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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    BambooHR®

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ABambooHR is an cloud-based human resources solution that provides onboarding, payroll, and benefits management. It also offers automated time-off management and employee self-service.

    $250

    per month

    Justworks

    Score5.7 out of 10
    N/AJustworks offers a platform for payroll, benefits, compliance support, with HR tools. As a Professional Employer Organization (PEO), Justworks offers PEO solutions that can bundle payroll, compliance, HR, and benefits under the Justworks umbrella, and help to administer employment-related responsibilities on the user's behalf. With Justworks' group buying power, customers can get access to PEO health insurance and other perks at more affordable rates. The vendor states that as a…

    $59

    per month per user

    Pricing
    BambooHR®Justworks
    Editions & Modules
    Core
    $250
    per month
    Pro
    Contact Sales
    per month
    Elite
    Contact Sales
    per month
    Basic
    $59
    per month per user
    Plus
    $99
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    BambooHR®Justworks
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional Details——
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    BambooHR®Justworks
    Considered Both Products
    BambooHR
    Chose BambooHR®
    Onboarding/offboarding is a much better workflow in BambooHR. Timesheet entry, as well as document retention, is also preferred in BambooHR. We use the different platforms for different reasons. It appears that BambooHR has additional capabilities that we have not learned …
    Incentivized
    Justworks
    Chose Justworks
    Justworks was more cost effective for what we most needed for our business.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    94%
    Would buy again
    190 Answers
    88%
    Would buy again
    21 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    167 Answers
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    21 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    188 Answers
    92%
    Happy with the feature set
    22 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    91%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    117 Answers
    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    17 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    130 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    19 Answers
    Features
    BambooHR®Justworks
    Human Resource Management
    Comparison of Human Resource Management features of BambooHR® and Justworks
    Feature
    BambooHR®
    7.5
    201 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Justworks
    -
    Ratings
    Employee demographic data8.1178 Ratings00 Ratings
    Employment history7.7182 Ratings00 Ratings
    Job profiles and administration7.9177 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.7.4168 Ratings00 Ratings
    Organizational charting6.6184 Ratings00 Ratings
    Organization and location management8.0174 Ratings00 Ratings
    Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)7.097 Ratings00 Ratings
    Payroll Management
    Comparison of Payroll Management features of BambooHR® and Justworks
    Feature
    BambooHR®
    6.5
    129 Ratings
    20% below category average
    Justworks
    -
    Ratings
    Pay calculation7.390 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for external payroll vendors5.767 Ratings00 Ratings
    Off-cycle/On-Demand payment6.063 Ratings00 Ratings
    Benefit plan administration5.798 Ratings00 Ratings
    Direct deposit files7.094 Ratings00 Ratings
    Salary revision and increment management7.8102 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reimbursement management6.158 Ratings00 Ratings
    Leave and Attendance Management
    Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of BambooHR® and Justworks
    Feature
    BambooHR®
    8.7
    173 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Justworks
    -
    Ratings
    Approval workflow8.4169 Ratings00 Ratings
    Balance details8.5160 Ratings00 Ratings
    Annual carry-forward and encashment9.3128 Ratings00 Ratings
    Employee Self Service
    Comparison of Employee Self Service features of BambooHR® and Justworks
    Feature
    BambooHR®
    8.0
    194 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Justworks
    -
    Ratings
    View and generate pay and benefit information7.6123 Ratings00 Ratings
    Update personal information8.8192 Ratings00 Ratings
    View company policy documentation8.1164 Ratings00 Ratings
    Employee recognition7.1120 Ratings00 Ratings
    View job history8.2182 Ratings00 Ratings
    Asset Management
    Comparison of Asset Management features of BambooHR® and Justworks
    Feature
    BambooHR®
    9.2
    74 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Justworks
    -
    Ratings
    Tracking of all physical assets9.274 Ratings00 Ratings
    HR Reporting
    Comparison of HR Reporting features of BambooHR® and Justworks
    Feature
    BambooHR®
    6.7
    163 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Justworks
    -
    Ratings
    Report builder6.5157 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-built reports6.9155 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ability to combine HR data with external data6.7106 Ratings00 Ratings
    Onboarding
    Comparison of Onboarding features of BambooHR® and Justworks
    Feature
    BambooHR®
    7.6
    166 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Justworks
    -
    Ratings
    New hire portal8.0160 Ratings00 Ratings
    Manager tracking tools7.2147 Ratings00 Ratings
    Performance and Goals
    Comparison of Performance and Goals features of BambooHR® and Justworks
    Feature
    BambooHR®
    7.4
    106 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Justworks
    -
    Ratings
    Corporate goal setting6.673 Ratings00 Ratings
    Individual goal setting7.3101 Ratings00 Ratings
    Line-of sight-visibility9.267 Ratings00 Ratings
    Performance tracking6.794 Ratings00 Ratings
    Performance Management
    Comparison of Performance Management features of BambooHR® and Justworks
    Feature
    BambooHR®
    7.5
    118 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Justworks
    -
    Ratings
    Performance plans6.8106 Ratings00 Ratings
    Performance improvement plans6.789 Ratings00 Ratings
    Review status tracking8.695 Ratings00 Ratings
    Review reminders8.099 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple review frequency7.3100 Ratings00 Ratings
