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Features & How-To

Accounts, transactions, budgets, goals, activities, the planner, and everything in between.

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🔄 Transfers & credit-card payments

Move money between your own accounts — and pay down or spend on a credit card — so every balance stays right.

✨ Features & How-To 5 min read

🍲 Planning your family's meals

Plan the week from your cookbook — who's cooking what, when — and share it so nobody has to ask what's for dinner.

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🔔 Notifications & reminders — staying on top of what needs you

The bell in your header keeps track of what's coming due, assigned, and coming up — and the app can give you a timely heads-up before activities, travel and timed to-dos start.

✨ Features & How-To 5 min read

📱 Put your family's day on your home screen

A beanies widget shows today's plan right on your phone's Home Screen, so you can see what's on without opening the app, and one tap takes you to the right screen.

✨ Features & How-To 3 min read

💡 Helpful Hints — gentle reminders before the things that matter

Ahead of birthdays, parties, and trips, beanies can drop a gentle, clearly-marked suggestion into your family to-do list — buy a present, start packing, check passports — so the obvious prep never slips.

✨ Features & How-To 3 min read

🏦 Managing Accounts

Add bank accounts, credit cards, investments, and more. Track balances across your entire family.

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💸 Recording Transactions

Track income, expenses, and transfers between accounts with categories and recurring schedules.

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🎯 Setting & Tracking Goals

Set savings goals, debt payoff targets, and purchase plans. Track progress with visual indicators.

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💵 Budgets & Category Limits

Set monthly budgets with per-category spending limits. Track your pace throughout the month.

✨ Features & How-To 6 min read

✅ Family To-Do Lists

Create tasks, assign them to family members, set due dates, and track what gets done. Your shared family task board.

✨ Features & How-To 5 min read

✈️ Travel Plans & Vacations

Plan family trips from start to finish — flights, hotels, transport, activities, and ideas — all in one place.

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🏡 The Family Nook — Your Home Base

Your family’s homepage at a glance — what’s happening today, upcoming events, to-dos, milestones, and finances, all in one place.

✨ Features & How-To 4 min read

📅 Family Planner & Activities

Schedule lessons, appointments, and recurring activities for your family with calendar views and smart recurrence.

✨ Features & How-To 6 min read

🧾 Beanie Lists

Shared, categorized checklists for the stuff family life runs on — groceries, packing, chores, before-school routines. One-off or auto-repeating.

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💬 Sharing feedback with the beanies team

Tell us how beanies.family is treating your family — a quick score and a few words go straight to the people building it.

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🏦 Keep account details in one place

Store the reference details you always dig for — account number, online-banking link, card last-4, crypto wallets — right on the account.

✨ Features & How-To 6 min read

📤 Share Something Straight to beanies

Send a photo, screenshot, PDF, link or selected text from any app on your phone into beanies, and it works out whether it is an activity, a trip, a recipe, a bank statement or a to-do.

✨ Features & How-To 5 min read

🏦 Import a Bank Statement with Magic Beans

Hand beanies a bank or card statement and check the transactions it finds before anything is added, with the ones you already entered matched up instead of doubled.

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📅 Import your Google Calendar

Import the events you already have in Google, once, choosing exactly which ones come across and what happens to each afterwards.

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🙋 Who Owns What: Share the Jobs That Keep Your Home Running

A deck of household jobs your family keeps or skips, then hands out, so who owns what is never a debate. Split cards by child, re-deal when life changes, check in together and print the deck for the fridge.

✨ Features & How-To 6 min read

🔁 Repeating to-dos and card reminders

Make a to-do repeat on its own, see every repeating reminder in the family, and attach a reminder to a Who Owns What card so it follows whoever holds the card.

✨ Features & How-To 5 min read

🗓️ The Family Check-in: How It Works

Every few weeks, ten minutes together to look at your Who Owns What deck. Which cards come up, what No Issues, We’ve Talked and Save for Next Time each do, and where to see the results afterwards.

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🌱 Plans, your trial, and what read-only means

What the 90-day trial includes, what changes when it ends, how to choose a plan from the website, and what happens to your family’s data if you stop paying (nothing).

✨ Features & How-To 3 min read

🌤️ Show the weather on the beanie wall and in the Nook

Set your family’s home town once and see today’s weather and the next three days on the beanie wall, its night screen and the Nook.

✨ Features & How-To 5 min read

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Meet the Beans — Each Family Member’s Profile

Every family member is a “bean” with their own profile — favourites, funny sayings, milestones, health notes, and more. Here’s how to fill one in.

✨ Features & How-To 5 min read

🩺 Allergies & Medications (Care & Safety)

Keep each bean’s allergies and medications in one place — and a quick-reference page anyone caring for your family can check at a glance.

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🌟 Family Milestones

Catch the firsts and the big moments — first word, lost tooth, new job, new puppy — and keep them in one family timeline, with dates and photos.

✨ Features & How-To 4 min read

📖 The Family Scrapbook

A digital memory-book you can flip through — a page for each family member, plus an “Everyone” page — filled in automatically from the things you add to your beans.

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🍳 Add a Recipe From Anywhere

Point beanies at a photo, a PDF, a recipe link or a cooking video, and it writes the recipe into your cookbook for you to check.

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🍜 The Family Cookbook

Keep the recipes that get passed down — the story behind them, the photos, and a log of every time someone makes them.

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🆘 Emergency Contacts

Your family phonebook — doctors, school, dentists, sitters — kept where anyone looking after your family can find it.

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📷 Adding Photos

Attach photos to milestones, recipes, medications, activities, and your beans’ profile pictures — and understand how they’re stored.

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