Homebase API
Homebase documents a REST API for employees, schedules, shifts, time cards, and wages, but access is gated to the Enterprise plan with no self-serve developer signup. Keys are issued inside an admin account after contacting support. Rate limits, webhooks, and pagination are not publicly documented.
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Homebase scores A+ on the API Report Card. Homebase documents a REST API for employees, schedules, shifts, time cards, and wages, but access is gated to the Enterprise plan with no self-serve developer signup. Keys are issued inside an admin account after contacting support. Rate limits, webhooks, and pagination are not publicly documented.
Homebase has a workable official integration path. Most engineering teams can build against it directly. Open API: self-serve, documented, with SDKs
Homebase is an all-in-one workforce management platform purpose-built for U.S. small businesses with hourly, shift-based teams.
Vertical: Enterprise / HR / ERP - specifically the SMB workforce-management + payroll segment for hourly, shift-based, deskless teams. Building weekly schedules with AI-assisted shift planning based on availability, role eligibility, sales forecast, and labor budget. Publishing schedules and shift changes to staff via mobile push, SMS, or email.
8/10 within SMB shift scheduling.
Yes - Homebase is the system of record for labor and, increasingly, payroll at 150,000+ U.S. small businesses. Data held includes: Employee PII (name, address, SSN, DOB, direct-deposit bank info, I-9/W-4 forms).
~12 years old, founded 2014 in San Francisco. Cloud-native and mobile-first from inception, with iOS, Android, and web clients, AI scheduling assistants, and integrations into modern POS systems and payroll platforms.
Public API is gated to the Enterprise plan; SMB and mid-market accounts on Essentials / Plus / All-in-One cannot self-serve API keys and must negotiate up to Enterprise. Conflicting documentation about which plan unlocks API access (Enterprise-only per support, All-in-One read-only per some review sites), creating sales/buyer confusion. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include When I Work, Deputy, 7shifts, Sling (Toast), Connecteam, HotSchedules (Fourth). Graded alternatives appear under "More from the report card" below.
Grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? We check six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and roll them into a letter grade. Grades get re-verified, and they only move on evidence.