How to use Homebase Time Clocks and Time Clock Recommendations

Homebase offers several time clock options to help businesses accurately track time across one or many locations, stores, and job sites. As employees clock in and out, Homebase generates detailed, compliant time cards and payroll-ready timesheets. All time clocks are available in English or Spanish.

 **For information on where to view your employee's clock in and out times/ hours worked, please visit our Timesheets Support article.

Homebase recommends different time clocks for different work situations: 

1.) If you are a brick and mortar business, where your employees come to a location to work, we recommend our iPad time clock app, Android time clock app, or mobile time clock. (Recommended for: food and beverage, retail, manufacturing, warehouses, etc).

iPad time clock app and Android tablet time clock app: 

• Available on all of our plans. 
• Employees will use their unique PIN numbers to clock in and out on the iPad time clock app.
• Download the app to your iPad and sign in using your email and password to allow your team to clock in, take breaks, and clock out.
• Time cards are automatically generated in Timesheets in your Homebase account.
• Use one or many iPad/Android time clocks to allow your team to clock in, take breaks, and clock out. 

Note: The Android time clock app is available on Android tablets that have the Google Play Store only. Kindle Fire tablets are not recommended.

2.) If you are a business that has different work sites that your employees travel to or a remote team, we recommend our Mobile GPS Time Clock app for iPhone and Android. (Recommended for: catering, construction/technical services, delivery, home healthcare, etc.)

Homebase Mobile App for iPhone and Homebase Mobile App for Android:

• Available on our Essentials Plan without GPS location tracking.
• Available on our Plus Plan with GPS location tracking.
• Employees will download the Homebase mobile app to their phones and sign in using their email and password or phone number.
• Employees will tap the time clock icon in the upper right corner of the app for easy clocking in/out and for taking breaks. 
• Time cards are automatically generated in Timesheets in your Homebase account, and include a GPS location photo (Plus Plan) so ensure your employees are clocking in and out where they say they are.

The owner or a manager in the account must turn on the mobile time clock feature by following the steps below:

1. Sign into Homebase from a computer
2. Select Settings on the top navigation
3. Select Time Clock Options
4. Enable the mobile time clock for your account

3.) If you are a business where your employees work in an office setting or work remotely and work from their own computers, we recommend our Web Time Clock. 

Web time clock for any desktop or laptop computer:

• Available on our Essentials Plan and higher.
• Employees will sign in to their Homebase account from their computer using their email and password or phone number, click "Time Clock" in the top navigation > select "Launch Web Time Clock" > then use their unique PIN number to clock in and out and take breaks.
• Time cards are automatically generated in Timesheets in your Homebase account.

Note: The owner or a manager in the account must turn this feature on by signing into Homebase from a computer > selecting Settings > then Time Clock Options.

4.) If you are a more complex business with multiple locations, lots of employees, are multi faceted, or have more variation in your business, we recommend using a combination of our available time clocks: tablet, mobile app, and web based. Check out our pricing page to determine which plan and time clocks are best for you.

Still not sure what time clock(s) is best for you? Please contact our support team at help@joinhomebase.com and we will be happy to advise.