Send again.

What each person can do:

At the bottom of the page: Leave this trip takes you off it. The only organizer can't leave until someone else is an organizer. Organizers also get Delete this trip.

Each person can also turn email updates for the trip on or off under People.

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Planning areas

This tab holds everything in one planning area, such as Lodging. Each thing in it is one flight, one hotel stay, one dinner reservation.

Which do I use? Already settled? Add to the plan. Need to pick exactly one? Ask the group to choose. Several might happen? Ideas.

If you already know what you want (for example, you've found the hotel):

  1. Press the ＋ Add button for this area (for example ＋ Add to Lodging).
  2. Fill in what it is and anything else you know, then press Add to the plan.

If the group needs to choose between options (for example, three possible hotels):

  1. Press Ask the group to choose.
  2. Write the question and at least two choices, then press Ask the group.
  3. Everyone votes on its page. An organizer then picks the winner.

Reading this page:

The areas are Transportation, Lodging, Activities & Tickets, Dining, Documents & Logistics, and Other. Need one you didn't tick when creating the trip? Use ＋ Add area next to the area tabs on any planning-area page.

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Adding to the plan

This is one thing on the trip: a flight, a hotel stay, a dinner reservation, a museum ticket, a visa application. Just found something? The area and what it is are enough. Press the sections below only when you know more; you can edit it any time.

Going through the form:

  1. The first boxes
    • Area: which tab it belongs on, such as Lodging.
    • What is it?: a short name everyone will recognize. Example: Hotel Lungarno, Florence.
    • Who can see it?: Everyone on the trip, Only some people (good for a golf day only some are doing; tick them under Which people?) or Just me.
  2. When: dates and times. For travel, the start is when you leave and the end is when you arrive (an overnight flight ends the next day). For a hotel, start is check-in and end is checkout. Transportation also asks where from, where to, and the airline or train number.
  3. Cost
    • Estimated cost: your best guess before booking. Numbers only, no $ sign.
    • Actual cost: what was really paid, once it's booked. Fill in Paid by as well, or it can't count toward who owes whom.
    • Who splits the cost?: who shares the cost. This is separate from who can see it. Example: Dad's rental car is visible only to Dad, but set to Everyone on the trip so the whole group pays their part.
    • If the item already has payments listed in its Money section, change the costs there instead.
  4. Booking details
    • Status: how far along it is. Researching: still looking. Decided: chosen, not booked. Booked: reserved or paid. Completed: it's happened. Cancelled: not happening; any money already paid still counts on the Money tab.
    • Who's handling it?: who's sorting it out.
    • Confirmation number and Booking link. The confirmation number shows on the Today page, handy at a check-in desk.
  5. Notes: anything else, like cancellation rules.
  6. Press Add to the plan (or Save changes when editing). Cancel leaves without saving.

Good to know: if something you typed isn't accepted, a red message appears at the top of the form and next to the box that needs fixing. Want the group to vote? Use Ask the group to choose instead.

Examples by area

Who sees it, and who pays

These are two separate settings:

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An item's page

Everything about this one thing in your plan is on this page: its details, any choices to vote on, the discussion, documents and money.

To vote (when the group is choosing):

  1. Look at the choices. A line below them shows who hasn't voted yet.
  2. Press Vote on your favorite. It changes to Voted ✓.
  3. Changed your mind? Press Vote on another. Your vote moves.
  4. An organizer presses Pick this one to make the final choice. Its dates, route and price go onto this item, and everyone gets an email. Voting then stops.

To suggest another choice: organizers and planners can press ＋ Add a choice. Viewers can suggest one in the discussion. Edit fixes a typo or price, and Remove takes a choice away, along with its votes.

To talk it over: type in Discussion and press Post. Everyone who can see this item gets an email, unless they've turned them off.

To attach a document (organizers and planners): press ＋ Attach a file, choose a PDF, Word or Excel file, or a photo, up to 10 MB, and press Attach file. Only people who can see this item can open it.

To record money (organizers and planners). There are two ways:

To fix a payment: press Edit next to it. Remove deletes it, after asking you first.

Good to know: Edit at the top changes the details. Delete removes this item with its votes, payments, documents and comments, after asking you first.

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Asking the group to choose

Use this when the group needs to pick one thing from a few choices, like which flight or which hotel. If you might do several of the things, use the Ideas tab instead.

Step by step:

  1. Area: where it belongs, such as Transportation.
  2. Question: for example Which flight to Rome?
  3. Decide by (optional): the date everyone should vote by.
  4. Who can see it? Usually everyone on the trip.
  5. Notes (optional): anything that helps people choose, like We need to land before 3 PM.
  6. Choices: fill in at least two. A name is enough, like Delta via JFK, plus a rough cost if you know it. Press Add dates and travel details if you want them. Empty choices are ignored, and you can add more later.
  7. Press Ask the group. Everyone who can see it gets an email asking them to vote.

What happens next: people vote on its page. An organizer then presses Pick this one on the winner, and that choice becomes the plan. The most votes doesn't decide automatically; the organizer has the final say.

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Ideas: brainstorm, vote, keep the best

The Ideas board is for brainstorming. Everyone throws out things they'd like to do on the trip, the group votes and talks them over, and then the favorites are kept as part of the plan. Unlike a decision (which picks one winner), here you can keep as many ideas as you like.

To suggest an idea (anyone on the trip can):

  1. Press Suggest an idea at the top, or scroll to the form at the bottom.
  2. Type the idea in a few words. Example: Sunset boat tour.
  3. If you like, pick its area (for example Activities), add a note, a rough cost, or a link to a website about it.
  4. Press Add idea. You're counted as "I'm in" on your own idea. Add as many as you like.

To vote: on each idea, press I'm in, Maybe or Not for me. Your choice turns green with a ✓. Press a different one to change your mind. The most popular ideas move to the top (an "I'm in" counts double a "Maybe"). Under each idea you can see who's in, who's a maybe, who isn't, and who hasn't voted yet.

