How do I add a co-parent or guest?

Guests are full collaborators with their own Happyly accounts. They sign in with their own email and see exactly the slices of your data you grant. There's no shared password — they have their own login and you control what each guest can see.

Once a co-parent or caregiver is added, you can message them inside the app — see family-chats-overview.

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## Three places to invite

The invite affordance lives in three spots so you can reach it without hunting through settings:

### 1. The family-member dropdown (everywhere)

Next to your child's name button there's a chevron. Tap it to open the family-member picker; Invite a co-parent sits below Add family member. One tap takes you to the guest-add form pre-expanded.

This affordance is hidden if you're already signed in as a guest (guests can't invite further guests — only the host can).

### 2. My Account → Family

The canonical home of all guest management. Lists everyone you've ever invited with their permissions, edit / remove buttons, and the Add a guest form. Re-visit here to change what a guest can see, or to remove access.

### 3. The one-time onboarding prompt

If you're brand new to Happyly, the welcome flow asks once: "Do you want to set up another caregiver or parent as a guest?" with a tooltip explaining what guests can do. Tap Add a co-parent to deep-link to the form, or Maybe later to skip. The slide doesn't re-appear once you've passed onboarding — you'll discover the affordance via places (1) or (2) later.

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## Creating a guest

From any of the three entry points above:

1. Enter the guest's email.
2. Optionally enter their first name + last initial (so they show up as "Sarah B." on the chrome instead of an email prefix).
3. Pick a preset to start from, then fine-tune:
4. - Co-parent — full access. Activity Tracker (view + edit), Rhythm Guide, Insights, Growth, Milestones, Medications, Milk Stash, and crucially Co-parent presence (the watch chip — see on-duty-handoff).
5. - Caregiver / Babysitter — daytime operations. Activity Tracker (view + edit), Medications (view), Milk Stash (view + edit). Includes Co-parent presence so you can hand off the watch to them.
6. - Grandparent / View-only — read-only. View tracker, view Insights, view milestones, view growth. Does not include Co-parent presence — grandparents are silent observers; they see the chrome but the watch chip stays hidden for them.
7. Save.

Happyly emails them a sign-in link. They sign in with their own credentials.

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## What "Co-parent presence" unlocks

A guest with this permission becomes a real co-caregiver in the chrome:

• Their avatar appears in your stack next to your child's name when they're in the app.
• They can take the watch when no-one's on it.
• You can hand off to them (and they can accept or decline) via the active-accept handoff flow.
• They can mark the child as out (daycare, with grandma, etc.) and your screen updates.
• They see your hand-off requests in real time and your watch chip flips as they take / hand off.

Grant it for partners, regular babysitters, and grandparents you genuinely co-parent with. Skip it for read-only viewers (see-only grandparents, daycare workers).

The permission is independent of the data permissions — you can give someone Co-parent presence WITHOUT giving them edit access to the tracker, or vice versa. Most users won't need to think about it; the presets above bundle sensibly.

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## Inviting someone who already has their own Happyly account

If the email you enter already belongs to another primary Happyly user (e.g., you're inviting your co-parent who's been tracking on their own), Happyly notices and asks you to confirm. On confirm, the existing user gets a one-time consent banner the next time they sign in: "{your name} shared {childName} with you. [View their data] [Dismiss]". Their own data stays private; accepting just lets them view your shared slice in addition.

This is the dual-mode state — they have their own family AND yours. They can switch between views from `/shared` or by tapping Switch to my own account in the chrome.

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## Why so detailed?

A grandparent rarely needs to see medications. A daycare worker only needs the Rhythm Guide. Splitting permissions per feature means you share exactly what's useful without exposing what isn't. And the Co-parent presence toggle is the gating mechanic between "silent observer" and "active co-caregiver" — letting you grant viewing rights without making someone a real participant in the watch.

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## From chat

• "Add Sarah as a guest, email sarah@example.com — she's my co-parent." → opens the Co-parent preset with her email pre-filled.
• "Give grandma view-only access to milestones." → opens the Grandparent preset.

Happyly offers a confirmation before sending the invite.

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## Quick reference