Build smarter staff schedules with less chaos. Learn proven employee scheduling best practices—availability, budgets, compliance, shift swaps, and more.

Get accurate timesheets with less chasing. Here are 21 proven tips—covering policy, UX, reminders, geofencing, approvals, payroll integrations, and culture—to make your time tracking software stick.

Running a small business is no easy feat, and it’s important to maximize efficiency whenever possible. One way to do this is to take advantage of small business software management solutions. In this article, we’ll explore the benefits of small business software management, look at some small business software management statistics, discuss small business software … Read more

Downloading the mobile app honeybeeBase is available to download as a mobile app for both Apple iOS and Android phones. The app contains most of the functionality of the website, optimized for use on a mobile device: Users can access the time clock: As well as well as many of the other functions available on … Read more

As a small business owner, you have a lot of important tasks to manage. From accounting and bookkeeping to employee scheduling and management, it’s crucial to have the right tools in place to ensure your business runs smoothly and efficiently. In this blog post, we’ll look at 10 essential small business software tools for employee … Read more

Creating a public access terminal (wall style time clock) Public access terminals are a nice feature to allow all your employees to clock in and out from a central location using a unique pin. They can be created from the time clock main menu: Click “Your Team’s Public Access” to reveal the settings: Slide “Allow … Read more

Creating and Editing Schedules Schedules and be created and edited through the schedule main menu: Click on “edit schedules” Choose the week you would like to edit and select “Show Detail” Select the position and location you would like to access and click “Start” or “Edit” Creating a Shift To add a new shift, select … Read more

The shift marketplace can be used to allow employees to swap shifts. Supervisors can also post shifts to the shift marketplace for employees to claim. Turn on the Shift Marketplace Shift Marketplace can be enabled through Schedule Settings: Choose whether you would like to allow your whole team to use these settings or only specific … Read more

Today’s workforce is more connected than ever. The majority of employees access work-related apps, email, and othersoftware tools on personal mobile devices. This setup makes collaboration easier and more natural — but it alsoincreases the risk of information leaks and company secrets getting into the wrong hands. As a small business owner,you’re likely juggling several … Read more

Creating and Editing Schedules Schedules and be created and edited through the schedule main menu: Click on “edit schedules” Choose the week you would like to edit and select “Show Detail” Select the position and location you would like to access and click “Start” or “Edit” Creating a Shift To add a new shift, select … Read more

Scheduling employee shifts can be seem like a complicated task, but it doesn’t have to be. Our team at honeybeeBase has combed through years of successful experiences from our clients to come up with the top 5 tips to help make your scheduling process easy and effective Have a clear process in place before starting … Read more

The latest trend going around the social media platforms is how its going versus how it started. This got us thinking back to why we started honeybeeBase. When we first started developing the honeybeeBase solution over a decade ago, we needed an easier way to handle employee management. Our time cards were on excel spreadsheets. Our … Read more

At honeybeeBase our goal is to provide a very intuitive and simple tool to manage your business. While our new users love that it is easy to get started with our solution. Hidden within our application though are powerful tools that allow the application to fit within business, not force your business to fit the … Read more

At honeybeeBase our goal is to provide a very intuitive and simple tool to manage your business. While our new users love that it is easy to get started with our solution. Hidden within our application though are powerful tools that allow the application to fit within business, not force your business to fit the … Read more

At honeybeeBase our goal is to provide a very intuitive and simple tool to manage your business. While our new users love that it is easy to get started with our solution. Hidden within our application though are powerful tools that allow the application to fit within business, not force your business to fit the … Read more

Today is National Day of the Programmer. Our team of Application Developers have always focused on creating a very simple interface for honeybeeBase. However hidden under that very simple interface are a myriad of tools that allow you to make honeybeeBase work for you in custom ways. We would like to honor our hard working programmers … Read more

HRIS stands for: Human Resources Information System In fact, the formal definition is this: “An integrated system used to gather, store and analyze information regarding an organization’s human resources comprising of databases, computer applications, hardware and software necessary to collect, record, store, manage, deliver, present and manipulate data for human resources function” (Hendrickson) Simply put, … Read more

honeybeeBase: An automated employee scheduling software built to save you time and eliminate error. One of the greatest stressors for managers today is creating the employee schedule. It’s like solving a jigsaw puzzle. You’re navigating employee availability, vacation requests, and weekly hours worked – all with the goal to find a balance that meets everyone’s … Read more

Weekly, HR professionals and business managers around the world are reviewing staff attendance and time sheets, and manually adding up employee hours or hunting on the internet for a time clock calculator. It’s stressful and time consuming. The time it takes to calculate the hours of each employee steals time away from other important tasks … Read more

honeybeeBase is excited to announce that it now integrates with Quickbooks, the nation’s leading bookkeeping and payroll software. As a business owner or manager, we know your time is valuable. We also know that much of your valuable time is buried in day-to-day employee management tasks and activities. It’s for this reason that we’ve created … Read more

Evaluating employee scheduling software? We can help! As each day passes, new technology and automation programs are released into the marketplace – helping managers, like you, simplify your job. 64% of small businesses are using cloud-based technology today to help streamline and systemize their organizations. (financesonline.com) But technology, alone, isn’t the end all, be all … Read more

Having PTO is an incredible benefit for your staff, but with it- you should include an automated PTO tracker. Otherwise, you’ll find yourself collecting time-off requests via email or paper, and manually entering that information into your database. That manual entry is what we want to steer away from. While in the day-to-day, you may … Read more

It’s no secret that a tight labor market has added more pressure on business owners and HR professionals to retain key talent. Employee retention has become a key metric within the organization’s walls as companies scramble to increase employee engagement and satisfaction. But why do they go to all ends to retain key talent? Cost … Read more

3 Steps to Implementing a PTO Policy in Your Business Considering implementing a PTO policy? In the past, you used to ask your employees to request a “vacation day” or “sick day.” Employees had an allotted number of days for both. Employers are starting to move towards PTO (paid time off) policies. Basically, it includes … Read more

You’ve probably reached a point in your business where you’re wondering what the cost of an employee management software is? Your task list is never-ending. Your ability to effectively manage these tasks in an efficient manner is no longer possible. It’s a good thing, actually. You’re not the only one contemplating an Employee Management Software … Read more

Save time spent on building staff schedules by incorporating an employee scheduling app. As an employer of a small or midsize business, you spend hours in your week buried in excel sheets managing employees. One of those tasks is building an employee schedule that aligns with your employee’s availability. You finalize the schedule, roll it … Read more

Still using a time card calculator to add up your employees’ hours? We know you spend a significant amount of time every week tracking your employees’ time and attendance. From managing their various shifts and schedules, to keeping accurate records of their attendance and availability – it’s a lot to keep track of. …and it’s … Read more

Considering an employee management software for your business? You’ve likely reached a time in your company where the task has become too large. Your business has grown. Your employee count is up. …and no longer are you able to manage all of this on your own. Congratulations!  That’s an incredible place to be. With growth … Read more

Within our own businesses, we used to have paid time off banks for vacation and paid time off banks for being absent (sickness, etc) We made a change so that now we have one bank of days earned called Paid Time Off. If you are going on vacation or if you were sick, it pulls … Read more

The 2019 year is already off to an exciting start for honeybeeBase as the web-based employee management solution has earned 2019 Rising Star Award and 2019 Premium Usability Award from FinanceOnline, a popular B2B software review platform. These awards also come with honeybeeBase being recognized as one of FinanceOnlines’s Top 50 employee scheduling software products. In their evaluation of honeybeeBase, … Read more