Homebase, the comprehensive platform for payroll, team management, and hiring, has introduced its Payroll Assistant, an AI-driven feature designed to simplify payroll preparation for small businesses. By automatically identifying and correcting timecard discrepancies, this tool ensures smoother payroll runs and greater confidence for owners. Building on a year of significant growth, Homebase has processed over 7 million paychecks and $5 billion in gross payroll since 2022, underscoring its commitment to AI innovations that save time and reduce errors.
The Payroll Assistant addresses common pain points in small business payroll by automating the detection of issues such as missed breaks, late punches, or incomplete clock-outs. This AI tool prompts employees to resolve discrepancies promptly, preventing them from escalating into costly payroll errors. For managers, it generates a concise summary of timecards, eliminating the manual review process and freeing up time for core business activities.
With Payroll Assistant, small business owners gain tools to prevent timecard errors before final payroll processing, ensuring accuracy in SMB payroll management. It offers an easy-to-review summary that highlights potential issues, while upcoming features will include AI-powered insights into labor costs, payroll errors, and compliance risks. This real-time visibility helps optimize labor spend and supports informed decision-making in HR for small businesses.
Homebase users have logged 1.2 billion hours across 3.5 million employees in the past year, demonstrating the platform's scale in hourly team management. Customers using Homebase Payroll save five hours monthly by integrating payroll with scheduling and time tracking. Beta testers of the Payroll Assistant report an additional two hours saved per month, totaling 80 hours—or two work weeks—annually, reinforcing its role in efficient small business operations.
“Payroll has always been a pain point for small businesses, with multiple systems and manual steps,” said John Waldmann, CEO of Homebase. “Homebase’s suite of AI Assistants, including our new Payroll Assistant, helps flag and resolve issues before they become errors, simplify the work, and build confidence at every step. Our Payroll Assistant will help Homebase achieve our broader goal of saving small businesses 100M hours in the coming year, time that can be reinvested back to their businesses, teams, and communities."
Currently in beta, the Payroll Assistant will be available to customers on select plans starting in December. Small businesses can explore this AI-powered payroll solution and Homebase's full suite of team management tools to enhance their operations and drive growth.
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Homebase is the everything app for hourly teams, with employee scheduling, time clocks, payroll, hiring, communication, HR, and more. More than 100,000 small (but mighty) businesses rely on Homebase to make work radically easy and give their teams superpowers. As the leader in small business team management, Homebase tracked 1+ billion hours for 3.5+ million workers last year. Homebase was named a 2024 Fast Company’s Brands That Matter, a 2025 Webby Award winner, and a 2025 Fast Company’s Most Innovative Workplaces North America winner.
Homebase also earned recognition from top reviewers, including “Best Payroll for Hourly Teams (2024)” by USA Today, “Best Payroll for Small Business (2024)” by CNN Underscored, and “Best Small Business Payroll (2025)” by U.S. News & World Report.
Homebase is based in San Francisco, Houston, Denver, and Toronto. We are backed by leading venture investors L Catterton Growth, Emerson Collective, Notable Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Baseline Ventures, Cowboy Ventures, Bedrock Capital, and PLUS Capital.
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