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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    ADP SmartCompliance

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AADP SmartCompliance is a tax and regulatory compliance platform for midsize or larger companies using an ERP or non-ADP platform for HR and HRMS services.N/A

    BambooHR

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/ABambooHR is an cloud-based human resources solution that provides onboarding, payroll, and benefits management. It also offers automated time-off management and employee self-service.

    $10

    per month per user

    Pricing
    ADP SmartComplianceBambooHR
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Core
    $10
    per month per user
    Pro
    Contact Sales
    per month
    Elite
    Contact Sales
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ADP SmartComplianceBambooHR
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredOptional
    Additional DetailsPricing varies based upon modules deployed and features enabled.
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    ADP SmartComplianceBambooHR
    Considered Both Products
    ADP
    No answer on this topic
    BambooHR
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    92%
    Would buy again
    107 Answers
    95%
    Would buy again
    354 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    86 Answers
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    259 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    111 Answers
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    351 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    42 Answers
    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    170 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    88%
    Implementation went as expected
    53 Answers
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    194 Answers
    Features
    ADP SmartComplianceBambooHR
    Type of tax
    Comparison of Type of tax features of ADP SmartCompliance and BambooHR
    Feature
    ADP SmartCompliance
    7.4
    25 Ratings
    3% below category average
    BambooHR
    -
    Ratings
    Sales and Use Taxes7.218 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cross-border Taxes7.517 Ratings00 Ratings
    VAT / GST Taxes7.74 Ratings00 Ratings
    Energy and Fuel Taxes7.34 Ratings00 Ratings
    Tax Reporting & Compliance
    Comparison of Tax Reporting & Compliance features of ADP SmartCompliance and BambooHR
    Feature
    ADP SmartCompliance
    7.9
    83 Ratings
    1% above category average
    BambooHR
    -
    Ratings
    Geolocation for Tax Assessment8.229 Ratings00 Ratings
    3rd-Party Software Integrations7.452 Ratings00 Ratings
    Tax Data Reporting8.181 Ratings00 Ratings
    Compliance Administration Management8.371 Ratings00 Ratings
    Tax Exemption Processing8.637 Ratings00 Ratings
    Tax Document Management7.873 Ratings00 Ratings
    Complex Tax Scenario Management7.354 Ratings00 Ratings
    Human Resource Management
    Comparison of Human Resource Management features of ADP SmartCompliance and BambooHR
    Feature
    ADP SmartCompliance
    -
    Ratings
    BambooHR
    7.9
    387 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Employee demographic data00 Ratings8.3343 Ratings
    Employment history00 Ratings8.1340 Ratings
    Job profiles and administration00 Ratings8.1353 Ratings
    Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.00 Ratings7.7318 Ratings
    Organizational charting00 Ratings7.8364 Ratings
    Organization and location management00 Ratings8.1340 Ratings
    Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)00 Ratings7.4205 Ratings
    Payroll Management
    Comparison of Payroll Management features of ADP SmartCompliance and BambooHR
    Feature
    ADP SmartCompliance
    -
    Ratings
    BambooHR
    7.6
    266 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Pay calculation00 Ratings8.1198 Ratings
    Support for external payroll vendors00 Ratings7.0148 Ratings
    Off-cycle/On-Demand payment00 Ratings7.4145 Ratings
    Benefit plan administration00 Ratings7.2206 Ratings
    Direct deposit files00 Ratings8.3199 Ratings
    Salary revision and increment management00 Ratings7.9216 Ratings
    Reimbursement management00 Ratings7.6132 Ratings
    Leave and Attendance Management
    Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of ADP SmartCompliance and BambooHR
    Feature
    ADP SmartCompliance
    -
    Ratings
    BambooHR
    8.8
    337 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Approval workflow00 Ratings8.7337 Ratings
    Balance details00 Ratings8.5323 Ratings
    Annual carry-forward and encashment00 Ratings9.2129 Ratings
    Employee Self Service
    Comparison of Employee Self Service features of ADP SmartCompliance and BambooHR
    Feature
    ADP SmartCompliance
    -
    Ratings
    BambooHR
    8.5
    374 Ratings
    3% above category average
    View and generate pay and benefit information00 Ratings8.5258 Ratings
    Update personal information00 Ratings8.9374 Ratings
    View company policy documentation00 Ratings8.4323 Ratings
