BambooHR® vs. BrightHR

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
BambooHR®
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
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.
$250
per month
BrightHR
Score 6.1 out of 10
N/A
British company BrightHR offers a human resources platform which helps replace paper documents with edocuments and contains features for managing employee scheduling and ROTA, sick leave and tardiness, vacation and holiday shift planning, as well as providing employment law legal advice.
$4.50
Pricing
BambooHR®BrightHR
Editions & Modules
Core
$250
per month
Pro
Contact Sales
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BambooHR®BrightHR
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsPrices start at £4.50 (per employee/per month)
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Community Pulse
BambooHR®BrightHR
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BambooHR®

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BrightHR
Chose BrightHR
I’m going with anything but BrightHR in future.
Features
BambooHR®BrightHR
Human Resource Management
Comparison of Human Resource Management features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR®
7.8
236 Ratings
1% below category average
BrightHR
6.5
30 Ratings
20% below category average
Employee demographic data8.2212 Ratings00 Ratings
Employment history8.2216 Ratings6.125 Ratings
Job profiles and administration7.9210 Ratings7.123 Ratings
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.7.7200 Ratings6.412 Ratings
Organizational charting7.1217 Ratings00 Ratings
Organization and location management8.0207 Ratings6.723 Ratings
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)7.5120 Ratings6.210 Ratings
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR®
7.3
156 Ratings
9% below category average
BrightHR
6.3
11 Ratings
24% below category average
Pay calculation7.9112 Ratings6.69 Ratings
Support for external payroll vendors6.982 Ratings5.66 Ratings
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment7.082 Ratings00 Ratings
Benefit plan administration6.8119 Ratings00 Ratings
Direct deposit files8.0115 Ratings00 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management7.8126 Ratings6.96 Ratings
Reimbursement management6.972 Ratings6.25 Ratings
Leave and Attendance Management
Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR®
8.5
202 Ratings
5% above category average
BrightHR
6.8
42 Ratings
18% below category average
Approval workflow8.4196 Ratings6.741 Ratings
Balance details8.2187 Ratings6.436 Ratings
Annual carry-forward and encashment9.0128 Ratings7.421 Ratings
Employee Self Service
Comparison of Employee Self Service features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR®
8.5
229 Ratings
5% above category average
BrightHR
7.6
42 Ratings
6% below category average
View and generate pay and benefit information8.4149 Ratings6.713 Ratings
Update personal information8.8225 Ratings7.340 Ratings
View company policy documentation8.4197 Ratings8.740 Ratings
Employee recognition8.2143 Ratings00 Ratings
View job history8.6216 Ratings00 Ratings
Asset Management
Comparison of Asset Management features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR®
8.5
73 Ratings
7% above category average
BrightHR
-
Ratings
Tracking of all physical assets8.573 Ratings00 Ratings
HR Reporting
Comparison of HR Reporting features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR®
7.1
195 Ratings
6% below category average
BrightHR
6.7
16 Ratings
12% below category average
Report builder7.3189 Ratings00 Ratings
Pre-built reports7.3187 Ratings6.716 Ratings
Ability to combine HR data with external data6.6133 Ratings00 Ratings
Onboarding
Comparison of Onboarding features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR®
8.0
195 Ratings
1% above category average
BrightHR
6.9
12 Ratings
14% below category average
New hire portal8.3187 Ratings7.110 Ratings
Manager tracking tools7.7174 Ratings6.79 Ratings
Performance and Goals
Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR®
7.8
125 Ratings
3% below category average
BrightHR
-
Ratings
Corporate goal setting7.289 Ratings00 Ratings
Individual goal setting7.9119 Ratings00 Ratings
Line-of sight-visibility8.768 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance tracking7.6113 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance Management
Comparison of Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR®
7.7
142 Ratings
3% below category average
BrightHR
6.6
13 Ratings
18% below category average
Performance plans7.3129 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance improvement plans7.3108 Ratings00 Ratings
Review status tracking8.296 Ratings00 Ratings
Review reminders8.1100 Ratings6.513 Ratings
Multiple review frequency7.8122 Ratings6.710 Ratings
Succession Planning
Comparison of Succession Planning features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR®
8.1
80 Ratings
5% above category average
BrightHR
-
Ratings
Create succession plans/pools7.345 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate ranking8.466 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate search8.267 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate development8.658 Ratings00 Ratings
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR®
8.1
164 Ratings
5% above category average
BrightHR
5.7
13 Ratings
30% below category average
Job Requisition Management8.1125 Ratings5.36 Ratings
Company Website Posting8.1133 Ratings00 Ratings
