Auto-scheduling software

Homebase auto-scheduling software helps you build employee schedules based on availability, assigned roles, labor targets, and past patterns—so you're not piecing things together manually every week.

Homebase handles the logic, making suggestions based on your settings, policies, and team preferences, and you make the final call before publishing the schedule.

Homebase automatic employee scheduling works by pulling in your team's availability, approved time off, frequent shifts, as well as labor laws and role requirements to generate a schedule. You can select the week on which each new schedule is based, make any necessary changes, and publish the schedule to your entire team.

That way scheduling can take just a few minutes, rather than the hours normally spent sorting through spreadsheets, texts, emails, and notes to gather all relevant information and having to start from scratch each time you notice a conflict.

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With manual scheduling, you're communicating back and forth with multiple employees individually to confirm availability, record time-off requests, and track shift preferences. You also have to manually track labor costs and compliance with labor laws across different pay rates and roles.

Auto-scheduling with Homebase handles these tasks for you, so you're refining a schedule that already factors in compliance, time off, availability, preferences, and labor targets.

Yes. Homebase auto-scheduling handles overtime and compliance by alerting you to conflicts as you build the schedule, before they become a problem. You can set overtime and compliance rules based on your state and federal requirements, and we’ll flag any shifts that don’t comply with these rules.

Yes. Homebase auto-scheduling works for multi-location teams. Your Homebase dashboard lets you manage teams, schedules, time tracking, and payroll across all your locations and different pay rates.

You can see all your employees’ availability, preferences, and requests from one app, which can be useful if you share staff across multiple locations. You can also track labor costs for each location if you need to keep budgets separate.

The free Homebase plan includes basic scheduling capabilities for one location and for up to 10 employees. But when you first join, you’ll get a free 14-day trial of our full suite of features so you can truly see the impact we can have on your day-to-day. This free trial includes automated scheduling, labor cost tracking, overtime settings, compliance help, multi-location support, and much more to tackle all your team management tasks in one place.

The Homebase auto-scheduler uses your team's availability, preferred shifts, approved time off, role assignments, frequent shifts, labor laws, overtime rules, and sales forecasts to build the weekly schedule. You can make any changes you need to individual shifts if needed. We’ll flag any conflicts in the changes for your review before you publish the schedule and share it with your team.

Absolutely! The auto-generated schedule is a starting point. You can adjust shifts before you publish without having to start over. You can also make changes after publishing if your staffing needs or team availability change mid-week.

Yes. Homebase auto-scheduling calculates projected wages in real time as you add shifts to the schedule. We can flag if any shifts you add or change push an employee into overtime, so you're always scheduling with the budget in mind.