    Employee recognition00 Ratings7.9242 Ratings
    View job history00 Ratings8.8337 Ratings
    Asset Management
    Comparison of Asset Management features of ADP SmartCompliance and BambooHR
    Feature
    ADP SmartCompliance
    -
    Ratings
    BambooHR
    9.1
    74 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Tracking of all physical assets00 Ratings9.174 Ratings
    HR Reporting
    Comparison of HR Reporting features of ADP SmartCompliance and BambooHR
    Feature
    ADP SmartCompliance
    -
    Ratings
    BambooHR
    7.3
    273 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Report builder00 Ratings7.4267 Ratings
    Pre-built reports00 Ratings7.5264 Ratings
    Ability to combine HR data with external data00 Ratings6.9200 Ratings
    Onboarding
    Comparison of Onboarding features of ADP SmartCompliance and BambooHR
    Feature
    ADP SmartCompliance
    -
    Ratings
    BambooHR
    8.2
    306 Ratings
    2% above category average
    New hire portal00 Ratings8.4293 Ratings
    Manager tracking tools00 Ratings7.9265 Ratings
    Performance and Goals
    Comparison of Performance and Goals features of ADP SmartCompliance and BambooHR
    Feature
    ADP SmartCompliance
    -
    Ratings
    BambooHR
    7.9
    226 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Corporate goal setting00 Ratings7.0167 Ratings
    Individual goal setting00 Ratings7.9218 Ratings
    Line-of sight-visibility00 Ratings9.169 Ratings
    Performance tracking00 Ratings7.6214 Ratings
    Performance Management
    Comparison of Performance Management features of ADP SmartCompliance and BambooHR
    Feature
    ADP SmartCompliance
    -
    Ratings
    BambooHR
    7.8
    244 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Performance plans00 Ratings7.3231 Ratings
    Performance improvement plans00 Ratings7.3198 Ratings
    Review status tracking00 Ratings8.697 Ratings
    Review reminders00 Ratings8.1101 Ratings
    Multiple review frequency00 Ratings7.7218 Ratings
    Succession Planning
    Comparison of Succession Planning features of ADP SmartCompliance and BambooHR
    Feature
    ADP SmartCompliance
    -
    Ratings
    BambooHR
    9.1
    81 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Create succession plans/pools00 Ratings8.946 Ratings
    Candidate ranking00 Ratings9.067 Ratings
    Candidate search00 Ratings9.068 Ratings
    Candidate development00 Ratings9.359 Ratings
    Recruiting / ATS
    Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of ADP SmartCompliance and BambooHR
    Feature
    ADP SmartCompliance
    -
    Ratings
    BambooHR
    7.9
    248 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Job Requisition Management00 Ratings7.6188 Ratings
    Company Website Posting00 Ratings7.6204 Ratings
    Publish to Social Media00 Ratings9.291 Ratings
    Job Search Site Posting00 Ratings7.3199 Ratings
    Duplicate Candidate Prevention00 Ratings7.588 Ratings
    Applicant Tracking00 Ratings8.0220 Ratings
    Notifications and Alerts00 Ratings8.1236 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    ADP SmartComplianceBambooHR
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (184 ratings)
    8.3
    (408 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.8
    (40 ratings)
    10.0
    (18 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (46 ratings)
    8.7
    (335 ratings)
    Availability
    8.0
    (17 ratings)
    9.3
    (5 ratings)
    Performance
    7.1
    (16 ratings)
    8.7
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.6
    (45 ratings)
    8.2
    (175 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.8
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.5
    (13 ratings)
    8.2
    (5 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    6.7
    (32 ratings)
    8.6
    (6 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.7
    (15 ratings)
    7.4
    (5 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.4
    (3 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    6.6
    (12 ratings)
    9.6
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    4.4
    (16 ratings)
    8.9
    (5 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.2
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    7.8
    (13 ratings)
    8.9
    (4 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.7
    (10 ratings)
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ADP SmartComplianceBambooHR
    Likelihood to Recommend
    ADP
    ADP SmartCompliance reduces a great deal of the strain on our department by easily remaining compliant. Particularly with several state and federal demands, payroll compliance can quickly become a struggle; ADP helps us keep all requests and court paperwork in one place. I appreciate how it automates reporting, garnishments, and tax returns to free us from constant concern over missing deadlines or making calculation mistakes. Knowing that things are being correctly handled gives peace of mind, saves time, and lowers double work. With everything being tracked and recorded, it helps reduce back-and-forth while handling notices.
