Payroll & HR: Lack of effective customer support across platforms
Customers are experiencing significant issues with the app's functionality and customer support, leading to frustration and inability to access their accounts. Many users report ineffective assistance from customer support, which fails to resolve their problems or provide satisfactory solutions.
4 people in 4 posts across 2 sources · demand low, pain moderate, competition low
The pain
shares of 4 quoted postsWhat goes wrong, and for whom
- Who
- 4 people using Homebase: Employee Scheduling and QuickBooks Workforce
- What goes wrong
- Not classified into a failure type — read the posts below.
- How bad
- 75% of posts are complaints · pain score moderate (43/100)
- Since
- 13 Oct 2021 → 28 Aug 2026
Is this a startup idea?
Not directly. These are complaints about a product or service people already use — the fix belongs first to that provider.
- Complaints are about
- Homebase: Employee Scheduling and QuickBooks Workforce
- Looking for something else
- 0% want an alternative · 25% ask the provider for a feature
- What the numbers say
- Almost nobody is looking for a different product — people want this provider to fix it, not a new option.
The pain — what people say
Their asks, who is writing, and the posts themselves
What people were doing
Every post behind this page, by what its author was doing — and when each one was written
- Complaint375%
- Request125%
Sources
4 signals · 2 sources
Evidence
Raw public posts behind this opportunity — click through to the original
Homebase: Employee Scheduling — Was good and then it stop It was working fine until it randomly stop working for me I’ve tried so many ways to update my phone update the app, delete the app and I still can’t log in I have talk to customer support and still no help I had ask my manager to delete me and rehired and…
…"security", but other programs/apps don't require constant sign-ins. Don't even bother trying to contact customer support, either, they will read off a script and then hang up on you if your problem isn't an easy fix. 0/5 Stars
…none of my screens would load. Couldn’t see the schedule or anything. After deleting the app and redownloading it I was unable to get back in at all even with customer support
Homebase: Employee Scheduling — Horrible Horrible customer service the cash out option should just not be there anymore if u wanna leave people poor for the week
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Questions about this idea
- Is Payroll & HR: Lack of effective customer support across platforms a startup idea?
- Not directly. These are complaints about a product or service people already use, and the fix belongs first to that provider. The page shows what is frustrating users and how badly — not an open market to start a company in.
- How many people have this problem?
- 4 different people described it independently, in 4 mentions, the earliest from 13 Oct 2021 and the most recent from 28 Aug 2026. The quotes, with dates and links to the originals, are in the Evidence section.
- Is this problem getting worse?
- Current status: rising — mentioned more often than before. Momentum is 62/100, measured as how often it is mentioned recently compared with before.
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