Homebase local businesses succeed with Homebase Payroll

Homebase is a workforce management platform that supports hourly workers with scheduling, time clocks, onboarding, communication, and now—payroll.

Company info

Industry

Workforce Management

Company Size

Private, <500 employees

San Francisco, CA

Meet Homebase

Homebase helps more than 100,000 local businesses manage their hourly teams, with hiring, onboarding, scheduling, time clocks, messaging, HR, and more. Businesses look to Homebase to simplify paperwork, automate tedious tasks, and help them manage with their teams.

2x

increase in platform engagement

50%

reduction in payroll support tickets

20%

increase in operational efficiency

The Problem

Payroll was a core part of serving local businesses. Homebase knew that many of their customers were spending several hours per week preparing, reviewing, and running payroll for their employees, outside of the Homebase platform. They were stuck with legacy payroll tools that weren’t built for the nuances of payroll for hourly workers.
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The following are just a few of the challenges small businesses encounter with employee payroll:

Exporting employee and time tracking data then uploading or manually entering it into hard-to-use “accounting-speak” payroll tools
Calculating payroll while navigating the complexities of hourly wages, such as overtime, breaks, and labor law compliance
Collecting and filing taxes, on the federal, state, and local level
Giving employees easy access to their hours worked, wage information, and paystubs

It was no surprise that Homebase customers had been asking them to offer a payroll solution to help solve these challenges. The only problem was, building a payroll product from scratch would take them years, and buying a solution would cost millions of dollars.

"We’ve always thought of payroll as a natural extension of our product, but the complexity had made it near-impossible to build. Now, working with Check, we’re raising the bar for how business owners can manage their companies — and pay their people."

John Waldmann

Ceo and Co-Founder

Homebase

The Solution

Homebase knew there had to be a better way to build a payroll business. Using Check’s embedded payroll API, Homebase was able to build a payroll product right into their platform in months, rather than years.

In a matter of clicks, Homebase customers can now turn their timesheets into hours and wages in payroll. Homebase automatically calculates taxes and paychecks, sends direct deposits to employees, and files payroll taxes powered by Check.

With payroll, Homebase is able to solve a huge headache for their customers and bring added value to the platform, by increasing customer retention and customer lifetime value.

"I honestly have not thought about payroll since switching to Homebase Payroll — which is the best endorsement I can give a platform designed to make you more efficient or take away a tedious task."

Eric Murphy

Owner

The Gear Attic, Homebase Customer

Results of our collaboration

Homebase now makes it easier to pay hourly teams by bringing timesheets and full-service payroll into one place. This solves a huge headache for customers who were manually transferring hours and wage data between systems, wasting time and risking costly errors in the process. With the addition of payroll as an offering, Homebase furthers their brand promise of a true, all-in-one operating system for hourly workers.