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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Hiring
New hire paperwork
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Quite well!
Great HR tool!
Easy-to-Use
BambooHR is awesome!
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They do lack a simple way to look up historical data.
Awards
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Popular Features
- Update personal information (116)9.292%
- View job history (109)9.090%
- Employment history (111)8.787%
- Job profiles and administration (108)8.484%
Reviewer Pros & Cons
Pricing
Core
$250
Pro
$250
Entry-level set up fee?
- Setup fee optionalOptional
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Starting price (does not include set up fee)
- $250 per month
Product Demos
Integrating Boomr and BambooHR
Product Overview of BambooHR Employee Records
BambooHR to Active Directory Demo
TRAXPayroll Demo - BambooHR Integration July 2014
Product Overview of BambooHR Paid Time Off software
How to Setup Paid Time Off Policies in BambooHR
Features
Human Resource Management
Organizing, tracking and providing instant access to critical employee data, job profiles, transfers, promotions, and benefits information.
- 7.7Employee demographic data(104) Ratings
Administrators have the ability to enter detailed demographic data for each employee.
- 8.7Employment history(111) Ratings
Employment history is the ability to track previous positions held.
- 8.4Job profiles and administration(108) Ratings
Job profiles and descriptions can be created and edited.
- 8.2Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.(95) Ratings
Employee move workflow provides the ability to move employees to different positions and apply pay raises.
- 7.1Organizational charting(107) Ratings
Organizational charting is the ability to create hierarchical charts.
- 8Organization and location management(98) Ratings
Organization and location management allows employees to be managed across multiple geographical locations.
- 8.5Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)(58) Ratings
Compliance capabilities ensure full compliance with federal workplace regulations by capturing required data in central database.
Payroll Management
Provides for pay calculation and benefit plan administration, in addition to managing direct deposit, salary revisions and payroll tracking.
- 8.2Pay calculation(52) Ratings
Pay calculation provides for computation of employee pay with state and federal deductions.
- 8.2Support for external payroll vendors(45) Ratings
Support for external payroll vendors is the ability to integrate with 3rd-party payroll services.
- 8Off-cycle/On-Demand payment(30) Ratings
Provide employees access to wages accrued during the pay period before the end of the pay cycle.
- 8.8Benefit plan administration(60) Ratings
Benefit plan administration is administration of health insurance plans and 401k plans, and other benefits.
- 8.4Direct deposit files(59) Ratings
Direct deposit is the ability to electronically transfer pay to an employee’s personal bank account.
- 8Salary revision and increment management(62) Ratings
Salary revision is the ability to modify individual employee pay.
- 6.7Reimbursement management(31) Ratings
Reimbursement management provides cash reimbursement for employee expenses related to business travel or other.
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.
- 9.1Approval workflow(104) Ratings
Approval workflow is the process for approving employee paid time-off requests.
- 8.9Balance details(97) Ratings
Balance details is automatic updating of paid time-off balance to reflect time taken.
- 8.4Annual carry-forward and encashment(87) Ratings
Annual carry-forward and encashment enables unused paid time-off days to be carried forward to new year, or paid in cash.
Employee Self Service
Employee portal allowing employees to view and update their personal information.
- 7.9View and generate pay and benefit information(71) Ratings
Employees can view pay and benefit data and print pay stubs.
- 9.2Update personal information(116) Ratings
Employees can update personal profile with change of address, dependents, or other personal data.
- 8.9View company policy documentation(96) Ratings
Employees can review company handbook, and corporate policy documents.
- 8.6Employee recognition(78) Ratings
thank a team member
- 9View job history(109) Ratings
Employees can view all positions held at the company.
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.
- 7.8Tracking of all physical assets(48) Ratings
Tracking of track laptops, pagers, phones, and other company equipment.
HR Reporting
Pre-built and custom reports, and integration with external data.
- 8.1Report builder(89) Ratings
Report builder allows custom reports to be created using a GUI.
- 7.7Pre-built reports(87) Ratings
Pre-built reports is the provision of a variety of canned reports on employee retention, and other key metrics.
- 7.4Ability to combine HR data with external data(63) Ratings
Ability to bring data from external systems like CRM and combine with HR data.
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.
- 8.7New hire portal(92) Ratings
New hire portal eliminates printing and mailing with a personalized portal of all required reading, corporate information, and all forms and other paperwork, online.
- 8.6Manager tracking tools(83) Ratings
Tracking tools allow hiring managers to check status on individual hires for all onboarding activities.
Performance and Goals
Goal alignment is the practice of ensuring that all employees have clearly defined goals in support of the overall corporate strategy.
- 8.2Corporate goal setting(46) Ratings
Corporate goal setting is the ability to define corporate goals, and/or vision statements in the system.
- 8.2Individual goal setting(58) Ratings
Individual goal setting is the ability to define individual goals that align to organizational and subordinate goals.
- 8.2Line-of sight-visibility(45) Ratings
Line-of-sight visibility is the provision of line-of sight visibility for each goal to see how goals support overall corporate objectives.
- 8.1Performance tracking(54) Ratings
Performance tracking allows managers to track individual progress against goals as a component of overall performance.
