A three-location Texas gelato group. Switched off Homebase on April 22, 2026. Real numbers, six weeks in — pulled live from the database.
Update, October 2026: one of the three stores has closed permanently. The figures on this page cover all three stores as of June 1, 2026.
Before PeopleBridge, the group ran the standard small-franchise stack: Homebase for scheduling and time clock, Toast for the register, paper packets for onboarding new hires, and group texts for everything in between. It worked, in the sense that nothing was on fire — but four real problems compounded every month:
The group went live on PeopleBridge on April 22, 2026. The migration took a week — bulk CSV employee import, Toast OAuth, geofence radii set per store, the first week's schedule rebuilt. Six weeks in, the numbers tell a clean story:
Tips pulled from Toast, hours pulled from time-clock, distributed pro-rata per location per pay period. Owner phantom hours configurable. Lock & Pay snapshot freezes the math; payroll CSV exports in one click.
Float staff covering multiple stores get auto-routed to the closest geofence at clock-in. Manager override always available. No more "I punched in at the wrong location" payroll fixups.
Pre-publish warning when an employee is on track to cross 40 hours that week — fix it before the schedule goes out, not after payroll runs. Drag-and-drop builder lives on mobile too.
New hire signs everything on their phone before day one. Manager reviews the packet from any browser. Three-week paper chase compressed to a same-week turnaround.
Owner-only access. By Day, By Location, By Hour (America/Chicago), By Month (CPA-friendly). CSV export. Net / Gross / Tax / Tips / Discounts all in cents — no float drift.
One tap from the home screen opens an announcement composer pre-filled with the right location. In-app DMs replaced group texts for compliance-sensitive coordination.
The group switched off Homebase because tip pools were still being reconciled in Excel on Sunday nights, on top of per-location fees across three stores.
Six weeks after switching, the Sunday payroll session is gone. The schedule lands right the first time. Onboarding a new server takes 20 minutes instead of three weeks. The tip pool reconciles to the penny against Toast every Monday morning — automatically. Every number on this page comes from the production database.
— Multi-location restaurant operator · 3 locations · Texas
Update, October 2026: one of the three stores has closed permanently. The figures on this page cover all three stores as of June 1, 2026.
Setup, migration and day-to-day questions were handled with the PeopleBridge support team; the product is continuously developed and improved by our engineering team.
Free forever for 1 location and up to 10 employees, no card — scheduling, GPS phone time clock, shift trades and timesheets. Pro is $2 per employee/mo plus $10 per location/mo, with every feature: team messages and announcements, tablet kiosk, digital onboarding, payroll exports, Toast integration, tip pool and all AI.
Start free — no cardAbout a week — bulk employee import, Toast connection, geofence setup, and the first week's schedule rebuild. The numbers on this page cover the first six weeks live.
Three locations need Pro: $2 per employee plus $10 per location, per month. At this group's size — 32 employees across 3 locations — that is $94/month, with every feature including the Toast integration, tip pool and AI. For comparison, Homebase lists its Plus plan at $70 per location/month billed monthly. Competitor prices as listed on their websites, October 2026. Check their sites for current pricing.
Tips are pulled from Toast, hours from the time clock, and distributed pro-rata per location per pay period. A lock-and-pay snapshot freezes the math and exports a payroll-ready CSV. The group's pool has reconciled to the penny weekly.
Yes. Every stat is pulled from the production PeopleBridge database as of June 1, 2026, covering the period since go-live on April 22, 2026.