Integrating with BambooHR

Connect your Workable and BambooHR accounts to seamlessly export candidate information to your Bamboo account. When you hire a candidate, their details are transferred to Bamboo as a new employee.

 

Setting up the integration

To start, log in to Workable as a Super Admin:

1. Click your profile icon in the upper right, click on Settings and navigate to Integrations > Apps
2. Under HR Information Systems click on BambooHR
3. Enter the subdomain for your BambooHR account (it is the first part of the URL you use when you access your BambooHR account, for example in https://my_company.bamboohr.com, your subdomain would be my_company)
   
4. Click Connect Workable with BambooHR.❗The account used to connect BambooHR to Workable should be an admin account.

 

Field export and mapping

Candidate information exported to Bamboo:

• Personal email address (required for export)
• Photo or avatar (depending on your account settings)
• First name
• Last name
• Job title *
• Job location *
• Top-level department *
• Sub-department *
• Personal phone number
• Gender (EEO enabled accounts only)
• Ethnicity (EEO enabled accounts only)
• Candidate resume
• Start Date / Hire Date
• Copy of offer letter PDF (if signed by the candidate)
  Note: Offer letters are exported to the ‘Signed Documents’ folder so some members might not have access to them. 
• Requisition or offer salary *
• Requisition hiring manager *

🔍 Looking to export more info?

Contact your Workable point of contact for assistance mapping other Workable data (e.g., custom fields) into BambooHR (available only for Standard Annual and Premier).

❗Pay extra attention to the field mapping. Fields that do not match between Workable and BambooHR won't be included in BambooHR records.

Bamboo field	Workable field	Note
Pay rate	Requisition or offer salary	Only the salary amount is passed. Offer salary takes precedence, if available, over the requisition salary. Frequency Frequency is not passed to Bamboo HR, but the frequency used in Bamboo Pay rates should match that of the requisition/offer.  Currency Currency is also not passed and the default will be applied to Bamboo HR.
Department	Job sub-department	The departments defined in Bamboo should match the Workable sub-departments.
Division	Job top-level department	The divisions defined in Bamboo should match the Workable top-level departments.
Job title	Job title	The job titles defined in Bamboo should match the job titles in Workable.
Location	Job location	The locations defined in Bamboo should match the job locations in Workable.
Reporting to	Requisition Hiring Manager	An employee record in Bamboo should exist with the same name as the Workable member name of the Requisition Hiring Manager.

Exporting candidates to BambooHR

Auto-export; In the Integrations section of your account, under Bamboo, there is an option to enable auto-export for hired candidates. When this switch is set to ON, any candidate who is moved to a Hired stage in your pipeline will automatically have their details sent to Bamboo.

Manual export; When the auto-export switch is set to OFF, you'll need to manually export candidates to Bamboo. A button will appear in the toolbar for candidates in the Hired stage. Click this button to send the candidate's details to Bamboo.

The candidate export can only be performed one time. Updates made in Workable after the export will not be synced. Instead, the candidate's details in Bamboo should be manually updated.

The candidates must have their personal email address entered on their Workable profile in order to be successfully exported.