Free Employee Schedule & Time Clock App
🏆 The Best Employee Scheduling Software of 2020 by Business.com
🥇 “This tool makes managing shift work easy.” – The Blueprint
🗣 “Best employee communication tool ever!” – Theresa at Bliss Creamery
Homebase makes managing hourly work easier for over 100,000 local businesses. With free employee scheduling, time tracking, team communication, and hiring, managers and employees can spend less time on paperwork and more time on growing their business.
HOMEBASE HELPS WITH:
📅 Building and sharing your schedule: With the Homebase employee scheduling app, employees can see when to work and track their scheduled shifts. Teams can view their most up-to-date shift schedule anywhere, submit their availability, see who’s free to cover shifts, and request trades – all in this free scheduling app.
⏰ Time tracking and time keeping: Employee time tracking has never been so easy! Using the time clock app, employees can clock in and out for shifts right from their phone or on computers or tablets in your office. Managers can easily track breaks, overtime, and timesheets for payroll all in the Homebase time tracker.
👏 Managing employee performance: Employees get helpful reminders of upcoming shifts in our employee app, and managers get notified if employees are late, miss clock-outs, or reach overtime. Homebase is the work time tracker built for busy teams that lets employees check their schedule anywhere.
🗣 Improving team communication: Our built-in messaging keeps your team in sync without exchanging phone numbers. With the Homebase staff planner and scheduling app, teams can make sure they are available for their shifts and can communicate in the teams app if they need to swap shifts.
📈 Tracking business performance: Get a real-time view of your labor costs and sales—from anywhere. Tying our team management, employee scheduling, and time tracking to your payroll allows you to see how scheduled shifts and labor costs are impacting your bottom line.
⚖️ Labor law compliance: Get help to stay compliant with labor and scheduling laws and protect your business from fines and lawsuits.
EMPLOYEES CAN:
• Clock in and out on their smartphones using the mobile time clock app
• View their up-to-date work schedule anywhere
• View the hours they’ve worked and estimated earnings
• Request and accept shift trades & covers
• Submit their availability and time-off requests
• Create group chats and chat with teammates in real time
• Receive shift reminders so they’re on time for shifts
• Sign in with mobile phone number or email address
MANAGERS CAN:
• Build team work schedules in our schedule maker app
• View team availability and time-off requests while building the shift schedule
• View clock-in status of employees, and add or edit employee timecards
• Check sales, scheduled labor costs, actual labor costs, and labor as a % of sales right in the team management app
• See who’s available to be called in to work and easily contact them
• Message employees in real time in one-on-one or group chats
• Get alerts when employees are late or reach overtime
• Use Homebase on the web to set up advanced policies, controls, and permissions
Homebase integrates with popular payroll providers to make running payroll a breeze. Employee timesheets are automatically formatted for easy import.
Gusto
Intuit Quickbooks Online Payroll
Square Payroll
Heartland
ADP
SurePayroll
And more
Homebase also integrates with leading point-of-sale systems, so your employees can clock in and out for shifts right from your POS.
Clover
Square
Toast
Revel
Lightspeed
Upserve
And more
Homebase provides US-based phone, email, and chat support free to all businesses, and our mobile app is free for managers and employees. To learn more, visit joinhomebase.com.
Overall the app is decent and easy to use. However, the push notifications for upcoming shifts is buggy. At first it would give me 2 identical push notifications each time it was reminding of an up coming shift. Now it sends four identical notifications every single time and that is really annoying. I like the push notifications for upcoming shifts because I work split shifts and it’s a handy reminder. Tried an uninstall/reinstall but it didn’t help. Hopefully the makers will fix this issue.
Decent overall app experience for sure. Msging feature doesn’t always work, but is better than it once was. It would be nice if inside the Schedule tab the week view at the top was sticky instead of vanishing when scrolling down. And perhaps the purple visual theme could be applied to at least the word Today as it is already applied to that day’s date.
Usually its been a great app. However lately, its been very slow to load, wouldn’t upload and sent a photo of a work excuse to my boss, plus cannot determine my location *(with my location turned on)* and won’t let me clock in or out on time!!!!! I’ve had issues with it lately. I’ve always restarted my phone. But today I’m having to uninstall and reinstall my app!! Seriously PLEASE FIX THIS!!!!!!
Messenger portion of this app needs improvement. It’s very clunky compared to modern day options. Constantly have issues attaching photos and sending photos. Currently, the app will not allow photos to be sent after selection, giving a random error. This is not the first time the attachment part of this app has broken. The app also doesn’t pair well with time zone differences making a streamlined process very unfriendly. I end up having to pull up the web-based solution to do scheduling.