Audience
Small and medium businesses looking for an all-in-one, scalable HR platform to automate hiring, onboarding, performance, payroll, and benefits management while improving employee experience.
About BambooHR
BambooHR® is an award-winning HR software built to set people free to do great work. Designed for small and medium-sized businesses, BambooHR centralizes all your people data in one secure, easy-to-use platform so you can focus more on your people and less on paperwork.
• With BambooHR, you can:
• Hire and onboard top talent
• Manage employee data and records
• Run payroll and benefits with confidence
• Track time, performance, and employee engagement
• Gain insights through powerful reporting and analytics
• Connect your favorite tools with seamless integrations
By consolidating HR processes into one intuitive system, BambooHR empowers you to improve the employee experience, support business growth, and create a workplace where people thrive.
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BambooHR Frequently Asked Questions
BambooHR Product Features
Applicant Tracking
BambooHR’s Applicant Tracking System helps you attract, evaluate, and hire top talent quickly. With integrations to leading job boards and social sites, applications appear instantly for review. Easy collaboration tools keep hiring managers aligned, so you can streamline decisions and bring in the right candidates faster.
Benefits Administration
BambooHR Benefits Administration makes it easy to manage employee benefits for US-based teams. From onboarding elections to annual open enrollment, employees get a clear view of their benefits, and HR gains a simple way to track selections, deductions, and compliance. The result: less complexity for HR and a better experience for employees.
Employee Experience
BambooHR helps you create a great employee experience with tools that measure engagement, support growth, and celebrate milestones. From eNPS surveys and feedback tools to performance management and onboarding, BambooHR provides insights that empower leaders to improve culture, boost retention, and make work more meaningful for employees.
Global Payroll
BambooHR simplifies global payroll through integrations with trusted international providers such as Deel, Papaya Global, Pento, and Remote. This allows you to manage core HR data in BambooHR while securely syncing payroll information across countries. By connecting your HRIS with global payroll partners, you can reduce complexity, maintain compliance, and ensure accurate, on-time payments to your international workforce.
HCM
BambooHR is a complete Human Capital Management (HCM) solution designed to help small and medium-sized businesses manage every stage of the employee lifecycle in one simple, connected system. From hiring and onboarding to payroll, performance, and employee experience, BambooHR centralizes people data so you can make informed decisions and support your workforce with confidence. With built-in reporting, engagement tools, and seamless integrations, BambooHR transforms HR from an administrative function into a strategic driver of growth—helping you attract, retain, and empower your people to do their best work.
HR Analytics
BambooHR reporting makes it easy to generate instant, detailed reports on your employee data with just a few clicks. From workforce planning to approval tracking, HR reporting gives you confidence to move forward and data to back up your decisions. When you’re able to analyze HR data instead of just compiling it, you can be proactive instead of reactive and turn your HR department into the strategic resource it was meant to be.
Human Resources
The BambooHR all-in-one platform gives your organization the foundation to build a thriving workplace now and in the future. By uniting solutions, capabilities, and integrations in one secure system, you can directly impact the employee experience while managing tasks, workflows, and data more efficiently—today and as you grow.
Onboarding
BambooHR Onboarding helps new hires feel welcome and productive from day one. With automated checklists, custom welcome emails, and pre-boarding tasks, you can create a consistent, engaging experience. By simplifying paperwork and connecting new hires to their teams, BambooHR ensures every onboarding journey is smooth and memorable.
PTO Tracking
BambooHR makes PTO tracking simple and transparent. Employees can request time off online or through the mobile app, while managers approve with just a click. Automated accruals, balance tracking, and calendar views reduce errors and save time. With everything stored in one place, you’ll always have an accurate, up-to-date picture of employee availability and time-off usage.
Payroll
BambooHR Payroll takes the stress out of payday. By combining a single source of data with comprehensive reporting, full-service tax filing, and responsive support, BambooHR ensures employees are paid accurately and on time. With payroll handled, HR can spend less time worrying about compliance and more time focusing on people.