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    BambooHR
    Pros: You can handle multiple time-off requests from your team members at once. A complete list of directories is available to all the employees of the organization. As a result, communication with other employees is easier. All the important documents and agreements are available in one place. Cons: You need to manually check how many team members are on leave on a given day and whether there are any conflicts.
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    Pros
    ADP
    • Allows you to submit for tax jurisdiction setup
    • Has a dashboard to indicate if any tax filings for the quarter are at risk and what the problem might be
    • Has a great layout of all your payroll processing invoices
    • Allows you to download copies of the tax filings ADP does on your behalf
    • Allows you to submit tax notices directly within the site
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    BambooHR
    • Ease of use for established staff and admins, all the way down to brand new hires.
    • Integrations, especially for posting and managing jobs during the hiring process.
    • Making regularly occurring things like meetings and assessments easy to customize and to action easily.
    • Being able to assign out tasks for onboarding and offboarding.
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    Cons
    ADP
    • Local Tax Help - Mainly PA employees. I wish there was an easier way to see that we have the employees setup correctly.
    • Tickets not in emails - What I mean is that they have a ticket system so that you can talk to your account manager, but there is no easy way to then pull up those tickets like you would if it were in emails. Sometimes we want to see how we handled something before and it gets tricky.
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    BambooHR
    • I think it could display PTO in number of days, as well.
    • I wish that the benefits page was easier to navigate.
    • I don't like that the pay stub area is hidden, since I am typically alone at home when I review that data.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    ADP
    ADP displays value continuously by automating compliance processes, reducing risk, and saving time. It ensures that tax filings are accurate, efficient notice management, and seamless integration with payroll systems, which minimizes penalties and manual work. The platforms reliability and strong support make it essential for maintaining compliance within our company and department
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    BambooHR
    There's nothing wrong with this platform. I would recommend it to any business starting with more than 10 employees. I will continue to use the program for as long as I need to, hoping they continue being tremendous and finding other ways to incorporate more technology.
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    Usability
    ADP
    For the most part, one can get in and learn how to navigate the system by just clicking on one of the suject areas. If you have a good clientrepresentative, they will inform you of new features/functionality and give you a quick demo. This is helpful for one to go back in and navigate to learn how it works and usefulness.
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    BambooHR
    I often have trouble finding where a setting or task I need should be. It's gotten better since we started using BambooHR®, but it's still hard to find things. Support chat is ALWAYS unavailable when I do have a question, even during their posted business hours.
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    Reliability and Availability
    ADP
    Availability is good, with only one or two instances of not being able to access the system at all which were quickly fixed. Some features do not work correctly from time to time, such as the "Help" function or the "Sync" function.
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    BambooHR
    Yes, there is a huge team in the back of the online platform or it looks like it because I have never been left without an answer when I have a question or waiting from a response on my chat .... There must be a huge team, this is so great and I always seem to have someone that is very knowledgeable too. So many times in the past I had to leave with customer service that would connect you with someone else because of the expertise, here everyone seems to be some kind of an expert in the HR function.
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    Performance
    ADP
    If ADP is having issues, they communicate the problem within the solution once you log in. They also communicate that the issue will be fixed promptly. Reports run efficiently and in a reasonable amount of time. Also, the reports allow for various reporting types to be produced like a PDF or a Microsoft Excel file.
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    BambooHR
    I love BambooHR. Reports are easy to run and download and it usually covers any types of requests I get from the management team. You get excel or .csv downloads/reports and it is fast and simple, not too crowded so it is easy to read through. We don't integrate the tool yet but again, soon we will. we just did not had the time to utilize it yet but that's the plan.