Performance Management
Performance management is the process of ensuring employees meet pre-determined objectives and goals through regular check-ins and appraisals.
- 7.6Performance plans(59) Ratings
Supervisors have ability to build individual performance plans including, goals, competencies, etc..
- 8Performance improvement plans(53) Ratings
Supervisors can track disciplinary actions such as performance improvement plans.
- 7.9Review status tracking(60) Ratings
Supervisors can monitor and track review status completion with dashboard showing milestones and status.
- 8.2Review reminders(61) Ratings
System can generate reminders to ensure review completion timeliness.
- 7.8Multiple review frequency(57) Ratings
System supports multiple review types including annual, quarterly mid-year and anniversary reviews.
Succession Planning
Succession planning is the identification and development of internal employees with the potential to fill key business leadership positions in the company.
- 5.8Create succession plans/pools(31) Ratings
Managers can create and manage pools of potentially high-performing individuals.
- 7.7Candidate ranking(37) Ratings
Candidate readiness for key business positions can be ranked and assessed.
- 7.1Candidate search(39) Ratings
Candidate search provides search capabilities for potential candidates based on attribute or other profile data.
- 8Candidate development(35) Ratings
Candidate development is the ability to assign learning and development goals.
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.
- 8Job Requisition Management(55) Ratings
Job Requisition Management – Job requisition management is the ability to create jobs quickly and easily
- 8.3Company Website Posting(62) Ratings
Software allows postings to be displayed on the company website
- 8.2Publish to Social Media(56) Ratings
Software provides ability to publish postings to social media sites
- 8.2Job Search Site Posting(59) Ratings
Software provides ability to publish postings to top job search sites
- 7.4Duplicate Candidate Prevention(53) Ratings
Duplicate candidate prevention prevents candidates already in the system from being added
- 8.2Applicant Tracking(69) Ratings
Applicant tracking allows recruiters to assign applicants to various stages so others can see status at a glance
- 8.6Notifications and Alerts(72) Ratings
Notifications and reminders inform you of tasks to be completed
Product Details
- About
- Integrations
- Competitors
- Tech Details
- FAQs
What is BambooHR?
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BambooHR Integrations
- CATS Applicant Tracking System
- JazzHR
- Cornerstone OnDemand
- NetSuite ERP
- Slack
- Checkr
- Deel
- Flock Benefits Administration, by Paychex
- Culture Amp
- Cronofy
- Lattice
- Greenhouse
- Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
- Workleap Officevibe
- The Okta Identity Cloud
- Workable
- Zapier
- 15Five
- Absorb LMS
- Breezy HR
- JumpCloud
- Lever
- Litmos
- Pento
- PerformYard
- CyberArk Privileged Access Management
- Human Interest
- Jobvite
- Nectar
- Tovuti LMS
- Xoxoday Empuls
- WorkTango
- Tray.io
BambooHR Competitors
BambooHR Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android |
Supported Countries | BambooHR supports any country worldwide |
Supported Languages | English, French, German, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish |
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(384)Attribute Ratings
- 9.2Likelihood to Renew10 ratings
- 9.3Availability5 ratings
- 8.7Performance5 ratings
- 8.5Usability53 ratings
- 8.5Support Rating50 ratings
- 9.2Online Training4 ratings
- 9.6Implementation Rating3 ratings
- 8.6Configurability4 ratings
- 8.9Product Scalability5 ratings
- 9.6Ease of integration2 ratings
- 9.1Vendor pre-sale4 ratings
- 8.9Vendor post-sale4 ratings
- 9.2Professional Services2 ratings
- 8.3Contract Terms and Pricing Model3 ratings
Reviews
(1-25 of 72)BambooHR
- 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
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- 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
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- Reports
- Good UI
- Easy to access data
- Support
- An option to use hiring information for custom reports
- More customizable
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Hiring
New hire paperwork
- 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.
Great HR tool!
- 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
BambooHR is awesome!
- 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.
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- 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.
BambooHR is the Way
- 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.
Great System - Happy to recommend
- Onboarding
- E-signatures
- User friendly
- Performance managemment
- Offer payroll in UK
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- Providing assistance to issues in a quick response.
- Proving information in both video and written form.
- User friendliness.
- Consolidating Forms
- Onboarding communication
- Running reports
Awesome HR IS
- 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.
BambooHR User's feedback
- 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.
Yay for BambooHR!
- Announcements
- PTO tracking
- Personnel Files
- Signature form creation
- Reporting functions
- Onboarding
Happy Customer
- 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)
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- 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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- 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
Recommend!
- User friendly
- Easy to customize reports
- Easily able to see who's out of office across the organization
- Right now, the new hire introduction emails are automatically sent out around 3AM ET on their first day - wish this time can be manually changed to something more work-life balance friendly, such as 7AM
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- support response
- product continuous improvement
- easy navigation
- payroll flexibility
- benefit enhancement
Nice experience!
- 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.
A Review of BambooHR
- 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).
Satisfied BambooHR User!
- 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 Intuitive and Easy to Use
- Time off requests.
- Benefit details.
- Employee information.
- Better file tracking.
- Better organization structure mapping.
Big Fan of 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.
BambooHR is 100% the right choice for us!
- 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.
BambooHR is HUGE
- 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.