How Parental Controls Shape the Minor Chores Experience
🧑👩🧒 The Five Parental Controls That Put Families First
Minor Chores gives parents five powerful settings that ensure every child’s entrepreneurial journey is safe and family-approved:
Parent Approval for New Customers
Every new customer must be approved before they can book or message the child. Until then, that customer will see the chorepreneur as pending in their dashboard.Public Profile Visibility
Parents can blur their child’s profile until approval. Once approved, the full profile (photo and services) is displayed to the customer.Chore Radius
Parents decide how far their child can work by setting a service radius around their address. This ensures kids are only discoverable to nearby customers.Enable Written Reviews
Parents can allow star ratings only or open it up for written reviews that appear on the child’s website.Notify Me of All Activity
By default, parents are notified of every booking, customer request, or review.For kids under 13, this setting cannot be turned off.
For teens (13–17), parents can disable push notifications, though SMS updates still come through.
Together, these controls let parents stay as hands-on (or hands-off) as they feel comfortable, while keeping kids protected.
🌐 How Customers Discover Minor Chores
Unlike parents and chore-preneurs, customers don’t download the Minor Chores app. Instead, they interact through the web app.
Most customers first discover Minor Chores when:
A parent shares their child’s business website link via text or social media
A neighbor scans a QR code on the child’s flyer or business card
That link takes them directly to the child’s personalized business site, where the real journey begins.
🧑💻 The Customer Journey, Step by Step
Here’s what happens from the customer’s perspective:
Join Prompt
On the kid’s website, a pop-up asks the customer to join their customer list. Customers can dismiss it, but they’ll need to join before they can book.Create Account
When they join, they’re asked to create a quick customer account. It only takes seconds.Customer Dashboard (Web App)
Once inside, the customer’s dashboard organizes everything into three simple lists:Approved Chore-preneurs – Kids the customer has joined and parents have approved. These can be booked or messaged right away.
Pending Chore-preneurs – Kids the customer requested to join, but who are waiting for parent approval or who have hit the free plan’s 3-customer cap.
Discover Tab – Kids nearby, based on the customer’s address and the chorepreneur’s set radius. Profiles appear blurred if visibility is off until approval. Customers won’t see chorepreneurs they’re already connected to or pending with.
💡 Why It Matters
Parental controls make Minor Chores both the safest and easiest way for kids to start a business.
Parents keep control over visibility, communication, and approvals.
Customers always know who they’re booking and feel confident in the process.
Kids gain real-world entrepreneurial skills while staying safe, building trust, confidence, and income one job at a time.
At the end of the day, Minor Chores is more than just an app. It’s a way for families to teach responsibility, financial literacy, and independence, all while keeping safety front and center.
