What is BambooHR?
BambooHR is an award-winning HR platform that helps your growing organizations automate, centralize, and connect your people data all in one place. It gives you a one-stop shop to:
- Manage employee data
- Find, hire, and onboard the best talent
- Simplify payroll, track hours, and capture benefits
- Measure the employee experience and performance
- And connect your data to our expansive marketplace
of pre-built integrations
For more information, visit www.bamboohr.com.
Who Uses BambooHR?
Growing businesses that want to organize their HR data, track applicants, onboard effectively, run payroll, improve the employee experience and run reports all in one platform.
Where can BambooHR be deployed?
Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop), Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
About the vendor
- BambooHR
- Located in Lindon, US
- Founded in 2008
- Phone Support
- Chat
BambooHR pricing
Starting Price:
- Yes, has free trial
- No free version
BambooHR does not have a free version but does offer a free trial.
Pricing plans get a free trialAbout the vendor
- BambooHR
- Located in Lindon, US
- Founded in 2008
- Phone Support
- Chat
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Reviews of BambooHR

Sarah
Easy to Use HRIS
Comments: I love Bamboo! Very happy with it, and excited to see what the future holds.
Pros:
The product is very easy to use. The customer support is incredible. The system is aesthetically pleasing. Bamboo listens to feedback and is always updating and releasing new features based on customer feedback.
Cons:
Some features are not the most robust. Time tracking and reporting specifically. Bamboo does not have built-in scheduling. The employee notes feature could be more like applicant notes (replies, attachments, email notifications).
Alternatives Considered: Humanity and Deputy
Switched From: UKG Ready
Reasons for Switching to BambooHR: Ease of use, better customer support, better features.
Ryan
Great HRIS For Start-ups!
Comments: I haven't had any negative remarks from employees or managers about BambooHR; I think it excels in almost every category for an HRIS.
Pros:
BambooHR has a great user interface, robust integrations, a wonderfully designed time tracking tool, and their payroll is reliable and easy to work with!
Cons:
I think BambooHR falls short with some of their HR compliance stuff, which has recently become more complex.
Alternatives Considered: Gusto and ADP Workforce Now
Reasons for Switching to BambooHR: At the time, we were looking for something that was not only cost effective, but easy to use and familiar with employees to decrease implementation time.

Melissa
Easy HRIS Tool for Small-Mid Size Companies
Pros:
This software is very easy to customize to your organization's individual needs - especially if you are a start-up or small scale-up business. BambooHR also integrates with a lot of tools making the value skyrocket. It's also visually extremely easy to use and set up, and running reports is simple and fast.
Cons:
We're moving into being a bigger size company which is complicated our workflow and the number of tools/integrations that we have set up with it. We're having to do a lot of different customization which means it's adding a layer of complication to our daily jobs. We now need something a little bit more robust. It would also be ideal to have different access level permissions as different people in the HR Team need to have specific access to data and information, while others don't.
Heidi
Free up your HR Department to do their best work
Comments: Due to implementing BambooHR, we moved from having 8-10 spreadsheets that required daily maintenance to being able to have one system of record. This has allowed us to onboard employees more seamlessly during the COVID-19 pandemic. We went from PDF time off request forms and a Google Out of the Office calendar that we had to manually maintain to using time off in BambooHR and implementing the iCal feeds so everyone knows who is out of the office at a glance.
Pros:
Getting employee buy in and adoption is easy due to how intuitive the end-user experience is with BambooHR, especially with Google Single Sign On. As the administrator, I have the ability to make changes and implement things quickly on the backend without having to make a request and wait for someone else to make the changes for me. Having a streamlined and consistent onboarding and offboarding process ensures that new hires are set up for success and offboarding employees accounts and data are turned off in a timely manner.
Cons:
BambooHR may not have as many robust features as some of the other HRIS out there, but they are always adding new features and making improvements, which is good to see. You may have to add some app integrations in areas like recruiting and benefits administration, if you want all the bells and whistles.
Verified Reviewer
Robust HR management tool that the team loves
Comments: If you need an HR tool that is not boring and you want your team to actually USE it, go ahead with BambooHR. It provides a clear environment for staff that everyone can be on the same page from onboarding to payroll management. Interaction and applied HR processes are done flawlessly. I recommend!
Pros:
When I first joined the company, I went through my onboarding steps and it was very smooth using BambooHR. It was gamified and designed well. Interaction with team mates, other teams and managers is very intuitive. I can see who is going to be in the office the next day, when I can book my holidays or activities' dates that organized by the company. the calendar tool is super useful. I could send over my contract payments and communicate with payroll on the tool. Usually, other HR tools feel like a burden to use but this one is so easy and user-friendly so that people in the team enjoy it a lot.
Cons:
I didn't encounter any issues that really affected my user experience. I had no chance to contact the customer support so maybe it is better to check other reviews from HR admins.