Performance Management
BambooHR Performance Management transforms traditional, outdated performance reviews into a pain-free, development-focused process. You’ll gain real-time insights into employee growth with our streamlined assessments, 360º feedback, and collaborative goals. Our powerful reporting allows managers to identify top performers, employees who are struggling employees, and spot manager/employee misalignments.
Recruiting
BambooHR gives organizations the capacity to grow and change based on the people they bring on board. By casting your hiring net wider with integrations to top job boards and social sites, reviewing candidates the instant they apply, and quickly coordinating with hiring team members, the BambooHR Applicant Tracking System helps HR professionals and hiring managers find, evaluate, and hire the right talent as quickly as possible.
Talent Management
BambooHR gives organizations the capacity to grow and change based on the people they bring on board and how they develop them. With the Applicant Tracking System, HR professionals and hiring managers can find, evaluate, and hire the right talent as quickly as possible. Onboarding features help to create better first days for new hires, and BambooHR Performance Management makes managing employee growth and development a pain-free experience.
Time & Attendance
BambooHR Time & Attendance makes it easy to track hours worked, overtime, and schedules—all within the same system you use to manage HR and payroll. Employees clock in via web or mobile, while managers review and approve with accuracy and speed. Automated reporting and integrations with payroll ensure that time data flows seamlessly into paychecks, reducing errors and saving valuable admin time.
Time Clock
Time Tracking brings the award-winning BambooHR experience to time entry, approvals and reporting, on the web and on the mobile app. It makes hours worked easy and accurate for employees to record, and simple and fast for their managers to review and approve. With features such as project tracking and geolocation, Time Tracking helps you maintain a productive and cost effective hourly workforce.
Time Tracking
Time Tracking brings the award-winning BambooHR experience to time entry, approvals and reporting, on the web and on the mobile app. It makes hours worked easy and accurate for employees to record, and simple and fast for their managers to review and approve. With features such as project tracking and geolocation, Time Tracking helps you maintain a productive and cost effective hourly workforce.
Workforce Management
With BambooHR's workforce management capabilities, you can create custom, self-service HR workflows to be more efficient in your decision-making processes as a company and protect the integrity of your data. Eliminate bottlenecks by streamlining your approval processes, paving the way for your company to grow faster.
BambooHR Additional Categories
Employee Directory
The BambooHR Employee Directory gives everyone quick access to the information they need—like job titles, departments, contact details, and reporting relationships. With photos, bios, and built-in org charts, it helps employees put faces to names and fosters stronger connections across teams, whether in the office or remote.
Employee Management
BambooHR makes employee management simple by putting all your people data at your fingertips. From personal information and job history to performance, training, and compensation, BambooHR provides a single, secure system of record for every employee. With built-in workflows, reporting, and role-based access, you can streamline day-to-day HR tasks while empowering managers with the tools they need to support and develop their teams. This all-in-one approach helps you create a consistent, people-first employee experience.
Offboarding
BambooHR streamlines the offboarding process to ensure a smooth transition for both the departing employee and the organization. With automated workflows, managers and HR can complete required tasks consistently and efficiently, from collecting equipment to conducting exit interviews. By standardizing offboarding, BambooHR helps you maintain compliance, protect company assets, and gain valuable insights from exit feedback, all while leaving a positive final impression on employees.
Office Management
While BambooHR isn’t an office management system, it supports related tasks through HR workflows. Features like equipment assignment during onboarding, collection during offboarding, and centralized employee records help reduce administrative burden and keep workplace logistics organized. By streamlining these processes, BambooHR frees up time so managers and HR teams can focus more on people and less on paperwork.
Pulse Survey
BambooHR Pulse Surveys help you keep a finger on the pulse of your organization by gathering quick, actionable feedback from employees. With simple, anonymous surveys, you can measure engagement, track satisfaction over time, and identify trends that impact retention. Built-in analytics make it easy to understand results and share insights, so you can address concerns before they become bigger challenges and create a workplace where employees feel heard and supported.
Total Rewards
BambooHR Total Rewards Statements give employees a clear, personalized view of their full compensation beyond just salary. By showcasing pay, benefits, perks, and contributions in one place, these statements help employees understand the full value of what your organization provides, improving transparency, trust, and retention.
