Building a Home · Ark+
Activate and use your invited Builder account
Use one Builder account to open construction workspaces shared by inviting households.
Read guide →Use your home record with confidence
Help & User Guide
Step-by-step help for building a home, organizing belongings and floor plans, reviewing documents, planning care and costs, and preserving your home records. Search a task or browse a topic.
Public instructions only. Private household records are available through signed-in Search All Records.
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Documents & Expenses
Add one document or receipt
Add a document record, attach its file, and connect it to the relevant item, system, room, or maintenance record.
Read guide →Household & Account · Ark+
Add or switch between homes
Use the active household selector to switch homes. Ark+ supports up to three homes under one subscription.
Read guide →Inventory & Locations
Add rooms and storage locations
Create a location hierarchy that matches your home, from rooms to storage areas, containers, and specific spots.
Read guide →Connected Equipment
Appliance monitoring and operational states
Explore operating state, progress, remaining time and door state in a sample washer.
Read guide →Maintenance & Planning
Back up and restore guided workflows
The complete home recovery archive includes guided actions, evidence links, inspections, claim revisions and your selected handoff copies.
Read guide →Maintenance & Planning
Build a reviewed home care plan
Use equipment history and home characteristics to choose practical care tasks with a clear source and schedule.
Read guide →Search & Productivity
Build, print, or download a home report
Create reports from saved household records, filter the information, and print or download a CSV. Reports can be run again from History.
Read guide →Maintenance & Planning
Caregiver or Estate Handoff
Prepare selected continuity information for an authorized trusted person.
Read guide →Building a Home · Ark+
Carry construction records into handover and warranty care
Review the completion evidence, preserve permanent home records and continue warranty work after move-in.
Read guide →Home Systems
Check and monitor appliance recall candidates
Record the manufacturer and model, then open the appliance Recalls section and choose Check recalls now. New appliance saves attempt an initial check.
Read guide →Household & Account
Choose when reminders arrive
Set the household time zone and choose email reminders or opt-in push notifications on each supported device. Email uses the selected lead times. Scheduled maintenance and warranty push requires personal opt-in, an enabled device and deployment configuration shown in Reminder Settings.
Read guide →Household & Account
Compare plans and manage billing
Review plan features, record and storage limits, AI allowances, billing options, and current usage.
Read guide →Getting Started
Compare the demo households
Switch among six fictional homes with different sizes, furnished floorplans, driveways, workshops and gardens.
Read guide →Documents & Expenses
Connect a document to an item or system
Documents can be linked to household items, home systems, maintenance records, projects, and warranty claims.
Read guide →Home Systems
Connect appliance care, documents and costs
Open Maintenance and service history → Add care task or service. Use the existing shared form to schedule work, record providers/costs, attach evidence and mark completion.
Read guide →Household & Account · Ark+
Connect supported equipment monitoring
Connect an enabled official provider, choose discovered devices and review reported timestamps. Ark+ is required for ongoing monitoring.
Read guide →Maintenance & Planning
Coordinate Responsibilities
Agree on owners, due dates and completion review.
Read guide →Inventory & Locations
Create a blank floor plan and build at your own pace
Create a saved blank floor plan without drawing anything, then explore first and edit when ready.
Read guide →Building a Home · Ark+
Create a New Build household
Create a dedicated New Build household and connected construction project, with optional property details and a builder invitation.
Read guide →Maintenance & Planning · Ark
Create a reusable routine
Create routines from starter templates or make your own repeatable checklist.
Read guide →Household & Account · Ark
Create your own repeatable setup guide
Make a custom guide for seasonal opening, preparing for guests, a new appliance, or another repeated process.
Read guide →Getting Started
Discover implemented product improvements
Explore curated improvements and their guides without confusing previews or private requests with a committed roadmap.
Read guide →Home Systems
Document sprinkler zones and irrigation care
Irrigation & Water links systems, zones, controllers, equipment, approximate maps, schedules, water evidence and service history to the current property.
Read guide →Search & Productivity
Download a copy of household data
Choose record sections and optionally include private document attachments in an encrypted archive. The CSV files are readable; included private file attachments remain encrypted.
