Roster management software

Keep your team and budget on track.

See your employees’ information, availability, schedules, and labor costs all in one app, built for small businesses and hourly teams.

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Self-managed employee rosters and schedules in one place. 

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Track your team.

See availability, time off, and frequent shifts while scheduling. 

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Schedule in a snap.

Instantly create schedules with templates and shift suggestions, or copy previous weeks.

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Control your costs.

See sales forecasts and labor costs before you finalize the schedule. 

Stop building rosters from scratch every week.

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Rostering software

Automate your team roster and scheduling.

  • See which team members are available to schedule once they’ve added it to their profile. 
  • Copy-forward a week or use templates to build your schedule in minutes. 
  • Manage availability and schedules across all your locations in one place. 
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Roster app

Your team has autonomy, and you have the final say.

  • Give your team easy access to update their availability and information. 
  • Approve shift trades and post open shifts for them to claim in the app.
  • Let managers handle time off requests and update schedules from anywhere. 
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Staff rostering software

Predict your payroll ahead of time.

  • See labor costs add up as you build the schedule to stay under budget. 
  • Get overtime and compliance alerts as you add shifts that conflict with your policies or labor laws. 
  • Automatically see all hours flow into timesheets and add up as wages for payroll.
We use Homebase to manage our roster, create our team schedules, track hours through timesheets, and send shout-outs to the team. The daily report tool that shows labor costs vs. sales is also incredibly useful. Homebase definitely keeps us organized and on point with the management of our team... and it really does make work easier.”

WELL Alkaline Water

Kristen Schmitt, Owner.

Top-rated app built for small business teams.

Best Payroll for Hourly Teams

2024

Best in Business for Best AI Implementation

2025

Best Employee Scheduling

2025

Best HR & Employee App

2025

FAQ

Roster management software, explained.

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The everything app for hourly teams.

Spend less time wrangling logins and transferring data. Homebase comes with everything else you need to manage your team.