To talk about an idea: press its title (or the 💬 comments link). Its own page opens, with a Discussion box at the bottom. Type and press Post.

To trim the list down (organizers and planners):

  1. When the group has had its say, look at each idea's votes.
  2. Press Keep: it's happening on the ones you're doing. Each one becomes a real plan item in its area (for example under Activities), with its discussion kept. From there you add dates, book it and record the cost as usual.
  3. Press Drop on the ones you're not doing. They move to Dropped ideas at the bottom of the page.
  4. Changed your mind? Open Dropped ideas and press Bring it back. The idea returns to the board with its votes.

Emails: when an idea is kept, everyone on the trip gets an email saying it's happening (unless they've turned trip emails off on the Overview page). Suggesting, voting and dropping don't send emails, so throwing out lots of ideas won't flood anyone's inbox.

Good to know: ideas aren't counted in the budget, timeline, itinerary or Today page until they're kept. The trip's Overview shows how many ideas still need your vote.

Ideas or a decision? Use Ideas when you'll do several of the things suggested (activities, restaurants to try). Use Ask the group to choose when exactly one will win (which hotel, which flight).

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Picking dates

Use this page to find dates that work for everyone, before anything gets booked. Each suggested set of dates is called a date range.

To suggest dates (anyone on the trip can):

  1. Under Suggest dates, pick the first day of the trip and the day you'd come home.
  2. Press Suggest these dates. The range is added to the list, already marked as working for you.

To say which dates work for you: next to each range, press one of the three answers: Can make it, If needed (possible, but not ideal) or Can't. You can change your answer any time.

To pick the winner (organizers):

  1. Look for the range tagged best so far. It has the most people who can make it (a "can make it" counts double an "if needed").
  2. Press Use these dates on it. Those become the trip's dates, and everyone gets an email.

Good to know:

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Timeline

The Timeline is a chart of the trip. Each column is one day, and each item with dates is a colored bar across the days it covers. It helps you spot problems at a glance: for example, a night with no hotel bar over it means you haven't booked anywhere to sleep yet.

How to use it:

  1. Read across: the dates run along the top, and weekends are shaded.
  2. Press any bar to open that item and see its details.
  3. Scroll down to Not scheduled yet to see items without dates. Open one and press Edit to give it dates, and it appears on the chart.
  4. To add something new, press Add item.

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Itinerary & printing

The Itinerary is the plan written out day by day, in time order, like a printed travel schedule. Each day lists what starts that day, plus anything still going on from earlier (like a hotel stay).

To print it or save it to your phone:

  1. Press Print / PDF. A clean version opens in a new tab.
  2. On that page, press Print or save as PDF. Your device's print window opens.
  3. Choose a printer, or choose Save as PDF to keep a copy on your phone or computer.

To add something on a particular day: press ＋ Add next to that day. The form opens with the date already filled in.

Good to know: items without a date are listed under Not scheduled yet at the bottom, so nothing is lost.

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Today

Use Today during the trip. It shows just one day: where you're sleeping tonight, what's planned and when, any meals, to-dos that are due, and a peek at tomorrow.

How to use it:

  1. Open the trip and press the Today tab. It shows today's date on your phone or computer.
  2. Read down the page: Tonight (where you're staying), Plan for the day (in time order, with confirmation numbers and notes), Meals, To-dos due and Tomorrow.
  3. Use the arrow buttons (such as ← Mon and Wed →) to move to the day before or after.

Good to know:

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Money & settling up

This page works out who owes whom, so the group can settle up fairly. It only counts money that has actually been paid, not estimates. This site doesn't move money; pay each other however you like.

To settle up:

  1. Look at How to settle up. It lists the fewest payments that make everyone even, like Ben pays Darren $240.
  2. Pay them, by cash or a payment app.
  3. Press Mark as paid next to that line. It moves to Already settled, and the totals update. Made a mistake? Press Undo. Either of the two people can do this, and so can an organizer.

Where the numbers come from (organizers and planners enter these on each thing in the plan):

The table: one row per person, showing what they paid, their fair share, and whether they're owed money or owe it.

Needs attention: payments where nobody's listed as having paid. They aren't counted until you press Say who paid. It can also list an item with an Actual cost that isn't counted because the item has payments too. Press Check it and say whether the cost should be added.

Good to know: each item decides who shares its cost (Who splits the cost?). By default, it's the people who can see the item.

Two ways to record costs

An example

Three people share a trip. Ana pays $900 for the rental house, and Ben pays $300 for the car. Both are split three ways, so each person's share is $400. Ana has paid $500 more than her share, Ben $100 less, and Cara $400 less. Settle up shows: Cara pays Ana $400 and Ben pays Ana $100.

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Meals

Plan who's cooking what on the trip. This is handy for a rental house, a cabin or a camping trip. Each day shows Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.

To add a meal (organizers and planners):

  1. Press ＋ Add breakfast (or lunch or dinner) under the day you want, or scroll down to Add a meal.
  2. Give it a name (for example Taco night), or pick a recipe from the family cookbook.
  3. Set how many people it should feed, and who's cooking (both optional).
  4. Press Add meal.

The grocery list: meals that use a cookbook recipe add their ingredients to the Grocery list at the bottom, scaled to the number of people. Matching ingredients are added up. To take it shopping, press Copy to the trip's to-do list. Each ingredient becomes a to-do that anyone can tick off on the Checklists tab.

Good to know:

Anyone on the trip can see the meal plan. Picking recipes from the cookbook needs Recipes access. Without it you can still plan meals by name, like "Pizza delivery".

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Checklists

There are two lists: To-do for things to get done before you go (book a pet sitter, renew a passport), and Packing for things to bring.

To add something to a list:

  1. Type it in the box under that list. Example: Renew passport.
  2. If you like, press More to pick who's doing it, a due date (to-dos only), and who can see it: Everyone on the trip, Only some people or Just me.
  3. Press Add to-do or Add packing item.