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"Easy to use HR platform" Posted 2025-09-25
Pros: We implemented BambooHR to manage all our HR needs including hiring and onboarding etc. It is now managed by our head of HR but I oversaw the initial implementation. The UI is very easy to navigate and the steps in the overall HR process follow a logical flow making it easy to onboard and get up and running.
Cons: Currently pricing is affordable for the size of our team but it was hard to get estimates of what our price might be in the future as we scale.
Overall: For an easy to use HR platform that provides everything you need we are very happy with BambooHR. We reviewed over 5 different platforms before we made our choice and the key reason why we chose BambooHR was over its easy of use.
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"Revolutionizing Human Resources Management with BambooHR." Posted 2024-09-08
Pros: It is possible to automate, streamline and manage the entire lifecycle of an employee from hiring to retirement. It a reliable tool for employees onboarding and recruiting. It is simple to track and manage employees time and attendance sheet with BambooHR. It is simple to get generate timely employees payrolls with BambooHR. It is a convenient tool for benefit administration.
Cons: The performance of BambooHR tends to be slow when running multiple activities at the same time.
Overall: With BambooHR, it is possible to track and manage employees work performance in real-time. BambooHR is a reliable platform for talent acquisition and management. It has an intuitive and user-friendly interface making it simple to use and navigate.
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"Good HR software" Posted 2022-08-09
Pros: - allows you to see which coworkers are on vacation
- clean UI
- provides place to update personal information as well as input vacation requests
- email notifications availableCons: - management UI could be better; it can be hard to find your direct report's profile and vacation requests
Overall: BambooHR is a good online HR suite that provides all of the basic HR features your company would require, but could improve its interface a little.
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"Best HR Platform" Posted 2022-07-30
Pros: So incredibly to use for both the user and administrator. The design and look is beautiful and catches the eye. Many features for small and medium companies to use, a great platform to use as an opportunity to step away from paperwork.
Cons: It is only built for small and medium companies, so if you are a big enterprise it wouldn't make sense for you to look into this platform.
Overall: Overall, BambooHR not only has an incredible product, but also provides outstanding customer support for all of their clients.
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"Simplicity Personified" Posted 2022-07-05
Pros: If you have never used an HRIS, Bamboo HR will make you feel wonder why you didn't take the leap years ago. If you currently use an HRIS, you will find that Bamboo HR's platform makes is approachable for all employees across the company. You will have a dashboard that puts control in the hands of your employees, freeing you to develop your team and avoid time consuming manual paperwork tasks.
Cons: Bamboo has Marketplace 3rd party applications that tie into Bamboo, but unless it is tied in with two way communication you will still struggle with multiple vendors/websites to accomplish all the work you may want to do. Bamboo is working to incorporate more vertical features so they are directly connected into Bamboo. But if you use a program outside of Marketplace, then you will need to supply the programmers to ensure the coding works. Not impossible just make sure you are aware.
Overall: Great experience. Bamboo HR is very responsive, very helpful and very willing to listen to suggestions and then implements them quickly, if possible.
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"What is there not to like about BambooHR!" Posted 2022-07-03
Pros: I love the ease of hiring and the access to posting positions on Indeed. The tracking of days off and vacation are so easy. Changing benefits and the ease of payroll access to Trax is great.
Cons: Wish there was more scheduling access built into BambooHR.
Overall: If it comes to budget cuts this is not a product I would cut out. All our documents are saved within each employee and my filing cabinets are no longer bursting at the seams.
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"BambooHR is the ONLY software to manage your team" Posted 2022-07-01
Pros: It documents EVERYTHING, and makes information now streamlined so that you and your team are always on the same page without question.
Cons: There are some things that I would love to see on BambooHR it's not exactly a con, just looking forward to a future where there are some more features.
Overall: Overall this is the ONLY HR product that I recommend. It's so much for then an HR tool, It has team building, is performance driven, it has all the "slack" type features for goals, training. BambooHR is a limit less product and the features just keep coming!
