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.
Alternatives to Homebase
Homebase Reviews
Feature rating
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Game Changer
Finally getting up to speed with technology. We had so many issues with our previous time clock provider, I'm so glad we found Homebase!
Pros
Being able to use the software anywhere and have the ability to change the schedule, communicate with staff, find coverage and my staff to always be up to date with what's going on.
Cons
Sometimes staff tell me they don't get notifications of schedule change when I post it.
- Industry: Medical Devices
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Easy to use, set-up, maintain, interface and adjust.
Exceptional. Set it and forget it.
Pros
The interface/importing with QuickBooks Online. Easy to add time and track PTO, holidays, OT and more. Customization for our business hours was perfect. The cost is lowest I have found for the amount of features. T-Sheets in QBO is too pricey for us. Also the remote clock-in features and mobile app is a big hit with employees.
Cons
Importation of hours into QBO Payroll needs to be adjusted and checked, but having HomeBase open after importing employee time cards makes it simple. Just match 1 to 1 and your good. Also the initial holiday set-up can be a bit tricky but HB customer service is excellent and guided us through it.
Alternatives Considered
QuickBooks TimeReasons for Choosing Homebase
Epicor was cumbersome and tricky for HR. That was a longtime ago.Switched From
Epicor Advanced MESReasons for Switching to Homebase
Price and Features. Paid Time Off (PTO) feature. Mobile App for remote use- 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: Apparel & Fashion
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Homebase Time tracking
I've had the best experience, I will definitely continue to use homebase for my company needs.
Pros
I like how it's very simple and easy to use, very easy set up and everything is done for you. The time sheet calculates work hours perfectly.
Cons
No issues so far and I will continue to use this provider for my small business. Homebase is a very great company.
- Industry: Food Production
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Excellent for Restaurants, Hourly Employees
I've used this as an employee, then as a business owner for about the last 7 years. It's really a no brainer if you need a time tracking tool, and it has been upgraded consistently over the years to add more features. The hiring tool is surprisingly solid as well, and helps to market positions quite well.
Pros
I've used this for so long now it is hard to imagine what I'd do without it. We began using it as a simple time clock, and it has slowly become our go to for hiring, time tracking, time off, and employee messaging. If you have a mostly hourly workforce it is super simple to setup, and as your business grows it has helpful and intuitive tools to make your life easier. Their support in my experience can be a bit disorganized, but they always get the job done and are easy to work with.
Cons
Not as helpful for salaried employees as it is for hourly employees in my experience. The lower tiers lack some of the onboarding functionality and digital form filing I'd like it to have, but I think this may have been added recently.
