Homebase vs. Sling

Homebase is well suited for small business owners and startups who need to track employee hours more efficiently, and who desire for their employees to be able to directly compliment each other, or have more control over the ability to trade shifts. It is less appropriate for larger businesses that have multiple departments, or businesses with few departments and employees who may be scheduled in more than one department.

Incentivized

Sling has been our best option for communication and scheduling. We looked into OnShift and other scheduling systems that aren't free. Sling has been our best option. Our schedule is a beast and Sling has made my job much easier and for our on-call staff as well. You can change the color of positions (which we love) and we love to use green for bonus money shifts!

Incentivized

• Homebase provides an easy way to schedule employees. Their scheduling platform is extremely user-friendly and easy to edit once the schedule is made.
• Homebase makes it easy for employees to switch schedules on their own, a manager just simply has to approve rather than physically rescheduling both employees, this is great for any small retail business or restaurant with many hourly employees.
• Homebase makes it easy to adjust hours that have been incorrectly clocked or clockouts that have been missed.

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• Desktop application for more detailed assignment of shifts.
• Simple App for the workforce deployment that shows shifts and offers communication.
• Ability for users to schedule themselves off work.

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• Notifications could be more punctual
• Employees should be able to pick up shifts outside of their scheduled times! Right now managers need to do it.
• Importing hours on QBO payroll could use attention. Doesn't separate normal hours from overtime.

Incentivized

• Bring back the forever repeating shifts, they currently only repeat for 1 year so I have to go through every shift once a year & reset them.
• Our staff liked when they had birthday notifications for staff.
• Wish there was a way for admins to be managers of managers. What I mean by that is when management requests time off I do not get a notification so they have to let me know separately.

Incentivized

Homebase is simpler to use. Easier to navigate and is much cheaper than other alternatives! We had trouble when I worked as they were harder to reach our ROI. Deputy was too expensive and it was the reason we decided on Homebase! Employees also find it easy to use on their end!

Incentivized

(it has been 3+ years since I evaluated other programs, I don't recall the names)

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• There are no longer employee scheduling issues.
• Payroll is very easy to use and quick

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• I spend 50% less time scheduling my employees
• My employees are 100% happier
• We use the free version, so we save 100% of cost!

Incentivized