Reminders & Notifications

Set up a reminder once, and Helperly sends it automatically — specific to the profile, the activity, and the location — so there's nothing to remember to check.

A typical reminder reads: "Will's swim practice is tomorrow at 7am — Sunrise Aquatics, Natatorium B." After subscribing to a schedule, open the subscription and choose when you want to be reminded — 1 day, 2 hours, 1 hour, or 30 minutes before — and each parent on a shared calendar sets up their own copy.

Web push notifications are also available if you've installed Helperly as an app on your phone or desktop, for a reminder that lands right on your lock screen.

Weekly summary email

On the Family plan, every Sunday at 6pm (your time) Helperly emails the week ahead: every profile's activities, Monday through Sunday, day by day, with times in your own timezone. Cancelled classes are left out, and anything moved or relocated from its usual time or place is marked Changed, with what it used to be. Co-parents each get their own copy, in their own timezone. Weeks with nothing scheduled don't send an email.

To stop it, use the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any summary, or untick Weekly summary email on your profile page.

Taking a break from an activity? Open the schedule and click Remove next to a profile's name in the "Track this schedule for…" section — that stops their reminders and clears the activity from their calendar without affecting anyone else tracking the same schedule. You can add them back the same way whenever they pick it back up.