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"Great System!" Posted 2022-07-01
Pros: Easy to use and navigate. Simple for running reports and leaving notes or documents. Also the best thing about BambooHR is the quick response from the customer service team. If you want to share your opinion or ask a query the BambooHR team get back to you very quickly and almost always answer or resolve your issue.
Cons: If an admin or line manager edit name or place of folder it will do the same for every employee.
Overall: Great system to use, easy to use for all and great for companies of 1500 plus employees. If you have lots of staff and want a system that they can easily use without having to go to your HR team for too many questions, this system is perfect for that.
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"Get BambooHR" Posted 2022-06-30
Pros: I absolutely LOVE BambooHR. It has greatly simplified our HR, and enables the employees to see how much time they have available, holidays, co-worker's birthdays, etc.
Cons: There is honestly no cons to BambooHR. This is hands down the best HR platform out there!
Overall: Using this product has been the best change to our HR Department! We stopped using paper leave slips to using this program, which our employees love, as well as the HR Department. The ease of use is wonderful as is the customer support. Get BambooHR! You absolutely won't regret it, and your company will love it.
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"Decent for a starting HR" Posted 2022-01-11
Pros: It was fairly easy to use and navigate and is great for a small company just starting out. Loved the ability to see everyone's workaversary.
Cons: Lack of content and extensions. We were unable to keep it since we were growing and needed more capabilities.
Overall: Not a terrible HR platform. It did good by us for the time that we used it until we outgrew it. Just didn't do as much as we wanted it to.
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"User friendly HR platform" Posted 2022-01-03
Pros: * Nice org chart views that are customizable
* Onboarding/offboarding automated tasks
* Integrates with Performance Pro for 360 reviews
* Easy to request time offCons: * Calendar doesn't integrate with Google Calendar or Slack
Overall: Overall an easy to use platform that integrates easily with our 360 review tool and our ATS (Applicant Tracking System).
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"Cost Effective HR Solution To Manage Your Team" Posted 2021-12-17
Pros: Easy to use interface that can be used on mobile or desktop.
Ability for your employees to see all their documents via the mobile app.
Pricing is very reasonable for all the BambooHR gives you.
Able to manage your entire team without having to hire an HR pprofessional.
Signing certificates for digital forms can be done via Mobil, so no need for hard copies.Cons: All your data is stored on their servers. If you leave BambooHR or they lose their servers, your data is gone unless you have hard copies of your documents.
Overall: I have used BambooHR for 3 years to manage our team. I have been able to organize all employee documents securely and easily with this software. As our team continues to grow, I feel confident that BambooHR will be able to support and scale with our team.
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"BambooHr, nominal loads on time" Posted 2021-07-31
Pros: BambooHr allows users to perform payroll processing automatically, in addition to easily identify employees who require special permissions, keeps a count of working hours that allows us to know the productivity of our workers.
Cons: We would like to create diffusion lists among our workers but so far it has not been possible, when we want to send a generalized information to only a sector of the company we may be forced to perform the transmission of information one by one, which requires a lot of time and work.
Overall: BambooHr is a great addition to our human resources management system, an excellent SaaS tool that complements the way we operate our payroll, and improves the ways in which we allocate our employees' time more effectively, as well as being able to access task reports in real time.
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"A human resources powerhouse for employee management" Posted 2021-07-22
Pros: BambooHR has helped us with the smooth preparation of payroll for each of our employees without the need for any errors thanks to the implementation of ATS as it allows us to build a better strength in our team.
Cons: They should implement offline work with BambooHR as if we lose connection all the work is lost and we have to edit from scratch. We have also failed to implement the employee check in and check out resource as the remote connectivity fails.
Overall: It is the best human resources platform on the market right now thanks to its accurate implementation of data in the registry. We have been able to manage each payroll quickly and boldly and all our clients remain confident and confident that the work will be done quickly and excellently.
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"BambooHR remains one of the best HHRR oriented software" Posted 2021-04-16
Pros: BambooHR maintains a scheme of work where it is easy to access operations with employees, or apply self-service mechanics so that each employee can review their information and manage all their work quality processes themselves, so they can stay informed about their results.
