Best Workforce Management · FREE
Best free Workforce Management (2026)
4 workforce management that offer a genuine free plan, ranked by entry price. Every figure links to the public page it was captured from — the vendor's own wherever the vendor publishes the number, otherwise the named public source — with the date we captured it.
Key takeaways
- Cheapest: 7shifts at $0/mo.
- Qualifying: 7shifts, Connecteam, Homebase, Sling.
- Data current through: 2026-11-01. STALE marks a row whose price we have not re-checked at its source in over 30 days; a vendor with no published price is marked when any of its plans is. 2 of 4 rows below are marked.
Comparison
| # | Workforce Management | Entry price | Free | HIPAA | SOC 2 | Best for | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7shifts STALE · 2026-09-29 | $0/mo | Yes | — | — | Restaurant and food-service teams needing scheduling and payroll | 7shifts.com |
| 2 | Connecteam STALE · 2026-09-03 | $0/mo | Yes | Yes | — | Small businesses managing deskless/frontline teams | connecteam.com |
| 3 | Homebase | $0/mo | Yes | — | — | Small businesses with hourly teams | joinhomebase.com |
| 4 | Sling | $0/mo | Yes | — | — | Shift-based hourly teams (restaurants, retail, hospitality) needing scheduling plus time tracking | getsling.com |