Help centre

Step-by-step guides for everything Nestino does.

Getting started

  • Welcome to Nestino — what the app does

    An overview of Nestino right after signing in — where Home, Tasks, Expenses, Calendar, Rewards, Family and Settings take you, and how a child's view differs.

  • First run: the setup wizard

    How to create an account in Nestino, verify your email, and go through the four-step wizard that sets up your household, invites your family, and picks expense categories.

  • Signing in — adult vs. child

    How an adult signs into Nestino with an email and how a child signs in with a family code and username, and where to find the family code.

  • The dashboard: what it shows

    What the cards, numbers and links on Nestino's dashboard mean, and how the child view differs from the adult one.

Tasks

Expenses

  • Logging an expense

    How to log an expense in Nestino, fill in the amount and category, and who in the family can add expenses.

  • Receipts and documents

    How to attach a receipt or document to a saved expense, which formats and size it supports, and who can access it.

  • Monthly expense overview

    How to read the top of the Expenses page — the total amount for the month, the chart by category, and how to filter the transactions table.

  • Expense categories

    How to manage preset and custom expense categories, and what to do when your family hits the limit of five custom categories.

Recurring

  • Recurring payments — intervals and reminders

    How to set up a recurring payment like Netflix or rent, configure the interval and reminder, and what happens once you set a reminder recipient.

  • Recurring task templates

    How to set up, edit, pause, resume and delete a recurring task template on the Tasks tab in Recurring.

  • Pausing and resuming

    How to pause and resume a recurring payment or a recurring task template without losing any settings.

  • Calendar

    The calendar, in month or agenda view, brings together tasks with a due date and upcoming recurring payments; you'll find it in the main navigation between Expenses and Rewards.

Rewards

  • Reward modes: none, points, currency

    How the three reward modes — None, Points and Currency — work, where the family admin sets them, and everything a switch resets.

  • How points are earned and adjusted

    How points for completed tasks are credited to the balance, when that happens, and how an admin or parent can adjust it by hand.

  • Default point values by difficulty

    Where a family sets guideline point values for a task's three difficulty levels in Settings, and why the numbers never fill themselves into the task form.

Family

  • Inviting someone to your family

    How to invite another adult to your family by link or email, and what happens to the invite afterwards.

  • Creating a child account

    How an admin or parent creates a child account with a name, username and password, where to then find the family code for the child to sign in, and why a forgotten child password can't currently be recovered.

  • Roles and permissions — who can do what

    An overview of family roles — Admin, Parent, Member, Child and Guest — and the rules for who can invite, approve tasks or change others' roles.

Settings