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BambooHR

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Overview

What is BambooHR?

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.

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Recent Reviews

BambooHr2024

9 out of 10
March 15, 2024
Incentivized
We got BambooHR to help with PTO tracking instead of using an excel spreadsheet and hoping people would turn in the paperwork for using …
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BambooHR!

8 out of 10
March 13, 2024
Incentivized
We used BambooHR as our primary HRIS. It has allowed us to do things like keep employee information current, track vacation time, do …
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Useful Program

9 out of 10
March 13, 2024
Incentivized
We utilize BambooHR to handle our HR needs. As a small company without a formal HR department, BambooHR has been a great addition to our …
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Big Fan of BambooHR.

10 out of 10
March 08, 2024
Incentivized
We use this as our main HRIS. It allows us to manage employee information, track PTO, see who is in and out of the remote office, save and …
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BambooHR is HUGE

10 out of 10
March 04, 2024
Incentivized
We use BambooHR for everything HR-related... time off request, sick days, company holiday scheduled, onboarding information, benefit …
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Overall good product

9 out of 10
March 01, 2024
Incentivized
We use BambooHR to track all of our benefits and process payroll for 8 different companies. This software has improved our payroll process …
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Awards

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Popular Features

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  • Update personal information (93)
    9.2
    92%
  • View job history (87)
    9.0
    90%
  • Employment history (86)
    9.0
    90%
  • Job profiles and administration (85)
    8.1
    81%

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Pricing

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Core

$250

Cloud
per month

Pro

$250

Cloud
per month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
    Optional
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $250 per month
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Product Demos

Integrating Boomr and BambooHR

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Product Overview of BambooHR Employee Records

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BambooHR to Active Directory Demo

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TRAXPayroll Demo - BambooHR Integration July 2014

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Product Overview of BambooHR Paid Time Off software

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How to Setup Paid Time Off Policies in BambooHR

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Features

Human Resource Management

Organizing, tracking and providing instant access to critical employee data, job profiles, transfers, promotions, and benefits information.

8.1
Avg 7.8

Payroll Management

Provides for pay calculation and benefit plan administration, in addition to managing direct deposit, salary revisions and payroll tracking.

8.1
Avg 8.0

Leave and Attendance Management

Streamlines communication between HR and employees and facilitates efficient management of employee leave including requisitions, approvals, balance calculation, and annual carry-forward.

8.9
Avg 8.1

Employee Self Service

Employee portal allowing employees to view and update their personal information.

8.7
Avg 8.1

Asset Management

Maintaining a record of assets such as laptops, pagers, cell phones, etc. issued to employees. Record typically includes asset type, number, serial number and date of issuance.

7.8
Avg 7.7

HR Reporting

Pre-built and custom reports, and integration with external data.

8
Avg 7.6

Onboarding

Employee onboarding is the process of orienting new hires to the social and performance aspects of their jobs so that they are able to function in their new roles as quickly as possible.

8.7
Avg 8.0

Performance and Goals

Goal alignment is the practice of ensuring that all employees have clearly defined goals in support of the overall corporate strategy.

8.2
Avg 8.1

Performance Management

Performance management is the process of ensuring employees meet pre-determined objectives and goals through regular check-ins and appraisals.

7.9
Avg 7.9

Succession Planning

Succession planning is the identification and development of internal employees with the potential to fill key business leadership positions in the company.

7.1
Avg 7.9

Recruiting / ATS

Recruiting or Applicant Tracking Software is software used to manage the recruitment process electronically by handling job postings, applicant status, resume management, etc.

8.2
Avg 7.7
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Product Details

What is BambooHR?

BambooHR is an online HR system for small and medium-sized businesses. The cloud-based system offers integrated payroll, applicant tracking (ATS), onboarding tools, e-signatures, time-off tracking, and performance management, with reporting and a mobile app for employees. BambooHR simplifies HR data management to help HR teams become more effective, more efficient, and more human.

BambooHR Screenshots

Screenshot of BambooHR's Reporting

BambooHR Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android
Supported CountriesBambooHR supports any country worldwide
Supported LanguagesEnglish, French, German, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

BambooHR starts at $250.

Sage People, WebHR, and BiznusSoft HR are common alternatives for BambooHR.

Reviewers rate Approval workflow and Update personal information highest, with a score of 9.2.