Publish to Social Media8.890 Ratings00 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting7.8130 Ratings00 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention7.487 Ratings00 Ratings
Applicant Tracking8.4149 Ratings5.15 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts8.3155 Ratings6.812 Ratings
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User Ratings
BambooHR®BrightHR
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(215 ratings)
6.1
(46 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.4
(15 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Usability
8.5
(143 ratings)
6.5
(31 ratings)
Availability
9.3
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.7
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.4
(115 ratings)
5.7
(4 ratings)
Online Training
9.2
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.7
(6 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Configurability
8.6
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
8.4
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.6
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.9
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Professional Services
9.2
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.9
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.1
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
BambooHR®BrightHR
Likelihood to Recommend
BambooHR
BambooHR® is great for a small to mid-size company looking for a user friendly aesthetically pleasing solution. The payroll side is very well integrated and offers no blackout periods. I appreciated when product updates occur such as tying over holiday pay into payroll to make the system even more seamless.
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BrightHR
I feel Bright HR is well suited to most small/medium sized businesses where they have a 'straight' forward resource set up. For larger businesses or for complex businesses similar to ourselves, where we operate 24 hours per day, rotational shift patterns, ambulatory staff, locums etc...we have to 'fudge' the way we use the information sometimes to make it work for us.
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Pros
BambooHR
  • Onboarding and Offboarding workflows are extremely useful, customizable, and help ensure no onboarding and offboarding task is left incomplete. We used a paper checklist system prior to BambooHR®, and transferring to BambooHR® has freed up several hours every single day for our HR team to focus on more strategic initiatives.
  • BambooHR®'s Integration marketplace is great, allowing us to synchronize our employee data and minimize repetitive administrative tasks.
  • BambooHR® is setup to allow for company specific customizations. This includes access level customization as well as framework customizations. We can create tabs, tables, fields, etc. within BambooHR® to help support our business operations needs.
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BrightHR
  • BLIP is working very well. Staff find it easy to use and the geo-fencing that can be set up is very useful.
  • Reporting, in particular reporting of Absence. We run this monthly and the information we can download is flexible and useful.
  • Sick analysis - helps in controlling absence.
  • Holiday planning and authorization is very helpful and details including date booked helps manage requests.
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Cons
BambooHR
  • The benefits management portal has many areas for potential improvement. Reconciliations are difficult and there is confusing data during open enrollment transitions.
  • I wish there was more functionality within signature requests. It would be helpful for employees to submit forms unprompted (ex. professional development request).
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BrightHR
  • Notifications for requests should be optional based on individual employees. For example an admin won’t necessarily want every staff members leave requests by email and push notification. The settings only currently allow for notifications for everyone or no one. Being assigned as a manager may not allow data viewing required of wider staff.
  • Toil should automatically be accrued into a balance if the employees clocked in time amounts to more than the target hours. It shouldn’t have to be calculated and requested.
  • When reviewing hours worked for the week, the history calculation should take into account approved leave and sickness etc. I have a staff members target of 37 hours, but if their hours show 29 hours worked then I have to work out why they worked less. It should account for this if the absence is approved.
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Likelihood to Renew
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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BrightHR
It's not entirely my decision - we are members of a 'community' of veterinary practices who have signed up to the contract with pensinusla and have bright hr as part of that contract however, I am usually involved in the tender process as I am one of the biggest users of both bright hr and the services from peninsula
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Usability
BambooHR
It's clear and well appointed with prompts on where to go for each category of information it holds. The user has limited access based on a need to know/job related basis. It has a clear help option with the ability to chat, email or read documentation on how to do something.