To start from a ready-made list instead of typing everything:

  1. Open Start from a ready-made list at the top.
  2. Pick a starter list (for example Packing essentials or International travel), or one of your other trips to copy its lists.
  3. Choose Just for me (your own copy to tick off; best for clothes, chargers, medicine) or Shared with everyone (one list for the group, and one tick counts for all; best for things only one person is bringing).
  4. Press Add these items. Anything already on your lists is skipped, so nothing is doubled. Wrong list? Press Undo in the box that appears.

Good to know:

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Copying a trip

Copy a trip as a starting point for a new one. For example, reuse last summer's beach week instead of planning it from scratch.

Step by step:

  1. Type a name for the new trip.
  2. Pick its new start date. Every item moves by the same number of days, so the spacing stays the same. Leave it empty to copy without dates.
  3. Choose whether to copy the to-do and packing lists. Organizers can also choose to add the same travelers.
  4. Press Create the new trip. It opens, and you are its organizer.

What's copied, and what starts fresh (the page lists both):

Find Copy this trip at the bottom of a trip's Overview.

Deleting a trip

Deleting removes the trip for everyone on it: its plans, payments, votes, comments, files and checklists. It can't be undone.

  1. Check the list of what will go.
  2. Type the trip's name in the box, exactly as it's shown.
  3. Press Delete this trip forever, or Cancel to keep it.

Just don't want to be on it? Press Leave this trip at the bottom of the Overview instead, and it stays for everyone else.

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Chores for parents

This is the parents' page. Here you set up the chores your children can do, and what each one pays. Each child has a card at the top showing what they're owed.

Setting up:

  1. Type a name for your home and press Create house.
  2. Press Invite a child for each child, and for any other parent. They get an email with a link that lasts two weeks.
  3. A child with no email address can't be invited. The site administrator creates their login and adds them to your house, so ask them.

The tabs: Chores (this page), To approve (chores your kids say they've done; a number shows how many are waiting), Balances & payments (record paying them) and Notifications.

To add a chore:

  1. Press New chore.
  2. Give it a title, an amount, and how often it can be done. Example: Unload the dishwasher, $1.00, once a day.
  3. Press Add chore. Your children get a notification that there's a new chore.

How a chore gets paid, from start to finish:

  1. Your child does the chore and presses I did it! on their own page.
  2. It appears on your To approve tab, and you get a notification.
  3. You check the work and press Approve. The money is added to their balance.
  4. When you hand them money, record it on the Balances & payments tab.

Saw them do it, but they didn't press the button? In the chore's row, press Zoe did it, or pick who did it and press Mark done. It's approved straight away, and they're told.

Good to know: press Edit on a chore to change it. Changing the amount doesn't change what was already earned.

To remove someone or leave a house:

  1. Press Who's in and your house's name.
  2. Press Remove next to the person, or Leave next to your own name.
  3. Confirm.

What a child earned and was paid stays on record, and comes back if you invite them again. A house always keeps at least one parent, so invite another parent before you leave.

Setting up a chore

Filling in the form, box by box:

  1. House (only shown if you run more than one): which home this chore is for.
  2. Title: short and clear, so a child knows exactly what to do. Example: Unload the dishwasher.
  3. Description (optional): what "done" looks like. Example: Put the silverware away too, and wipe the counter.
  4. Pays ($): dollars earned each time it's done and approved. Example: 1.00 (no $ sign).
  5. How often? Each child can do it:
    • One time: a one-off job, like washing the car before a trip.
    • Once a day: like making the bed. It can be done again after midnight.
    • Once a week: like taking out the bins. It can be done again from Monday.
    • Any number of times: open-ended, like pulling weeds, paid per bag.
  6. Only for these children: tick children to give the chore only to them. Leave every box empty to offer it to all the children in the house.
  7. Show this chore to children: untick it to hide the chore without losing its history. There's no delete, so this is how you retire a chore. Tick it again to bring it back.
  8. Press Add chore (or Save changes).

Approving

Chores your children say they've done wait here until you check them. Nothing is added to a child's balance until you approve it.

For each chore in the list:

  1. Check the work was really done.
  2. Press Approve if it was. The money is added to their balance.
  3. Press Not done if it wasn't. You can type why first, if you like, and they'll see it. Nothing is added, and they can do it again. It doesn't use up their turn for the day or week.

Everything looks good? Press Approve all (it shows how many, such as Approve all 3) to approve every chore on the list at once.

Good to know: your child gets a notification either way, so they know what happened.

Paying

See what each child has earned, and record it when you pay them.

How the balance is worked out: Balance = approved chores − payments already recorded. Chores still waiting for approval are shown separately and aren't counted yet.

Pay them first, then record it. This page keeps the record. It doesn't send money.

To record paying a child:

  1. Find the child's section. The amount box is already filled in with everything they're owed.
  2. Change the amount if you're paying only part of it. You can't pay more than they're owed.
  3. Add a note if it's useful. Example: Cash or Added to savings.
  4. Press Record payment. Their balance goes down, and they get a notification.

Made a mistake? Press Remove next to a payment or a chore entry to delete it. Removing an entry changes what's owed, so you'll be asked first.

A child with no email address can't be invited. The site administrator creates their login and adds them to your house, so ask them.

Getting a chores invitation

Someone has invited you to join their house's chores on Pair of Passports.

  1. No account yet? Press Continue with Google, or Create one with a password.
  2. Already have one? Log in.
  3. You come back here. Press Join the house. That's it.
  4. Don't want to? Press No thanks, and the person who invited you is told.

Setting this up for your child? Open the link on their device, while logged in as them or creating their account. Whoever is logged in when Join the house is pressed is the one who joins, and a child's invitation marks that account as a child's.

Invitations last two weeks. If yours has run out, ask the person who invited you to send it again.

