Auto-scheduling software

Schedules from scratch in minutes.

Automate and optimize your weekly schedule with labor cost insights, overtime alerts, updated availability, shift suggestions, and templates.

Build the perfect schedule automatically every week. 

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Set it once.

Create your first schedule in minutes with your team’s availability, shift preferences, time off, and overtime and compliance rules automatically applied.

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Check it over.

See shift suggestions, approved PTO, conflicts, and overtime alerts as you add shifts—or let AI draft the entire schedule based on past weeks.

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Share it out.

Your team gets notified as soon as you publish the schedule, even if you have to make changes mid-week.

Set your schedule to self-run.

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A Homebase scheduling dashboard showing a weekly view with a "Jumpstart your schedule" panel offering options to recommend a schedule, copy from a past week, or apply a template.

Automatic employee scheduling software

Automated scheduling that keeps you in control.

  • Save time on scheduling by using templates or copying from previous weeks.
  • Let AI build your schedule based on availability, work history, compliance rules, and approved time off—then adjust as needed.
  • Edit any shift before or after publishing without starting over, and share updates with the team instantly.
  • Send the schedule to your team by text, email, and in the app, and see when each person has viewed it.
A smartphone screen showing a message notification inviting an employee to cover a barista shift on Friday, May 31 from 7:15am–1:30pm for $168, with a link to the Homebase app.

Automatic shift scheduling software

Stay staffed-up without stress.

  • Post open shifts for your team to claim, instead of contacting everyone individually.
  • Employees can quickly respond to shift-trade or cover requests right in the app to keep your business well-staffed. 
  • See suggested backfills and coverage to avoid a last-minute scramble.
A Homebase scheduling interface showing staff grouped by role — Chefs and Hosts — with assigned shifts, hours, and a labor cost summary displaying totals of $6,148.88 and 494 hours.

Automated rostering software

Stay ahead of schedule surprises.

  • Use sales forecasts to schedule the right amount of coverage for each day.
  • See projected wages update in real time as you add or remove shifts.
  • Set a target labor cost percentage and track it as you go.
“Being unique calls for a scheduling system that can be adaptable, and Homebase has been the perfect solution. We used to have to input everything manually, but now it’s all automatic and we can spend our time on more important items.”

Forth + Nomad

Andy Sommer, Owner

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FAQ

Auto-scheduling software, explained.

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Does auto-scheduling factor in labor costs and budgets?

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