Case Study: Needle in a Haystack goes paperless and streamlines payroll with Homebase

How a Former Engineer Turned Needlepoint Maven Rid Herself ff File Cabinets After 18 Years in Business

Needle in a Haystack is an Alameda-based retail shop run by Cathe that specializes in hard-to-find needlework supplies. After 18 years in business and a background as a software engineer, Cathe wanted to ditch paper time cards and the manual payroll work that required her to visit the store. She discovered Homebase through her Poynt payment terminal’s “Featured Apps” and chose the Homebase service to solve her scheduling and time-tracking pain points.

Homebase integrated directly with Cathe’s Poynt terminal so employees clock in and out on the device and all time card data is stored in the cloud; timesheets can be exported to payroll from anywhere. Using Homebase, Needle in a Haystack eliminated an entire file drawer of paper records, no longer needs in-store data entry during vacations, and has saved significant time and effort in weekly payroll and tracking employee availability.

Needle in a Haystack

Cathe

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