BambooHR® Time Tracking

If you do not have BambooHR® Time Tracking and are interested in a demo, click here!


Did you know we have a BambooHR Learning course about Time Tracking? Click here to learn more about what is included in this course.

We are giving organizations with hourly employees a new reason to love BambooHR. Time Tracking adds hourly time management and reporting to the award-winning BambooHR experience, which helps reduce payroll errors and compliance risks with straightforward and delightful software that everyone in your organization will enjoy using. Time Tracking includes timesheets for recording hours, reminders, workflows to keep approvals moving, and automatic overtime and holiday pay rates. It exports easily for third-party payroll systems and provides web-based time entry for remote workers. With simple self-service time entry that makes it easy for hourly employees to take responsibility for their attendance, BambooHR Time Tracking sets HR and payroll admins free to address more strategic issues.

BambooHR Time Tracking integrated seamlessly with our Payroll feature. If you have not purchased BambooHR Payroll and are interested in a demo, click here!

A breakdown of features

BambooHR Time Tracking contains the following features:

Timesheets: A record of hours worked during a specific time frame. Timesheets show totals but can also show daily hours and timestamps.

Exporting for Payroll: The ability to export data that could be uploaded or manually inputted into a third-party payroll system.

Approving Hours: A workflow that allows for hours worked to be approved by either a manager or admin. 

Automatic Notifications: Specified time tracking approvers receive notifications automatically to approve time worked or timesheets.

Reporting: A standard report that shows hours worked by employees.

Overtime Calculations: Automatically computed overtime is calculated based on location. (U.S. and Canada Employees only)

Holiday Hours: This detail will be set up in Holiday settings. There you will be able to specify an overtime multiplier for holiday hours worked or set a specific amount of paid hours for employees who do not work holidays. 

Remote Workers: Employees who work remotely can access time tracking and input hours worked (i.e., clock in/clock out, approve hours).

Clock in/out: Employees can clock in when starting a shift and clock out when ending a shift.

Mobile App: Employees can clock in and out directly in BambooHR's mobile app. Approvers receive push notifications when timesheets are ready for approval.

Time Tracking Setup Checklist: We have provided a Time Tracking Setup Checklist for you to make sure that everything gets set up correctly. This checklist helps you make sure that everything is ready to go and start enjoying the many benefits of BambooHR Time Tracking.

Project Tracking: While project tracking is available for all BambooHR customers, only employees with Time Tracking enabled can track project time while adding hours to their timesheet. Knowing where you spend your time is a powerful tool for understanding how long projects take and where you can optimize for the future. If you have clients that you need to charge for their services and have been doing this by hand in spreadsheets, it is now time to stop! We have a report that shows you the billable and non-billable hours for each client, which you can send over to accounting or the client directly.

Time Tracking Groups: If you have different time tracking rules based on department, location, or position, you can easily separate these employees into separate groups. Each group can have its own method of tracking time (start & end times or hours worked), approval workflow, overtime rules, and holiday pay settings.

Geolocation: With an increasingly mobile workforce that uses mobile devices to track time, employers are looking for ways to increase accountability and visibility. Geolocation identifies someone's location when they clock in or out using the BambooHR native iOS and Android mobile apps. 

Do you want a two-week free trial?

Want to test out the full functionality of BambooHR Time Tracking? Existing customers are eligible for a 14-day free trial of BambooHR Time Tracking! 

To start your free trial, navigate to the Time Tracking tab within BambooHR Settings and select the green Try It Out button. You will then be prompted to answer a few quick questions before getting started.  

By selecting the Start Free Trial button, full access to BambooHR Time Tracking will be granted for the trial period. A member of our Expansion Team will work with you to answer questions and provide assistance. You will be redirected to the Time Tracking Setup Checklist to begin. 

At the top of each Time Tracking Settings page, a "Trial" badge will appear with a Subscribe and Cancel Trial button. It will also let you know how many days are left in your trial.

  1. Trial Countdown: This tells you how many days are left in your free trial.
  2. Subscribe: Selecting the Subscribe button will prompt you to request billing info. This will notify our Expansion Team, who will then reach out with more information to finalize the process. When you subscribe, all of the data you've entered during your trial will remain and you will be able to seamlessly continue using BambooHR Time Tracking. 
  3. Cancel Trial: Click button to cancel your time tracking trial.

4. Cancel Trial: You can cancel your trial at any time by selecting the Cancel Trial button. Once selected you will be prompted to download any reports with data collected during the trial period, and asked for a reason for cancelation. This will remove Time Tracking from your account.