    Succession Planning
    Comparison of Succession Planning features of BambooHR® and Justworks
    Feature
    BambooHR®
    9.2
    80 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Justworks
    -
    Ratings
    Create succession plans/pools9.146 Ratings00 Ratings
    Candidate ranking9.166 Ratings00 Ratings
    Candidate search9.167 Ratings00 Ratings
    Candidate development9.458 Ratings00 Ratings
    Recruiting / ATS
    Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of BambooHR® and Justworks
    Feature
    BambooHR®
    7.8
    137 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Justworks
    -
    Ratings
    Job Requisition Management7.3103 Ratings00 Ratings
    Company Website Posting7.3113 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publish to Social Media9.490 Ratings00 Ratings
    Job Search Site Posting7.2108 Ratings00 Ratings
    Duplicate Candidate Prevention7.687 Ratings00 Ratings
    Applicant Tracking7.9126 Ratings00 Ratings
    Notifications and Alerts8.0128 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    BambooHR®Justworks
    Small Businesses
    Zoho People
    Score8.4 out of 10
    ADP TotalSource
    Score4.9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Zoho People
    Score8.4 out of 10
    ADP TotalSource
    Score4.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    PeopleStrong
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    BambooHR®Justworks
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (206 ratings)
    4.5
    (58 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.9
    (15 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.2
    (133 ratings)
    4.8
    (2 ratings)
    Availability
    9.3
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.7
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.8
    (107 ratings)
    9.7
    (8 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.2
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.6
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.7
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.4
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.6
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.9
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.2
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.9
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    BambooHR®Justworks
    Likelihood to Recommend
    BambooHR
    I think if you're a small organization and you're trying to get out of paper, this is a really good first step to doing that. I've heard from other people that are in larger organizations where they have thousands of employees that there may be better platforms, but for smaller organization it's awesome.
    Incentivized
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    Justworks
    Justworks is a competitively priced product for small businesses and start-ups and, in my opinion, offers a better product and better customer service than larger PEOs competing in the same small-buisiness space (ex. ADP). I believe Justworks would work well for companies up to 200 employees; after that, I believe a bigger PEO may provide an enterprise solution better suited for a larger company (and their HR reporting needs)
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    BambooHR
    • Recruiting- communications are easy for both the internal team and candidates
    • Onboarding- the onboarding tasks are great. I love being able to attach documents as well as delay sending out tasks
    • Communication- the employee community is a great tool to keep our communications clean and organized. I love that we now have insight as to who has viewed the comms
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    Justworks
    • Onboarding employees on their first day. We use Justworks to set up the employee calculate the first payroll, and perform the I9 employment verification. The process is seamless and all can be done electronically and automated which makes it very simple
    • Payroll processing. Justworks automatically calculates the payroll earnings, related taxes and withholdings and will automatically withdraw and deposit the funds. This is a seamless experience
    • Customer Service. Justworks is incredibly responsive and helpful. HR related issues can be a nightmare but Justworks make it easier and more efficient since they are always on call to answer your questions and make life easier.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    BambooHR
    • BambooHR® has moved their offerings to a tiered package approach that groups features together at different tier and price levels. To gain access to a specific feature, you may need to upgrade to a whole new tier that includes additional features you may not be interested in. I would prefer being able to add-on one specific feature when needed.
    Incentivized
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    Justworks
    • JustWorks couldn't accurately track our PTO. We use an accrual system that maxes out at 88 hours. We incentivise our employees with additional PTO hours based off of goals met. The JustWorks platform allowed our employees to accrue far more PTO than what was offered. They didn't have a feature that offered a Cap and accrual.
    • When using the JustWorks reports for 401K, if not using their integrated 401K provider, the reports give you every employee regardless of whether or not they contribute. This makes it difficult when adding the contributions in separately.
    • JustWorks tracks historical data for employees. Whenever there is a salary change made, it keeps track. However, it shows a salary adjustment made on the day they are entered into JustWorks which can be very confusing. We switched from another PEO mid year and it looked like I made salary changes on the beginning date. This made it difficult to differentiate an actual salary adjustment.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    BambooHR
    There's nothing wrong with this platform. I would recommend it to any business starting with more than 10 employees. I will continue to use the program for as long as I need to, hoping they continue being tremendous and finding other ways to incorporate more technology.
    Incentivized
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    Justworks
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    BambooHR
    It's clear and well appointed with prompts on where to go for each category of information it holds. The user has limited access based on a need to know/job related basis. It has a clear help option with the ability to chat, email or read documentation on how to do something.
    Incentivized