Read guide →Documents & Expenses
Download a home continuity file
Download one ZIP with an offline printable guide, full record sections, selected current and historical readable originals, and checksums.
Read guide →Home Systems
Draw and safely save your irrigation map
Draw in image coordinates over a private uploaded plan image or a blank layout. Manually positioned infrastructure is approximate and never establishes excavation safety.
Read guide →Inventory & Locations
Edit floor plans and room structure
Edit floor boundaries, floors, room shapes, walls and explicitly shared floor-level placements.
Read guide →Inventory & Locations
Edit property boundaries and exterior placement
Use Edit Property for property-level geometry and explicitly exterior items.
Read guide →Maintenance & Planning
Emergency Recovery
Organize damage documentation and recovery after immediate safety needs.
Read guide →Home Systems
Enable appliance management on an inventory item
Save an inventory item, then review “This looks like a home appliance.” Choose Add to Appliances to enable management on that same source record.
Read guide →Home Systems
Explore Property Map without editing
Use a read-only property overview, then open dedicated property, floorplan or room editors.
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Explore your connected equipment
Use one monitoring interface for reported readings and clearly separate sample previews.
Read guide →Home Systems
Find and review an appliance manual
Review supported manual references or attach your own original, then record whether it applies to your equipment.
Read guide →Documents & Expenses · Ark
Find documents saved from email
Forwarded email bodies and supported attachments are saved automatically in Documents & Receipts when email capture is enabled.
Read guide →Search & Productivity
Find equipment documents and repair history
Use equipment names with warranty, manual, receipt or service to retrieve stored linked records.
Read guide →Household & Account
Find page help and everyday tools
Primary actions stay visible. Page help and labeled tool menus keep less frequent actions within reach.
Read guide →Search & Productivity
Find records, features and help
Search All Records groups authorized household matches separately from static app destinations and help. The public Features and Help directories contain product information only.
Read guide →Getting Started
Follow a guided setup path
Choose a goal such as home records, maintenance, emergency preparation, or moving preparation. The guide suggests relevant next steps.
Read guide →Getting Started
Get started with a useful home record
Build a useful record a little at a time. Start with something you will want to find later, such as an appliance, its receipt, or an upcoming repair.
Read guide →Connected Equipment
HVAC and thermostat telemetry
Temperature, humidity, setpoints, mode, fan and heating/cooling activity may be returned by a compatible provider.
Read guide →Mobile Capture
Identify products with QR codes and barcodes
In a supported item/equipment form, open Identify from QR / barcode. Choose Scan Barcode or QR, or enter Product code and choose Review code.
Read guide →Getting Started
Import an existing home from documents and photos
Review rooms, equipment, maintenance, purchases, warranty details and contractor contacts, then add the selected records together.
Read guide →Inventory & Locations
Import inventory from a spreadsheet
Import up to 250 inventory rows from a CSV spreadsheet after previewing and checking each row. The import is saved as one batch, so errors or plan limits do not leave a partial import.
Read guide →Mobile Capture
Install the ResiArk mobile web app
ResiArk can be installed from a supported browser without an app-store download. Browser and operating-system instructions vary.
Read guide →Home Systems
Interpret measured and estimated irrigation water
Meter evidence and runtime estimates remain separate. Complete measured intervals are preferred within the selected scope, and unsupported overlaps/resets are flagged.
Read guide →Building a Home · Ark+
Invite a builder and manage construction access
A household owner manages builder access to that home’s construction workspace while preserving project history.
Read guide →Household & Account
Invite household members
Invite people to share the household record and manage their role from Household Members.
Read guide →Connected Equipment
Irrigation controller telemetry
Explore active-zone evidence, schedule availability, watering state, rain delay and optional flow in the sample.
Read guide →Maintenance & Planning
Keep contractors and service records connected
The shared Service Providers directory holds company contacts and linked service/document records for your property.
Read guide →Home Systems
Keep details about home systems
Save details for HVAC, plumbing, electrical, appliances, roofing, and other systems so you can find model and warranty information when you need it.
