The onboarding flow at /onboarding sets up HomeTrail around your students, goals, and recurring Rhythm.
During setup, you can:
- Complete Who are you teaching?
- Describe How do you like to homeschool?, add What is your why?, choose what would make the biggest difference in your homeschool journey, and optionally tell HomeTrail where you heard about it. Families arriving through HomeTrail’s broader family-learning pages may instead see How does learning fit into your family? Everyone can choose School plus family-led learning when that best describes their approach.
- Complete Subjects and Rhythm by confirming your subjects and describing the curriculum and activities your family does regularly under Set up your Rhythm.
- Confirm your location, then choose Year-round or Follow a school calendar. Year-round families do not need to enter start or end dates. Families following a calendar add their school-year dates and identify whether they are already homeschooling, new to homeschooling, or between homeschool years.
- Review what HomeTrail Plus can do for your family, including examples of worksheets, audio, readings, puzzles, and other materials.
- Choose Annual at $199/yr or Monthly at $19.99/mo, then select Continue to checkout to finish on Stripe's checkout page. You can instead choose Continue with HomeTrail Free.
Under Set up your Rhythm, describe the curriculum and regular activities for each student, including weekdays and date ranges when you know them. The example stays visible below the text box while you type. Select Set up my Rhythm to turn recognized details into Rhythm items, then use Review your Rhythm to edit or remove anything you do not want before continuing. You can change subjects and Rhythm items later from Home.
If HomeTrail cannot recognize curriculum or a routine, your answer stays in place so you can rephrase it and try again. If you leave the answer blank, choose Continue without Rhythm items. HomeTrail records that you skipped this part, finishes setup without inventing items, and offers Add your first Rhythm item on Home so you can return when your Rhythm is clearer.
If you do not choose weekdays, an item is available every day. If you choose weekdays, it appears on those recurring days in Today and Planner. HomeTrail does not create completed learning records ahead of time; the dated record is saved when you mark an item complete.
The Plus trial lasts 10 days, and checkout shows no charge today. You can manage or cancel the subscription from Billing before the trial ends.
After checkout, HomeTrail finishes setup in Plus Hub. Connect TrailGuide to SMS or WhatsApp from Plus Hub → TrailGuide whenever you are ready.
The setup examples use representative data; they do not publish your family information. After setup, open each Plus tab to review Compass learning maps, Nest access, and TrailGuide messaging preferences.
If you paid but Plus still appears locked
- Confirm that you are signed in to the same family account that completed checkout.
- Open Billing and verify that the Plus subscription or trial appears there.
- Return to Plus Hub and refresh the page once.
- If Billing is missing, the payment is not listed, or Plus remains locked, use Contact support in the Help Center.
Only the family account owner can manage billing. Do not send a card number, password, invoice, billing address, or other payment details in the support message. Support can investigate using the signed-in family account.