The most common users of BambooHR are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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March 17, 2024

Happy Customer

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use BambooHR for hiring, onboarding, timekeeping, benefits administration, and payroll. Its ease of use makes it possible for employees to do more self-management, saving us time and money.
  • Candidate management
  • Onboarding
  • User interface
  • Allow different pay rates and departments depending on a punch code
  • Enable on-call shifts to be noted on the timecard and paid
  • Interface with 401k plan administrator
  • Allow accrued time off report to be run for a past point in time (we always need it at month end to accrue the liability)
BambooHR would work well for organizations that don't have complex pay structures or employees splitting time between departments. Its intuitive interface allows employees to manage more of the pay process.
March 15, 2024

BambooHr2024

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We got BambooHR to help with PTO tracking instead of using an excel spreadsheet and hoping people would turn in the paperwork for using their time. Now with our accrual PTO, it's easy for our employees to ask for time off and they clearly can see how many hours of PTO they have along with using a calculator to determine how many hours they will have at a certain point in the year.
  • Time Off
  • Cloud based document storage
  • Support Team
  • Performance
  • Ability to have a template from a file company uploads
  • Ability of information from a file to change job, ex: offer letter of compensation change to then update compensation under job.
It is very good for what we intentionally got the program for, but with diving deeper into what the program could do for us and doesn't have the ability to do, yet, I'm unable to state 10. It would be great for templates to be added with a generic offer letter with an eSignature that can update the employee record more than adding the document into the signed document folder. Love the time off and that with time tracking, if someone messes up, and they do, I'm able to go behind and make the necessary adjustments.
March 13, 2024

BambooHR!

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We used BambooHR as our primary HRIS. It has allowed us to do things like keep employee information current, track vacation time, do regular performance reviews, and add custom sections to the various pages. It was great for getting employees to sign documents and became our primary spot for storing employee file documents.
  • Onboarding and Offboarding
  • Employee Information
  • Reporting
  • Reviews
  • Reporting for customisations
  • Goals
  • Recruiting
Good for basic functions, needs improvement for areas like recruitment. Was able to pull great custom reports, but for the sections we had added reporting wasn’t available. Liked how employees could update their own info, and the approval process. Ability to customize time off profiles was useful, and add for different types of employees.
March 13, 2024

Useful Program

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We utilize BambooHR to handle our HR needs. As a small company without a formal HR department, BambooHR has been a great addition to our company. We utilize BambooHR for onboarding, offboarding, and internal communication and transmission of documents. This is incredibly helpful as we are a company with locations all over the state and do not often see each other in person.
  • Organizing forms
  • Creating task lists
  • Making things like PTO easily accessible
  • Interactive communication - it would be fun to be able to wish someone Happy Birthday when they are displayed on the dashboard
  • Being able to edit forms, not just signature templates. I don't like having to access and reupload a new PDF if a change needs to be made to the form
It is professional looking and easy to learn/use
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use BambooHR for tracking signed records, payroll, performance reviews, goals, recruiting and hiring, onboarding, and reporting. We previously didn't have an HR platform and were relying on a separate website for recruiting. BambooHR has allowed us to streamline our HR processes into the single platform, while also using it for additional resources we didn't even think of before.
  • Robust hiring component that automatically sends job postings to various websites.
  • Performance review tracking and storage, plus separate goals section.
  • Built-in payroll component that feeds directly from BambooHR components.
  • Some additional personalization options by company would be nice. There are some customizations you can do, but there are a lot of additional customizations that would be nice to be able to do.
  • Reporting is a little limited in date ranges and how you report - would prefer to be able to select individual employee names vs. having to choose from department or reporting manager.
Great to use for small to mid-sized companies. The recruiting section is very easy to use.
March 09, 2024

Nice experience!

Dr. Suvadip Neogi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use it a lot for all types of people, HR, and Operations stuff: checking and managing leaves, holidays, salary/pay, departmental/divisional info, affiliations, keeping track of regular/periodical goals, achievements, activities, career progress, etc. Awesome! Excellent! Great features. It made day-to-day office HR/OPS stuff much easier to handle/manage.
  • Salary
  • Leave
  • People & HR
  • Operational stuffs
  • Departmental / divisional basic info
  • Employee background information
  • career goals
  • Leaves are not utilized in a year; if carried forward to next year, it's proper info synchronization.
  • Synchronization of info available in Bamboo HR with other associated and compatible software for easier data handling/management/archiving.
  • Employee info, departmental/divisional affiliations, career paths/goals/achievements, work/activities management, a reflection of changes, if any, made, and proper management synchronizing with other office data management systems.
Appropriate for everything, please see the following points> People and HR and Operational Stuff; Employee departmental/divisional affiliations; Info management, data inventory, record keeping and management; career goals/objectives/paths/achievements, etc. Places with scopes for further improvement>> managing info on leaves applied/granted/permitted/utilized/not utilized in a year and carried over to next year for use up; info on salary increment, DA, perks, taxation, etc.
March 08, 2024