Read guide →Home Systems
Keep pool and spa care in one record
Pool & Spa manages multiple vessels, sourced tests, equipment, supplies, logged treatments, service and expenses. No automatic dosing or equipment controls are enabled.
Read guide →Maintenance & Planning
Keep workflow records connected
Linked records keep their actual status and add dated updates to the workflow.
Read guide →Maintenance & Planning
Manage an Insurance Claim
Keep damage, claim communications, repairs and settlement together.
Read guide →Home Systems
Manage appliances in one household record
Open Home Systems → Appliances. Choose Add Appliance, enter Appliance name and Appliance type, then Save appliance. Unknown manufacturer/model can be completed later.
Read guide →Home Systems
Manage HVAC systems and service
Use HVAC & Climate to document independent systems, shared components, service and supporting records.
Read guide →Documents & Expenses
Manage private financial connections and payment evidence
Financial connections shows deployment availability, institution status and your private bank evidence. Automatic access requires provider configuration, a supported institution and an eligible Ark+ home. Manual loans, costs and statements remain available on every plan.
Read guide →Home Systems
Manage solar ownership and energy records
Solar Energy is a dedicated property workspace for installations, equipment, measured or estimated energy, tariffs, bills and financial records. Read-only monitoring is available only through enabled, authorized SolarEdge or Enphase adapters with Ark+; availability and observation age vary.
Read guide →Maintenance & Planning
Move In
Establish a home baseline at your own pace.
Read guide →Inventory & Locations
Organize items in an individual room
Room View shows saved layouts and item details. Edit Room changes layout and item placement.
Read guide →Mobile Capture
Pair a phone with a desktop form
Capture from Phone pairs a limited, expiring upload session with a desktop form. It does not sign the phone into the household account.
Read guide →Maintenance & Planning
Plan a home project
Projects keep the goal, dates, tasks, budget, actual expenses, files, photos, and related home records together.
Read guide →Documents & Expenses
Plan annual costs and replacement funding
Allocate category budgets by month, compare recorded spending and forecast expected costs, and keep replacement funding estimates separate from money held in accounts.
Read guide →Building a Home · Ark+
Plan construction stages and schedules
Use a residential starting workflow or custom stages, then track tasks and target dates as the build develops.
Read guide →Maintenance & Planning
Plan future replacements
Use recorded purchase, installation, warranty, value, and service information to review equipment age and plan future costs.
Read guide →Connected Equipment
Pool equipment telemetry
Water temperature, pump activity/RPM, flow, heater state, pressure and salt can be demonstrated in the sample.
Read guide →Household & Account · Ark
Prepare a home handover and transfer household access
Create a readable Home Handover report, then request an owner-role transfer that the receiving household member must accept. The report and role transfer do not transfer legal ownership, third-party services, or the subscription billing owner.
Read guide →Search & Productivity · Ark
Prepare a reviewed insurance or handover package
Choose what the recipient should receive, including saved home records and selected preserved originals.
Read guide →Household & Account
Prepare and restore a core home archive
Prepare a bounded, readable core archive and restore it into an empty household you own.
Read guide →Maintenance & Planning
Prepare emergency home information
Store shutoff instructions, safety notes, important contacts, and selected household records in Emergency Home Mode.
Read guide →Mobile Capture
Prepare records and synchronize offline work
Use the dedicated prepared workspace for supported edits and photo capture, with visible recovery and conflict review.
Read guide →Documents & Expenses
Preserve and retrieve original file versions
Replace an attachment without losing earlier originals used as evidence in service, inspections or packages.
Read guide →Connected Equipment
Preview equipment with sample data
Explore realistic equipment scenarios without authorizing a manufacturer or changing your home records.
Read guide →Connected Equipment
Preview water, electrical and environmental equipment
Explore reusable measurements for additional home equipment without claiming an implemented live connector.
Read guide →Mobile Capture
Quickly add a home record
Use Quick Add Item to save a belonging with just its name. Systems, documents, and maintenance have their own add actions.
Read guide →Connected Equipment
Read measurements, history and timestamps
Distinguish device evidence, receipt snapshots and unsupported measurements before interpreting a chart.
