Managing your Subscription

Purpose: Master your BambooHR subscription by learning how to upgrade packages, add essential HR services like Payroll and Benefits Administration, and effectively manage your account to meet evolving business needs.


Upgrading Your Account

Upgrading your package
Package overview

BambooHR offers three main plans designed to meet different organizational needs:

  1. Core Plan: This fundamental package provides essential HR features including:  
    • Secure management of employee records  
    • Custom report building  
    • Hiring and onboarding tools (candidate records, job postings to major job boards, email templates)  
    • Time off and benefits tracking with custom policies  
    • Employee experience tools like eNPS and wellbeing surveys  
    • Access to BambooHR Marketplace integrations  
  2. Pro Plan: This plan builds on the Core package with added capabilities to enhance team engagement and performance management:  
    • Secure management of employee records  
    • Custom report building  
    • Hiring and onboarding tools (candidate records, job postings to major job boards, email templates)  
    • Time off and benefits tracking with custom policies  
    • Employee experience tools like eNPS and wellbeing surveys  
    • Access to BambooHR Marketplace integrations  
    • Performance management (360º reviews, 1:1 meetings, instant reporting)  
    • Employee Community for company-wide communication and culture-building  
  3. Elite Plan: This plan includes all Core and Pro features, plus advanced tools focused on compensation and analytics:  
    • Secure management of employee records  
    • Custom report building  
    • Hiring and onboarding tools (candidate records, job postings to major job boards, email templates)  
    • Time off and benefits tracking with custom policies  
    • Employee experience tools like eNPS and wellbeing surveys  
    • Access to BambooHR Marketplace integrations  
    • Performance management (360º reviews, 1:1 meetings, instant reporting)  
    • Employee Community for company-wide communication and culture-building
    • Compensation Management (salary planning, benchmarking, pay bands, pay range visualization)  
    • Advanced Reporting & Insights (custom dashboards, data visualization, curated insights)  
    • HR Benchmarks for comparing metrics such as turnover and eNPS with similar companies  
    • Premium support services including consulting and dedicated onboarding  

For more information about each of these great packages, check out this help guide!

How do I upgrade my package?

In certain situations, an Account Owner can use our self-service upgrade option. Other situations may require you to request a personalized demo with our Expansion team.

To determine if upgrading is the best option for you, refer to this help guide!

Job openings

Only Account Owners will be able to add job openings. If a Full Admin user or billing contact opens the modal and views the Add Job Openings section, they will be directed to have the Account Owner add the job openings.

To purchase additional job openings in BambooHR, you need to be aware that:

  • The number of active job openings you can have is limited by your BambooHR package. For example, the Core package allows up to 5 job openings and the Pro package allows up to 25.
  • If you need more active job openings than your package includes, you can purchase additional job openings in increments of 10 for a fee of $30 per month per increment.

An Account Owner can purchase additional job openings right from their BambooHR account. To do this, navigate to Settings > Account > Account Info > Manage Subscription.

Under My Add-Ons, find Job Postings and click Manage.

At the top of the pop-up, you'll see your total job openings and how many are currently unused.

You can purchase additional job openings in bundles of 10, 20, or 30. Each bundle of 10 costs $30. The total monthly cost for your job openings will be displayed at the bottom of the pop-up.

Once you click "Add Job Openings", the new openings will be immediately available for you to use.

Adding Benefits Administration to your account
Adding Benefits Administration from the Manage Subscription page

To learn more or add Benefits Administration to your account, navigate to Settings > Account > Account Info > Manage Subscription. On the Manage Subscription page, click Learn More next to Benefits Administration under the Available Add-Ons section.

Adding Benefits Administration from Benefits Settings

To learn more or add Benefits Administration to your account, navigate to Settings > Benefits. Click on the Plan Years, Windows, Elections, Carriers, or Carrier PDFs tabs and click Get My Benefits Administration Demo.

You can also learn more from the Plans tab.

Adding Time Tracking to your account
Adding Time Tracking from the Manage Subscription page

To ensure Time Tracking is a good fit for you, we recommend using our free two-week trial. To begin the trial, navigate to Settings > Account > Account Info > Manage Subscription. From the Manage Subscription page, find the Available Add-Ons section and click Learn More next to Time Tracking.

Adding Time Tracking from Time Tracking Settings

We recommend using our free two-week trial before officially adding Time Tracking to your account. After your trial is complete, you will automatically be enrolled in Time Tracking.

Adding Payroll to your account
Adding Payroll from the Manage Subscription page

To learn more about BambooHR Payroll, navigate to Settings > Account > Account Info > Manage Subscription. Under Available Add-Ons, click Learn More.

Adding Payroll from Payroll Settings

To learn more about BambooHR Payroll, navigate to Settings > Account > Account Info > Manage Subscription. On the Manage Subscription page, under the Available Add-Ons section, click Learn More.

Adding Payroll from the Payroll tab

To learn more about BambooHR Payroll, click the Payroll tab on the left side. If you like what you see, click Schedule a Conversation.

Please note, BambooHR Payroll is only available for US-based employees.

Downgrading your account

Cancel an add-on product

You can cancel an add-on product directly from your account. For step-by-step instructions, check out this help guide.

Canceling BambooHR payroll

Before initiating the cancellation process, please read this help guide to understand the resources and information necessary before we part ways!

An Account Owner, Full Admin users, or a billing contact can cancel your BambooHR Payroll add-on. To do this, navigate to Settings > Payroll > Company Information. Then, click the action menu and select Cancel Payroll.

Canceling your BambooHR account

Only the Account Owner, Full Admin users, or billing contacts can submit a cancellation request. To learn how to do this, check out this help guide.

Remove or adjust job openings

If you have purchased additional job openings, the Account Owner or a Full Admin user can remove those on the Manage Subscription page. For help doing this, check out this help guide.

Extra storage

If you have purchased additional job openings, the Account Owner or a Full Admin user can remove those on the Manage Subscription page. For help doing this, check out this help guide.

Exporting data

If you have cancelled your BambooHR account, we offer a one-time complimentary export of certain data and documents. To learn more about what this includes, check out this help guide.