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Homebase

Homebase is an all-in-one workforce management platform for small businesses, offering employee scheduling, time tracking, payroll, team communication, and HR tools designed for hourly teams. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Homebase serves over 100,000 small businesses across restaurants, retail, and service industries. The platform provides a REST API that enables third-party integrations and custom applications to access scheduling, time tracking, payroll sync, and team management data. Developers can authenticate via API key obtained through the Homebase account settings portal, with the base endpoint at app.joinhomebase.com/api/public. Homebase integrates natively with major point-of-sale systems, payroll providers, and HR platforms including Square, Toast, Clover, Gusto, ADP, and QuickBooks.

Homebase publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include scheduling, time-tracking, payroll, HR, and workforce-management.

The Homebase catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.

Homebase’s developer surface includes documentation, engineering blog, pricing, support, and 12 more developer resources.

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29.5/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
AccessFreemium
1 APIs
schedulingtime-trackingpayrollHRworkforce-managementteam-communicationemployee-schedulingsmall-businesshourly-workersintegrations

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 29.5/100 · thin
Contract Quality 3.2 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 3.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 11.6 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.9 / 10
Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Homebase API

The Homebase REST API provides programmatic access to employee scheduling, time tracking, payroll synchronization, and team management features. Authenticated via API key, it en...

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Homebase Plans Pricing

4 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Homebase Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Homebase Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Homebase Context

15 classes · 1 properties

JSON-LD

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Homebase Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Homebase Vulnerability Disclosure

disclosure policy published

SECURITY

Homebase Trust Center

SOC 2, PCI DSS

SECURITY

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONLDContext
JSONLDContext

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter
TrustCenter
 VulnerabilityDisclosure
VulnerabilityDisclosure
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage
StatusPage
 Support
Support
 RateLimits
RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing
Pricing
 Plans
Plans
 FinOps
FinOps

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Blog
Blog
 BlogPosts
BlogPosts

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

X
X

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: homebase
name: Homebase
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/homebase.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/homebase/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: 2026-06-12
modified: 2026-06-12
specificationVersion: '0.19'
description: 'Homebase is an all-in-one workforce management platform for small businesses, offering employee scheduling,
  time tracking, payroll, team communication, and HR tools designed for hourly teams. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in
  San Francisco, California, Homebase serves over 100,000 small businesses across restaurants, retail, and service industries.
  The platform provides a REST API that enables third-party integrations and custom applications to access scheduling, time
  tracking, payroll sync, and team management data. Developers can authenticate via API key obtained through the Homebase
  account settings portal, with the base endpoint at app.joinhomebase.com/api/public. Homebase integrates natively with major
  point-of-sale systems, payroll providers, and HR platforms including Square, Toast, Clover, Gusto, ADP, and QuickBooks.

  '
tags:
- scheduling
- time-tracking
- payroll
- HR
- workforce-management
- team-communication
- employee-scheduling
- small-business
- hourly-workers
- integrations
apis:
- aid: homebase:homebase-api
  name: Homebase API
  description: 'The Homebase REST API provides programmatic access to employee scheduling, time tracking, payroll synchronization,
    and team management features. Authenticated via API key, it enables third-party developers and partners to build custom
    integrations with the Homebase workforce management platform.

    '
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://app.joinhomebase.com/api-docs
  baseURL: https://app.joinhomebase.com/api/public
  tags:
  - scheduling
  - time-tracking
  - payroll
  - team-communication
  - employees
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://app.joinhomebase.com/api-docs
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://app.joinhomebase.com/api-docs#authentication
common:
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/homebase-trust-center.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/homebase-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/homebase-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.joinhomebase.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://app.joinhomebase.com/api-docs
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/homebase-app
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.joinhomebase.com/blog/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.joinhomebase.com/pricing
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.joinhomebase.com/
- type: X
  url: https://x.com/joinhomebase
- type: Support
  url: https://support.joinhomebase.com/s/
- type: Integrations
  url: https://www.joinhomebase.com/integrations
- type: Plans
  url: plans/homebase-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/homebase-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/homebase-finops.yml
- type: JSONLDContext
  url: json-ld/homebase-context.jsonld
- type: BlogPosts
  url: blogs/blogs.json
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com