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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Paycor

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/APaycor provides core HR functions scaled towards small and mid-sized businesses. Paycor offers an integrated benefits platform for interfacing directly with insurance carriers and an adaptable time management platform.N/A
    Pricing
    BambooHRPaycor
    Editions & Modules
    Core
    $10
    per month per user
    Pro
    Contact Sales
    per month
    Elite
    Contact Sales
    per month
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    BambooHRPaycor
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
    Additional Details—Paycor's pricing for small, mid, and enterprise companies varies based on product bundle and company size. Because Paycor HR software is built to help businesses scale and grow, plans are based on the mix of HR products needed, and company size. Payroll is at the core of Paycor's offering, and their products are sold as a part of their payroll and HR platform.
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    Features
    BambooHRPaycor
    Human Resource Management
    Comparison of Human Resource Management features of BambooHR and Paycor
    Feature
    BambooHR
    7.9
    399 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Paycor
    -
    Ratings
    Employee demographic data8.3353 Ratings00 Ratings
    Employment history8.1350 Ratings00 Ratings
    Job profiles and administration8.1363 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.7.7326 Ratings00 Ratings
    Organizational charting7.8376 Ratings00 Ratings
    Organization and location management8.1351 Ratings00 Ratings
    Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)7.4209 Ratings00 Ratings
    Payroll Management
    Comparison of Payroll Management features of BambooHR and Paycor
    Feature
    BambooHR
    7.6
    273 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Paycor
    8.0
    419 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Pay calculation8.1205 Ratings8.3406 Ratings
    Support for external payroll vendors7.0152 Ratings8.25 Ratings
    Off-cycle/On-Demand payment7.4152 Ratings7.9197 Ratings
    Benefit plan administration7.2212 Ratings7.9290 Ratings
    Direct deposit files8.3205 Ratings8.8399 Ratings
    Salary revision and increment management7.9221 Ratings7.8330 Ratings
    Reimbursement management7.6135 Ratings7.3114 Ratings
    Leave and Attendance Management
    Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of BambooHR and Paycor
    Feature
    BambooHR
    8.8
    346 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Paycor
    -
    Ratings
    Approval workflow8.7346 Ratings00 Ratings
    Balance details8.5332 Ratings00 Ratings
    Annual carry-forward and encashment9.2129 Ratings00 Ratings
    Employee Self Service
    Comparison of Employee Self Service features of BambooHR and Paycor
    Feature
    BambooHR
    8.5
    385 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Paycor
    -
    Ratings
    View and generate pay and benefit information8.5265 Ratings00 Ratings
    Update personal information8.9385 Ratings00 Ratings
    View company policy documentation8.5334 Ratings00 Ratings
    Employee recognition7.9249 Ratings00 Ratings
    View job history8.8347 Ratings00 Ratings
    Asset Management
    Comparison of Asset Management features of BambooHR and Paycor
    Feature
    BambooHR
    9.1
    74 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Paycor
    -
    Ratings
    Tracking of all physical assets9.174 Ratings00 Ratings
    HR Reporting
    Comparison of HR Reporting features of BambooHR and Paycor
    Feature
    BambooHR
    7.3
    280 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Paycor
    -
    Ratings
    Report builder7.4274 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-built reports7.5271 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ability to combine HR data with external data6.9205 Ratings00 Ratings
    Onboarding
    Comparison of Onboarding features of BambooHR and Paycor
    Feature
    BambooHR
    8.2
    315 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Paycor
    -
    Ratings
    New hire portal8.4300 Ratings00 Ratings
    Manager tracking tools7.9274 Ratings00 Ratings
    Performance and Goals
    Comparison of Performance and Goals features of BambooHR and Paycor
    Feature
    BambooHR
    7.9
    235 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Paycor
    -
    Ratings
    Corporate goal setting7.0173 Ratings00 Ratings
    Individual goal setting7.9226 Ratings00 Ratings
    Line-of sight-visibility9.169 Ratings00 Ratings
    Performance tracking7.6221 Ratings00 Ratings
    Performance Management
    Comparison of Performance Management features of BambooHR and Paycor
    Feature
    BambooHR
    7.8
    252 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Paycor
    -
    Ratings
    Performance plans7.3239 Ratings00 Ratings
    Performance improvement plans7.3204 Ratings00 Ratings
    Review status tracking8.697 Ratings00 Ratings
    Review reminders8.1101 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple review frequency7.7225 Ratings00 Ratings
    Succession Planning
    Comparison of Succession Planning features of BambooHR and Paycor
    Feature
    BambooHR
    9.1
    81 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Paycor
    -
    Ratings
    Create succession plans/pools8.946 Ratings00 Ratings
    Candidate ranking9.067 Ratings00 Ratings
    Candidate search9.068 Ratings00 Ratings
    Candidate development9.359 Ratings00 Ratings
    Recruiting / ATS
    Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of BambooHR and Paycor
    Feature
    BambooHR
    7.9
    257 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Paycor
    -
    Ratings
    Job Requisition Management7.6194 Ratings00 Ratings
    Company Website Posting7.6212 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publish to Social Media9.291 Ratings00 Ratings
    Job Search Site Posting7.3206 Ratings00 Ratings
    Duplicate Candidate Prevention7.588 Ratings00 Ratings
    Applicant Tracking8.0227 Ratings00 Ratings
    Notifications and Alerts8.1244 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    BambooHRPaycor
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (420 ratings)
    7.3
