BambooHR offers two paid pricing plans. Overall, the two plans offer a decent service for small businesses, but they have different features that could influence the choice of your payroll plan.

Essential Plan:

This plan is designed for small businesses and start-ups. Although you require a quote request to get an actual price for this package, a majority of users have reported that it starts from $19.95 per employee per month. BambooHR offers discounts on quantity. So, if you have a large number of employees, the cost could be lower.

Advantage Plan:

The Advantage Plan is designed for growing businesses. This plan also includes a dedicated payroll specialist to ensure smooth and efficient payroll operations. Like the Essential Plan, the Advantage Plan requires a quote request. However, users have reported paying as much as $49.95 per employee per month on the Advantage Plan.

It also offers add-ons for payroll, performance management and time-tracking features at an additional cost available in their app marketplace.

BambooHR is a US-based software company established in 2008 by Ryan Sanders and Ben Peterson, headquartered in Lindon, Utah. With over 1,000 employees and serving over 26,000 companies across 50 countries, BambooHR is dedicated to assisting small and medium-sized businesses by simplifying HR tasks and freeing up time for more important aspects of business building and personal rejuvenation. Additionally, BambooHR offers a robust payroll solution, further streamlining HR and payroll management for its users.

Payroll Processing

BambooHR’s payroll processing feature streamlines the entire payroll process, from calculating salaries and deductions to making direct deposits and filing taxes. This automation eliminates the need for manual data entry, reducing the risk of errors and saving businesses time and effort.

With BambooHR’s payroll processing, businesses can easily manage payroll for their employees, ensuring accurate and timely payroll processing and payments. The feature integrates with the employee database, allowing for seamless and efficient payroll management, and it also provides businesses with a range of flexible payroll options, including custom earnings and deductions, check printing, and garnishment processing. Additionally, BambooHR’s payroll processing feature is designed to meet compliance requirements, ensuring that businesses remain compliant with local and federal regulations.

Time and Attendance Tracking

The feature integrates with the employee database, allowing employees to log their time and attendance directly from the platform, eliminating the need for manual data entry. This makes it easy for businesses to track and manage employee schedules, approve time off requests, and monitor attendance in real time.

BambooHR also provides businesses with advanced scheduling capabilities, including shift scheduling, time tracking, and time off accruals. Additionally, the time and attendance tracking feature provide businesses with the ability to generate detailed reports and analytics, allowing them to gain insights into employee attendance patterns, approve time off requests, and manage schedules effectively. /h3>

BambooHR provides businesses with real-time data and insights through its reporting and analytics features, allowing them to track key HR metrics and make informed decisions.

BambooHR launched its app marketplace in 2017 for developers to create and sell add-on apps that can make HR management even easier for users. So far, the marketplace now boasts over 1,300 applications that work seamlessly with BambooHR software. However, with the BambooHR API, some integrations are worthy of note.

Payroll

BambooHR’s API and app marketplace allow integrations with several payroll service providers. Even though it offers its own payroll service to its users, it leaves the floor open to those that prefer to stick with a previously trusted provider through app integrations.

Benefit administration

You can administer and manage employee benefits in real time with app integration on BambooHR. It allows integration with Ease, Maxwell Health, and even Paychex’s Benetrac.

Performance management

You can also track and manage your employees’ performances with the several apps that BambooHR integrates with. Most of these apps provide customizable performance tracking frameworks that HR managers can use to set performance goals for employees and keep track. Considering how important individual employee performance is to a company’s growth, this integration is hard to pass.

One of BambooHR’s unique selling propositions is its ease of use. The setup process is as simple as they get. The company offers a 7-day free trial period. However, this trial starts as a demo to help you understand how it works. The entire system is prefilled with random data when you sign up. You can choose to keep navigating in Demo mode or clear all prefilled data to replace them with yours. However, after the 7-day trial period elapses, you might lose all the information you provided. Therefore, it’s best to back up your data somewhere else before you make the final step to sign up. Regarding the interface, I find it really intuitive and easy to use. The designs are simple and not overwhelming. So, you don’t have to worry about confusing UX.