# Homebase: what it sells, price and AI features

URL: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/homebase/
Covers: June 5, 2025 to Oct. 20, 2026
Updated: 2026-11-11
License: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Cite as: Newsprint, "Homebase: what it sells, price and AI features", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/homebase/, updated 2026-11-11

> Homebase is on the AI workforce planning software map. We record 2 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated Oct. 20, 2026.

"Schedule. Manage. Pay. All from one easy app." Homebase sells scheduling, time clocks, payroll and hiring to small businesses with hourly teams. Homebase Assistant, the AI layer, builds schedules from availability and history, spots open shifts and finds people to fill them, flags overtime and compliance risk, and checks timecards before payroll. Owners set the rules and keep the final say. Source: [joinhomebase.com](https://www.joinhomebase.com/).

## Facts

- Site: [joinhomebase.com](https://www.joinhomebase.com/)
- Category: Workforce management and scheduling
- Status: Active

## On the research maps

### [The AI workforce planning software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/workforce-planning-software/#co-homebase)

"Schedule. Manage. Pay. All from one easy app." Homebase sells scheduling, time clocks, payroll and hiring to small businesses with hourly teams. Homebase Assistant, the AI layer, builds schedules from availability and history, spots open shifts and finds people to fill them, flags overtime and compliance risk, and checks timecards before payroll. Owners set the rules and keep the final say. Source: [joinhomebase.com](https://www.joinhomebase.com/).

- Category: Workforce management and scheduling
- Price: published; free Basic plan for one location and up to 10 employees, paid plans from $30 per month per location
- AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant and Shift scheduling
- Scale: Funded challenger: institutional funding disclosed (Series D of $60 million led by L Catterton Growth (April 2024, per SiliconANGLE); vendor says 150,000+ small businesses)

Sources: [joinhomebase.com](https://www.joinhomebase.com/), [joinhomebase.com](https://www.joinhomebase.com/assistant), [joinhomebase.com](https://www.joinhomebase.com/employee-scheduling), [joinhomebase.com](https://www.joinhomebase.com/press), [joinhomebase.com](https://www.joinhomebase.com/pricing), [siliconangle.com](https://siliconangle.com/?p=850756) and [1 more on the map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/workforce-planning-software/#co-homebase).

## Launches and dated events, newest first

### Homebase announces Homebase Assistant for hourly teams

Launch, Oct. 20, 2026. Homebase Assistant helps with scheduling, payroll timecard checks, job posts, finding replacements for uncovered shifts and screening candidates. SiliconANGLE reports: 'None of them is contacted before the owner gives the go-ahead.' Homebase's own assistant page offers a waitlist.

Source: [SiliconANGLE](https://siliconangle.com/?p=850756). From [the AI workforce planning software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/workforce-planning-software/#co-homebase).

### Homebase launches Hiring Assistant and Scheduling Assistant

Launch, June 5, 2025. Homebase introduced its first AI Assistants, a Hiring Assistant and a Scheduling Assistant, 'automating tedious, manual tasks end-to-end'. The Scheduling Assistant builds schedules automatically and was free on any paid tier until 5 September 2025; owners confirm interviews the Hiring Assistant pre-schedules.

Source: [Business Wire release via ASBN](https://www.asbn.com/articles/homebase-brings-ai-to-main-street-with-faster-hiring-effortless-scheduling-tools/). From [the AI workforce planning software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/workforce-planning-software/#co-homebase).

## Methodology and corrections

How we track launches, and how to report an error: https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology