BambooHR vs. Paylocity Comparison Chart

BambooHR serves organizations of all sizes that need a scalable, people-focused HR platform. It’s ideal for companies looking to simplify and automate everything from hiring and onboarding to performance reviews, payroll, and benefits management. With BambooHR’s intuitive interface and intelligent features, HR teams can streamline their processes and keep the employee experience front and center as they grow.

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BambooHR’s Applicant Tracking System helps you attract, evaluate, and hire top talent quickly. With integrations to leading job boards and social sites, applications appear instantly for review. Easy collaboration tools keep hiring managers aligned, so you can streamline decisions and bring in the right candidates faster.

BambooHR Benefits Administration makes it easy to manage employee benefits for US-based teams. From onboarding elections to annual open enrollment, employees get a clear view of their benefits, and HR gains a simple way to track selections, deductions, and compliance. The result: less complexity for HR and a better experience for employees.

BambooHR helps you create a great employee experience with tools that measure engagement, support growth, and celebrate milestones. From eNPS surveys and feedback tools to performance management and onboarding, BambooHR provides insights that empower leaders to improve culture, boost retention, and make work more meaningful for employees.

BambooHR simplifies global payroll through integrations with trusted international providers such as Deel, Papaya Global, Pento, and Remote. This allows you to manage core HR data in BambooHR while securely syncing payroll information across countries. By connecting your HRIS with global payroll partners, you can reduce complexity, maintain compliance, and ensure accurate, on-time payments to your international workforce.

BambooHR is a complete Human Capital Management (HCM) solution designed to help small and medium-sized businesses manage every stage of the employee lifecycle in one simple, connected system. From hiring and onboarding to payroll, performance, and employee experience, BambooHR centralizes people data so you can make informed decisions and support your workforce with confidence. With built-in reporting, engagement tools, and seamless integrations, BambooHR transforms HR from an administrative function into a strategic driver of growth—helping you attract, retain, and empower your people to do their best work.

BambooHR reporting makes it easy to generate instant, detailed reports on your employee data with just a few clicks. From workforce planning to approval tracking, HR reporting gives you confidence to move forward and data to back up your decisions. When you’re able to analyze HR data instead of just compiling it, you can be proactive instead of reactive and turn your HR department into the strategic resource it was meant to be.

The BambooHR all-in-one platform gives your organization the foundation to build a thriving workplace now and in the future. By uniting solutions, capabilities, and integrations in one secure system, you can directly impact the employee experience while managing tasks, workflows, and data more efficiently—today and as you grow.

BambooHR Onboarding helps new hires feel welcome and productive from day one. With automated checklists, custom welcome emails, and pre-boarding tasks, you can create a consistent, engaging experience. By simplifying paperwork and connecting new hires to their teams, BambooHR ensures every onboarding journey is smooth and memorable.

BambooHR Payroll takes the stress out of payday. By combining a single source of data with comprehensive reporting, full-service tax filing, and responsive support, BambooHR ensures employees are paid accurately and on time. With payroll handled, HR can spend less time worrying about compliance and more time focusing on people.

BambooHR Performance Management transforms traditional, outdated performance reviews into a pain-free, development-focused process. You’ll gain real-time insights into employee growth with our streamlined assessments, 360º feedback, and collaborative goals. Our powerful reporting allows managers to identify top performers, employees who are struggling employees, and spot manager/employee misalignments.

BambooHR makes PTO tracking simple and transparent. Employees can request time off online or through the mobile app, while managers approve with just a click. Automated accruals, balance tracking, and calendar views reduce errors and save time. With everything stored in one place, you’ll always have an accurate, up-to-date picture of employee availability and time-off usage.

BambooHR gives organizations the capacity to grow and change based on the people they bring on board. By casting your hiring net wider with integrations to top job boards and social sites, reviewing candidates the instant they apply, and quickly coordinating with hiring team members, the BambooHR Applicant Tracking System helps HR professionals and hiring managers find, evaluate, and hire the right talent as quickly as possible.

BambooHR gives organizations the capacity to grow and change based on the people they bring on board and how they develop them. With the Applicant Tracking System, HR professionals and hiring managers can find, evaluate, and hire the right talent as quickly as possible. Onboarding features help to create better first days for new hires, and BambooHR Performance Management makes managing employee growth and development a pain-free experience.

BambooHR Time & Attendance makes it easy to track hours worked, overtime, and schedules—all within the same system you use to manage HR and payroll. Employees clock in via web or mobile, while managers review and approve with accuracy and speed. Automated reporting and integrations with payroll ensure that time data flows seamlessly into paychecks, reducing errors and saving valuable admin time.

Time Tracking brings the award-winning BambooHR experience to time entry, approvals and reporting, on the web and on the mobile app. It makes hours worked easy and accurate for employees to record, and simple and fast for their managers to review and approve. With features such as project tracking and geolocation, Time Tracking helps you maintain a productive and cost effective hourly workforce.

Time Tracking brings the award-winning BambooHR experience to time entry, approvals and reporting, on the web and on the mobile app. It makes hours worked easy and accurate for employees to record, and simple and fast for their managers to review and approve. With features such as project tracking and geolocation, Time Tracking helps you maintain a productive and cost effective hourly workforce.

With BambooHR's workforce management capabilities, you can create custom, self-service HR workflows to be more efficient in your decision-making processes as a company and protect the integrity of your data. Eliminate bottlenecks by streamlining your approval processes, paving the way for your company to grow faster.

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