Labor cost controls

Keep your business running on budget.

Homebase helps you get more control of your labor costs.

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Three Lake Anne Brew House staff smiling at the camera with a beer tap wall behind them and an overlay showing labor cost data for Sat, Apr 5 including paid hours, wages, sales, and labor percentage.
Tablet screen showing Lucy's shift on Wednesday, May 5, from 10:30 AM to 4:00 PM with a message saying Lucy is too early to clock in and to come back in 12 minutes or get manager approval.

Pay for the shifts you scheduled.

With Homebase, you don’t have to sweat over the extra minutes.

  • Prevent employees from clocking in early.
  • Automatically clock out employees who have forgotten.
  • Get alerts when employees approach overtime.

See how your business is running.

Get visibility into your past, present, and future labor costs.

  • Stay on top of your labor costs from anywhere, anytime on the Homebase mobile app.
  • Break down your labor costs by hour, department, role, and more.
  • Use labor cost forecasts to build the schedule.
Stacked bar chart showing labor cost by role from Sept 19 to Sept 25, with Manager, Barista, and Cashier costs displayed for each day of the week.

Homebase allows me to easily keep track of our daily sales and labour costs remotely – which means I can spend time with family away from my shop, but still feel some degree of oversight of my business.

Fred SztabinskiOwnerFix Coffee + BikesToronto, ON

Mobile app dashboard for Coffee Co showing paid hours, wages, sales, labor percentage, weekly bar charts, and team members with status indicators.

Get the most out of your budget.

Get visibility into your past, present, and future labor costs.

  • Stay on top of your labor costs from anywhere, anytime on the Homebase mobile app.
  • Break down your labor costs by hour, department, role, and more.
  • Use labor cost forecasts to build the schedule.

Ready to keep running on budget?

Homebase has controls and reporting to manage rising labor costs.

Track labor and sales together.

Sync your sales data into Homebase from these leading POS systems.

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