BambooHR vs. Ceipal ATS

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
BambooHR
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
BambooHR is an on-line human resources solution that provides onboarding, payroll, and benefits management. It also offers automated time-off management and employee self-service.
$250
per month
Ceipal ATS
Score 8.6 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
With automation and artificial intelligence, Ceipal’s ATS and CRM solutions help recruiters and staffing professionals to identify, assess, engage, hire, and onboard the best talent.
$24
per month
Pricing
BambooHRCeipal ATS
Editions & Modules
Core
$250
per month
Pro
$250
per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BambooHRCeipal ATS
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsNo matter what HR looks like at your company, we have the perfect plan for you!5% discount for annual pricing.
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Features
BambooHRCeipal ATS
Human Resource Management
Comparison of Human Resource Management features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR
8.1
122 Ratings
3% above category average
Ceipal ATS
-
Ratings
Employee demographic data7.7104 Ratings00 Ratings
Employment history8.7111 Ratings00 Ratings
Job profiles and administration8.4108 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.8.295 Ratings00 Ratings
Organizational charting7.1107 Ratings00 Ratings
Organization and location management8.098 Ratings00 Ratings
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)8.558 Ratings00 Ratings
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR
8.1
78 Ratings
1% above category average
Ceipal ATS
-
Ratings
Pay calculation8.252 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for external payroll vendors8.245 Ratings00 Ratings
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment8.030 Ratings00 Ratings
Benefit plan administration8.860 Ratings00 Ratings
Direct deposit files8.459 Ratings00 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management8.062 Ratings00 Ratings
Reimbursement management6.731 Ratings00 Ratings
Leave and Attendance Management
Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR
8.8
106 Ratings
9% above category average
Ceipal ATS
-
Ratings
Approval workflow9.1104 Ratings00 Ratings
Balance details8.997 Ratings00 Ratings
Annual carry-forward and encashment8.487 Ratings00 Ratings
Employee Self Service
Comparison of Employee Self Service features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR
8.7
117 Ratings
7% above category average
Ceipal ATS
-
Ratings
View and generate pay and benefit information7.971 Ratings00 Ratings
Update personal information9.2116 Ratings00 Ratings
View company policy documentation8.996 Ratings00 Ratings
Employee recognition8.678 Ratings00 Ratings
View job history9.0109 Ratings00 Ratings
Asset Management
Comparison of Asset Management features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR
7.8
48 Ratings
1% above category average
Ceipal ATS
-
Ratings
Tracking of all physical assets7.848 Ratings00 Ratings
HR Reporting
Comparison of HR Reporting features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR
7.7
93 Ratings
1% above category average
Ceipal ATS
-
Ratings
Report builder8.189 Ratings00 Ratings
Pre-built reports7.787 Ratings00 Ratings
Ability to combine HR data with external data7.463 Ratings00 Ratings
Onboarding
Comparison of Onboarding features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR
8.6
96 Ratings
7% above category average
Ceipal ATS
-
Ratings
New hire portal8.792 Ratings00 Ratings
Manager tracking tools8.683 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance and Goals
Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR
8.2
60 Ratings
1% above category average
Ceipal ATS
-
Ratings
Corporate goal setting8.246 Ratings00 Ratings
Individual goal setting8.258 Ratings00 Ratings
Line-of sight-visibility8.245 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance tracking8.154 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance Management
Comparison of Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR
7.9
66 Ratings
0% below category average
Ceipal ATS
-
Ratings
Performance plans7.659 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance improvement plans8.053 Ratings00 Ratings
Review status tracking7.960 Ratings00 Ratings
Review reminders8.261 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple review frequency7.857 Ratings00 Ratings
Succession Planning
Comparison of Succession Planning features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR
7.1
45 Ratings
10% below category average
Ceipal ATS
-
Ratings
Create succession plans/pools5.831 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate ranking7.737 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate search7.139 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate development8.035 Ratings00 Ratings
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR
8.1
79 Ratings
4% above category average
Ceipal ATS
8.4
58 Ratings
5% above category average
Job Requisition Management8.055 Ratings8.557 Ratings
Company Website Posting8.362 Ratings8.357 Ratings
Publish to Social Media8.256 Ratings8.252 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting8.259 Ratings8.657 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention7.453 Ratings7.356 Ratings
Applicant Tracking8.269 Ratings8.957 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts8.672 Ratings8.757 Ratings
Customized Application Form00 Ratings8.152 Ratings
Resume Management00 Ratings8.657 Ratings
Candidate Search00 Ratings8.757 Ratings
Collaboration00 Ratings8.355 Ratings
Task Creation and Delegation00 Ratings8.254 Ratings
Email Templates00 Ratings8.556 Ratings
User Permissions00 Ratings8.555 Ratings
Reporting00 Ratings8.754 Ratings
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User Ratings
BambooHRCeipal ATS
Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
(126 ratings)
8.2
(58 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.2
(10 ratings)
9.1
(4 ratings)
Usability
8.5
(53 ratings)
8.6
(46 ratings)
Availability
9.3
(5 ratings)
8.2
(2 ratings)
Performance
8.7
(5 ratings)
8.6
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
8.5
(50 ratings)
9.1
(17 ratings)
Online Training
9.2
