Take back your time with our free time clock.
- Track hours and run payroll effortlessly.
- Minimize time theft and control labor costs.
- Use on most iOS, Android, and POS devices.
Trusted by 100,000+ small businesses.
Trusted by 100,000+ small businesses and their teams.
Track time from (almost) any device.
- Track hours, breaks, overtime, and paid time off — without doing data entry or math.
- Put your time clock on Android tablets and smartphones, iPads and iPhones, computers, and POS devices.
- Create unique PINs for your team to clock in and out.
Always know what’s going on with your team, even when you’re not there in person.
- Get alerts when employees are late for shifts so you can keep your team on track.
- Snap photos or use our GPS time clock to confirm exactly who’s clocking in and where.
- Manage remote and field teams with mobile time clocks, built-in messaging, reminders, alerts, and more.
Save time and avoid mistakes by keeping your time clocks and payroll in one place.
- Homebase reminds employees to add or waive missed breaks at the end of every shift — so you don’t have to.
- Auto-calculate hours and wages for payroll, including breaks, overtime, and time off.
- Run payroll, pay your team, and file taxes with a few clicks, all in Homebase. Need to export timesheets to another payroll provider? We do that too.
Before Homebase, we were printing out timesheets and manually calculating hours. Now our lives are so much more efficient!
Ashley Ortiz
Co-owner, Antique Taco
Chicago, IL
We’re not done yet.
Control your labor costs.
Reduce time theft, prevent overtime, and set labor to sales targets.
- Manage labor leakage by preventing early clock-ins and using auto clock-outs.
- Get alerts when employees approach overtime.
- Track your labor costs by hour, department, role, and more.
- Connect your POS device to Homebase to import your sales data and set labor vs. sales targets for your business.
A timeclock your whole team will love.
Build trust with your team by keeping all their work info in one easy-to-use app.
- Give your team easy access to see their hours and pay in the free Homebase app — so they always know they’re getting paid the right amount.
- Give your team more control: Allow them to coordinate shift trades and covers themselves.
- Track your team’s availability and time off requests in Homebase, so you never have worry about losing track of sticky notes, texts, and emails.
- When they have all their info at their fingertips, you also get less questions. Win-win!
BROOKLYN TEA TEAM
Brooklyn, NY
3,000,000,000+ hours have been tracked in Homebase.
Save time in just 3 steps.
Get your time clock.
Add the free Homebase time clock app to your phone, computer, tablet, or POS device.
Keep your team on time.
Build, edit, and share schedules instantly so your team always knows when they work. Automatically send upcoming shift alerts to avoid late arrivals and missed shifts.
Set timesheets on autopilot.
Automatically turn hours, breaks, overtime, and time-off information into timesheets and wages for payroll.
Use Homebase time clocks to power up your payroll.
Export your timesheets to your payroll provider. Or take the easier road and pay your team right from Homebase.
Get payroll and timesheets all in one place
2,000,000+ workers conquer their workdays with Homebase.
Everything just works.
Spend less time wrangling logins and transferring data. Homebase time clocks come with everything else you need to manage your team.
Make work radically easier.
Take control of your time tracking.
Homebase makes your day-to-day team management easier, so you can focus on growing your business.
Questions? We’ve got time.
Answers to your burning questions about time tracking.
An online time clock, also known as a punch clock app or time tracker, is a modern, digital way for employees to clock in and out of their shifts. The time clock then connects with your online timesheet or time tracking software to calculate hours and create payroll reports and wages for each team member.
Yes, time clock apps like Homebase prevent buddy punching by assigning unique PIN codes to your employees (that no one else should be allowed to use) to clock themselves in.
Our time clock tool also alerts you when an employee is late signing into their shift and takes photos of the worker when they clock in, so you can rest assured the right individual is logging the time. And our time clock tool is free, by the way.
For your reference, buddy punching is when an employee asks their coworkers to clock them in for them before they’ve arrived to work. This is done to either avoid getting reprimanded for being late or losing wages, but it results in increased labor costs for employers (as much as hundreds of dollars every week). Basic time punch clocks are very vulnerable to buddy punching practices.
