Five steps
What you actually do
In order. Steps four and five are optional on day one — plenty of families start with the directory alone.
- Step 1
Create your family
One person signs up, names the family, and becomes its first administrator. It takes about a minute and costs nothing.
You are the founder, so you hold every permission from the start.
- Step 2
Share one family code
Your family gets a short code. Put it in the group text. Relatives sign up with it and land in your approval queue — you are not typing in a hundred people by hand.
Prefer to invite directly? Email an invitation and they skip straight past the code.
- Step 3
Approve who belongs
Every applicant waits until an administrator recognises them. Nobody sees a single photograph, address or dollar figure before you say yes.
Declined by mistake? They can ask you to look again, in writing.
- Step 4
Put the reunion up
Write the checklist once, schedule the gathering from it, and every step becomes somebody’s job with a date against it. What comes back is accepted or sent back with notes.
- Step 5
Turn on the treasury
Set a dues plan members can pay in installments, create the funds the money belongs to, and let the routing rules put each payment where it goes.
Your treasurer gets a real profit and loss out of the other end.
That is the whole setup
Everything else — chat, photos, documents, elections, chapters, reports — is already switched on inside the same account, waiting for whenever you want it.
Questions
The things families ask first
How long does it take to set up a family portal?
Creating the family takes about a minute. Most families have relatives signing themselves up the same evening, because they join with a family code instead of being entered by hand.
Do I have to add every family member myself?
No. You share one short family code and relatives sign up with it, landing in an approval queue for an administrator to review. You can also email invitations directly, which lets someone skip the code entirely.
Can someone see our family’s information before we approve them?
No. An applicant sees nothing about the family until an administrator approves them — no directory, no photographs, no financial figures. Family separation is enforced by the database on every query, not by a setting.
What happens if we decline someone by mistake?
The decision is kept rather than deleted, so it can be reversed. An administrator can admit them after all, any member can send them a fresh invitation, and the person themselves can reply once in writing to ask the administrators to look again.
Is GENORRA free to start?
Yes. Creating your family, inviting your relatives and running your first reunion costs nothing, and no card is required to start.
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