Notifications

Chore messages appear here, newest first. New ones are highlighted the first time you see them.

To go to what a message is about: press it.

To stop the emails: press Turn off chore emails at the top. Messages still appear here. Press it again to turn them back on.

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Chores for kids

Here are the chores you can do to earn money.

How to earn:

  1. Pick a chore from the list and do it.
  2. Press the I did it! button next to it.
  3. A parent checks it. When they approve it, the money is added to your balance. You'll get a notification.

Pressed it by mistake? Press Oops, undo. It works until a parent says yes. If you pressed a keep-going chore twice, undo takes back the last one.

Good to know:

My money

This page shows your money.

If you go to more than one house, each house keeps its own count.

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Recipes

This is your families' cookbook. You see every recipe in every family you belong to. (A family is a group of people who share recipes, such as The Wills family.)

The tabs along the top of every Recipes page: Feed (what's new), All recipes (this page), Collections (hand-picked groups), Saved (your bookmarks), Family (who's in your families), Meal plans (time a big meal) and Shopping list.

To find a recipe:

  1. Type a word in the search box, such as chicken. It looks in titles, descriptions, ingredients and tips.
  2. If you like, narrow it down with the menus beside it: course, cuisine, family, or how long it takes.
  3. Open Tags and tick tags like Vegetarian or Make-ahead. Ticking several shows only recipes that have all of them.
  4. Press Find recipes. Press Clear to start over.
  5. Press a recipe's picture or title to open it.

To add a recipe: press Add a recipe. There you can paste a link from a website or type it in. Or press 📷 Scan a recipe to photograph a recipe card and have it filled in for you.

Good to know:

Who's Claude?

Who's Claude? Claude is an AI helper built into this site. It reads recipe photos, works out cooking times, and can check a meal plan. It can make mistakes, so give its work a quick look.

Saved recipes

Saved is your own list of recipes to come back to. Nobody else sees it.

  1. Open a recipe, or find it on the Feed.
  2. Press 🔖 Save. It now shows here.
  3. Press 🔖 Saved on the recipe to take it off.

Not sure which to use? Saved is private, for you. Collections are shared groups the whole family can see. The Shopping list is for what you're about to buy.

A person's page

This page shows one person in your family: the recipes they've added and the dishes they've made.

The feed, hearts and saves

The Feed shows what's been happening in your families, newest at the top: new recipes, recipes shared from other families, "I made it!" photos, and comments.

What you can do on each post:

Made one of the recipes? Open it, press 📸 I made this! Share a photo, choose your photo, and press Upload photo. It shows up here for everyone in the family.

Good to know:

Hearts, saves and profiles stay inside your families: you only ever see people and recipes you share a family with. Your Saved list is private.

Families

Recipes are shared within families. Anyone can start one and invite people (see Inviting family below). You see the cookbook of every family you're in.

Inviting family

A family is a private, shared cookbook. Everyone in a family sees its recipes, and nobody outside it does. You can be in more than one family (for example your side and your partner's side).

To start a new family:

  1. Press ＋ Start a family.
  2. Give it a name, such as Mom's side.
  3. Type the email addresses of the people to invite, separated by commas. They don't need an account yet.
  4. Press Start the family. You're its owner, and each person gets an email invitation. You then land on the Feed, which lists what to do next.

To invite someone to a family you're in:

  1. Find the Invite someone box.
  2. Type their email address (and choose the family, if you're in more than one).
  3. Press Send invitation. The link in their email lasts two weeks. Sending another to the same address refreshes it. Pending invitations are listed under Waiting to join, where you can withdraw one by pressing Cancel next to it. One that ran out says Expired; press send again to send a fresh one.

If you've been invited: if you see You're invited on the Feed or here, press Join … with the family's name.

To fix a family's name: the owner presses Rename on the family's card, types the new name, and presses Save name.

Leaving or removing people: anyone can press Leave this family. The person who started a family (its owner) can't leave, but can press Remove next to someone's name. To hand a family over or close it, ask the site administrator.

💾 Weekly safety copy: once a week, a file with all of the family's recipes is emailed to the owner, so nothing is lost even if this site shuts down. Press its title on the family's card to see it. The owner can choose another member in the Email it to menu, or choose Nobody to switch it off. The choice saves as soon as you pick. If it's being sent to you and you'd rather not, press Stop sending it to me. To get a copy now, press Download one now.

Scanning a recipe

Skip the typing: take a photo of a recipe card or cookbook page, and the recipe form is filled in for you.

Who's Claude? Claude is an AI helper built into this site. It reads recipe photos, works out cooking times, and can check a meal plan. It can make mistakes, so give its work a quick look.

Step by step:

  1. Lay the recipe flat in good light. Hold your phone straight above it so the recipe fills the picture.
  2. Press Take a photo or choose files and either take a photo or choose one (or a PDF). For another page, press ＋ Add another page, or pick several at once from your photos. You can send up to 4 files, for example the front and back of a card. Press Remove next to one to take it off.
  3. Press Read the recipe and wait up to a minute. Don't close the page.
  4. One recipe found: the Add recipe form opens, already filled in.
  5. Several recipes found (a cookbook page often has two): you'll see a list of them, ticked. Recipes with something to double-check start unticked, so you can look them over first.
    • Untick any you don't want, then press Add ticked recipes to add them all at once, or
    • press Review & add next to one to check it over in the form first. After saving it you come back to the list.
  6. Check everything, especially anything listed under Please double-check. Handwriting can be misread. Then tick the tags and press Add recipe.

Photos are sent to Anthropic's Claude to be read and aren't kept by this site. Add a photo of the finished dish separately, on the recipe's page. There's a daily limit on scans; the page shows how many you have left. A scan picks up at most 6 recipes. For a bigger stack, scan a few pages at a time.

Adding a recipe

Three ways to add a recipe:

Whichever you pick, read it over and press Add recipe. Nothing is saved until you do.

