Getting started
Create your account, set up your first project with the setup guide, and find your way around RenovU on a computer or a phone.
RenovU keeps everything about a renovation in one place: its rooms, tasks, budget, spending, photos and the people working on it. This section takes you from creating an account to knowing where everything is.
The first few minutes#
- Create your account with your email address, or with Google where it's offered, and confirm your email with the 6-digit code we send you.
- Run the setup guide. It asks for your language and units, then helps you create your first project, tick its rooms and set a budget and target date. It takes about two minutes, and every step but the project name can be skipped.
- Take the tour, if you like: four short tips on your project's page.
After that, the Dashboard is your home page. It shows what needs attention across your projects, your own tasks and what's happened recently.
Projects and templates#
A project holds one renovation. You can start a project blank, or from a template that adds rooms and tasks for you, such as a kitchen renovation or a bathroom refit. Rooms group your tasks and spending by where the work happens. See Projects and rooms for everything you can do with a project once it exists.
What each plan gets#
Everyone starts on the Free plan. By default:
- Free: 1 project, up to 50 tasks in it, and the Kitchen renovation and Bathroom refit templates
- Premium: 1 project with unlimited tasks, and all four templates
- Professional: unlimited projects, all four templates, and saving your own projects as templates
Limits can change, so see Pricing for the current list, and Plans and billing for how upgrading works.
Getting back here#
The setup guide and the tour can both be run again whenever you like, from the Help home page while you're signed in.
How-to guides
- Create your accountSign up with your email address or Google, and confirm your email with the 6-digit code we send you.
- Set up your first project with the setup guideWalk through the five setup steps: language and units, your project, its rooms, a budget and target date, and the tour.
- Start a project from a templatePick a ready-made set of rooms and tasks when you create a project, preview it first, and split a budget across its rooms.
- Find your way aroundWhere the main sections, the project switcher, the Add button, Help and Log out are, on a computer and on a phone.
- Read your dashboardWhat the dashboard shows with one project or several: what needs attention, your tasks, progress by room and recent activity.
- Take the tourFour short tips on your project's page: adding tasks, photos, the budget and the project switcher. Run it again from Help.
Questions
Why does sign-up say RenovU is invite-only?
RenovU sometimes accepts new accounts only from people who've been invited. You can sign up if you have an invite from the waitlist, or an invitation to someone's project sent to your address. Otherwise, follow join the waitlist on the sign-up page and we'll email you when it's your turn. See Create your account.
I didn't get my verification code. What can I do?
Check your spam folder first. The code and the link expire after 1 hour. To get a new one, select Send a new code on the Check your email page. If you've left that page, go to Log in, select Enter your verification code, enter your email and select Send a new code.
I skipped the setup guide. Can I run it again?
Yes. Open the Help home page while you're signed in and select Open the setup guide. Nothing you've already set up changes unless you change it. See Set up your first project.
Can I sign up with Google?
Where it's offered, yes: select Continue with Google on the sign-up or log-in page. You don't need a verification code, since Google has already confirmed your email. Your account then has no RenovU password. If you want one later, use Forgot password? on the log-in page.
Where's the Add button on a computer?
Add is in the tab bar on phones only. On a computer, add a task from the box at the top of a project's Tasks tab, or from the quick-add box on the dashboard when you have one project. Start a project with New project on the dashboard or the Projects page.
Why did the tour skip some of its tips?
The tour only points at controls that are on the page. If your role on a project hides its budget, for example, the budget tip is left out. Run the tour on a project you own to see all four tips.
Does it cost anything to get started?
No. Every account starts on the Free plan, with one project and up to 50 tasks in it. You can upgrade when you need more. See Pricing and Plans and billing.
Related
- Projects and roomsCreate and set up projects, organise them into rooms, and archive, delete or hand over a project you no longer need.
- TasksAdd tasks, track progress, search and filter the board, and use dependencies, subtasks, notes and the bin.
- The app on your phoneInstall RenovU on your phone, tablet or computer, get notifications there, and keep working when you lose signal.
- Account and securityYour profile, email and password, signing in and out, and keeping your RenovU account safe.