BambooHR 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.
The platform for both employees and employer were way easier to use and navigate. Additionally, VensureHR generated many errors which we did not see with BambooHR.
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BambooHR is much easier to set up, is much more intuitive, UI friendly, has more flexibility and versatility than the programs listed above.
Since I joined this company we have been using BambooHR. I am not aware of what we were using prior. I know that I have heard the leadership team discuss how much better BambooHR is, than what we used previous.
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.
I used Gusto a long time ago so my memory won't provide much but I believe BambooHR® has more features for tracking that are available for the employee to use/view, which is nice.
I have not evaluated any other BambooHR products, nor have I used any other tools throughout my career. Again, as I am the end user and an employee of the company, not the owner who directly pays for Bamboo, I cannot speak to any other competitors. However, as an employee, I am …
We've been using BambooHR for many years now, so I don't really remember what PeopleForce was like. But what I know for sure is that BambooHR is a much more refined product and provides more capabilities than PF overall.
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UKG looks like it could offer more customizability.
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UKG was too big of a tech stack for us, even UKG Ready was overly complex for what our organizational needs are. We picked BHR based off of user experience, simplicity, and cost. Most other HR softwares are exponentially more costly than BHR & for our organization needs and …
Everything is pretty similar, but personally I prefer BambooHR® over Paychex and Gusto over BambooHR® due to Gusto offering personalized 401k plans that you can customize up to the maximum details.
BambooHR® is much simpler. Way easier to find what is needed. In Workday platforms, there is so many options, that makes all the platforms not user friendly.
BambooHR works well for centralizing core hr processes like time-off management, org charts, and performance reviews in a mid-sized company where all employees need self-service access to these functions. Its ease of use and customization make it well-suited for organizations that want employees at all levels to interact with hr tools directly without heavy training.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
These are the three that come to mind, and we use each program for different things. We stick to HR driven areas for Bamboo, as we haven't shifted to it for payroll or project management. I do find Bamboo to be the most user-friendly, with the smallest learning curve of all the other programs, though.
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.
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.