Ingredients: one per line, amount first. Example:
2 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp salt
3 cloves garlic, minced
Written this way, the site can double or halve the recipe and add up shopping lists. Salt to taste is fine too.

Steps: one per line, in order. Don't number them; that's done for you.

Sections: end a line with a colon to start a group, like For the sauce:. This works in ingredients and in steps.

More details (all optional): press to open. A description, cuisine, difficulty, what it makes (24 cookies), prep and cook minutes, tips, tags, a photo, and where it came from. Prep and cook minutes also help meal plans.

Does part of this have its own recipe? If this dish is built on another recipe in the cookbook, like the Pie Crust in an apple pie, pick it and say how many times that recipe. The other recipe must already be in the cookbook.

If something isn't accepted, a red message appears at the top and next to the box to fix. What you typed stays, but a chosen photo must be chosen again.

A short example of the ingredients box:

2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tbsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1/2 cup butter, frozen and grated
1 cup buttermilk

For the topping:
2 tbsp butter, melted

Units the app understands include cups, tbsp, tsp, oz, lb, g, kg, ml, l, pints, quarts, cloves, cans, sticks, pinches and slices. Anything else, like salt to taste, is shown exactly as you typed it.

A recipe's page

Everything about this recipe is on this page. Here's how to do the most common things.

Cook for more or fewer people: change the Cooking for menu above the ingredients, from 1 to 24 people. Every amount recalculates. Example: a recipe for 4 set to 8 turns 1 ½ cups into 3 cups.

Add it to your shopping list:

  1. Set Cooking for to how many you're cooking for.
  2. Press ＋ Add to shopping list. Open the Shopping list tab to see it.

Cook from it: press 👩‍🍳 Cook mode in the kitchen. It shows the ingredients to tick off, then one big step at a time: press Next › or swipe. When a step says a time, like bake 12 minutes, press ⏱ Start 12 min timer; it beeps and buzzes when it's done, even on another step. Your screen stays on, and it remembers your place if you leave. Press ✕ Exit to go back.

Print it: press Print. A cookbook-style page opens in a new tab, with any recipes it uses (like the crust) on the same sheet. You can change servings or leave out the photo or the step photos there, then print or save it as a PDF.

Photos (anyone in the family can add them):

Comment: type in the Comments box and press Post comment. The person who added the recipe gets an email.

Put it in a collection: under Collections, tick each collection it belongs in, then press Save collections.

Plan a big meal with it: press Plan a big meal with this to start a meal plan with this dish already ticked.

Share it with another of your families: under Families, pick the family and press Share. It's the same recipe, not a copy, so edits and photos show in both. Each family's comments stay private to that family. You only see this section if you're in more than one family.

For the person who added the recipe:

More about photos. The first photo is the cover shown on cards; the recipe's author can press Make cover on another one. To change a caption, press Edit caption (or Add caption) under the photo, type, and press Save. Photos are changed on the recipe's page, not on the Edit page.

More about step photos. Under a step, press 📷 Add photo, choose a picture (on a phone you can take one), add a caption if you like, and press Upload photo. Step photos show under their step and in the printout. They aren't the cover and don't show in the family feed. If the recipe's steps are edited, step photos follow their steps. One whose step was changed too much goes back to Photos, and a message says so.

Recipes inside recipes

Many dishes are built from other recipes: a pie uses a crust, enchiladas use a sauce, a cake uses frosting. Instead of copying the crust into every pie, link it:

  1. Open the recipe that uses the other one, for example Apple Pie.
  2. Under the ingredients, press ＋ Uses another recipe?, pick Pie Crust, say how many times that recipe (1 = the crust recipe as written) and add an optional note like "for the top and bottom".
  3. Press Link recipe.

The crust must already be in the cookbook. If it isn't, add it as its own recipe first. You can also link recipes while adding or editing a recipe: open More details and find Does part of this have its own recipe?

The pie then shows an Also make box. When you scale the pie, the crust scales too, and shopping and trip grocery lists include the crust's ingredients. Sharing the pie with another family shares the crust too. Only the recipe's author can change its links.

Shopping list

Your own shopping list. Nobody else sees it. It's built from the recipes you add, and it adds up matching ingredients for you.

Three ways to put recipes on it:

  1. From a recipe: open the recipe, set Cooking for to how many you're cooking for, and press ＋ Add to shopping list.
  2. From a meal plan: open the meal plan, scroll to Shop for this meal, type how many people are eating (or leave it blank), and press Add to my shopping list. Every dish in the meal is added at once.
  3. Recipes inside recipes are included automatically. Add an apple pie, and the pie crust's flour and butter are on the list too.

Using the list:

Lines like salt to taste are listed once without an amount.

How things are added up:

Collections

A collection is a hand-picked group of recipes, like a folder. Examples: Grandma's recipes, Thanksgiving menu, Weeknight rotation. A recipe can be in as many collections as you like.

To make a collection:

  1. Press New collection.
  2. Give it a name (and a description if you like). If you're in more than one family, choose whose it is; only that family sees it.
  3. Press Create collection.

To put recipes in it:

  1. Open the collection and press ＋ Add recipes.
  2. Tick the recipes. Type in the box to find one.
  3. Press Add ticked recipes.

Or open a recipe, scroll to Collections, tick the collection, and press Save collections.

To take a recipe out: press Remove under it on the collection's page. It stays in the cookbook.

Good to know: anyone in the family can add or remove recipes in any of its collections. Only the person who made a collection can rename or delete it (with Edit or Delete on the collection's page). Deleting a collection doesn't delete its recipes.

Meal plans: timing a big meal

A meal plan times a big meal for you, so every dish is ready when it's served. You get a list by clock time: when to preheat, when to start each thing, and when it's done.

