Homebase

Helps businesses manage employee scheduling, time tracking, payroll, and HR tasks.

Homebase Overview

Updated November 26, 2025

Homebase is a workforce management platform designed to simplify HR tasks for small and medium-sized businesses. It offers tools for employee scheduling, time tracking, payroll, and communication, which help streamline daily operations.

By centralizing these functions in one platform, Homebase reduces administrative workload and improves team coordination. It also provides hiring and compliance support, making it easier for businesses to manage people efficiently while staying organized and compliant.

Key Features

Scheduling: Build and share work schedules that adjust for staff availability and labor costs, which helps reduce no-shows and scheduling errors.
Time Clocks & Timesheets: Turn any device into a time clock that tracks hours, breaks, overtime, and paid-time-off. It creates digital timesheets automatically for accurate records.
Payroll Integration: Work with Homebase’s built-in payroll or can export timesheet data to other systems. It handles wage and tax calculations and simplifies payments and filings.
Team Messaging: Include a built-in messenger that sends shift reminders, alerts when someone is late, and notes for shifts, which improves team coordination.
HR & Compliance: Let users set PTO policies, manage time-off requests and blackout dates, tracks accruals and balances, and offers HR guidance and templates to help stay compliant.
Hiring & Onboarding: Support posting job listings, managing applications, sending digital offer letters, and onboarding new hires within the platform to streamline the hiring process.
Labor Cost Management & POS Integrations: Link to POS systems to compare labor cost against sales, to forecast staffing needs, and to optimize budgets and scheduling accordingly.

Price

Plan	Monthly Price (per location)	Key Inclusions
Basic	$0 (1 location, up to 10 employees)	Basic scheduling, basic time tracking, POS integration, payroll add‑on available
Essentials	$30 (monthly) or $24 (annually)	Everything in Basic plus advanced scheduling, advanced time tracking, team communication, payroll add-on available
Plus	$70 (monthly) or $56 (annually)	Everything in Essentials plus hiring tools, PTO & time-off controls, departments & permissions, payroll add-on available
All-in-One	$120 (monthly) or $96 (annually)	Everything in Plus plus employee onboarding, labor cost management, HR & compliance, payroll add-on available

Check Pricing details: https://www.joinhomebase.com/pricing

Pros

Competitor	Pros of Homebase
Connecteam	Homebase offers a more polished interface and integrates scheduling, payroll, messaging, and HR tools in one place.
Deputy	Homebase includes payroll and team messaging built-in, and is easier for small businesses to set up and use.
When I Work	Homebase delivers stronger HR tools, built-in payroll, and compliance guidance that When I Work doesn’t offer.
Buddy Punch	Homebase blends scheduling, time tracking, payroll, and compliance into one system, while Buddy Punch focuses on time tracking and payroll integrations.
7shifts	Homebase supports various industries beyond restaurants and includes robust HR, payroll, and compliance features.

Cons

Competitor	Cons of Homebase
Connecteam	Connecteam may offer more innovative communication tools for mobile teams, which can outpace Homebase in mobile-first flexibility.
Deputy	Deputy may serve larger or complex businesses better with advanced scheduling options that Homebase lacks.
When I Work	When I Work may offer a lower-cost, lightweight option that suits simple operations more cheaply than Homebase.
Buddy Punch	Buddy Punch may feel more intuitive in time tracking, with features like GPS and facial recognition that Homebase doesn’t fully support.
7shifts	7shifts tailors features specifically to restaurants, which might offer deeper workflows than Homebase’s general approach.

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