    (445 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (18 ratings)
    6.2
    (23 ratings)
    Usability
    8.7
    (347 ratings)
    7.8
    (414 ratings)
    Availability
    9.3
    (5 ratings)
    7.1
    (4 ratings)
    Performance
    8.7
    (5 ratings)
    5.1
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.2
    (181 ratings)
    3.5
    (60 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.0
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.2
    (5 ratings)
    5.0
    (4 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.6
    (6 ratings)
    4.7
    (21 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.4
    (5 ratings)
    5.5
    (5 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.4
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.6
    (2 ratings)
    3.7
    (3 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.9
    (5 ratings)
    3.1
    (4 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.2
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.9
    (4 ratings)
    3.0
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    6.0
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    BambooHRPaycor
    Likelihood to Recommend
    BambooHR
    BambooHR is well-suited to managing your employees' needs, such as tracking time off and submitting requests, understanding their benefits, and reviewing how others see their performance. From an organizational standpoint, it's the hub where all people management happens; that's valuable because it saves an organization from juggling many tools. BambooHR just works.
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    Paycor Inc
    Paycor is well suited for an organization with a strong implementation team or who has the budget to hire a consultant to implement Paycor. Once the system is implemented, Paycor is great. If you are a smaller organization, we suggest starting with just 1-2 modules and working your way up from there as setting up everything takes time and resources
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    Pros
    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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    Paycor Inc
    • Open enrollment-their software is user friendly and has good features for end users and administrators
    • Onboarding-entering new hires is easy
    • Mass Template Upload-you can easily upload mass changes, the system is easy to use.
    • Reporting-their reporting tool is improving and AI is incorporated into it.
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    Cons
    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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    Paycor Inc
    • The reporting capabilities of Paycor Recruiting are lacking. While there are some great features I would like to see more options for customization. The options to build my own report from SCRATCH with whatever fields I want/need would be a huge improvement. At this time, I have to finagle the reports to try and get what I need and often times I have to pull multiple reports and then do extra work outside of the system to end up with metrics close to what I’m looking for in the data.
    • The candidates search feature could use some improvement. In theory, the tagging system is a great idea but it leaves room for inconsistency and trying to search for a previous candidate who interviewed well isn’t always easy. This makes it harder to re-engage with people who could be a strong match for a new job opening.
    • Although the platform is very user friendly as far as ease of use and intuitiveness it can be VERY slow at times. There are days where the system moves at a snails pace and when there are multiple clicks to have to get to a specific spot in the system this can be very frustrating. This is especially try for navigating through job postings and candidate details.
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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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    Paycor Inc
    Price point is the biggest driving factor. Paycor has made some strides in the customer service area and we've seen enough improvements that renewing our contract has become more a reality than a pipe dream. The system functions well and our employees are familiar with how it works, so to make a change would be a huge lift for our team
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    Usability
    BambooHR
    As mentioned earlier, a company directory for all employees is available in one place, making communication easier across the organization. Also, little things like birthday reminders and work anniversaries for your team members add a personal touch to your professional relationship. Applying for time off and tracking your available PTO on a single screen helps you plan better.
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    Paycor Inc
    Glitches. So many glitches. The customer service number provides basic troubleshooting, which doesn’t help; some issues take weeks to resolve, with no apparent reason why they occur. The system does not work on Safari. We have dealt with Payroll not working, which has caused a manual payroll to be run. Paycor representatives do not provide any assistance.
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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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    Paycor Inc
    I feel like Paycor is always up and running! If they are planning downtime, they communicate it clearly. Every once in a while, I get something that says the system isn't working but it is usually back up within the hour. I typically find by the time that the employees complain about it, that it is resolved within the system.
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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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    Paycor Inc
    For the most part, everything moves super fast. There are a few sections (Expense Management) that sometimes take a bit to load correctly. Or if they are interesting, it takes a minute to talk to each other! But reports are quickly downloaded and available! Even data heavy reports run fairly fast!
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    Support Rating
    BambooHR