To start one:

  1. Press Plan a meal.
  2. Tick the dishes and say when you'll eat.
  3. Press Make the plan.

Good to know:

Planning a meal

Who's Claude? Claude is an AI helper built into this site. It reads recipe photos, works out cooking times, and can check a meal plan. It can make mistakes, so give its work a quick look.

  1. Name the meal, for example Thanksgiving dinner, and choose the date and the time you'll eat.
  2. Tick the dishes. Type in the box to find one. Recipes they use, like a pie crust, are added for you. You can have up to 12 dishes.
  3. Say how many people are cooking, not how many are eating. One person can only do one hands-on job at a time.
  4. Kitchen and cooking hours (optional): press to check them. Pick a saved kitchen, or type how many ovens, burners and so on you have. To keep those numbers for next time, type a name under Save these numbers as a kitchen. The hours are the earliest and latest you're willing to cook; anything that doesn't fit moves to the day before.
  5. Anything special? (optional): say in your own words how to spread out the cooking, such as Make the pastry dough the day before or Have the pies done by noon. Claude reads it when you save. The plan page shows what it understood, and anything it couldn't do.
  6. Press Make the plan once, and keep the page open. The first time a recipe is used, Claude works out its cooking times. For a big meal this can take a few minutes.

You'll choose when each dish is served (a starter before, dessert after) on the next page.

Using the plan

On the day:

  1. Press Jump to the steps and follow them from the top. Each says what to do, for how long, and on which appliance.
  2. Needs a cook means someone is busy the whole time. Runs by itself means it looks after itself.
  3. Tick each step as you finish. Ticks are saved on this device only, so each cook ticks their own. Clear ticks resets them.
  4. More than one cook? Decide who is Cook 1 and who is Cook 2, then press your number to see only your steps.
  5. Print makes a paper checklist, for one cook if a cook tab is selected.

Before the day:

A yellow box at the top means something needs attention, such as a dish finishing early, or food left sitting for hours between two steps. If it offers Work out cooking times, press it.

How the plan decides: it never schedules cooking outside your hours. Work moves to the evening before, and waiting steps like dough rising in the fridge carry on overnight. Sous vide, smoker and slow-cooker time can run overnight if it starts and ends while you're up. Each oven holds one temperature at a time, each burner one pot, and nobody is asked to do two hands-on jobs at once. A recipe used inside another, like a stock for the gravy, is made in time for the step that uses it.

Your kitchens

Save what your kitchen has, so meal plans start with the right equipment. Example: Home with 1 oven, 4 stovetop burners and 1 sous vide; Lake house with 1 oven, 2 burners and a grill.

To save a kitchen:

  1. Press Add a kitchen.
  2. Give it a name, such as Home.
  3. Type how many of each appliance it has. Leave a box at 0 (or empty) for things you don't have.
  4. Press Save kitchen.

Good to know:

A recipe's cooking times

This page shows how the recipe breaks into timed tasks for meal plans. Every meal plan that uses this recipe reads it, so fixing something here fixes it everywhere. Usually Claude works these out for you, and you only need this page if something looks wrong.

What each row means:

To fix the times:

  1. Change any box. To add a task, fill in an empty row at the bottom, or press ＋ Add a task for another row. To remove one, tick its Remove box.
  2. Set Can wait this many minutes before serving: how many minutes the finished dish can wait before serving (a steak 5, a stew 30, a cake 240).
  3. Press Save cooking times.

Good to know: times you've saved by hand are never replaced automatically. If the recipe changes later, you'll see Recipe changed so you can look them over. To start again from scratch, press Redo with Claude, which replaces these tasks with a fresh set. Changes here apply to every meal plan that uses this recipe, for everyone in your family.

Don't see Recipes at the top of the page? Ask someone in your family to invite you. Joining switches it on.

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Events

An event is one gathering that everybody plans together, such as Thanksgiving 2026: the menu, who's bringing what, who's cooking when, and the conversation around it.

Invited to one? Press its name below, say if you're coming, then pick a dish or a job.

To start your own:

  1. Press Start an event.
  2. Type a name, the date and the time the food is served, then press Start the event. You're now its host.
  3. Follow the Getting ready list on the event's Overview. It takes you through the menu, invitations and kitchen.

Good to know: people only see events they've been invited to. Guests don't need a family cookbook to join.

An event invitation

This link is your invitation. It works once, for one person.

  1. Press Continue with Google if you have a Google account. If you already have a password here, press I already have a password here. Otherwise, press Make a Pair of Passports account with your email.
  2. You'll come straight back to the invitation.
  3. Press Yes, join this event.
  4. On the event's Overview, say if you're coming and how many people, then pick a dish or a job.

Can't make it? Just tell the person who invited you. You don't have to sign up.

Link stopped working? Invitations last two weeks. Ask the person who invited you to send a new one.

Starting or changing an event

These are the details everyone sees at the top of the event.

  1. Type a name, such as Thanksgiving 2026.
  2. Choose the date and the time the food is served. The kitchen schedule works back from that time.
  3. Add where it is, and anything guests should know, such as parking or allergies, if you like.
  4. Press Start the event (or Save if you're changing one).

You can change any of this later with Edit event. Changing it doesn't email anyone, so post in the Discussion if the time moves.

An event's Overview and discussion board

This page shows the event at a glance: when and where, who's coming, what you've signed up for, and what still needs someone.

To answer:

  1. Under Your answer, choose Coming, Maybe or Can't come.
  2. Type how many people that is, counting you, children too.
  3. Press Save my answer. You can change it any time.

Both got an invitation? Ask a host to count you together, so you're not counted twice. You'll then share one answer and one number, and either of you can change it.

To pick something to do: press the links under Still needs someone, then I'll make it or I'll do it.

To talk to everyone: use the Discussion board. Each topic is its own conversation, so replies stay together. Topics are kept in four groups: General, Food & recipes, Getting there (rides, parking, places to stay) and Photos & memories. The buttons above the groups jump straight to one.