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    Support Rating
    ADP
    As mentioned in the last comment, everyone and everything has been great. However sometimes you get one person that I feel can bring a score down and the current dedicated tax representative I have I do not feel is very supportive.
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    BambooHR
    I think that the Bamboo customer support team is great. I've only had to contact them twice, but both times they were very easy to work with, assisted me quickly, and made sure I fully understood the solution and that it worked the way I needed it to.
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    In-Person Training
    ADP
    Exceptional Training Services Received during and after our Build . The teams of ADP Professionals assisted on a daily basis with tight deadlines and testing, each day , each Qtr. and annual processes including setting up local and State agencies for the 50 State we are reporting since our Workday go live 4/1/23. The process was seamless.
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    BambooHR
    I didn't have in-person training besides teaching my managers how to use the program. However, I couldn't omit this question (maybe a system glitch).
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    Online Training
    ADP
    Online training give us more flexible on timing. We always have a pack schedule and not able to attend training in person. Online training with recording is a good source for us especially we can review it again and again. The down side is we are unable ask question in person
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    BambooHR
    Overall this training was great and our implementation specialist was wonderful and very helpful. We felt really prepared once our training was completed, But we could get additional help immediately even when we were live. The continuation Support heros after implementation are wonderful and you can always get a LIVE person each time you call into their office.
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    Implementation Rating
    ADP
    I wasn't too hands on with integration portion of this product so I can't completely give an honest answer to that. I have been told that the training improves alot for each individual as they go through the process and it improves success. These individuals are able to do alot more than me in regards to implementation.
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    BambooHR
    We implemented bambooHR in Fall, 2023 then implemented Payroll 1/1/24. A vital piece of information was not known or missed in that we are exempt from State Unemployment Tax and have a Reimbursement Set-up, so bambooHR did not send Payroll Reports to the State. Those reports need to be sent regardless if we are exempt or not.
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    Alternatives Considered
    ADP
    We reviewed MasterTax and Ceridian before selecting ADP's Employment Tax four years ago. ADP SmartCompliance was selected because it was thought that this solution would save us time and resources. We have since revisited MasterTax and have looked at Asure as well. These companies offer more control and require more manual intervention before returns are filed and payments made as a tradeoff.
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    BambooHR
    Compared to other software, Bamboo is more modern and intuitive, especially in terms of user experience. But there is other software with more capabilities and features; maybe Bamboo is pretty good for a small- to mid-sized company.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    ADP
    No answers on this topic
    BambooHR
    Since my organization has dropped with employees, I always find ways to reduce costs. I thought there would be a cheaper option, but I was glad that my package included a lot for the price, and downgrading would cost more. The rep could have let me downgraded and taken me to a higher package. I am thankful that didn't happen.
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    Scalability
    ADP
    ADP has the ability to scale across departments. This was found to be true when we rolled out the wage payment solution. ADP users are able to view their pay stubs on their phones and/or computers. This wage payment portal offers W2 storage and paystub storage for access at any time by an employee.
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    BambooHR
    There is so much you can do with this platform, it is incredible and so welcoming. We don't utilize it 100% yet just because we are growing and the HR team has not been able to concentrate on other areas offered to us but but we will soon. Which is also why we got the product, specifically because what BambooHR can do to help us meet our growing business needs.
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    Professional Services
    ADP
    No answers on this topic
    BambooHR
    VERY professional!
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    Return on Investment
    ADP
    • we were able to outsource our garnishments, so that the bulk task it handled by someone else.
    • we have been able to process tickets quicker for missing deposits can we can see if the payment was sent back from the bank.
    • we are able to fund our final pay payments more efficiently and quicker
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    BambooHR
    • We were able to cancel our ATS monthly subscription with another provider to use the Hiring module with BambooHR®. We save on average $600 a month!
    • We cancelled another monthly subscription that we were using for time off tracking saving hundreds a month.
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    Screenshot of the Job Info tabScreenshot of Onboarding TasksScreenshot of a New Hire PacketScreenshot of an Employee Performance ReportScreenshot of Employee Satisfaction (eNPS®)Screenshot of Open Enrollment