About Homebase
What is Homebase?
Homebase is an HR solution that ecompasses payroll, scheduling, time sheets, hiring, compliance, and more.
How do I use Homebase?
Homebase is used to manage employee scheduling and payroll. Employee timesheets can be immediately submitted to payroll with one click, allowing for Homebase to calculate paychecks and send direct deposits to employees.
Who uses Homebase?
Homebase is used by businesses of all sizes who need to manage their HR processes.
How much does Homebase cost?
Homebase's basic version is free to use. It includes timesheets, scheduling, messaging and hiring. The next level up, the Essentials version, costs 14$ per month and location and adds features for team communication, performance tracking, and remote field tools. The Plus version costs 35$ per month and location and adds on features for labor costs and budgeting, time off and PTO tracking, and HR and compliance.
Does Homebase have an app?
Homebase has an app for employee scheduling and time tracking.
Homebase pricing
Homebase has a free version and offers a free trial. Homebase paid version starts at US$14.00/month.
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Homebase Reviews
Feature rating
- Industry: Food & Beverages
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Best Scheduling Tool for Small Businesses
Overall experience with Homebase has been exceptional. We used another scheduling tool in the past and it was much too complicated and difficult to look at.
Pros
I thoroughly enjoy the Homebase platform and its ease of use. Everything is color coordinated, which is my favorite part. I use this to schedule my employees for all my locations. My employees enjoy it too because they can request time off, trade shifts, and see when they are scheduled on their phone. I also love the stats where I can keep track of sales and labor - and it links up all my locations which is a plus!
Cons
There honestly isn't anything I dislike about the software. I use it mainly for scheduling, but it does so much more than that. I would maybe like to customize admin roles a little more for better security, but that isn't entirely necessary.
- 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: Food & Beverages
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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Cafe Scheduling
It was a fine experience. It just wasn’t a fit for us.
Pros
Ease of use and user interface was the cleanest. We switched to Square Shifts because of the price at the time and the easy integration with square payroll. But Homebase looks much better and is easier to use for the person creating the schedule.
Cons
Price and that I didn’t have much trust in Homebase’s payroll. We switched to square because it was more trust worthy in our opinion. Whether that is a correct assumption or not, I don’t know.
- Industry: Financial Services
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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I've never seen so many bugs....
Bad,bad,bad. Customer service is responsive but there are just soooo many bugs with this software.
Pros
Very easy to use. The user interface is very simple and easy to navigate.
Cons
I feel like this is a beta software that should not have been rolled out yet. We have been using it for a week and have had issues every day since we started using it. Basic things that you think should just work doesn't work.
Example: All my employees have a 1 hour, unpaid lunch everyday. They clock in and clock out on this required one hour lunch but Homebase is still counting it in their total hours. So know I ma getting alerts that they all have overtime but they actually don't because Homebase is not calculating hours correctly.
So there have been several little things (Bugs) that I have found every day since using Homebase. I contact customer support and they tell me that they will pass it on to their product team.
This may sound harsh but the product team really should have tested this software more before rolling it out. Makes me question all the reviews I am seeing on here. All the bugs have been on basic functions.
Response from Homebase
Hi David -
We are so sorry to hear you've been having issues your Homebase account. This is not the experience we want our customers to have. Our head of technical support has just emailed you to see if we can remedy these issues for you. If you have any further issues, please reach out to me directly at [email protected]. Looking forward to getting these issues resolved for you, and so sorry again for all the challenges here.
- Ryan
- Industry: Entertainment
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Monthly for 1+ year
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Success with Homebase
For our team needs, I have been very happy with using Homebase for scheduling and team communication.
Pros
I like being able to use the mobile app for finding our team schedule and receiving updates on schedule changes. It is also easy to communicate with other team members on the app.
Cons
Homebase works well for our small, 20 person team. I would question if it was scalable for if our team exponentially increased.
