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Add a head-of-household

Invite your co-parent to your SportsCal household so both of you see the same kids, calendars, and events. Whoever taps a ride ask or a manual event is the sender — but everything shows up on both dashboards. Takes about 90 seconds from send to shared view.

The flow
STEP 1 · IN SPORTSCAL
Household
Share the family calendar with a co-parent
J
John Patton you
john@example.com
You're the only member right now. Add your co-parent and you'll both see the same family view.

Open Settings → Household

Sign in on the web and go to Settings. Scroll to the Household section — right now it shows just you. Everything you add lives under your account until you invite someone.

STEP 2 · SEND THE INVITE
Household
Invite your co-parent by email
J
John Patton you
Invite a co-parent
theresa@example.com
Tap

Type their email → Send invite

Enter your co-parent's email and tap Send invite. SportsCal generates a magic link and emails it right away. The invite expires in 7 days if they don't act.

STEP 3 · THEY GET AN EMAIL

Landed in their inbox

Your co-parent gets an email from SportsCal with a big Accept invite button. If they don't see it in a couple of minutes, tell them to check the promotions or spam folder — sender is noreply@mail.sportscalapp.com.

STEP 4 · THEY CLICK ACCEPT
Household invite

John invited you to their SportsCal family

Accept and you'll share the same family calendar — kids, team feeds, pickups and dropoffs. Your existing account and calendars come with you.

Accept invite
Signed in as theresa@example.com
Tap accept

The magic link opens a join page

The button lands on sportscalapp.com/household/join. If they don't have a SportsCal account yet, they'll sign up first — the invite waits for them and picks right back up. If they already have one, they just sign in and tap Accept.

STEP 5 · BOTH IN THE HOUSEHOLD
Household
2 members · 1 shared family view
J
John Patton you
john@example.com
T
Theresa Patton
theresa@example.com

Now you're a household of two

Both names show up in the Household section on either account. Whatever calendars either of you added live inside this shared view — kids, team feeds, manual events, ride asks, all of it.

STEP 6 · SHARED DASHBOARD
This week
Same view on both parents' phones
Baseball practice · Riley
Wed · 4:30 PM · Field 3 · John added this feed
Ballet · Jordan
Thu · 5:15 PM · Studio B · Theresa added this feed
Dentist · Sam
Fri · 3:00 PM · Manual event · John
Every event on either phone. Ride ask? Whoever taps is the sender.

Every event, either phone

The family Dashboard is now identical on both accounts. When someone offers a ride from your household, whoever tapped is the one the reply lands with — no confusion about who's coordinating.

Good to know

Do their existing calendars come with them?

Yes. If your co-parent already had a SportsCal account with kids or feeds set up, everything they had comes along when they accept — and you'll both see it right after.

Can I invite more than one person?

Household size is capped at two for now — the common co-parent case. If you'd use a third seat (grandparent, nanny), tell us — that's the fastest way to move it up the list.

What if they never respond?

The invite expires after 7 days. You can also cancel it any time from the Household section — the magic link stops working immediately when you do.

Can we un-join later?

Either of you can leave from the Household section. The one who leaves keeps their own kids and calendars — they just go back to their own solo view.