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BambooHR
What Is BambooHR?
The BambooHR all-in-one platform gives your growing organization the foundation it needs to build a thriving workplace now and far into the future. It brings together best-in-class solutions, capabilities, and integrations all in one place, with a single source of data. You’ll directly impact the employee experience all while managing important tasks, workflows, and data solutions, functionality, and integrations to build now and into the future.
Who Uses BambooHR?
BambooHR® centralizes employee, payroll, time, and benefits data, ensuring accuracy, security, and seamless coordination for peace of mind.
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Reviews of BambooHR
BambooHR is a comprehensive and easy-to-use HR software
Comments: In terms of HR functions, BambooHR handles everything. Our human resources department and management can benefit much from this system. BambooHR serves many uses for many divisions. Every day, the human resources team uses BambooHR because it is quick, simple, and easy to use.
Pros:
This HR management system is both feature-rich and user-friendly. The user interface is made user- and administrator-friendly. The site is user-friendly, and my staff appreciates how straightforward the features are.
Cons:
One of BambooHR's less enticing characteristics, in my opinion, is its pricing structure. We are a very young company, thus cost-effectiveness is of paramount importance. Unfortunately, it appears that BambooHR's rates are out of reach for startups like ours.
BambooHR: Simple, Efficient, and User-Friendly
Comments: In general, BambooHR is easy to use, and reliable HR functionality. However, some advanced HR needs may require additional customization or external integrations.
Pros:
the platform is very user friendly, it makes users easy to navigate and find the things that you need. The platform is optimized for quick loading which is very helpful.
Cons:
I didn't like Some of the new upgrades to the view. Bamboo does not have flexible customization options that allow you to tailor the interface to their personal preferences.
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Comments: We have experience several quarks in the system that have brought challenges
Pros:
The capability to build our own reports is nice to have. I use this function a lot!
Cons:
BambooHR has not found a solution to one of our outstanding issues. Currently we have a non-taxable reimbursement that should not be a part of gross income and the system is including it in the summary gross income portion of paystubs. This has caused a lot of issues for employees that apply for government benefits as they typically look at that summary of gross income box to determine if they are eligible for benefits with them
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Comments: 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.
BambooHR Review
Comments: BambooHR is great for keeping track of all employees time off and quarterly reviews.
Pros:
Great way to keep track of people time off and reviews.
Cons:
I hate now you need a security code also to log in.
