Homebase review
Crew scheduling and a mobile time clock that lets a trade owner build the week's shifts, have techs clock in and out from their phones, and turn the hours into timesheets, with a free tier that covers a small shop.
What it costsas of August 2026
- Basic
- $0/mo1 location and up to 10 employees
- Essentials
- $24/mo per locationBilled annually, or $30/mo billed monthly
- Plus
- $56/mo per locationBilled annually, or $70/mo billed monthly
- All-in-One
- $96/mo per locationBilled annually, or $120/mo billed monthly
Homebase prices per location, not per employee, so the cost is flat whether you run 4 techs or 24. Payroll is a separate add-on at $39/mo plus $6 per employee paid on monthly billing ($49/mo plus $6 on annual), Task Manager is $13/mo per location, and Tip Manager is $25/mo per location.
What Homebase does
Pricing & terms
Starts atThe real monthly cost to get in the door, before add-ons.
Free for 1 location and 10 staff; Essentials $30/mo per location after that
How pricing worksFlat tiers, per user, or per job. This decides how fast the bill grows as you add people.
Priced per location, not per person, so adding techs does not raise the bill
Free trial or planCan you try it with your own jobs before paying?
A real free plan for one location, plus 14 days of All-in-One, no card
ContractMonth-to-month vs a year-plus commitment you can't easily leave.
Month to month, or pay for the year and the monthly rate drops about a fifth
Fit & support
Ease of useHow hard it is to get a non-technical crew actually using it.
Simple enough without an office manager; reviewers do flag app and login bugs
SupportWhat owners say about reaching a human when something breaks.
Help center and AI chat on the cheap plans; live chat and phone from Plus up
What it does
GPS clock in and outProves the crew was on site, from their own phone.
GPS and geofenced clock-in start on Essentials, not on the free plan
Job costingShows the labor hours a job actually ate, so you can price the next one.
Costs labor by role or department, not by job, and only on All-in-One
Overtime & breaksFlags overtime before it becomes a surprise on payday.
Tracks overtime and breaks, but the alerts sit on the $120 All-in-One plan
Sends hours to payrollHours flow to payroll instead of being retyped.
Hours sync or export to Gusto, ADP and QuickBooks, or its own paid payroll
Clock in a whole crewA foreman can clock the whole truck in at once.
Not documented; each person punches their own PIN on a shared tablet
Alternatives to Homebase
Other tools that do the same job for a trade business. Prices are what each vendor publishes, dated when we checked.
ClockShark
Gusto
FieldEdge
FieldPulse
FreshBooks
GorillaDesk
Housecall Pro
JobberHow we research this
Pricing comes from Homebase's own pricing pages and is dated at the time we checked it. Features are taken from the vendor's documentation, not from a sales call. We are independent and rank on fit, never on what a tool pays us. See how we review.