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BrightHR
It is quite good. Has alot of useful features such as the inbuilt learning / trainings. I really like the clock in function where admin can update or edit staff clock in times. I love the easily accessable annual leave section where we can easily see wat annual leave a staff has. However what would be useful is for 0 hour staff due to them not automatically having 17/28 days annual leave, if it can calculate itbased on hours they work
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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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BrightHR
No answers on this topic
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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BrightHR
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
BambooHR
The support can be slow as they are a US based company and therefore we often have to wait for them to be online before we can speak to somebody and they are not particularly responsive to emails. The service itself has always been helpful and in most cases, the issue was resolved.
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BrightHR
The team are proactive, having an advocacy team is just amazing and a great way to really understand their product roadmap and have input into useful features or feedback
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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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BrightHR
No answers on this topic
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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BrightHR
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
BambooHR
BambooHR's initial implementation team was amazing. We loved having a dedicated person we could call, email or speak to during the entire process. I feel that's so important when you are new to a software. Our process was time consuming, but well worth the final product.
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BrightHR
it was fairly easy to do but timely as i had to enter everything from scratch - i didn't at the time realise how important it was to set up the variable or fixed working pattern correctly given future changes as this is very tricky once it has been set up and i wished i had been aware that sometimes you can't make future changes without deleting the whole profile and starting again
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Alternatives Considered
BambooHR
BambooHR is the most comprehensive, most affordable, and most feature rich of the alternative HR tools we have tried in the past. It is the best combination of feature and price for the current size of our business, and it's ease of operation make it very manageable to consistently maintain information.
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BrightHR
I chose BrightHR as it offered a one-stop platform for HR management for which we have dedicated UK and ROI HR specialists who not only give HR advice but also write policies and handbooks, etc. They are a one-stop-shop, which was very important as when I signed the contract I did not have an HR person in my team and they were essentially my back office. Also, by signing up, I got access to Bright Safe too; which is great as again it's a one-stop-shop for Health and Safety in the workplace. So I can roll out toolbox talks, training, and accident management.
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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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BrightHR
No answers on this topic
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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BrightHR
No answers on this topic
Professional Services
BambooHR
VERY professional!
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BrightHR
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
BambooHR
  • Time Savings: Automating onboarding, payroll, and employee record management has cut HR admin time by up to 30%, allowing teams to focus on strategic initiatives instead of paperwork.
  • Improved Onboarding: Streamlined workflows have cut onboarding time by nearly 50%, ensuring new hires are productive faster, reducing turnover risk in the critical first months.
  • - Enhanced Informational Clarity: Centralized employee data means fewer errors and faster access to essential information, reducing compliance risks and increasing accuracy in reporting.
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BrightHR
  • Able to reduce one member of staff in personnel from 5 days to 3 days.
  • Able to reduce time spent by payroll on holiday records significantly and improve accuracy significantly.
  • Able to improve control of sick absence and improve record keeping.
  • BLIP meant we did not need to buy expensive attendance software.
  • Looking at possible use of payroll and other aspects of Bright HR not used at present.
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ScreenShots

BambooHR® Screenshots

Screenshot of an employee timesheetScreenshot of the Job Info tabScreenshot of a new hire packetScreenshot of a new hire packet (2)Screenshot of an Employee Performance ReportScreenshot of Employee Satisfaction (eNPS®)

BrightHR Screenshots

Screenshot of BrightHR dashboardScreenshot of BrightHR LightningScreenshot of Bright ExchangeScreenshot of BrightSafeScreenshot of BrightBaseScreenshot of PoP by BrightHR