A Review of BambooHR

Jennifer Litwiller | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Applicant Tracking System (ATS) Onboarding Documents & Process Credentialing of Healthcare Professionals Including Protected Health Information (PHI) Performance Management Including 360 Evaluations Goal Setting/Planning & Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
  • Assigning/limiting access to certain areas to keep confidential information private.
  • Performance management, goal setting, collecting peer feedback.
  • Notifications for birthdays, renewals, etc.
  • More middle and back office functionality (CRM, payroll, invoicing, etc.)
  • Integrations with more platforms for middle and back office functions.
  • Better transition from ATS to employee (complete transfer of documents & communication).
It's very well suited as an HR platform for ATS, employee documentation, performance management, etc. It's less appropriate if you're looking for a platform that covers all of your business functions in one place.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use BambooHR as the main platform to house all employee information. Additionally, I use the payroll function. The product provides a one-stop shop for basic HR needs for the business.
  • 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!
  • Integration - I would love to see more integration with certain timekeeping systems that will automatically import approved hours to TRAXPayroll. This would cut down on having to manually keying hours.
  • Creating more system items that fit the restaurant industry, such as workforce scheduling and forecasting. This is probably a huge ask and doesn't fit the platform, but it would help keep and attract more businesses as it relates to being a "one-stop" program.
  • Keeping the cost as low as possible will help small businesses continue. With the cost of inflation, it would be helpful for companies to have as much customization as possible to eliminate or only pay for things you need.
BambooHR is well suited for corporate type of organization. For example, the performance reviews are great, but if something more tailored to the restaurant side were quick and easy, that would be awesome. Timekeeping, as I mentioned, could be a bit more automated. Customer service is top-notch!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use BambooHR for all HR related matters across our including performance evaluations, time off, health benefits tracking, company HR resources and job information. It is used by all employees across the organization and keep everything uniform and in one place. This makes it easy for managers and employees to find what they are looking for.
  • Time off requests.
  • Benefit details.
  • Employee information.
  • Better file tracking.
  • Better organization structure mapping.
If you have a small to mid sized company, BambooHR might be really good for you and your company. It is very simple to navigate and easy to learn for all users. It has a good user interface and is appealing to look at. As well as has most functionality needed for HR (time off, benefits, employee information, etc).
March 08, 2024

Big Fan of BambooHR.

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use this as our main HRIS. It allows us to manage employee information, track PTO, see who is in and out of the remote office, save and file documents, and use the reporting feature. We also heavily use it for recruitment. We do all of our hiring through the system, from posting to screening, etc. We then manage to onboard the successful candidates onto our team using BambooHR.
  • User friendly interface.
  • Incredible and easy communication.
  • Great resources provided.
  • Simple
  • Always improving.
  • Good training and workshops.
  • Tagging within its ATS system.
  • Compensation: tracking multiple pay streams.
  • Alerts for ending contracts.
  • More customization.
I think BambooHR is great for both small businesses and larger/growing organizations or companies. It is user-friendly and can be utilized by all working generations. It isn’t incredible for the features within its ATS, but there is the ability to integrate API or other tech stacks through its marketplace to help improve your recruitment.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
BambooHR handles all our employee's data and tracking! This includes hiring, onboarding, evaluation, and offboarding. We'd be lost without this program as it allows managers to really manage their team member's accounts. As an HR department of one, I'm grateful to have a program to not only quickly help me solve issues, but also other members of the team.
  • Onboarding Task Management.
  • Integrates with other programs well.
  • Hold employees' documents and notes.
  • Easily requests promotions and raises.
  • Build some features out to better handle multi-business companies - like departments in "hiring".
  • Be a resource hub! Allow pictures and templates in announcements. Would help our communication to be centralized.
Well suited for employee documentation! Will hold and manage most HR areas. Must consider payroll integration. We went with Traxpayroll (owned by BambooHR) to help with this integration. This could not be used for all mass communications.
March 04, 2024

