About BambooHR

Instead of using fragmented spreadsheets, limited or clunky software, and physical paper, BambooHR helps you centralize your data and automate the way you complete key HR tasks. As you hire, onboard, and pay your employees, every step of the process from hire to retire comes with automation that will help your team keep up with the demands of your changing market and workplace. The platform's payroll feature allows users to track hours worked, manage benefits enrollment, and run payroll seamlessly from a single interface. With BambooHR, human resource professionals can save hundreds of hours and reduce HR costs significantly, making it a valuable tool for increasing efficiency and productivity. Customers have reported substantial savings, with examples including annual savings of $20,000 and 20 hours a week with BambooHR payroll and $40,000 annually along with hundreds of hours saved with BambooHR Performance Management. Additionally, a benefits administration process that once took three weeks has been condensed to just two days with BambooHR Benefits Administration, showcasing the platform's efficiency and time-saving capabilities. BambooHR provides over 125 integrations, allowing seamless connectivity with various systems and tools to enhance HR functions. The platform's ease of use and efficiency have earned it praise from customers, with testimonials highlighting its user-friendly nature and the time and cost savings it offers. For instance, businesses have applauded BambooHR for its multi-state taxation capabilities in terms of income and withholding, making it easy for users to navigate and activate even for novices. BambooHR customers have expressed satisfaction with the platform's ability to streamline HR processes, save time on training, compile information efficiently, and improve compliance. The platform's performance management, payroll integration, benefits administration, and other features have been commended for their impact on transforming how HR professionals deliver value to their organizations. By offering secure and user-friendly solutions, BambooHR empowers HR departments to collaborate with other functions, secure critical metrics, and maintain compliance with evolving workforce regulations. Connect your HR data with any of our 125+ pre-built integrations to help you accomplish even more HR and other business outcomes with a fraction of the effort
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BambooHR pricing

BambooHR does not have a free version but does offer a free trial. BambooHR paid version starts at US$250.00/month.

Starting Price:
US$250.00/month See pricing details
Free Version:
No
Free trial:
Yes

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BambooHR Reviews for UK Users

Feature rating

Value for Money
4.5
Functionality
4.4
Ease of Use
4.6
Customer Support
4.5
5 reviews of 2,970 View all reviews
Andrew
Andrew
  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
4

4
Reviewed on 08/01/2024

Great HR Software for Small Businesses

Overall, this is a great HR application for small businesses. There are a lot of very useful out-of-box features available, and the pricing model doesn't change if you are under a certain number of users so there is room for growth without continuously increasing your costs. Compared to other HR applications we researched, this was the most user-friendly for the best price. If you are looking to automate some of your HR work, I highly recommend implementing BambooHR. It has greatly improved the organization of our HR processes.

Pros

BambooHR is an easy to use and very comprehensive HR software that offers a lot of valuable and high-use out-of-box features. Our initial primary uses of the software were aggregation and consolidation of personnel information, PTO tracking, and general communication of company announcements to the team. As we got further into the product offerings, we also began to heavily utilize the onboarding, offboarding, and recruiting features, all of which were previously done using very manual processes. BambooHR allowed us to discontinue using spreadsheets and other manual forms for very common and basic HR functions, while housing them under one roof. It also provided our employees with a easier way to contribute to their own personnel profiles, and while as request and track PTO.

Cons

To properly utilize BambooHR according to your companies specific HR processes, there is a lot of individual and time-intensive setup involved. The platform is fairly customizable, but only if you are willing to invest significant time into configuring the features. While we expected a significant time investment into setting up the application, we were disappointed to learn that we would not have a dedicated account manager to help us with the setup process. We had to learn everything about the platform on our own through the BambooHR help portal, or by calling the customer service number and waiting for a representative to be available. We also experience a price increase only a few month after signing up for the service. We were also disappointed to learn that the integrations with Google and Slack are very limited, and while some information can be passed between the systems, we needed to customize some of the API calls in order to share more useful information with the team. There are definitely some limitations to their integrations.

Alternatives Considered

Zoho People and Rippling

Reasons for Choosing BambooHR

Pingboard had very limited features and they were implementing a 700% cost increase.

Switched From

Pingboard

Reasons for Switching to BambooHR

BambooHR has the best features and the best price.
Alysia
  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
3

4
Reviewed on 14/11/2024

BambooHR Review

Overall, the experience was BambooHR was okay. It wasn't the best but it wasn't the worst either. We opted to leave BambooHR for a more robust platform that offered more support with payroll compliance, but there are features from BambooHR that I miss.

Pros

BambooHR is great for companies that are looking for the best bang for their buck. The platform is very esthetically pleasing and pretty user friendly. You are able to easily update payroll and tax information on your own. They have nice features that competitors like ADP don't have currently like linking the PTO requests to google calendar. If you have a smaller headcount with an easy payroll, this is the route to go.

Cons

You get what you pay for. The support is not the best nor the fastest if you need assistance with something. They offered a live chat feature, but many times could not answer my question immediately and had to create a case for an expert to review. There was no way to call into a support line for immediate assistance. You had to be very careful when terminating an employee because if you listed the wrong final paycheck date, they would disappear off of the payroll and you would have to update the date to add them back in.

Alternatives Considered

ADP TotalSource

Reasons for Switching to BambooHR

We chose BambooHR because we needed a system that provided the bare bones of a payroll platform and hr management system. It got the job done for what we needed but when we started hiring more employees across the nation we needed a more robust system.
Kurosh
  • Industry: Hospital & Health Care
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
  • Review Source
Value for Money
2
Functionality
1
Ease of Use
3
Customer Support
1

1
Reviewed on 15/10/2024

Sales Lies about Functionality

Pros

The software itself, if you don't need integrations, works well as a basic HRIS.

Cons

Sales lied about integration with our payroll company, ADP. I brought up irregularities multiple times and was dismissed. After 2 months of wasting time trying to implement, we cancelled before going live because they could not deliver what they promised. Despite not actually using the software, [sensitive content hidden], refused to give a refund. This is a company culture based on sales through deception. Read all the other 1 star reviews for similar experiences. Don't make the same mistake we did.

Michelle
  • Industry: Insurance
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 04/09/2024

Solution for HR people data storage and multi-access level people management

LOVE the customer service. The reps are easy to work with, willing to troubleshoot and very helpful.

Pros

Houses all Employee HR info in one easy to locate place. It also has variable access levels to allow trainers, supervisors, managers and IT support all different access levels.

Cons

We had to custom build a place to keep employee notes. It works well enough for us and is functional, but I am not sure why the software doesn't have that feature included. It is basically just a historical table with a few fields and a notes section. I hope that it doesn't keep getting too ala carte for every new improvement they make, sometimes it feels like companies are adding feature after feature to run up the price and make more money off of existing loyal customers.

Dale
  • Industry: Nonprofit Organization Management
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
3
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
4

4
Reviewed on 08/10/2024

Creating Structure with Bamboo HR

While we've been using Bamboo HR for nearly two years, we have yet to fully utilize all of their features. I look forward to scaling our Centre with the confidence that Bamboo HR can scale with us.

Pros

The ability to quick implement a robust human resource information system, providing structure and stability to organizations who otherwise may not have the resources to create similar systems on their own.

Cons

Largely, the cost of add-ons and customization for small, non-profit and charitable organizations. However, the per-person cost does help keep things reasonable, we just have difficulty scaling to receive the discounts of larger organizations.

Alternatives Considered

Citation Canada

Reasons for Switching to BambooHR

Availability of features to scale our organization.

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