Read guide →Documents & Expenses
Read, organize and search document content
Keep original paperwork while preparing searchable readings and reviewing suggested fields separately.
Read guide →Inventory & Locations
Reconcile physical quantities with a stocktake
Review physical counts and record inventory differences as auditable transactions.
Read guide →Maintenance & Planning
Record project expenses and files
Keep project spending and private files together with the work they relate to.
Read guide →Troubleshooting
Recover from an unidentified product or camera failure
Allow camera permission on an HTTPS connection. Stop scanning before choosing another camera. If decoding fails, type the code or enter product details manually.
Read guide →Troubleshooting
Recover unfinished record details
Record editors warn before leaving unsaved changes. Recoverable text drafts are kept in the same browser tab for up to a day, separately for each account, household, and editor. Attached files must be selected again.
Read guide →Troubleshooting
Refresh home records after a connection problem
Refresh the dashboard without leaving the page. Failed refreshes retain previously loaded records and identify summaries that may be out of date.
Read guide →Maintenance & Planning
Rental Turnover
Document condition and prepare a property for its next occupant.
Read guide →Maintenance & Planning
Report a Problem
Document a problem, coordinate repairs and verify the outcome.
Read guide →Troubleshooting
Resolve an upload or access problem
File format/size, connection quality, active-property changes, viewer permissions and plan quotas can prevent saving. A blocked save should not be treated as completed.
Read guide →Inventory & Locations
Review a room photo or video walkthrough
Build inventory from saved room evidence, reviewing each proposed item before it becomes a household record.
Read guide →Home Systems
Review appliance photo identification
Use optional recognition as a reviewed starting point, preserving the source photo and your final corrections.
Read guide →Building a Home · Ark+
Review construction alerts and requests
Role-aware alerts prioritize saved decisions and deadlines and open the exact project record.
Read guide →Home Systems · Ark+
Review controller evidence on irrigation zones
Associate a reported controller zone with your documented zone before interpreting map activity.
Read guide →Home Systems
Review exact-kit pool tests and treatment evidence
Treatments require an exact product label, a documented kit result, current source versions and the vessel’s recorded or calculated water volume.
Read guide →Documents & Expenses
Review home costs and past work
Record household expenses and dated home milestones, then review totals alongside project and maintenance costs.
Read guide →Search & Productivity
Review household history and undo edits
History shows actions across household members, with search, filters, paging, safe undo for supported edits, and rerun options for reports and exports.
Read guide →Inventory & Locations
Review inventory alerts and replenish supplies
Review active inventory alerts, then keep a separate list of supplies to replenish.
Read guide →Household & Account
Review privacy and private file security
Learn who can access household records, how manually uploaded files are protected, and how to keep a separate export. The page explains the limits of encryption and export portability.
Read guide →Documents & Expenses
Review project invoices and recorded payments
Connect approved contractor submissions to canonical costs while keeping budgets, invoices and payment records distinct.
Read guide →Home Systems · Ark+
Review runtime and usage-based maintenance
Supported operating-state evidence creates recorded runtime estimates and completed operating-cycle counts. Missing periods are excluded.
Read guide →Building a Home · Ark+
Review selections, design revisions and change orders
Keep homeowner decisions, proposed changes, schedule impacts and approved budgets together without confusing them with actual spending.
Read guide →Documents & Expenses
Review your home value, loans and ownership costs
Compare dated valuations and secured-loan balances with existing spending, budgets and replacement estimates.
Read guide →Mobile Capture
Scan a label, receipt, or document
Capture a photo or upload a supported file. The app can suggest details from readable text so you can review them before saving.
Read guide →Mobile Capture
Scan a product with a phone from a desktop form
Choose Scan with Phone in the original form. Scan the temporary ResiArk pairing QR using your phone, open the page and choose Connect phone.
Read guide →Maintenance & Planning
Schedule and complete maintenance
Create a maintenance record with a due date, status, asset, contractor, cost, notes, and optional recurrence.
Read guide →Search & Productivity
Search across your home records
Search names and saved details across inventory, systems, tasks, documents, and other household records.
