Homebase is a free employee scheduling and time clock app that helps over 100,000 local businesses manage their hourly work. With features such as 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. The app allows employees to view their most up-to-date shift schedule, submit their availability, see who’s free to cover shifts, and request trades. Managers can easily track breaks, overtime, and timesheets for payroll all in the Homebase time tracker.

The app also helps with managing employee performance by providing helpful reminders of upcoming shifts in the employee app, and notifying managers 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. The built-in messaging feature keeps teams 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.

Homebase also helps businesses stay compliant with labor and scheduling laws and protect their business from fines and lawsuits. The app integrates with popular payroll providers to make running payroll a breeze. Employee timesheets are automatically formatted for easy import. Homebase provides US-based phone, email, and chat support free to all businesses, and the mobile app is free for managers and employees.

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, and sign in with a mobile phone number or email address. Managers can build team work schedules in the 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.