    I don't think they have ever figured out an issue for me, and chat support has team activities when I need them. I don't know how that is possible, but I rarely use the feature and, when I try during the posted business hours, they are not available. I've contacted support to get help with applications that were coming in without required information, like salary, even though the salary requirement was toggled on. I reached out on July 24th and received this response on Aug 12, after we had found someone for the position and closed that job posting. This is the response: "The specialists reviewed the backend logs and noticed that there were several edits made to the application questions during the time in question. This could have impacted the required status of the salary field and allowed candidates to submit their applications without filling it out. If you notice this issue again in the future, please let us know right away so we can investigate further and ensure everything is working as expected." They ask me to reach out "right away" when I notice something amiss. If you go back to your records, I believe you will find that there was an employee activity on July 24th, which is when I noticed the issue and reached out immediately, and there was no one available to assist for three days.
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    Paycor Inc
    I feel like support will transfer you back and forth between departments and put you on hold forever. I believe it is very difficult to see the status of an open ticket. During my experience, it feels like the client has to push all communication and request updates from support regularly.
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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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    Paycor Inc
    The training was helpful and covered the basic functionality of the system, but it did not stand out as exceptional. The presenter was knowledgeable and answered questions appropriately, but much of the content felt focused on standard product features rather than our specific business processes and use cases. I would have liked to see more hands-on exercises, deeper workflow examples, and practical demonstrations tied to real-world scenarios. Overall, the training was good and provided value, but there is opportunity to make it more engaging, more customized to our organization, and more impactful for long-term user adoption.
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    Online Training
    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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    Paycor Inc
    The online training was adequate and covered the core functionality of the platform, but it felt similar to many standard software training libraries available today. The content was easy to access and generally well organized, but it lacked the depth, interactivity, and real-world application needed to make it particularly memorable or impactful. I would have liked to see more role-based learning paths, practical business scenarios, hands-on exercises, and guidance tailored to different user groups. Overall, the training met basic expectations and provided useful information, but it did not differentiate itself from typical web-based training programs offered by most HCM providers.
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    Implementation Rating
    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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    Paycor Inc
    Implementation of any new software is going to be challenging, especially if you are maintaining an existing program concurrently. When it is time for dual-processing (both old and new software) prior to going live, be prepared to be stressed. But trust the process and it will be over soon.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Paycor Inc
    They seemed similar but Paycor was cheaper at the time. However, Paycor has so many fees they tack onto every invoice that may not be the case anymore. The support services supposedly were better at ADP but that was an unknown
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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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    Paycor Inc
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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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    Paycor Inc
    I gave it a 10 because we only use it across one organization. However, it has allowed us to break it into multiple departments and layers of management. It is also easy for us to utilize across different locations but still under one master company. They have always provided us support when we decide to change something on an organizational level
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    Professional Services
    BambooHR
    VERY professional!
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    Paycor Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    BambooHR
    • As the Director of HR, I have freed up a lot of my time. I can easily access employee information and spend less time switching between multiple platforms.
    • It has helped my staff become more self-sufficient in their jobs and take greater ownership of their career lifecycle as employees here.
    • Using Bamboo has shown us where we have had inefficiencies and where we need to focus on compliance, which has been very helpful.
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    Paycor Inc
    • We can process Payroll in a 25% of the time that we previously could.
    • Scheduling takes 2 or 3 times as much effort as it did before.
    • Onboarding allows employees to do self-service but comes with a lot of questions from team members so it is net the same amount of time at the end of the day.
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    ScreenShots

    BambooHR Screenshots

    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

    Paycor Screenshots

    Screenshot of the real-time data insights that support critical business decisions.Screenshot of Paycor's expense reportingScreenshot of the recruiting processes streamlined in PaycorScreenshot of workforce scheduling in PaycorScreenshot of Paycor's mobile app, that allows employees to punch in and out from their phonesScreenshot of the Paycor Home Screen