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.6
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
8.6
(4 ratings)
8.6
(2 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
8.3
(3 ratings)
7.7
(2 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.6
(2 ratings)
8.5
(24 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.9
(5 ratings)
7.7
(2 ratings)
Professional Services
9.2
(2 ratings)
8.6
(2 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.9
(4 ratings)
7.7
(2 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.1
(4 ratings)
7.7
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
BambooHRCeipal ATS
Likelihood to Recommend
BambooHR
I think BambooHR is meant for companies that have more than 200 employees, because it is not cheap, but for what they are offering, it is a nice software with some easy UI to understand for everyone at a company. I think for a small company, it is way too big of a software and it is not that worth the price.
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CEIPAL Solutions Private Limited
Ceipal adding more information to submit candidates for some requirements. It leads to more accomplishments via sourcing and collecting data. Somehow, Various technologies include the applicants through these Ceipal specifications. Despite insufficient data, it works continuously actions for a complete process. Moreover, most of the candidates are reached by its process.
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Pros
BambooHR
  • Customer Service - The customer service is consistent and the team is always eager to help. They are polite, patient, and there are never terrible interactions.
  • Communication - BambooHR communication channels are simple. There are many different ways to communicate with the team. I prefer e-mail because it helps me keep track of the conversations and they respond within the appropriate time. Also, the e-mail reminders or notifications help tremendously and it's not overbearing.
  • User Interface - It's simple and easy to use!
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CEIPAL Solutions Private Limited
  • I can easily find the candidate details by using his email address.
  • I can easily post the job on the Ceipal without any complexity.
  • I can easily track record of candidates submitted by me.
  • I can easily find the details of the interviews posted on the Ceipal.
  • I can easily upload the resume of new candidate.
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Cons
BambooHR
  • Reporting - I wish that you could choose a timeframe for all reports. There are times when I need to run a report for information at a point in time, but there is no functionality to complete this (maybe this is an add-on, but seems like it should be a basic function.)
  • ATS - Customizable notifications and making it easier to figure out how to change notification/email settings. I figured it out, but it was difficult to find. I wish you could choose to notify managers of candidates 1/week instead of every time someone applies.
  • Custom Holidays - being able to set up 2 different Holiday policies for different working groups. Some of our team gets a floating holiday, but we can't set that up without doing it for the entire company.
  • Being able to intercept a form that was signed by an employee but not the 2nd signer. We can't access onboarding forms that new hires signed after the 2nd signer left the company. Now we have to have our team resign all their onboarding forms because we cannot access the one with their signature.
  • Delegation for approvals - being able to delegate this when someone is on leave or time away so that Admins don't have to manage.
  • Org chart - being able to customize this feature
  • More broad or customizable EEO categories
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CEIPAL Solutions Private Limited
  • If added more job boards it would be very helpful for the user. It is dependent on the organization.
  • It is a customisable one. So anyone who buys it can get it according to their thoughts.
  • There are more and more updates for CEIPAL. We don't have to worry about it as the CEIPAL team is working for more and more updates.
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Likelihood to Renew
BambooHR
Overall we have not had any reason to discontinue our use of BambooHR. We have not found a better solution, and there is no pressing reason that we would want to move away from the product. If they should fail to continue to improve their features over time, I could see this changing down the road, but for now I would say we are very satisfied with them. We would definitely like to see continued growth of their product however.
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CEIPAL Solutions Private Limited
We have been using this ATS for the past few years and have never had any major problems. It is being used for candidate sourcing as well as keeping track of all our candidate's databases. In the market, there are very few ATS software available, and I think Ceipal is the best among all.
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Usability
BambooHR
Is very easy to navigate. All processes once explained, you can actually create an implement process associated to your HR goals. It is like a digital file of your employees, with functionalities that let you be on track on onboarding, performance, information, among others process. Time off approvals are easy to navigate.
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CEIPAL Solutions Private Limited
Yes, Ceipal is super useful when it comes to recruitment. It's helping me lot of ways, like email templates and mail merge feature. These features are really helps my productivity. It saves lot of time. More than that turn around time is really important when it comes to recruitment Ceipal Bulk email feature is really helpful on that.
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Reliability and Availability
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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CEIPAL Solutions Private Limited
In my tenure of using this software, there were multiple times when I faced a technical outage, and it was not too long. We had it resolved as we connected with the support, and they informed us immediately that the developer team is working on it and will get the issue resolved.
