Homebase alternative for crews who don't work in one building

Homebase is well known as a scheduling and time clock app for hourly teams. It's popular with restaurants, retail stores and other businesses where staff clock in at one location, and it adds payroll, hiring and team messaging on top. If your people work behind one counter, it's built for you.

Service crews are different. A janitorial cleaner might visit three buildings in a night. A security guard does a patrol route. A snow crew hits a dozen lots before 6 AM. For that kind of work, "clocked in" isn't the useful fact. The useful fact is which site, what time, and what it looked like when they left. That's what TeamProof records.

Time clock vs. visit record

A time clock answers: was this employee working, and for how long? It's the foundation of payroll.

A visit record answers: was this property serviced, by whom, when, with what proof? It's what your client is paying for.

TeamProof is built around the second one. Each scheduled visit has its own check-in, checked against the GPS pin of that property, its own before and after photos and checklist, and its own check-out. Several visits a day at one site each get their own record.

What TeamProof gives a field crew

• One big Check in button. Workers log in with phone number and PIN, with lockout after repeated wrong PINs. No passwords, no shared logins.
• GPS at the site, not all day. Location is checked at check-in and check-out only.
• One-tap photos that move on by themselves.
• Late reasons. If someone is more than an hour off the start time, they pick a short reason for the office.
• Three languages: English, Punjabi and Hindi.
• No prices on worker screens. Workers never see what you charge.

What the owner gets

• A Today screen with visits, who is on site and the week ahead
• A Missed tag and email one hour after any scheduled start with no check-in, and reassignment from the visit (see missed visit alerts)
• Pay set per schedule: per visit, per hour or per month, per person
• Jobs passed to subcontractors, who join free and only see their visits and price
• A private client link for property managers (see client visit report link)

What Homebase does that TeamProof doesn't

Homebase has payroll, hiring tools and team chat. TeamProof has none of those, and invoicing and payments are still coming soon. If what you need is a store time clock wired into payroll, a TeamProof switch would leave gaps. Some owners run a payroll tool for pay and TeamProof for site proof.

Price

TeamProof is one plan (see current pricing), with unlimited workers. You get 30 days free without a card, and you can cancel any time from Settings. Homebase has free and paid tiers based on features and locations; check its site for current prices.

Which industries fit

TeamProof is built for four industries: janitorial contracts, security patrols, snow removal and home care. The same visit flow also suits landscaping crews and property management vendor checks.

Related reading

• Connecteam alternative
• How to prove employees showed up to a job site
• Is GPS tracking employees legal in Canada?
• Jobber alternative

TeamProof was built at Sweepy Maids, a Metro Vancouver cleaning company, for its own night crews. Read the case study.

A simple test before you switch

Try writing down what you'd show a client who says nobody came. If the honest answer is "a time sheet that says Maria worked 6 hours," you need visit proof, not a better clock. If the answer is "a GPS check-in at their building at 9:58 PM and 20 photos," that's TeamProof.

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