Homebase

• Small single-site food businesses

  A free Basic plan covers one location with up to 10 employees, including basic scheduling, time tracking and a POS integration.

• Restaurants, coffee shops, bakeries and bars

  The vendor lists quick-service and full-service restaurants, coffee shops, bakeries, bars, breweries and catering teams as the food businesses it serves.

• Franchisees with several locations

  Schedules can be built per location, staff can be scheduled across locations, and payroll can run once for locations that share an EIN.

• US businesses with tipped staff

  Tips can be pulled from the POS, pooled and added to timesheets with the Tip Manager add-on, and payroll handles tipped employees and multiple pay rates.

Less suited to: Businesses outside the United States that want payroll in the same system. Homebase says its payroll is available only to US-based customers.

• Schedule builder

  Drag-and-drop schedule builder with reusable templates, schedule duplication and role-based scheduling.

• AI scheduling (Scheduling Assistant)

  Builds a schedule automatically and can turn a photo or upload of an existing schedule into a digital one; included from the Plus plan.

• Shift swaps and open shifts

  Employees can trade, cover and claim open shifts, with manager approval.

• Availability and time-off management

  Managers approve availability and time-off requests, can block dates and require notice, and PTO policies track accruals and balances.

• Time clock on phones, tablets, computers and POS devices

  Staff clock in with a PIN on a shared device or on their own phone, with kiosk and offline modes.

• GPS and geofenced clock-in

  Mobile clock-in can be limited to a geofence around the workplace, and photos can be captured at clock-in on tablets and POS devices.

• Timesheets

  Hours, breaks and overtime flow into timesheets that sync to payroll or can be exported; timesheets are stored for 90 days on Basic and 4 or more years on paid plans.

• Break and overtime rules

  Overtime and break preferences can be customised, with break waivers, overtime alerts, early clock-in prevention and automatic clock-out.

• Labour cost and sales reporting

  Reports compare labour cost with sales from a connected POS, and schedules can be built against forecast sales and labour targets.

• Team messaging

  Messages can be sent to individuals, departments, locations or the whole company, with read confirmation, channels and announcements.

• Payroll (add-on, US only)

  Full-service payroll run from timesheets, with tax calculation, filing and payment, direct deposit, W-2s and 1099s, and wage garnishments.

• Tip Manager (add-on)

  Pulls tips from the POS, calculates the tip pool and adds the result to timesheets.

• Task Manager (add-on)

  Task lists can be built and assigned, with completion tracked in the app or on desktop and optional photo proof.

• Hiring and job posts

  Job posts and applicant tracking are included; paid job post boosts and a Hiring Assistant that screens candidates and books interviews are add-ons.

• Employee onboarding

  New hires receive onboarding packets and e-sign W-4, W-9, I-9 and direct deposit forms, with documents stored in the system (All-in-One plan).

• HR and compliance support

  The All-in-One plan includes access to HR advisors, a policy and handbook review, and alerts about changes to US federal and state labour laws.

• Departments and manager permissions

  Managers and general managers can be assigned with custom permissions, and departments organise scheduling and reporting (Plus plan and above).

• Early wage access for staff (Cash Out)

  Employees can access part of their wages before payday, at no cost to the business according to the vendor.

• Background checks (add-on)

  Background checks can be ordered inside Homebase for a per-check fee.

• API

  An API for building custom integrations is listed in the plan comparison.

Starting price

From USD 30 per location per month

Pricing model

Subscription per location

Renewal

The pricing page says plans can be changed or cancelled at any time, with a plan change taking effect at the start of the next billing cycle.

Free plan

Yes

Free trial

Yes

Four plans, priced per location with unlimited employees on paid plans: Basic $0 (one location, up to 10 employees), Essentials $30, Plus $70 and All-in-One $120 per location per month on monthly billing, or $24, $56 and $96 on annual billing. Add-ons: Payroll $49 per month plus $6 per employee paid, Tip Manager $25 per location per month, Task Manager $13 per location per month, background checks $30 each, Hiring Assistant from $99 per month. A 14-day free trial of All-in-One needs no credit card; the account moves to Basic afterwards if no plan is chosen.

Compared with the 23 products in Employee Scheduling & Rostering that have a profile on this site. These figures describe the category. They are not a recommendation.

• Names 17 integrations. The median in this category is 11.
• Has a free plan. 6 of the 14 products in this category that say whether they have a free plan do.
• Has a free trial. All 14 products in this category that say whether they have a free trial do.
• One of 17 products in this category with an iOS app. One of 14 products in this category with an Android app. 22 products in this category state their platforms.
• The category's 10 most-named integration partners are ADP, Lightspeed, Square, Toast, Clover, Gusto, Paychex, QuickBooks, Shopify, Tenzo. Of these, this product's listing names ADP, Lightspeed, Square, Toast, Clover, Gusto, Paychex, QuickBooks, Shopify.