BambooHR is HUGE

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use BambooHR for everything HR-related... time off request, sick days, company holiday scheduled, onboarding information, benefit guides, company policies, etc. It also announces company new hires, work anniversaries, birthdays, etc.
  • Time off requests.
  • New hire onboarding information.
  • We have unlimited PTO but it still don't understand why it will say you're OOO over the weekends.
  • Mobile app is decent.
I think it's appropriate for companies that have remote offices and are growing quickly. An easy way for information to be shared across all offices. Not sure it's necessary for small teams but if it's in the budget, I'd recommend it.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We currently have the Advantage Plan and begin using BambooHR as our HRIS in Fall of 2023, then began using it for Payroll the first of 2024. We plan to implement the Pro Package later this year. It's much easier to use than ADP and very intuitive. We are excited to have the Form Signature Options and use it for on and off boarding as well as recruitment.
  • Excellent training videos.
  • Three ways to request help phone, chat or support ticket.
  • Intuitive - easy to find things and make changes.
  • Have a more robust report builder that has all the data as a filter.
  • Not all reports are able to be downloaded in different formats. I would prefer, csv, excel and PDF for all.
  • More options in the report builder to be able to customize your own reports instead of having to pay at least $200 for a simple report.
We are a small staff of 26 with three people maintaining different Features so it seems very easy to set-up and implement.

I'm not sure how it would work for a very large org.
March 01, 2024

Overall good product

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use BambooHR to track all of our benefits and process payroll for 8 different companies. This software has improved our payroll process tremendously, we also use the software for time tracking and it allows employees to know at all times what their time off balances are without any confusion.
  • Payroll processing
  • Time tracking
  • Benefit tracking
  • We've had some issues with tax filings, not much but some
  • More reports
It is well suited for our human resource department and has provided transparency for payroll between them and the accounting department. We used to use Quickbooks for our entire process and BambooHR has been a great improvement. The implementation process was disappointing though, the customer service was not very helpful and we had to do most everything ourselves. That was in July 2022.
March 01, 2024

BambooHR is nice

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Employee documentation, job applications, onboarding, offboarding.
  • storing files
  • posting job applications
  • onboarding tasks
  • document signature template setups
BambooHR is good for companies where you're managing employee data and hiring. I don't think it would be needed within an organization that has less than 5-6 employees.
March 01, 2024

BambooHR review

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use BambooHR for time off tracking, personal changes, training tracking considering performance measurement
  • time off
  • app is user friendly
  • customer service is helpful
  • you have no option to upload a picture in the drivers license field
  • you are making improvements on all the new features and seem to have abandoned the core product
We really have had a great experience with the time off tracking thanks to BambooHR. We do not utilize may of the buy up options as they are suited for our business
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
BambooHR is used at my organization to assist with employee onboarding, training organization, hiring via indeed, time off and PTO utilization, employee recognition, holidays, understanding who is off at what time, compensation rates, documents that are needing signature, and employee contact information. We use several features and just started in January but have truly enjoyed the efficiency thus far.
  • Time off
  • Onboarding
  • Hiring
  • Sending signatures in bulk
  • PTO dashboard
Hiring, and onboarding is super easy. Sending out signatures in bulk is a bit difficult
February 29, 2024

Great HR product.

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use BambooHR as our general HR software; we initiate onboarding (through Greenhouse integration) and offboarding as a place to keep documents, route documents for signature, and time tracking. We also use it to document the start of the performance year as well as the end of a performance year. We also use it as a place to track various time off categories.
  • Time off category tracking.
  • Timesheets
  • Onboarding/offboarding steps.
  • Document/Signature workflows.
  • We use a different software to process payroll, a PEO.
  • There is no integration of these two softwares.
  • Allow approval of timesheets prior to closure of time period.
I love the workflows for documents and signatures. We use this quite often, such as for benefits requests, payroll deductions, etc. I also think it has a beautiful workflow for onboarding and offboarding steps and allows these to be customized by a group of employees. Report capabilities are also excellent.
February 29, 2024

BambooHR!

