A household is five people. Not five seats.
The lease, the car papers, the policies, the kids’ birth certificates. One shelf for the papers a home holds in common — and everyone in it keeps their own account.
R99 a month for the whole household · cancel any time
If any of this sounds like your house
The papers are in four places
The lease is in email, the car licence is in a drawer, the policy is on somebody’s laptop, and the birth certificates are at your mother’s house. None of it is lost, exactly. It is just never all in one place when you need it.
You are the one who handles it
In most homes one person ends up holding all the admin. This gives the other four a way to put their own documents somewhere sensible, without you having to chase them for a photo of an ID book.
You look after someone else’s papers
A parent’s medical aid and policies, a child’s school and clinic documents. You need to find these on somebody else’s behalf, sometimes urgently, and you need it to be normal rather than a favour.
Something important expires quietly
A licence, a policy renewal, a certificate with a date on it. Nobody misses these on purpose — they are just spread across five people and nobody is watching all of them at once.
The policy changed and nobody said
This year’s document arrives, it is forty pages, and it looks like last year’s. Ask KuduDoc what actually changed and it will tell you, against the copy you already hold.
If you were not there
Somebody would have to find all of it, at the worst possible time, without knowing where to look. Naming a person in advance is a small thing to do now and a large thing to have done.
One person pays. Everyone else just signs up.
There is no seat to buy, no licence to assign and no card for anyone but the payer.
One person takes Personal
R99 a month, one card, one bill. That person is the household’s payer — no other member is ever charged.
They invite up to four people
By email. An invitation is an offer, not an enrolment — nothing happens to anyone’s account until they accept it themselves.
Each person signs up free, and accepts
They make their own ordinary KuduDoc account, exactly as anyone would. Then they accept, having been shown plainly what joining does and does not do.
Personal applies to all five
The shared shelf, expiry watching, the AI headroom, emergency access. Five separate accounts, one set of features, one bill.
Thandi
Pays for the household
Personal
Sipho
Her partner
Own free account
Naledi
Daughter, 19, at university
Own free account
Mama Rose
Thandi’s mother
Own free account
One more
Whoever counts as home
Free to add
A household is up to five people in total, including the person paying.
Your account stays yours. That is the whole design.
A household should be a thing you join because it is useful, not a thing that becomes difficult to leave. So joining one changes what your account can do — never who it belongs to.
Leave whenever you like. Take everything with you.
There is no exit process, no request to the payer, and nothing to negotiate. You leave, and your account carries on as a free KuduDoc account with everything you put into it.
- Every document you added is yours and stays yours. It moves with you, sealed and fingerprinted exactly as it was, and it stays freely verifiable by anyone at /verify — whatever plan you are on afterwards.
- The person paying cannot read your private documents. Paying the bill does not open anyone’s shelves. You decide what goes on the shared shelf; everything else stays yours alone, including from them.
- Nobody can be added to a household without accepting. An invitation does nothing on its own. It has to be accepted by the person, from their own account, after being shown what it means.
- If the household ends, nothing is deleted. Whether somebody leaves, the payer stops paying, or the household is closed — everyone drops back to their own free account holding what they hold. The Personal features switch off. The documents do not.
- Being removed works the same way. The payer can remove a member, and any member can leave on their own — either way nobody can take that member’s documents, empty their shelves, or lock them out of their own account.
The papers a home holds in common
Some documents belong to one person. Some belong to the house. The shared shelf is for the second kind — and you choose, document by document, which is which.
- Everyone in the household can see what is on it. That is the point of it — no more asking somebody to find the lease and send a photo.
- Whoever put a document there still owns it. Sharing it with the house is not giving it away, and it comes with you if you leave.
- Expiry is watched across all of it at once. One person no longer has to remember five people’s renewal dates.
- Everything else stays private by default. A document is only on the shelf because somebody put it there on purpose.
A household is not a team workspace
It is designed for a home, and it stops where a home stops. We would rather you read this now than discover it after paying.
What a household does
- A shared shelf for the papers a home holds in common
- Expiry watched across everyone’s documents at once
- Room for a member to look after someone else’s papers
- Emergency access for a person you name
- Five separate accounts, one bill
What it deliberately does not
- No shared templates. Nothing to build once and reuse across the household.
- No branding. What you send does not carry a logo or a company identity.
- No team audit view. Nobody gets an overview of what everyone else has been doing.
- Only the payer sends documents for signature. Other members hold, read, share and organise — they do not send out for signing.
Those four are exactly what a business needs, which is why they live one step up. If you need any of them, you want Professional at R166 a seat — where unlimited document sending starts, from a single seat.
Name the person who should go looking if you cannot
Most of the difficulty, when something happens to somebody, is not that the papers do not exist. It is that nobody else knows where they are or how to reach them.
How it works
You choose which documents go on the household shelf, and you name the one person who should be the one to fetch them. They can open what you shared and nothing else — read-only, so they cannot change it, delete it or send it anywhere — and opening one is written to that document’s audit trail with their name and the time.
What this is, and what it is not
Emergency access grants access to documents. It does not grant authority over an estate, and it appoints nobody to anything. It is not a will, not a power of attorney, not an executorship and not a substitute for any of them. Whoever ends up dealing with your affairs will be determined by the law and by whatever arrangements you have made elsewhere — this simply means that when that person needs the paperwork, somebody can find it.
Emergency access is a feature of the KuduDoc Family plan. It is not legal advice and it creates no legal appointment. If you want to arrange who deals with your affairs, speak to someone qualified to help you do that properly.
Households, answered plainly
Get the papers in one place.
R99 a month for up to five people · cancel any time · everyone keeps their own account