A shared family calendar for our houses — sign in, book a stay, manage a house, sort out the bills.
Part 1 · Start here
HomeBook is a shared family calendar for our houses. Every house has a page with photos, prices and a calendar. You pick your days, the people in charge say yes or no, and everyone sees who is staying.
It works on any phone, tablet or computer — nothing to install.
Username admin — password admin123. The admin can do everything and can set a new password for any account. Change this password before the family really uses the site.
No account yet? An admin creates one for you in under a minute — or pick up the link they sent you.
Personal details (names, e-mail addresses, phone numbers) are stored encrypted and are never shown in full in the app. You will see partial forms such as Davy J. or d•••@g•••.com.
To change someone's real details, an admin retypes the full value in the member form — typing a new value replaces the old one.
Part 2 · The main flow
The app starts on the Home screen: big cards, one per destination. Tap a card to open that part of the app, and use the Back arrow (top left) whenever you want to go up one level — the HomeBook logo always brings you back Home.
You can also press a green day on your Dashboard calendar — the same booking form appears right below the calendar.
| Color | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Green | Free. You can ask for this day. |
| Red | The whole house is taken (private booking). |
| Blue | Shared stay — several people in the house. |
| Orange | Requested, waiting for approval. |
| Grey | The house is closed that day. |
| Dark grey | In the past — the day is over. |
Press any day to see who is there. Owners and house staff get Approve / Decline buttons for waiting requests.
Everything you booked lives under My Trips. A request that is still pending can be cancelled by you at any time; an approved stay is cancelled by the owner or an admin — just ask.
Part 3 · Owners, staff & money
Every account has a badge, and the badge decides what it can do:
| Badge | Can do |
|---|---|
| Visitor | Only look at the houses. |
| User | Book houses, see own trips, pay bills assigned to them. |
| OWNER | Owns one or more houses: full control, approves requests, sees their bills. |
| MODERATOR | A helper. Can be given one house or a permission to approve bookings. |
| ADMIN | Everything: users, roles, houses, settings. |
Open a house page as its owner or as an admin: a manage bar appears at the top. Everything is editable right there — no separate admin area.
Waiting requests appear on the house page and on your Dashboard calendar — open the day and press Approve or Decline.
Press House staff on a house page to assign a moderator to it: they can then approve bookings and handle the bills of that house only — they see nothing else.
Houses also belong to family groups. Members of a house's family automatically pay the family discount there — you set the percentage when editing the house.
House costs become invoices: a number, an amount, and one person who has to pay. The Expenses page keeps it all in order:
The Dashboard follows the same house filter: pick one house (or all of them) and every figure and pie chart follows — nights per house and per member, expenses per house, paid per member and the share of the bills each member is responsible for.
Part 3 · Words & fixes
| Word on the site | What it means |
|---|---|
| Pending | Sent, waiting for a yes. |
| Private / Shared | Whole house yours / share it with others. |
| My Trips | Your requests and stays. |
| Hide / Publish | Take a house off / put it back on the public list. |
| House staff | Moderators assigned to one house. |
| Invoice | A bill: what, how much, who pays. |
| Assignment | The person who has to pay a bill. |