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# Assign care and manage your care duties

Each care task can have one responsible person. Assign today's open tasks on the **Assign** page, or ask someone to take on a recurring task as a care duty that they accept.

A care duty is a standing request to do a task every time it comes due. Both work best on a farm run as an organization, a shared account with a team (see [Creating an organization and adding your team](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/creating-an-organization-and-adding-your-team-15zqme2/)).

## Before you start

Owners and co-owners of an account assign its care. You can pick the account's owners, its team members and its Care Helpers (see [Get help with daily care](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/get-help-with-daily-care-invite-a-care-helper-19xf6gl/)). On a personal account with no helpers, you are the only choice.

## Assign today's tasks

1. Open **Assign**: select **Assign care** at the bottom of Today (for organizations and accounts with a Care Helper), or open **Filter and find** on Today and choose **Assign**.
2. Pick the account in **Care for**, choose the **Day**, and select **Apply**. If tasks still need someone, the list opens filtered to **Needs assignment**.
3. Tick the tasks you want to hand out, or use **Select this page**.
4. Choose a **Responsible person**. Only people who can do every selected task are listed.
5. Select **Save responsibility**.

![Assign with two barn chores selected and Robin Ellis chosen as the responsible person](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/efe/efe/a88/12112.png?width=1760)

On Today, those tasks now show "Assigned to you" for that person and "Responsible:" with their name for everyone else. To undo, choose **Needs assignment** as the responsible person. Assigning covers one day; for a chore that repeats, ask for a care duty.

## Ask someone to take on recurring care

1. On Today, select **Care plans**, find the plan and select **Manage**.
2. Under **Who does this**, choose someone in **Person for eligible tasks in this plan** to cover the whole plan. Or, under one task, use **Person for this task**.
3. Select **Request duty**.

![Who does this on a care plan task with a pending request to Robin Ellis, Revoke and Request duty](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/75d/969/984/e14fe.png?width=1276)

The task shows the person as pending until they answer, for up to 14 days. **Revoke** cancels it. Care Helpers can be asked only for tasks they can mark done in one tap.

Each plan also has a **Coordinator**, who starts as the person who set it up. To change it, pick someone in **Plan coordinator** and select **Save coordinator**.

## Your care duties

When someone asks you to take on care, or you have accepted a duty or coordinate a plan, a **Your care duties** button appears at the top of Today.

![Your care duties with a request to close up the chicken coop and Accept and Decline](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/d6a/dc8/4d8/989d4.png?width=780)

- **Requests to review**: select **Accept** to become responsible for that task each time it comes due, or **Decline**.
- **Accepted duties**: **Stop doing this** hands the duty back.
- **Plans you coordinate**: shows how many tasks need assignment, with **Manage plan** and **Needs assignment** shortcuts.

Can't make it once? On Today, choose **Can't do it** in the three-dot menu of a task assigned to you. That hands back only that day's task.

## Send reminders to the right person

At first, everyone who can manage an account's care gets every care reminder. To send each one to the person responsible instead:

1. On Today, select **Who can help**.
2. Open **Reminder settings** at the bottom. Under **Use responsibilities for reminders**, select **Turn on** for each account. It then reads "On: reminders follow responsibilities for this account."
3. Optionally, set **Default for new members** to **My work and escalations** or **All care**, then select **Save default**.

When no one is responsible for a task, its reminder goes to the coordinator.

Once that is on, an animal or group task with a finish time can also get an **Overdue alert** in **Manage**. Overdue tasks then appear in an **Overdue** section at the top of the coordinator's Today. **Acknowledge** marks it seen, but the task stays open until someone logs it.

At the end of the day, leave a handover with **Review day** in [Care history](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/care-history-see-what-was-done-5qyes7/).

### Related information

- [Get help with daily care: invite a care helper](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/get-help-with-daily-care-invite-a-care-helper-19xf6gl/)
- [Care history: see what was done and correct a record](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/care-history-see-what-was-done-5qyes7/)
- [Create and manage a care plan](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/care-plans-f11gsu/)
- [Creating an organization and adding your team](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/creating-an-organization-and-adding-your-team-15zqme2/)