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Payroll, benefits and HR for small businesses with automated tax filing, onboarding and an AI assistant for HR questions.

Scheduling, time clock, team messaging and hiring for hourly teams, with AI-assisted scheduling and payroll add-on.

Overview
Homebase is a team management app for restaurants, retail stores, salons and other businesses with hourly staff. It covers shift scheduling, a time clock that runs on tablets and phones, timesheets that export to payroll, team messaging, hiring with free job postings to major boards, and employee onboarding documents. The Plus plan adds AI-assisted scheduling that builds shifts from availability, sales forecasts and labor targets, along with PTO policies and departmental permissions. All-in-One adds labor cost analytics, compliance resources and HR advisor access. Pricing is per location rather than per employee, which keeps costs predictable for a single shop with a large crew. Integrations include Square, Clover, Toast, Shopify POS, Lightspeed, QuickBooks, Gusto and ADP. A pilot would start on the free plan with one location, publish two weeks of schedules, and have staff clock in on a tablet before adding paid features. Caveat: the free tier caps at ten team members and one location, and multi-location businesses pay for each site.
Workflow automation
Auto-building schedules, sending shift reminders and turning timesheets into payroll.
2-4 weeks to value · Medium effort · Medium risk · low
Recruiting automation
Posting hourly jobs to multiple boards and screening applicants with built-in questions.
2-5 weeks to value · Medium effort · Medium risk · low
Learning and enablement
Onboarding paperwork and policy acknowledgments for new hourly hires.
3-6 weeks to value · Medium effort · Medium risk · low
Verdict
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Payroll, benefits and HR for small businesses with automated tax filing, onboarding and an AI assistant for HR questions.

Employee scheduling and time tracking with AI auto-scheduling and demand forecasting for hospitality, retail and healthcare teams.
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