Build and Publish Employee Schedules
Homebase gives owners and managers a central schedule builder for planning hourly shifts. Teams can start from reusable templates, account for employee availability, organize work by role, and publish changes from a phone. Open shifts, trade requests, and time-off requests help cover everyday changes without rebuilding the entire week or chasing separate text messages.
Published schedules stay useful after they leave the manager's screen. Employees can view upcoming shifts, receive reminders, update availability, and request a swap when plans change. Managers can compare scheduled and actual hours, watch for overtime or coverage conflicts, and keep labor needs visible while adjusting the roster. This makes the schedule a shared operating plan instead of a static calendar.
Turn Clock-Ins into Accurate Timesheets
The mobile time clock connects attendance to the schedule, giving hourly teams a clearer record of when work begins, ends, or includes a break. Employees can clock in and out from supported devices, while managers can review missed punches, late arrivals, and exceptions before those details turn into payroll problems. Location-based controls can also help businesses manage clock-ins at approved workplaces.
Worked hours flow into online timesheets rather than requiring a second round of manual entry. Homebase can total hours, account for breaks and overtime, and keep an edit history for review. Managers then approve timecards, compare them with planned shifts, and prepare the period for payroll or export. The connected workflow is especially practical for restaurants, retail shops, and other teams with changing weekly hours.
Connect Payroll, HR, and Team Records
Homebase brings payroll preparation into the same workspace as shifts and time tracking. Approved hours can feed wage calculations and payroll records, reducing the need to copy totals between scheduling, timesheet, and payment systems. Businesses using Homebase Payroll can run payroll from the platform, while supported integrations provide another route for teams that already use a separate payroll provider.
The app also connects daily operations with hiring, onboarding, employee documents, and HR controls. Managers can track availability, time-off rules, labor costs, and required records alongside the people affected by them. Team messaging adds direct conversations, group updates, shift notes, announcements, and reminders without exposing personal phone numbers. Keeping these tasks together gives small-business managers a more consistent view of their hourly workforce.
Join a Team and Manage Daily Work
Homebase separates setup for business owners from access for existing employees. A manager can create a workspace and choose priorities such as scheduling shifts, tracking employee time, or running payroll. A team member can instead join an existing workplace with the email address or phone number already shared with the manager, while returning users can sign in with their account details.
Once connected to a team, employees can use the mobile app as a daily work hub for schedules, availability, time-off requests, shift trades, reminders, and messages. Managers can publish updates and keep the affected team informed from the same system. This role-based approach suits hourly workplaces where owners need planning and oversight, while employees mainly need quick access to their next shift, time records, and team communication.
