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BambooHR

Starting at $250 per month
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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

BambooHR

1 out of 10
April 23, 2024
Incentivized
BambooHR is our core HRIS, we use to capture all payroll information, process starters and leavers, benefits, including opt-ins and …
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BambooHR Review

8 out of 10
April 23, 2024
Incentivized
We use it for employee data management and storing, time off requests, for organization chart and employee satisfaction surveys as well as …
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BambooHR for the win

9 out of 10
April 09, 2024
Incentivized
We use it for onboarding, pay information, and company directory information. It helps in areas where everything was in excel documents …
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Quite well!

6 out of 10
April 08, 2024
Incentivized
We use it as the portal for the employees. They main problem is that we only have one admin and when we need to change something is pretty …
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Great HR tool!

9 out of 10
April 08, 2024
Incentivized
we use BambooHR for most of our HR tasks: hiring, onboarding, off boarding, documents. We recently added performance and we are hyped to …
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Easy-to-Use

7 out of 10
April 06, 2024
We use BambooHR for HRIS and time tracking. We currently have about 47 employees, 10 of which use the time tracking feature. This has been …
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BambooHR is awesome!

8 out of 10
April 05, 2024
Incentivized
We use BambooHR as our HRIS for storing employee info/records, time tracking, ATS, onboarding, payroll, and soon performance management.
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Awards

Products that are considered exceptional by their customers based on a variety of criteria win TrustRadius awards. Learn more about the types of TrustRadius awards to make the best purchase decision. More about TrustRadius Awards

Popular Features

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  • Update personal information (116)
    9.2
    92%
  • View job history (109)
    9.0
    90%
  • Employment history (111)
    8.7
    87%
  • Job profiles and administration (108)
    8.4
    84%

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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.

8.8
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.

7.7
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.

8.6
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.

8.1
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 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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April 23, 2024

BambooHR

Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Ease of use
  • new hire packet
  • Simple for new joiners
  • BambooHR is very manual and relies heavily on admin involvement, an example of this is assigning holiday policies to new joiners which have to be added manually and cannot be done based off access levels.
  • Data quality- there is not enough function in BambooHR to assist with data quality, for example linking division and department to each other so that when a division is selected only department in this division can be chosen.
  • The response from BambooHR when asking for new features or advice is often this is a great idea we will pass on to our development team but we never see anything implemented. When updates are made to BambooHR they are often not useful, such as recent changes to time off that has zero benefit rather than anything value add.
  • Reporting features are limited and often require manipulation. The dashboards on the homepage are not accurate and cannot be filtered
  • Access level set up is over complicated
  • For issues that seem like there should be an easy solution in BambooHR there often is not which means we have to spend lots of time coming up with solutions, an example of this is flexible bank holidays
  • Re-hires can't be sent a new hire packet which creates a manual process
  • Signature set up is very difficult and hard to make documents look professional due to text size
April 23, 2024

BambooHR Review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • time off requests management
  • employee data storing
  • performance management
  • benefits section
  • setting up multiple holidays calendars for different locations
  • offboarding
April 18, 2024

Review of BambooHR

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Amazing Org Chart feature
  • most reports are generally easy to generate
  • Very user friendly
  • Payroll, for Canada
  • Allow for more modifications in Performance reviews
  • While i find it very user friendly, I find the interface looks a little dated
April 16, 2024

BambooHR Review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Time cards
  • Tracking candidates
  • Scheduling/sending interview meetings with candidates has to be done through Outlook. Bamboo doesn't have the capabilities, or the time zone conversion for scheduling interviews with people in other time zones.
  • Bamboo doesn't have a module for entering work schedules for employees.
  • It would be great if Bamboo could categorize time off. For example, when I approve hours, it only lists "Time Off", whereas the employee could be using Holiday pay or Birthday pay and not actual PTO hours.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Easy search
  • Clear and laid out webpage
  • APP is easy to use
  • The reports - are hard to follow and ensure we are pulling the info we want
  • The Start date, vs years of service
  • The start date I cannot figure out how to break down into day, month, year all separate.
April 12, 2024

BambooHR review

Rodrigo Rojas Mujica | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Performance reviews are great, having feedback from other reports is great for employees that rotate
  • All information contained as a digital file of employees
  • Signature tracking
  • Hiring process is more streamlined
  • Some of the performance reviews processes are hard to manage, specifically if you want to create individual processes
April 08, 2024

Great HR tool!

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • hiring process
  • keeping track of signed documents
  • onboarding / off boarding tasks
  • performance review (we would have preferred a custom date instead of hire date)
  • the sync with Google calendar doesn't always work
April 06, 2024

Easy-to-Use

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Easy Navigation
  • Custom Access Levels
  • Onboarding
  • Reminder Notifications
  • Custom Time Away
  • Time Tracking
  • 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
April 05, 2024

BambooHR is awesome!

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Very easy user interface
  • Multiple capabilities
  • Few glitches
  • Not all back end processes are logical
  • There should be a way to capture more EEOC data
  • The employee engagement module is lacking. There should be a mechanism to build staff engagement surveys.
April 02, 2024

Bamboo Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Reports
  • Employee User Experience
  • Applicant Tracking System
  • Applicant Tracking System Reports, these should be more flexible.
  • It would be useful to take the standard reports and save these as custom reports so that additional fields could be added.
  • There are some glitches in the eSignature forms which should be resolved.
April 02, 2024

BambooHR is the Way

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Time Tracking
  • File organizer
  • Performance mgt
  • There should be more customizing with all the Feedback tools
  • Have a better online support system, it has been terrible for the last 2 months.
  • Give new customers one rep to go to for help with set up.
April 02, 2024

BambooHR #1 to HMV

Sofia Villalba | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Managing employee profiles
  • Keeping track of vacation
  • Manage headcount by month
  • Onboarding processes
  • Recruitment process
  • If only Bamboo had a department that handles payroll like ADP team.
  • More person to person contact, when having doubts, videos do no help, when you are a people person or a visual person
March 30, 2024

BambooHR Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Providing assistance to issues in a quick response.
  • Proving information in both video and written form.
  • User friendliness.
  • Consolidating Forms
  • Onboarding communication
  • Running reports
March 29, 2024

Awesome HR IS

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Scheduled task assignment with automated communications.
  • HR policy document management.
  • Management of staff leave.
  • Integration to create Bamboo employees as users in Google Workspace.
  • Integration with HaloPSA to synchronise leave and scheduling.
  • Role based access control within BambooHR.
Maria Stathatou | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • On-Boarding/Off-Boarding
  • Reports
  • Directory/Org. Chart
  • Performance
  • Time-off: more efficient way to set up policies
  • The way holidays are displayed, for example to have a filter per country
  • eNPS and wellbeing: Nice modules but I would like to have the opportunity to add our own questions.
  • Integration with Slack on who's out every day, so there is not need to manually add it every day.
March 26, 2024

Happy Customer

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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)
March 26, 2024

BambooHr2024

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
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