The onboarding flow at /onboarding sets up HomeTrail around your family’s real week.
During setup, you can:
- Complete Who are you teaching?
- Describe How do you like to homeschool? and choose what would make the biggest difference in your homeschool week. 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 Set up your week by confirming your subjects and describing What repeats in your week?
- 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—generated materials, the Nest student app, and a homeschooling assistant via SMS—then choose See Plus trial options or Continue free.
- If you choose trial options, choose Annual at $199/yr or Monthly at $19.99/mo, then select Continue to secure checkout to finish on Stripe's checkout page.
Under What repeats in your week?, describe the curriculum and regular activities for each child, including weekdays when you know them. Your answer is saved with your family setup while you type, so a draft can survive a refresh. Select Review my week to turn recognized details into Rhythm items, review what HomeTrail found, and remove anything you do not want before continuing. HomeTrail also keeps the submitted wording with your family setup after it creates the items.
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 week is clearer.
If you do not choose weekdays, an item is available every day. If you choose weekdays, it appears on those recurring days. These items are ready to check off in the Planner; they are not separate, explicitly dated sessions unless you plan one for a particular date and time.
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 offers an optional Bring TrailGuide to your phone step before you finish in Plus Hub. Add a mobile number and consent to receive TrailGuide messages by SMS or WhatsApp, or select Not now to skip phone setup. WhatsApp families complete one additional pairing message in WhatsApp. You can connect later from Plus Hub → TrailGuide.
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.
