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Homebase serves 100,000+ of your favorite neighborhood businesses, including restaurants, cafes, retail, healthcare, beauty, home and repair, professional services, and more!
HR Managers and Operations personnel. TimeForge is scalable to businesses of any size and is suitable for everything from independent stores to franchises and enterprise-level chains.
Price is great, and it makes scheduling / time clock management super easy. I have recommended to other restaurant owners, and definitely would again.
Correcting missed clock-ins / outs is brutal. Staff need to leave a note to the manager and then I have to interpret that note into the correction.
I love the scheduling and time and attendance features. I like the flexibility and the abilities of my team to control their own schedule and time off.
No option to put a reason why an employee is not working their normal scheduled day (PTO, bereavement, medical leave, etc.).
This program is well-designed, intuitive, visually appealing, and easy to use. The support staff are very helpful and friendly.
It may be weak internet signal, or just older aged employees not knowing how to use their phones. Some times employees have to download the app again to fix problems.
Homebase is simple to use and reliable. My team loves the communication features and loves that they can request time off.
There is no undo or go back for example if I accidentally change or delete something it is what it is.
Payroll is a breeze and I love all the reports I can generate from it. PTO tracking is my favorite part, it's very easy to use and helps me keep track of all the employees we have.
No integration with our sales program, so some options are rendered useless. No Quickbooks export file.
Helps keep track of our labor percentage real time so we are far more proactive in decision making. Excellent help desk that gets back to you.
Dislike that it has very limited access through mobile.
The representative assigned to assist us with implementation was amazing. He was attentive to our needs and pleasant to work with.
We also lost a few of our main reporting functions for new hires.
Their development staff has been great in helping us through the on boarding of Timeforge and molding it to best fit our needs.
Too many available reports and can be a struggle to find the specific one you are looking for.
Amy: I'm Amy. I'm the director of a child care center. We have about 30 employees and I rate Homebase a five out of five stars. Prior to Homebase, we did staffing manually, but I did research a lot of different companies trying to find companies that could do what I needed them to do to make staffing and time keeping a lot easier, and overall, Homebase had the best value for the features that were offered and ease of use. I went with Homebase primarily because they provided the tools that I needed to make staffing a lot easier and less stressful for my employees and myself, and because the pricing included a lot more than a lot of the other companies were providing. At the time that I actually started using Homebase, a lot of the staff members that I had were not very open to moving to a online app-type platform, but once we started using it and they realized how easy it was, it was super easy to transfer over to that type of system compared to the manual system we were using prior. I highly recommend giving Homebase a try. Over the years, I have ventured out just to see if there are other things that do work as well, and there's not, especially not for the price points. Even if you've come across a little bit of resistance from staff or other board members or whatever, I promise, you give it a try, you will never want to go back.
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