Payroll

GustoADPPaychexQuickBooksSquare PayrollHeartlandSurePayrollWells FargoBank of AmericaMillennium Payroll Services

Point of sale

ToastSquareCloverPARLightspeedShopifyGoDaddy

Several payroll entries (Wells Fargo, Paychex, Bank of America, Heartland, Millennium, SurePayroll) are formatted timesheet exports rather than a two-way sync. The Toast connection is set up per location. The page also mentions job board and business tool integrations without naming them.

Available in

United States

Platforms

Web, iOS, Android

Apps

Homebase: Employee Scheduling (iOS) / Homebase: Scheduling & Payroll (Android): One app for managers and staff: schedules, clock-in, timesheets, messaging, time off and payroll

Hardware

No dedicated hardware is needed. The vendor says the time clock runs on any phone, tablet or supported POS device.

Homebase publishes no list of countries. It states that payroll is available to US-based customers in all 50 states and Washington D.C., and its compliance, tax form and labour law features refer to US federal and state rules. Whether scheduling and time tracking are sold elsewhere is not stated.

Company

Pioneer Works, Inc.

Founded

2014 (per LinkedIn)

Headquarters

San Francisco, United States

Founders

John Waldmann, Rushi Patel

Team size

201 to 500 (per LinkedIn)

Customers named by the vendor

Dairy Queen (franchisees), Scooter's Coffee (franchisees), Sharetea (franchisees), Antique Taco, Woon, Jane & Lion, Plato's Closet (franchisees), Anytime Fitness (franchisees), Ace Hardware (franchisees)

Security and compliance

Encryption in transit (TLS) and at rest (AES-256), Two-factor authentication, SSO and role-based access control, Annual penetration tests and monthly vulnerability scans, Private bug bounty programme through Bugcrowd

Support

All plans include 24/7 AI chat support and a help centre; live chat and phone support appear in the plan comparison. Payroll customers get live support from 7am to 7pm Central Time and free data migration by a payroll specialist.

Built for

Restaurants, Cafés

Focus

General-purpose, used in food businesses

Status

Active

Website

joinhomebase.com

Also listed in

Hiring & Applicant TrackingPayroll

• 7shifts

  7shifts is a restaurant team management platform built around employee scheduling, with time clocking, labor compliance, team messaging, tip management, hiring, training and (in the US) payroll.

  Names 26 integrations, against 17 for Homebase.

• Deputy

  Deputy is workforce management software for shift-based businesses, covering scheduling, timesheets and time clocks, labor-law compliance, messaging and HR, with payroll through an add-on.

  Does not have a free plan. Homebase does.

• Time Clock by Homebase (Clover)

  Time Clock by Homebase is the Homebase time clock app that runs on Clover point-of-sale devices and comes preinstalled on new Clover devices.

  Runs on Web and iOS, against Web, iOS and Android for Homebase.

• Planday

  Planday is workforce management software for shift-based businesses: it builds rotas, tracks time with a phone punch clock, manages leave and prepares timesheets for payroll.

  Does not have a free plan. Homebase does.

Side-by-side tables built from the same profile data.

• Homebase vs 7shifts
• Homebase vs Bizimply
• Homebase vs Deputy
• Homebase vs Opsyte
• Homebase vs Planday
• Homebase vs Skello
• Homebase vs 7shifts vs Deputy
• Homebase vs 7shifts vs Bizimply vs Skello

These points were not confirmed when this page was written.

• Countries where Homebase is sold other than the United States; only payroll availability is stated
• Interface languages (the App Store listing shows English plus one other language, not named on the vendor's site)
• Compliance certifications such as SOC 2
• Terms of service details such as minimum term
• Funding rounds and investors; none stated on the vendor's site
• Which plan includes live chat and phone support (the plan grid did not come through in text form)
• Customer counts are vendor claims and differ between pages (100,000+ on the about page, 150,000+ on the homepage)
• Names of job board and business tool integrations

Facts on this page come from the pages below, checked on 29 September 2026. Prices and features change, so confirm with the vendor before you buy.

1. Homepage: positioning, product list, customer count claimhttps://www.joinhomebase.com/
2. Plans, prices, add-ons, plan comparison, trialhttps://www.joinhomebase.com/pricing
3. POS and payroll integrationshttps://www.joinhomebase.com/integrations
4. Food and beverage fithttps://www.joinhomebase.com/food-beverage
5. Franchise features and named brandshttps://www.joinhomebase.com/franchise
6. Scheduling featureshttps://www.joinhomebase.com/employee-scheduling
7. Time clock features, hardwarehttps://www.joinhomebase.com/time-clock
8. Payroll features, price, US availability, support hourshttps://www.joinhomebase.com/payroll
9. Mobile and web apphttps://www.joinhomebase.com/app
10. Security practiceshttps://www.joinhomebase.com/security
11. Company mission and claimshttps://www.joinhomebase.com/about-us
12. Foundershttps://www.joinhomebase.com/press
13. Page discoveryhttps://www.joinhomebase.com/sitemap.xml
14. iOS app listing, developer namehttps://apps.apple.com/us/app/homebase-employee-scheduling/id871544379
15. Google Play listinghttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.joinhomebase.homebase.homebase&hl=en
16. LinkedIn company page: headquarters, founding year, team sizehttps://www.linkedin.com/company/homebase-app/