About Homebase
Homebase pricing
Homebase has a free version and offers a free trial. Homebase paid version starts at US$24.95/month.
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Homebase Reviews
Feature rating
- Industry: Food & Beverages
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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Scheduling & Labor Costing
Years of working with Homebase have shown that they constantly improve their product, and make it easier to use with integrations with common applications (via API access).
Pros
Quite honestly, one of the first things I recommend to businesses that want to schedule employees and know their labor costs that are up to the minute.
Cons
The one feature that I do wish was available, would be a calendar view that showed the entire department or business, so that it could be displayed on a monitor or web-based application.
Reasons for Choosing Homebase
The integration with Square POS and ease of use made it a reasonable switch. After years of use, I don't know if I would go back.Switched From
HotSchedulesReasons for Switching to Homebase
Homebase seemed to offer a solid free version, that makes it easier to implement with a client before showing them the added advantages of a premium plan.- Industry: Hospitality
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Save time and money. Scheduling & payroll integrated!!
10 out of 10. I'm the owner, i love it. my manager loves it.
Pros
Integrating time cards/house with payroll. best customer service for anyone who provide scheduling and payroll.
Cons
Don't know..i dont fully understand all the different plans.
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When I WorkReasons for Switching to Homebase
better price, better customer service. payroll- Industry: Security & Investigations
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Honeymoon phase is definitely over........contemplating a "divorce".
Heartbroken, disgusted....and anything else I didn't mention above.
Pros
In 2018 everything was so great and at an incredible price, by my second year as a monthly subscriber I upgraded my plan, in spite of the problem integrating homebase timecards with my QuickBooks payroll, and had to manually enter the data personally. I loved being able to see the total hours per employee when creating a schedule, until one day it disappeared. Still undeterred, I loved the ability to access the app from any mobile device and desktop. Only androids & Desktops access the app easily and iphones or ipads come with headaches. I fell in love with the ease, simplicity and it's sexy platform look of this time tracking/management app, until one day everything changed and I lost my ability to view time cards all on one screen. Little issues were just an alert in the far upper right corner like a nudge. Now they scream in double size that takes up half the monitor, leaving only an inch or two to view time cards accompanied with a lot of scrolling. Nowadays I'm afraid to login and be greeted by a scowling dashboard with a list of issues nagging to be resolved. Issues caused by employees that can't log in or out and got tired of uninstalling and reinstalling the app as a temporary fix. I knew my relationship with homebase was reaching a bitter end when without so much as a "heads up" warning there would be an increase to my subscription (almost $20.00 more). When I said "Oh h#!! NO!" and lowered it to essentials...
Cons
I was denied the ability to manage my PTO mandated sick leave pay feature that never matched QuickBooks anyway, and the feature to assign different roles/rate of pay for different jobs among my existing employees. I now have a default pay rate/role homebase deems as "fitting". After a 5 year relationship with all the little things I loved, I can have back if I pay $20.00 more a month. Out of some "disturbed" sense I felt I owed to Homebase, I emailed support with an offer to pay a small increase but not at their ridiculous price with it's 15 features included that I would never use. If they can't find my request reasonable and let me pay only for what I use, I will fly into the arms of another app that gives me the basic features for free. The email was sent last week and long past the "24 hour" promise to respond. I never called out their promised "money back guarantee" after 5 years and the inability to integrate their application with my payroll system......Seriously? How much alimony is it worth? No, it's too late now. I'm divorcing homebase from my company forever.
- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Homebase is one of the best business tools we have
Having scheduling, time tracking, payroll, tax filing, workers comp insurance and audits all in one place is a lifesaver.
Pros
It's been a valuable tool for being able to use historical sales data to decide how many employees to schedule on any given day. It helps me budget wages accurately.
Cons
Some functionality is clunky with too many steps, occasionally we have problems with the time clock, geolocation doesn't work.
- Industry: Consumer Services
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Owner/President
From onboarding to daily use very easy and undemanding if you are a busy business owner.
Pros
Great services and very user friendly interfaces. Far superior to anything recommended by my fanchisor!
Cons
Would like the messaging to have an option to enlarge the "message board" when its being used. Would like to see an easier option/path to temporarily add or reduce an individual's pay or salary