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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Awards & Recognition

BambooHR won the following awards in the Benefits Administration category

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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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97 Plan to Renew

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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.

+92 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
2% Neutral
96% Positive

Pros

  • Respectful
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity

Feature Ratings

Average 83

Benefits Administration

87

Self Service Portal

85

Payroll Integration

84

User and Enrollment Management

84

Contributions and Payment Tracking

82

Archiving and Reporting

81

Claims Management

81

Regulatory Compliance

81

Provider Management

79

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 84

Ease of Implementation

86

Breadth of Features

86

Business Value Created

85

Vendor Support

84

Ease of Data Integration

84

Availability and Quality of Training

84

Ease of IT Administration

84

Quality of Features

83

Ease of Customization

82

Usability and Intuitiveness

82

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

81

BambooHR Reviews

Syeda Q.

  • Role: Human Resources
  • Industry: Consulting
  • Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2025

Friendly HR Powerhouse for Growing

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates BambooHR from other similar products?

its user friendly interface tailored specifically for small to mid-sized businesses, delivering simple yet powerful HR tools without the complexity or enterprise bloat of larger platforms

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I like that it is user friendly and easy to use and its refreshingly intuitive , clean interface makes the HR feel effortless, even for non HR people.

What do you dislike most about this product?

It often force a switch to more enterprising heavy platforms

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Its the one that actually feels like it was built by humans for humans and your whole team will thank you

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Efficient Service
  • Effective Service

Alex R.

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

Submitted Sep 2025

Intuitive and User-Friendly

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates BambooHR from other similar products?

Intuitive and User-Friendly,

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Asset / hardware / IT inventory tracking Better global payroll / benefits administration

What do you dislike most about this product?

Asset / hardware / IT inventory tracking Better global payroll / benefits administration

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

More adacned features

Pros

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

Allan P.

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

Submitted Jul 2025

Zen and the Art of BambooHR Maintenance.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates BambooHR from other similar products?

So let’s talk BambooHR - the platform that’s quietly holding together the beautiful chaos that is our HR department. At first glance, it’s got that spa-day interface: clean, calming, everything where it should be. But under the hood? It’s surprisingly gutsy. What makes BambooHR punchier than the average HR software is how it blends people ops with personality. It’s

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Now, here’s something I keep bragging about: the self-serve portal. This thing basically cut my “Can you send me my pay stub?” emails in half. Folks just log in, poke around their own data, time off balances, job history, even documents like NDAs and contracts. And because marketing people are famously allergic to admin work, the interface had to be intuitive. Luckily, it is. Even our most scatterbrained designer figured it out.

What do you dislike most about this product?

I dislike nothing about BambooHR. It just fits, no issues.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Would I recommend it? Yeah , especially if you’re at a mid-sized agency like us where culture and clarity both matter. If you want something that's more “let’s make HR human again” and less “robot overlord with 57 tabs,” BambooHR is your people-first toolkit.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

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