Homebase Expands AI Innovation with Payroll Assistant Following Year of Small Business Payroll Growth

With over $5 billion in small business payroll processed, Homebase advances its platform to make payroll faster, smarter, and more accurate.

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Homebase, the all-in-one platform for payroll, team management, and hiring, today announced its Payroll Assistant, an AI-powered tool that takes the hard work out of payroll prep by catching and fixing timecard issues early, helping small business owners run payroll with confidence. With more than 7 million paychecks and $5 billion in gross payroll processed since 2022, the Payroll Assistant is the latest in Homebase’s suite of AI tools that save small businesses hours each week.

Payroll can be painful for small businesses, with owners and managers relying on manual processes and multiple systems to prep payroll runs. The new Payroll Assistant automatically detects and resolves timecard issues such as missed breaks, late punches, or missing clock-outs, prompting employees to make quick fixes before they turn into payroll errors. It provides a clean, easy-to-review summary for managers, eliminating the need to dig through timecards, and will soon include AI-powered insights that go beyond spreadsheets to help owners understand what’s driving labor costs, payroll errors, and compliance risks — with clear, tailored actions to take.

With Payroll Assistant, business owners and managers are better able to:

• Prevent timecard and clock-out errors before payroll runs
• Get a clean, easy-to-review summary
• Optimize labor spend with real-time visibility into costs and compliance risks
• Prompt employees to fix missed punches before they become payroll errors

“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.

In the past year, Homebase users logged 1.2 billion hours worked across time sheets for 3.5 million employees. Customers of Homebase Payroll already save five hours each month by combining payroll, scheduling, and time tracking in one platform. Beta customers of the Payroll Assistant save nearly two additional hours each month, for a total time savings of 80 hours, or two work weeks a year, when using Homebase Payroll.

Payroll Assistant is currently in beta and will expand to customers on select plans in December. Learn more about Homebase’s AI-powered small business payroll and full suite of team-management tools at joinhomebase.com.

About Homebase
Our mission is to make small business teams unstoppable.

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.