Your clients' HR system should share a database with their benefits.
BambooHR is a clean, well-designed HRIS for small companies. It's generally the best call when the broker's client picks their own HRIS. But it's priced per-EE, it's not white-label, and it doesn't share a database with anything the broker runs.
Atlas is the right call if any of these is true.
- You want to offer HRIS as a white-labeled service alongside your ben-admin offering, not refer clients to BambooHR.
- Your clients' HR admins complain about maintaining employee data in two places (BambooHR + Employee Navigator).
- BambooHR's per-EE pricing is out of band for your smaller clients (25–100 EEs).
- You want offboarding to auto-trigger COBRA and terminate benefits enrollment — BambooHR needs a vendor-integration for that.
- Your clients want payroll + HRIS + benefits on one bill from their broker, not three separate SaaS invoices.
We’re not trying to be everything.
- BambooHR's UX is polished and loved by HR admins who have used it for years.
- Rich integrations ecosystem (Slack, Greenhouse, hundreds of HR-specific tools). Atlas integrations are narrower.
- Goodhire for background checks, BambooHR Performance — ancillary features Atlas deliberately doesn’t compete on.
Dimension by dimension.
| Dimension | Atlas | BambooHR |
|---|---|---|
| Branding | White-label to your agency | BambooHR brand visible |
| Pricing | Per-agency flat + small per-EE for Ben Admin surfaces | Per-EE per-month |
| Employee directory | Shared with Ben Admin | Requires sync / manual re-entry |
| PTO module | Built in, edge-case aware (tiered accrual, unlimited reporting, half-day) | Built in (mature) |
| Offboarding → COBRA | Auto-triggered | Manual / vendor-integration |
| Payroll integration | Gusto, Rippling, QuickBooks, Paylocity | Gusto, Rippling, ADP, Paychex, many more |
| Performance / ATS | Integrates w/ specialists | Built-in (BambooHR Performance / Hiring) |
| Best fit for broker | Agency offers HRIS as white-label to clients | Client buys HRIS directly; broker refers |
Five specific differences that add up to a category shift.
- 01
White-labeled to your agency — your domain, logo, colors. The client’s employees log into your brand, not BambooHR.
- 02
Shares one employee directory with Ben Admin. Add a dependent in HRIS and the benefits team doesn’t need to re-enter.
- 03
Offboarding auto-triggers COBRA (Atlas COBRA module), terminates benefits enrollment (Ben Admin), and generates the final-paycheck input for payroll in one flow.
- 04
Per-agency-seat pricing on the base HRIS, with a small per-EE component only for Ben Admin surfaces. Works economically at 25 EEs and at 500.
- 05
Focused on mid-market (10–500 EEs). Not building performance reviews, applicant tracking, or background-check UI — integrates with specialists for those.
How the switch actually works.
Migration from BambooHR to Atlas HRIS is 1-2 weeks per client. BambooHR exports employee records, PTO balances, and docs to CSV. Atlas Ben Admin picks up benefit elections from the carrier file. Employees re-log in with your agency's magic-link flow on day 1 of cutover.
Bring a real renewal. We’ll show you Atlas running on it.
15 minutes. No deck, no gated roadmap. We’ll use your actual client data so the comparison is concrete, not hypothetical.
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