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    Justworks
    Justworks is a really good platform for payroll and even vendor payments. There are some areas of improvement that Justworks could make in the area of bulk processing, to decrease administrative time as well as reporting. There are no reports we currently use from the Justworks platform as we have not found them useful.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    BambooHR
    Yes, there is a huge team in the back of the online platform or it looks like it because I have never been left without an answer when I have a question or waiting from a response on my chat .... There must be a huge team, this is so great and I always seem to have someone that is very knowledgeable too. So many times in the past I had to leave with customer service that would connect you with someone else because of the expertise, here everyone seems to be some kind of an expert in the HR function.
    Incentivized
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    Justworks
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    BambooHR
    I love BambooHR. Reports are easy to run and download and it usually covers any types of requests I get from the management team. You get excel or .csv downloads/reports and it is fast and simple, not too crowded so it is easy to read through. We don't integrate the tool yet but again, soon we will. we just did not had the time to utilize it yet but that's the plan.
    Incentivized
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    Justworks
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    BambooHR
    10/10. The absolute best. I never dread contacting support. I know the team will be quick and helpful. It is so easy, that sometimes I skip straight to contacting support instead of trying to find help articles. They are faster than me trying to figure it out on my own!
    Incentivized
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    Justworks
    Justworks offers many different options for customer service. You can contact them via email, phone or Slack. They are quick to resolve issues and if your Account Manager is out of office, they have other Managers covering your account who are knowledgable and ready to support. They also have an office in New York, which makes their support even more localized.
    Incentivized
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    In-Person Training
    BambooHR
    I didn't have in-person training besides teaching my managers how to use the program. However, I couldn't omit this question (maybe a system glitch).
    Incentivized
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    Justworks
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    BambooHR
    As far as I can recall, everything went well with doing it online and got questions answered. Was thankful to work with a dummy file to get used to some practices prior to getting our own domain within bamboo to then place our personnel information in the system, this helped a lot!
    Incentivized
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    Justworks
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    BambooHR
    BambooHR's initial implementation team was amazing. We loved having a dedicated person we could call, email or speak to during the entire process. I feel that's so important when you are new to a software. Our process was time consuming, but well worth the final product.
    Incentivized
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    Justworks
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    BambooHR
    BambooHR® was able to provide excellent value for money when compared to the other options we looked at when we carried out a review of them. A previous member of the team had also used BambooHR® at another company and rated them highly which influenced our decision greatly. The demo also showed BambooHR® was able to carry out all of the tasks we were looking for
    Incentivized
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    Justworks
    Justworks is a much simpler platform with better pricing. I remember ADP's cost was tied to a certain percentage of the total payroll, which is not ideal if you have highly compensated employees. Though ADP offered more ancillary benefit options and group employee discounts, we feel Justworks suffices and meets our daily HR needs.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    BambooHR
    Since my organization has dropped with employees, I always find ways to reduce costs. I thought there would be a cheaper option, but I was glad that my package included a lot for the price, and downgrading would cost more. The rep could have let me downgraded and taken me to a higher package. I am thankful that didn't happen.
    Incentivized
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    Justworks
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    BambooHR
    There is so much you can do with this platform, it is incredible and so welcoming. We don't utilize it 100% yet just because we are growing and the HR team has not been able to concentrate on other areas offered to us but but we will soon. Which is also why we got the product, specifically because what BambooHR can do to help us meet our growing business needs.
    Incentivized
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    Justworks
    No answers on this topic
    Professional Services
    BambooHR
    VERY professional!
    Incentivized
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    Justworks
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    BambooHR
    • Time Savings: Automating onboarding, payroll, and employee record management has cut HR admin time by up to 30%, allowing teams to focus on strategic initiatives instead of paperwork.
    • Improved Onboarding: Streamlined workflows have cut onboarding time by nearly 50%, ensuring new hires are productive faster, reducing turnover risk in the critical first months.
    • - Enhanced Informational Clarity: Centralized employee data means fewer errors and faster access to essential information, reducing compliance risks and increasing accuracy in reporting.
    Incentivized
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    Justworks
    • We're still new to Justworks, but for nearly everyone on our team, this is the dealmaker. Benefits plans are worth more than salaries to the best hires.In fact, part of the process we used to choose Justworks was to send their offering, in advance, to our team to approve of, first.
    • Dealmaker for great hires!
    • Financial security for their families!
    • Compliance management.
    Incentivized
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