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It was used for employee info, PTO, reporting. I was not part of onboarding, so I don’t know what issues it addressed.
  • PTO
  • Employee Info
  • Reporting
  • Location
  • N/A
I love the ease of submitting PTO, especially with the Slack integration. Also, I can view teams' PTO on the calendar, which is easy to view. I have also run department-specific reports to share with teams, and they generate very quickly, are easy to understand, and are saved for later review.
February 28, 2024

BambooHR review

Krista Molloy SPHR SHRM-SCP | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use BambooHR as our HRIS. It serves as the central location for employee records, and as a repository for forms, documents, benefit information and more. We recently added the Performance Management module and the time tracking module. We wanted a "one stop shop" for all HR related "things" for ease of use.
  • Intuitive, so easy to use and navigate
  • Great support / service
  • Clean look and feel
  • Not as customizable as I would hope .. for example performance reviews.
  • Time tracking is not as robust or configurable as we hoped.
  • Org chart not very usable.
  • Job postings do not have a multi city option so I need to post the same job in four locations.
Works well for a small to medium sized company. Easy to implement and update. Report writing is easy to figure out.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use BambooHR to calculate holidays, see the organization structure, and see who is in and out for the day. It also tells us who joined recently and whose birthday it is. It's also used to send leave requests, and we get notified via email about the approvals; we also do performance reviews through this portal.
  • Organisation structure - simplified view.
  • Easy leave request.
  • Good to see who is on leave and who recently joined.
  • The org chart can be more clearly defined.
  • The performance review bar could be easier to find.
  • The birthdays are not a very useful feature.
BambooHR is useful in giving insight into the organization structure; if you want to see who is in a particular team or who you can reach out to in case someone is on leave, the team structure and the manager/ peers can be viewed easily. This feature is handy. I am unsure of how appropriate the birthday feature is. The whole organization may not want to know someone's birthday unless they are on your team.
February 24, 2024

BambooHR is AMAZING!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use BambooHR on a daily basis. All of our HR functions, reporting, payroll, time off, performance reviews, etc. are completed in BambooHR. Switching over to BambooHR has saved us so much time and more than that, energy! It is easy to use and they have amazing customer support. I would highly recommend BambooHR to anyone looking for a BETTER HRIS.
  • Customer Support
  • Payroll
  • Benefits via the App
  • Performance Reviews via the App
We really use BambooHR for almost all aspects of our business for HR. The only areas I can really see that they can improve in would be having the ability to do the benefits changes and open enrollment in the BambooHR app. This would be much easier for the employees as they sign up.
February 24, 2024

Fantastic System

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
To track time off, benefits, time in and out as well as other events and files.
  • Tracking PTO
  • Store important links
  • Clock in and out
  • You should not be able to edit your clock in and out.
This is a very useful tool day to day to track who will be in and out of the office, as well as when they arrive and leave. I do believe the edit function is not needed.
February 22, 2024

BambooHR Review

Thomas Baker, CFE, MBA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
BambooHR is used as the primary HR function for the company and takes in all aspects of the HR process from interviews and hirings to changes in employee profiles and job changes within the company. The scope of the use case is the entire company as a whole using the platform.
  • Very user friendly and intuitive
  • A large and diverse set of HR features
  • Automated notifications for any changes made that need approval
  • Customer Service is almost non-existent and difficult to use
  • Searching for employee information can sometimes be cumbersome unless you have the exact search terms you need
  • I'd like to be able to integrate the system with other applications I use and it has been difficult/near impossible to set these up
BambooHR is very well-suited for a company who has seasoned veterans in their HR department who have seen many different scenarios and know the information they will need to complete the tasks/job assigned to them. This would be less appropriate for a smaller company that has many manuals processes and approvals that is not used to having to create their own reporting and files from the data.
Jennifer Hagen, SHRM-CP | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I was in a small company that needed an HRIS that could manage time off, time tracking, and onboarding/offboarding. This software fit the bill exactly what I needed to manage my team. It helped consolidate many of my pain points and gave transparency to the employees so they could see their time off and manage their own time tracking. The solution was affordable and scaled nicely to what I needed. It worked closely with other solutions to provide benefits administration for when I needed it.
  • Time tracking.
  • Paid time off.
  • Onboarding.
  • Benefits administration.
  • Reporting.
  • Customization.
BambooHR is well suited for small companies. If you have more than 100 employees in your company you might want to look at a different solution. It has both add-on opportunities if you need benefits administration or other components that it doesn’t provide as an HRIS. As far as onboarding new employees, it makes it very simple and user-friendly for both the employer and the new employee.
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