A digital time clock, or a self-calculating machine, is similar to a basic time clock, except the data is added up — you guessed it, digitally — to make it easier to run payroll. However, employees can still get away with buddy punching since it’s not a real-time clock app.
An online employee time clock is a tool that helps businesses track their employees’ working hours electronically. Small business owners looking for time clock solutions for their hourly employees can use the Homebase app to easily track attendance and hours worked.
With Homebase, you can turn almost any device with an internet connection (like a browser, tablet, or phone) into a sophisticated employee time clock. No more expensive hardware or paper time cards. All you have to do is set up the software, track employees’ time with ease, and watch the data sync seamlessly into the cloud.
A biometric time clock doesn’t use traditional pin codes or timecard apps and instead utilizes each employee’s unique measurements and body geometry to identify who exactly is clocking in. To learn more about if a biometric time clock is right for your business, check out our article that lays out the pros and cons.
A time punch clock is a device that allows employees to clock in and out of every shift they work. Business owners then track the total hours worked for each pay period.
Check out our article explaining time punch clocks to learn more.
GPS mobile time clocks allow remote employees who work at different job sites to clock in and out of each shift via a mobile device at the location they are working.
You can start keeping track of your employees’ hours using Homebases’s free online time clock app. First, download the online time clock for employees and sign into the Homebase app with the owner or manager’s email address and password. Then team members can clock in and out with the time clock using their personalized pin.
Plus, if you ever have questions, you can contact our customer support team, and they’ll happily help you.
Since Homebase offers a time clock free of charge that’s in the cloud, an employer can track employee data, including time and attendance, in real time. This means you can see the total hours worked by an employee from wherever you are on whatever device you’re using. It will even work offline should your internet go down — the Homebase app will track data at all times.
To learn more about time and attendance, check out this article on employee attendance tracking with Homebase.
We may be biased, but we truly believe Homebase is one of the best time clock apps for small businesses out there. Here are just a few of the biggest reasons why:
- Designed specifically for hourly teams and small businesses: Track hours, breaks, overtime, and paid time off, stay on top of labor costs, and remain compliant with break and overtime laws.
- Secure, effective, and easy: Our time clock app is just as secure and accurate as a biometric solution but offers a much better employee experience. It’s also completely free and much easier than dealing with paper time cards or cumbersome spreadsheets.
- Payroll integrations: Payroll has never been easier than with our built-in payroll tool. And the Homebase time clock app also integrates with top payroll system providers like ADP, Gusto, and Quickbooks. We even offer a free time card calculator if you haven’t switched to an online time clock yet.
- Great for remote or offsite teams: If you need to track employee hours for remote teams that make house calls or work outside the business premises, staff members can clock in with our mobile time clock features.
- A wide range of features beyond time tracking: You can use Homebase for all your team management needs — we also offer top-of-the-line employee scheduling tools, hiring and onboarding features, and a team communication app.
Homebase keeps track of employee meal and rest breaks required by law, and helps you stay on top of if they are paid, unpaid, missed, or waived. Learn more about Homebase break management by checking out our article explaining how it works.
Business owners, managers, and HR personnel can easily track employee paid time off (PTO) with Homebase’s free online scheduling software. With this tool, employees can easily request time off, change their availability, and find out whether their vacation days have been approved or not. Employers also get more control over PTO requests with blackout dates, request limits, and advance notice.
A time clock app like Homebase prevents time theft by:
- Assigning unique PINs to each employee and alerting you if someone else is clocking in before their coworkers arrive.
- Taking a photograph of the person who’s logging time so you can ensure the correct employee is signing in.
- Letting you enable a GPS time clock that prevents your employees from clocking in before they arrive at the job site.
Get everything you need to manage your hourly team—all in one place.
- Scheduling
- Time clocks & timesheets
- Messaging
- Payroll
- HR & compliance
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