What is BambooHR?

BambooHR is an online HR software that collects and organizes all the information you gather throughout the employee life cycle, and then helps you use it to achieve great things. Whether you are hiring, onboarding, preparing compensation, or building culture, BambooHR gives you the time and insights to focus on your most important asset - your people. BambooHR is a complete HR platform that brings all your employee, payroll, time, and benefit information together in one place, giving you the data accuracy, security, and coordination.

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BambooHR Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

90 Likeliness to Recommend

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100 Plan to Renew

88 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+95 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love BambooHR?

2% Negative
1% Neutral
97% Positive

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Respectful
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity

Feature Ratings

Average 86

HR Systems Interface

89

Time and Attendance

89

Self Service Portal

87

Compensation Management

86

Tax Form Preparation

86

Direct Deposit

86

Accounting Systems Interface

85

Benefits Calculation

84

Vacation and Leave Tracking

83

Taxation Deduction

83

Retirement Plan Tracking

81

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 85

Ease of Customization

88

Business Value Created

88

Quality of Features

87

Ease of Implementation

87

Breadth of Features

86

Ease of IT Administration

85

Ease of Data Integration

85

Usability and Intuitiveness

83

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

82

Availability and Quality of Training

82

Vendor Support

81

BambooHR Reviews

Ododoola O.

  • Role: Human Resources
  • Industry: Consulting
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted May 2025

BambooHR: A User-Friendly HR Solution

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates BambooHR from other similar products?

BambooHR stands out by offering an easy-to-use, all-in-one HR platform tailored for small to mid-sized businesses. It emphasizes a strong employee experience, responsive customer support, and seamless integrations. Its intuitive interface, focus on core HR features like onboarding and performance management, and transparent pricing further differentiate it from competitors.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

One standout aspect of BambooHR is its user-friendly interface—it’s clean, intuitive, and easy for both HR teams and employees to navigate. This makes everyday HR tasks like onboarding, time-off tracking, and performance reviews smooth and accessible, even for non-HR professionals. It significantly reduces the learning curve, which is a major plus for small businesses without a dedicated HR department.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The main drawback of BambooHR is that some advanced features are either limited or require add-ons—especially payroll (which is only available in the U.S.) and benefits administration. Compared to all-in-one platforms like Gusto or Zenefits, which offer more robust built-in payroll and benefits tools, BambooHR may feel less complete if you need comprehensive HR and finance coverage in one place.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Here are a few key recommendations for someone considering BambooHR: Assess Your Company Size and Needs: BambooHR is ideal for small to mid-sized businesses. If you're a larger organization or have complex compliance/payroll needs, consider whether the feature set is sufficient. Take Advantage of the Free Trial/Demo: The interface is one of BambooHR’s biggest strengths, so experiencing it firsthand will help you determine if it fits your workflow. Review Add-On Costs: Some features like payroll, performance management, and time tracking may come at an additional cost. Clarify what’s included in your package.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Trustworthy

Siddhaarth S.

  • Role: Sales Marketing
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Mar 2025

Best HR solution for business of any Nature

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates BambooHR from other similar products?

Its intuitive design combined with powerful core HR functionalities ranging from employee data management to performance tracking delivers a holistic solution that simplifies HR processes while integrating seamlessly with other business tools.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I appreciate its easy-to-use interface, which centralizes staff data and automates repetitive procedures, freeing up critical time for strategic growth and revenue-generating projects.

What do you dislike most about this product?

For larger firms with more complicated HR requirements, some advanced reporting and customization options could feel limiting, possibly requiring further workarounds.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Utilize the demos and free trial to match Bamboo HR's features to your unique requirements. For the best return on investment, invest in a systematic onboarding procedure and make sure your staff is taught to utilize all of its potential.

Pros

  • Performance Enhancing
  • Generous Negotitation
  • Over Delivered
  • Transparent

Tamika M.

  • Role: C-Level
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2024

Platform to find better talents and employees.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates BambooHR from other similar products?

BambooHR is a platform that not only allows you to manage a company's current employees as well as its competitors, but also offers a wide variety of service ranging from talent search to a time tracking system, payroll and management of tutoring material for current employees. In addition, it offers a better search for talent in a more specific way than other platforms, with Bamboo you can find talent with a much more complete search engine that helps you get the best candidate for any area, be it marketing, sales or another area of your company.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I love the work hours tracking system, this is essential since the platform automatically detects the time an employee has entered and the time they have left their office, this helps us to account for the total work hours without having to do it manually, in addition, the Payroll system is quite complete, it allows you to make payroll payments online in a very simple way and making any type of deduction from the total payment that corresponds to the employees. The employee management system allows for adding tutoring material to improve the knowledge and performance of currenty employees its is very helpful to improve employee capacity.

What do you dislike most about this product?

We haven't experienced any failures in the employee management, talent management and workforce management functions that BambooHR has provided us with, it has performed very well in my company.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

My main recommendation is that people who are considering using Bamboo, fully connect this platform and integrate it with all the task and project development services and many other platforms that are used in the work environment, in this way the platform will be more accurate in measuring work performance and will be able to improve the workforce in an automated way.

Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity

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