Cons: It is difficult to use BambooHR to bring in reports that come directly in spreadsheet type formats, mostly because BambooHR does not include enough support to run .xlsx format files. This can be problematic in the long run, as spreadsheets are one of the most commonly used work formats in the office.
Overall: Our organization maintains that BambooHR is an excellent service, especially if you want to keep a complete administration of all employee processes, from recruitment operations to work quality tracking, useful for reporting. We also like its document saving capabilities.
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"BambooHR stimulates our movement with human talent" Posted 2021-03-31
Pros: BambooHR shows very diverse dynamics in terms of human talent management, which gives us a wide variety of administrative operations of employees, such as the ability to make reports of multiple types of formats, or the possibility of sharing them through various external services, in case they are required in other departments.
Cons: BambooHR does not have sampling tools during the registration and attendance processes at the recruitment stages, so that the files of newly graduated employees never have enough information to avoid having to communicate with them again at the beginning of the first days.
Overall: BambooHR has one of the best capabilities for storing and transporting employee data that we have had the opportunity to exploit. We liked that the service provides customization tools for reporting, so that we can basically apply self-service and the tracking work is automatic.
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"Control and management of human capital is much simpler with BambooHR" Posted 2021-03-29
Pros: It is more than acceptable that with BambooHR you can delegate from two to five different employees for certain data changes within your workflow. You can customize access permissions on the collaborators involved to regulate the amount of data management and data access.
Cons: The listing in the employee directory does not allow for more information to be added. Also in Standard use its management and administration process does not have enough customization tools in the relevant information of our workflow. Other than that there is nothing else to say against the platform.
Overall: In terms of tracking, it offers an acceptable usability, providing us with almost everything we need to carry out optimal processes of this type. In addition, it offers performance reports between employees and better attachments to improve time tracking. However, it is sometimes difficult to log in to the desktop version.
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"BambooHR mixes interesting HR and ATS features " Posted 2021-03-29
Pros: Regarding the application of ATS oriented functions, i.e. applicant tracking, BambooHR has changed our way of perceiving and orienting ourselves within each candidate's organization, so that we can manage them much better depending on the work area we want to focus on (in case we work separating areas).
Cons: BambooHR does not present many improvements in terms of administrative management of human resources if we contrast it with other services in its category, and it is due to this lack of innovation that we can not comply with monitoring and performance management processes that we can carry out within other platforms.
Overall: Managing lists of candidates and contacting them in a short time is one of the great capabilities that BambooHR has to offer. We like the software for the facilities it offers in terms of communication with candidates, and for being able to establish different delegates in case of not being able to fulfill all the operations.
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"BambooHR appears to be a sophisticated virtual environment for HHRR" Edited 2021-03-22
Pros: With BambooHR the results obtained from applying HR department's own techniques in web reports have been very favorable. BambooHR prioritizes shortcuts to those employees or job candidates who show the best potential during probationary periods, starting from the time of the interview
Cons: BambooHR does not have a good overlay to other services that also focus on working with human talent, forcing us to manually copy information from one service to another when we use the others to get analytics from these. This is done so that file formats from the other software are not altered when they arrive in BambooHR
Overall: Based on the fact that the platform automates the viewing of employee data for more talented employees, it shows that BambooHR, while not being unbiased, highlights the options with which it could thrive more in certain positions and situations, which is more useful when needing to fill staffing gaps or urgent labor needs
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"BambooHR lets us specialize in human resources documentation" Posted 2021-03-22
Pros: When using BambooHR you get a subscription to a newsletter that announces future changes and updates to the platform, which is generally kept up to date. BambooHR supports a variety of document sheet formats, and also has its own self-service operations reporting system.
Cons: There are many limitations in the ease with which BambooHR allows for altering outside of the default level of document accessibility, which is generally managed across multiple levels. The applicant tracking tool does not provide enough automated information about applicants who are applying to the company.
Overall: There are few human talent management services that allow workflows created in other services, and that also do not lose structure quality. BambooHR is better for working in conjunction with other human resources representatives, and for all of them to centralize information from different branches in a single source.
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