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Performance
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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CEIPAL Solutions Private Limited
I never faced any problem loading the Ceipal login page and when I had a problem it was just my browser. I rarely use any other browser other than Chrome. Even after integrating with other job portals, Ceipal never gets hung or there is any error loading page I have received.
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Support Rating
BambooHR
I have used the help chat function several times and that is easy and great to use. There are also many articles, FAQs sections and an entire learning platform to learn on your own. I believe that is great. I also have used ChatGPT to ask how to do certain functions as well, which were accurately reported.
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CEIPAL Solutions Private Limited
I would rate myself a 5 out of 10 in coding. While I have a basic understanding of coding languages like Java and Python, I am still learning and honing my skills. However, I am eager to learn and willing to put in the effort to improve my coding abilities.
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In-Person Training
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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CEIPAL Solutions Private Limited
I would rate 10/10. It is totally depend upon the trainer. They should be known to each and every corner of the Software as well. The person providing training of this ATS should be master of the Ceipal. We have got in-person training in our organization as well. It is really helpful. Thank you Team Ceipal.
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Online Training
BambooHR
As far as I can recall, everything went well with doing it online and got questions answered. Was thankful to work with a dummy file to get used to some practices prior to getting our own domain within bamboo to then place our personnel information in the system, this helped a lot!
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CEIPAL Solutions Private Limited
I would recommend 10/10. However i did not get online training from the Ceipal. I was involved in in-person training in my organization as well. However, i am not aware of online training from the Ceipal but i had get online resolution once from Ceipal. The name of the person was Shruti from Ceipal team as well.
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Implementation Rating
BambooHR
It was some work involved in moving all of our documents from a drive over to the correct folders and creating the system of what folders were needed and what got placed where
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CEIPAL Solutions Private Limited
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Alternatives Considered
BambooHR
Although there are many products in the marketplace, there is no perfect system. BambooHR is the most economical HRIS for a small business, start-up, or business that has never had HR software. BambooHR was selected for its affordable functionality. However, if they continue to ingore the lack of functionality the pretty package will no longer have any value.
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CEIPAL Solutions Private Limited
Ceipal ATS should align with our organization's specific needs, objectives, and budget. Conducting a thorough comparison with other ATS options, considering the factors mentioned above, and possibly conducting a pilot or trial period can help us make an informed decision.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
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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CEIPAL Solutions Private Limited
Pricing model was very flexible with Ciepal and when we agreed we already knew that we are going to renew it for more than 5 years now. It was flexible and we had to make sure that there is no breach in between. we are using the services for more than 2 years now so I think I made the right decision.
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Scalability
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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CEIPAL Solutions Private Limited
I have given an 8 rating as the Ceipal is being used in our department for mostly recruitment purposes so we don't have many other departments. We use Ceipal for recruitment and for sales purposes. Currently, it's being used for the bother dept and working absolutely fine so I think an 8 rating is reasonable.
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Professional Services
BambooHR
VERY professional!
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CEIPAL Solutions Private Limited
Ceipal Professional Service is also an elite service provided by Ceipal for its premium vendors. It's just like an upgrade system one can avail of if they want to pay more and have more features added to their current system. We did not use this service so I don't have much to say about this, but maybe in future we will require it.
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Return on Investment
BambooHR
  • It's been a great force multiplier for our HR staff, supplementing their skills to allow them to focus on more complex tasks.
  • Employees enjoy using it and have to talk to HR staff less with the self-service options.
  • You may find as your organization grows that you outgrow a module or BambooHR and will replace with a dedicated solution.
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CEIPAL Solutions Private Limited
  • It helps us on cut down cost since we can integrate job portals.
  • It helps us to track candidates who are in our bench and able to realign with new projects
  • It plays vital role in submitting suitable candidates within TAT
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ScreenShots

BambooHR Screenshots

Screenshot of BambooHR's Reporting

Ceipal ATS Screenshots

Screenshot of Executive DashboardScreenshot of Job postingsScreenshot of Internal DatabaseScreenshot of Applicant ReportsScreenshot of Custom ReportsScreenshot of Applicants Module