  1. Press + New topic here under the group it fits, or Start a topic and choose the Group. Give it a title (say "Who can bring chairs?") and write your first post. You can add pictures.
  2. To talk about one dish or task, choose it under About.
  3. Press Post topic. Everyone on the event gets an email, unless they turned emails off on the People tab.

Press a topic's title to read it and reply. A new count means posts you haven't seen, and the link takes you to the first one. 📌 means a host pinned the topic to the top; 🔒 means it's closed to new replies.

Hosts: the Getting ready list shows what to do next. Edit event changes the name, date, time and place.

Reading and replying to a topic

A topic is one conversation. Posts are in the order they were written, oldest first. If there's something new since you last looked, a New since your last visit line shows where it starts.

To reply to everyone: write in the Reply box at the bottom and press Post reply.

To answer one post:

  1. Press Reply under it. Your reply will link back to it.
  2. Or press Quote to show their words above yours. To quote only part of a post, select those words with your mouse or finger first, then press Quote.
  3. Press Cancel next to "Replying to" to make it a plain reply again.

Pictures: press 📷 Add pictures and choose up to six. You'll see them before you post; press ✕ on one to leave it out. Press a picture in a post to see it full size.

Formatting: select words and press B for bold or I for italic. ❝ makes a quote, and the list buttons start a list. Links you paste become clickable.

Reactions: press ☺ + under a post and pick one. Press it again to take it back. Hold your pointer over a reaction to see who chose it.

Your own posts: Edit changes your words or pictures; the post then says "edited". Delete removes it. If someone answered it, it stays as "This post was deleted" so their reply still makes sense.

Emails: when you post, everyone who has posted in this topic, and anyone you reply to, gets an email, unless they turned emails off on the People tab.

Hosts: Pin to top keeps a topic first on the board. Close topic stops new replies but keeps everything said. Hosts can delete any post or topic. Whoever started a topic can delete it while nobody else has posted.

Editing your post

Change your words and press Save post. The post will then say "edited", so people know it changed. Quotes others already made from it keep the words they quoted.

Pictures: tick Remove under any to take it off, or press 📷 Add pictures to add more (up to six in all).

If this post started the topic, you can also change the topic's group, title and what it's about. Use this to move a topic that ended up in the wrong group.

Only you can edit your posts. A host can delete them but can't change your words.

Deleting a topic

Deleting a topic removes every post and picture in it, for everyone. It can't be undone.

If you only want the conversation to stop, a host can press Close topic on the topic page instead. Everything stays readable, and nobody can add replies.

Unsubscribing from event emails

This page opens from the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any email about an event. You don't need to log in, and opening it doesn't change anything.

  1. Stop just the Sunday update: no more weekly round-up, but you still hear about new topics and replies to you.
  2. Stop all emails about this event: nothing more about this event, including the Sunday update.
  3. Send me everything again: turns both back on.

Press Save. This only affects the one event; other events and other parts of the site keep their own settings. Your mail app's own Unsubscribe button does the same as the first choice for the Sunday update, or the second for other event emails.

The menu: who makes what, and where

The menu is every dish, who's making it, and where.

To take a dish: press I'll make it next to any dish marked Needs someone. Changed your mind? Press I can't make it.

To add a dish: press Add a dish, fill in the form, and press Save dish.

Already planned this meal in Recipes? (hosts) Press Copy from a meal plan, choose the plan, and press Copy these dishes. Each dish arrives with nobody making it yet. Only hosts can do this, and the plans come from their own family cookbooks.

Good to know:

Adding or changing a dish

Tell everyone what the dish is, who's making it, and where.

  1. Name it. Type a name such as Green salad. If you can see a recipe for it, you can pick that instead.
  2. Who's making it? Choose Nobody yet to leave it for someone to take.
  3. Where will it be made?
    • In the host's kitchen: it goes on the shared kitchen schedule. With a recipe, the steps come from the recipe. Without one, type how many minutes it takes.
    • At home, then bring it: type how many minutes it needs to heat up, in what, and how hot. Leave the minutes blank if it needs no heating, like a salad.
  4. When is it served? Most dishes are With the meal. Choose earlier for a starter, later for dessert.
  5. Press Save dish.

Tasks: bring a table, set up, clean up

Tasks are everything that isn't cooking: Bring the folding table, Set up chairs, Wash up.

To add one: press Add a task, type what needs doing, and press Save task.

To take one: press I'll do it. When it's done, tick the box next to it. Changed your mind? Press I can't do it.

Good to know: hosts can give a task to anyone, and that person gets an email. Guests can take a task themselves or leave it open.

Sharing the kitchen

This is one schedule for everyone using the host's kitchen. It works back from the time the food is served, so ovens, burners and temperatures don't clash and nobody is asked to do two things at once.

To use it:

  1. Hosts: press Kitchen settings and enter what the kitchen has and its hours.
  2. Cooks: anyone making a dish in the host's kitchen is on the schedule automatically (see the Menu tab).
  3. Helpers: tick Yes, I can help in the kitchen. If you're arriving later, choose when; otherwise leave it blank. Press Save.
  4. Press someone's name to see only their steps. Press Print for a checklist.

Good to know:

Kitchen settings (hosts)

Tell the schedule what the host's kitchen has, so it doesn't plan two dishes for one oven.

  1. If you've saved your kitchen in Recipes, choose it at the top. That fills in the boxes. Only you can see your saved kitchen.
  2. Otherwise, type how many of each you have. Leave a box at 0 if you don't have one.
  3. Set the hours people can cook. Work that won't fit moves to the day before.
  4. Press Save kitchen.

Until you do this, the schedule guesses one oven, four burners and a microwave.

People and invitations

See who's coming, and invite more people. Anyone on the event can invite.

To invite someone: type their email and press Send invitation. They don't need an account: the link in the email lets them make one.

To send an invitation again: press Send again next to it under Waiting to join. That works for expired invitations too. Hosts and whoever sent it see this button.

