The purpose of Gimi is to help children learn how to manage money. To learn, they need to practise, preferably together with their parents. In the Gimi app, children can, for example, create savings goals, complete chores and take lessons about personal finance, while parents can, for example, schedule weekly or monthly allowance, assign chores and get tips for educational activities they can do with their children. Therefore, parents and children need to have their own user accounts in the app, and it is necessary to connect their accounts to each other.
How parents connect with children:
For the purposes of this guide, we will explain how to invite a child that does not have an existing user account in Gimi.
Go to the home screen and click the "Add child" button.
Select "Create an account for my child". (If your child has already installed the app and created their own account, select "My child already has an account".)
Enter your child's name.
Enter your child's age.
Invite your child via SMS or email. This will be your child's login information for the Gimi app. If your child does not have a phone number or email address, read here.
Once you have completed the steps above, an invitation link will be sent to your child's phone number or email address. Your child should install the Gimi app using this link and then log in with the same email address or phone number that you invited them with.
How children connect with parents:
Go to the home screen and click the "Invite a parent" button.
Invite your parent. You can choose SMS, email or QR code.
An invitation link will be sent to your parent's phone number or email address.
If you want to connect another parent:
There are two ways to invite another parent – either from the child's app or from the parent's app.
From the child's app:
Go to "Skills".
Tap the settings icon (the small wrench) in the top right corner.
Go to "My contacts".
Tap "+ Invite".
Choose whether you want to invite the parent via SMS, email or QR code.
From the parent's app:
Go to "Settings".
Select "My children".
Select the child you want to add another parent to.
Tap "Parents & contacts".
Tap "+ Invite" and choose SMS or email.