Read guide →Search & Productivity
Search home records with a question
Ask in everyday language about saved household records. Depending on deployment availability, answers use private local AI grounded in authorized records or source-linked record search.
Read guide →Household & Account · Ark
Send documents to your home by email
Email to Home creates a private forwarding address. Incoming email bodies are converted to PDFs and supported attachments are saved to Documents & Receipts.
Read guide →Maintenance & Planning
Set up recurring maintenance
Add a recurrence interval to maintenance such as filter changes, inspections, or seasonal service. Completion can schedule the next occurrence.
Read guide →Household & Account
Share feedback about the plans
Share your home situation, the tasks you care about, your current workaround, and how the current plan prices feel. This optional survey is limited to one response per account every 30 days.
Read guide →Maintenance & Planning
Share selected project work with a contractor
Give a contractor a reviewed, limited view of work without making them a household member.
Read guide →Troubleshooting
Sign in or reset your password
Use the sign-in page to access your account or request a password reset.
Read guide →Connected Equipment
Solar inverter and energy telemetry
Power, daily energy, inverter state and battery readings are shown only where supported or explicitly simulated.
Read guide →Maintenance & Planning
Start and resume a guided action
Guided Actions keeps step outcomes, responsibility and deadlines in a saved household workspace.
Read guide →Household & Account
Suggest a feature and follow its review
Send a private idea about what you want to accomplish, then check its review status. Every plan can contribute.
Read guide →Household & Account
Switch between light and dark mode
The appearance button in the top navigation switches the app between its light and dark color themes.
Read guide →Maintenance & Planning
Track a warranty or prepare a claim
All plans can record a claim and link it to the covered item or system and supporting documents.
Read guide →Inventory & Locations
Track belongings and inventory
Record belongings, tools, supplies, valuables, and other household items, then add condition, quantity, purchase details, and a location.
Read guide →Building a Home · Ark+
Track building inspections and walkthrough items
Keep inspection results, issues and walkthrough evidence with the work and review them before acceptance.
Read guide →Home Systems
Track separate appliance warranty periods
In Warranty coverage, open Add warranty or service coverage. Enter coverage name/provider, dates, policy details, contact/claim instructions and an optional linked document.
Read guide →Maintenance & Planning
Transfer Home Records
Prepare a curated package and coordinate a private handover.
Read guide →Connected Equipment
Troubleshoot a missing or delayed connection
Check authorization, mapping and observation age without replacing equipment records or inventing missing readings.
Read guide →Maintenance & Planning
Turn inspection findings into reviewed work
Preserve an original report excerpt alongside the task or project you decide to create.
Read guide →Connected Equipment
Understand equipment status and faults
Connection status, data freshness and equipment health describe different evidence.
Read guide →Household & Account
Understand plan limits, upgrades and downgrades
Review the active home’s effective plan and actual usage before choosing additional capacity or premium operation.
Read guide →Documents & Expenses
Upload and organize multiple documents
Free includes one introductory batch of up to 3 files (20 MB total). Ark supports repeated batches of up to 10 files (50 MB), and Ark+ supports up to 20 files (100 MB) per batch. Individual uploads remain available on Free.
Read guide →Maintenance & Planning
Use a contractor project invitation
Work within the specific project access approved by the homeowner.
Read guide →Getting Started
Use and arrange your dashboard
The dashboard brings together upcoming care, important records, and home readiness. You can adjust which dashboard sections appear and their order.
Read guide →Inventory & Locations
Use map keyboard tools and recover a failed save
Focus the canvas for zoom shortcuts, or focus an object or corner to move it precisely. The save indicator distinguishes pending work, server saves and conflicts.
Read guide →Maintenance & Planning · Ark
Use paid warranty claim tools
Ark and Ark+ add a guided filing checklist, follow-up deadline reminders, AI-drafted letters, and claim change history. Claim recording and document links are available on Free too.
Read guide →Maintenance & Planning
View or complete a household routine
Routines group repeatable steps for household care. Free members can view and complete routines already saved in their household.
Read guide →Inventory & Locations
Walk through your home room by room
Choose a room, capture valuable belongings and equipment, then record your review progress.
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