Coming together? (hosts) If two people each have an invitation, such as a couple, count them together so they aren't counted twice. They'll share one answer and one number, and either can change it.

  1. When inviting: under Coming with, choose the other person. They can be someone who hasn't joined yet.
  2. If they've already joined: press Change by their name, choose Together with the other person, and press Save who they're with.
  3. To undo it: choose Counted separately.
  4. Not joined yet? Cancel their invitation and invite them again.

Children and others without their own invitation don't need any of this. The person they're with just counts them in the number on the Overview tab. Being counted together doesn't share any recipes.

To share recipes with someone: if you're in a family cookbook, choose it when you invite them, or press Change by their name, then Invite to cookbook. They'll see that family's whole cookbook, so only do this for people you'd share it with.

Hosts can change the event's details and kitchen, change or remove anyone's dishes and tasks, remove people, and make someone else a host. An event always keeps at least one host.

Emails: everyone on the event gets an email when a topic starts on the discussion board or someone replies to them, plus a Sunday update at 6 AM with what changed, what still needs someone and what's new on the board. By your name, Stop the Sunday update stops just that one, and Stop emails about this event stops them all. Every email also has an unsubscribe link at the bottom that works without logging in. All of these stop by themselves once the event day has passed.

After the event: once the event day has passed, invitations can't be sent, and unused ones can't be accepted.

To leave: press Leave by your name. Your dishes and tasks stay on the list with nobody on them.

Deleting an event

Hosts can delete an event once it's no longer needed.

  1. Press Delete the event to remove it for everyone, or Keep it to go back.

Its menu, tasks, discussion and guest list go, and this can't be undone. Recipes stay in the cookbook. If you only want to step away, use Leave on the People tab instead.

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Your account

Change your name, username, email address and summary email here. You can also see which parts of the site you can use, and how to get the others.

Step by step:

  1. Change any box. Other people see your name, or your username if you haven't given a name.
  2. Your email address is where invitations and notifications go. If you sign in with Google, keep it the same as your Google address.
  3. Weekly summary email: when ticked, you get one short email on Sunday evenings listing what's waiting on you and what happened that week, across trips, chores, recipes and events. It's skipped in weeks with nothing to report. Untick it to stop.
  4. Press Save changes.

Good to know:

Passwords

To change your password:

  1. Open the menu under your name and choose Change password.
  2. Type your old password, then your new one twice.
  3. Press Change password.

If you forgot it:

  1. On the log-in page, press Forgot your password?.
  2. Type your email address and press Send reset link.
  3. Open the link in the email and choose a new password. If nothing arrives, check your spam folder.

If you sign in with Google, you don't have a password here, so no email is sent. To change it, change your Google password in your Google account.

A verification link that doesn't work

A verification link proves an email address is yours. Links last 3 days and stop working if the address has changed since.

  1. If you're signed in, press the button on this page to send a fresh link.
  2. If you're not, log in first, then come back to ask for one.
  3. Open the newest email and press its link.

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The privacy policy says what the site keeps, who can see it, and what goes to outside services. The terms are the few simple rules for using the site.

To have your account deleted, ask the site's administrator.

Read the privacy policy and the terms of use.

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Common questions

I signed in, but it says there's nothing to show yet.

Nobody has invited your email address yet. Ask someone to invite you to their trip, house, family cookbook or event. If you were invited at another address, log out and sign in with that one, or open the link in the email. Joining switches that part on straight away.

I don't see Trips (or Chores, Recipes or Events) at the top.

You haven't been invited to it yet. See why you might not see all four.

I sign in with Google. How do I change my password?

You don't have a password here. Change your Google password in your Google account.

We're a couple with two invitations. Will we be counted twice?

Not if a host counts you together. Ask a host to do it on the event's People tab. You'll then share one answer and one number.

I can't come to an event. Do I still need an account?

No. Just tell the person who invited you. If you've already joined, choose Can't come on the event's Overview tab.

I didn't get an invitation email.

Check your spam or junk folder. Make sure the person typed the email address you use here; they can send it again from the same place, and the new email works the same way.

How do I put a whole meal on my shopping list?

Open the meal plan (Recipes → Meal plans), scroll to Shop for this meal, type how many people are eating, and press Add to my shopping list.

My family sent me an invitation. Where is it?

Look in your email, including spam, for a message from Pair of Passports, and press the link. If you're already signed in, open Recipes → Family and look for You're invited.

Why can't I edit this recipe?

Only the person who added it can edit it. You can still add photos, comment, change its cooking times, and put it in collections.

I changed a recipe. Why does the meal plan say "Recipe changed"?

The plan's times were worked out from the old version. Open the plan and press Work out cooking times, or check them by hand with Check times.

Can two of us share a shopping list?

Not yet. Each person has their own. You can each press Add to my shopping list on the same meal plan.

Something went wrong, or a page looks broken.

Press your browser's refresh button first. If it's still wrong, tell the administrator what you were doing and what you saw.

I can't see an item someone mentioned.

It's probably something set to Only some people or Just me that wasn't shared with you. Ask whoever added it.

Why can't I edit anything?

You're a viewer on that trip. An organizer can make you a planner from Manage travelers & invitations on the Overview.

The Money page says someone owes money, but nobody's paid yet.

Only money that's actually been spent counts. Check for an item with an actual cost filled in, or a payment marked as paid.

I paid someone back, but it still says I owe them.

Press Mark as paid next to that line on the Money tab.

How do I delete a trip or leave one?

Press Leave this trip at the bottom of the Overview. The only organizer has to make someone else an organizer first. Organizers can also delete a trip for everyone with Delete this trip, after typing its name.

Ideas, a decision or just adding it: which do I use?

Already settled? Add to the plan. Need to pick exactly one? Ask the group to choose. Several might happen? Ideas.

I pressed "I did it!" on a chore by mistake.

Press Oops, undo next to it. That works until a parent approves it.

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