Family

Creating a family

When you sign in for the first time, you'll be prompted to create or join a family. Give it a name that means something — most people use their surname or something playful.

Your family is the container for all your shared recipes, menus, and members. Everything you add belongs to a family.

Inviting members

Go to Family → Manage Family and click Invite a member. Enter the person's email address and an invitation will be sent via email.

• If the person already has a From Our Table account, they'll be added immediately when they accept.
• If they don't have an account yet, the invitation email will walk them through signing in with Google and joining your family.
• Pending invitations are shown in the Family management page. You can resend or cancel them at any time.

Roles & permissions

Every family member has one of two roles:

Member

• Add, edit, and delete recipes
• Create and manage menus
• Share recipes with other families on the platform
• Rate recipes and view ratings

Owner

Owners have all Member permissions, plus:

• Invite new members and manage pending invitations
• Remove members from the family
• Change a member's role
• Share recipes publicly (visible to everyone, including people without an account)

A family can have multiple Owners. The person who creates the family is automatically an Owner.

Multiple families

You can belong to more than one family at the same time. This is useful if you want to keep different recipe collections separate — for example, your immediate household and your extended family, or your home kitchen and a holiday house.

Use the family switcher in the navigation bar to switch between families. The recipes and menus shown always belong to the currently selected family.

Managing your family

Go to Family in the nav bar to access the family management page. Here you can:

• See all current members and their roles
• Invite new members
• View and resend pending invitations
• Change a member's role (Owner only)
• Remove a member (Owner only)

If you need to leave a family yourself, contact another Owner to remove you. If you are the only Owner, promote another member first.

Family contacts

Family contacts are a saved list of people you regularly invite to events — guests who aren't necessarily members of the app. Storing them here means you don't have to type the same names and email addresses every time you plan a menu.

• Go to Family → Contacts to add, edit, or delete contacts.
• Each contact can have a name, email address, and phone number.
• Use the search bar to find contacts quickly when your list grows.
• When adding guests to a menu, your saved contacts are available to select directly.

Locations & kitchen equipment

Locations let you save the kitchens and venues where your family cooks and entertains. Each location has its own equipment list — the appliances, tools, and cookware available there. Sage uses this information when building Day Of cooking timelines to avoid scheduling conflicts like two dishes needing the oven at different temperatures.

• Go to Family → Locations to add, edit, or delete locations.
• Each location has a name and optional address.
• Expand a location to view and edit its equipment list. Choose from a catalog of common kitchen equipment (ovens, stand mixers, Dutch ovens, etc.) or add custom items specific to that kitchen.

Sharing codes & connected families

To share recipes with another family on From Our Table, you first need to connect with them. Connections are made using a private sharing code — a short code unique to each family that you exchange out-of-band (by text, email, or in person). This keeps family names from being browsable by strangers.

Your sharing code

Go to Family → Sharing to see your family's sharing code. Copy it and send it to a family you'd like to connect with. Once they enter it on their end, both families are connected and can share recipes with each other.

• Your sharing code never expires on its own — but you can regenerate it (owners only) to invalidate the old one and generate a fresh one.
• Regenerating does not disconnect families who already connected using the old code.

Connecting with another family

On the Family → Sharing tab, enter the other family's sharing code in the Enter a sharing code box and click Connect. Once confirmed, you'll see the other family's name in your Connected families list — and they'll see you in theirs.

Family name discovery (optional)

By default, your family name is completely private — no one can find you by name search unless you've already connected via code. If you'd like to make it easier for other families to find you, family owners can enable Allow other families to find us by name on the Sharing tab. When on, your family name appears in name-search results across the platform.

Either way, connected families always appear in each other's name search, so once you've exchanged codes, you can find each other by name when adding sharing on a recipe.

Disconnecting a family

To disconnect a family, click Disconnect next to their name on the Sharing tab (owners only). You'll be asked whether you also want to remove all recipe sharing with that family. If you choose yes, any recipes you've shared specifically with them will be revoked in one step.

Family settings

Family owners can configure how Sage AI features work for your family in the Settings tab of the Family management page.

Recipe pairings — drink suggestions

By default, Sage's pairing suggestions do not include drink recommendations. Family owners can enable Include drink pairings in the Settings tab to allow Sage to suggest wine, beer, cocktail, or non-alcoholic drink pairings alongside food suggestions.

• When turned on, a Drink chip appears with the other pairing type options on any recipe page.
• When turned off (the default), the Drink chip is hidden and Sage will not suggest drinks.
• This setting only affects your family — each family controls it independently.