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Trigger on event
- Listen for a new event
- Parse and validate the payload
- Take an action with the linked tool
BambooHR
41 tools available
BambooHR is a cloud-based human resources management system (HRMS) that helps businesses manage their employees, payroll, and benefits.
Connect BambooHR to Definable to automate repetitive tasks, sync data with the rest of your stack, trigger on real-world events. Personas call BambooHR's 41 tools directly from chat or scheduled flows. You can wire it into any persona to read, write, and react when an event fires.
Common workflows with BambooHR
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Daily summary
- Pull yesterday's activity
- Summarise with the model of your choice
- Send the digest via email or Slack
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Cross-tool sync
- Read records from one app
- Transform with a persona
- Write the result back via this integration
BambooHR actions 41
Every BambooHR action below is a callable tool any Definable persona can invoke.
Create Candidate Application
Tool to create a candidate application. Use when adding a new applicant to a specific job opening in BambooHR ATS.
Create Job Opening
Tool to create a new job opening in BambooHR ATS. Use when you need to open a new job for applicants.
List Job Applications
Tool to list job applications with optional filters. Use when retrieving ATS applications for reporting or integration.
Get Benefit Coverages
Tool to retrieve standard benefit coverage options. Use when you need to fetch all or specific coverages before configuring benefit plans.
Get Member Benefit Events
Tool to list member benefit events. Use when you need to fetch all benefit events visible to the authenticated user.
Get Company EINs
Tool to retrieve company Employer Identification Numbers (EINs). Use when you need to fetch your account's EINs after authenticating.
Get Company Information
Tool to retrieve company information. Use when you need details about the current account's settings.
Create File Category
Tool to create new company file categories. Use when organizing company files by adding new categories after confirming desired names.
Create Time Off Request
Tool to submit a new time off request. Use after confirming employee ID and valid payload.
List Datasets
Tool to list available datasets via the Datasets API. Use when you need to discover available dataset schemas before querying data.
Create Employee Dependent
Tool to add a dependent to an employee. Use when a new dependent needs to be recorded for benefits or HR tracking. Ensure the employee record exists before calling this tool.
Get All Employee Dependents
Tool to retrieve all employee dependents. Use after ensuring your API key has access to benefit settings.
Create Employee
Tool to create a new employee record. Use when adding employees via BambooHR API. Returns the new employee's ID.
Create Employee File Category
Tool to create new employee file categories. Use when organizing employee files by adding new categories after confirming desired names.
Get Changed Employees
Tool to get employees inserted, updated, or deleted since a given timestamp. Use when fetching incremental HR changes.
List Company Files
Tool to list company file categories and their files. Use when you need to retrieve all company files organized by category after confirming file inventory exists.
Upload Company File
Tool to upload a new company file. Use when you need to add a file to BambooHR after confirming its category and share settings.
Get All Employees
Retrieves all employees from the BambooHR employee directory including their basic information and status.
Get Applicant Statuses
Tool to retrieve applicant statuses. Use when you need to list ATS statuses for your company; requires ATS settings access.
Get Custom Employee Fields
Tool to fetch custom employee field values. Use when you need to retrieve only custom fields for all employees.
Run Custom Report
Tool to run a custom report by ID or ad-hoc fields. Use when you need to execute a saved report or generate an ad-hoc report and retrieve its results in JSON or file format.
Get Employee
Tool to retrieve detailed information for a specific employee. Use when you need individual employee data by ID.
Get Employee Photo
Tool to retrieve an employee's profile photo by size. Use when you need to download the image binary for the specified employee after confirming their ID.
Get Hiring Leads
Tool to retrieve potential hiring leads (employees who can manage job openings) for use in creating a new job opening. The API key owner must have access to ATS settings.
Get Job Summaries
Tool to retrieve a list of ATS job summaries. Use when you need an overview of all job postings and their key details.
Get Departments Metadata
Tool to list department metadata. Use after needing all available department codes and names.
Get Meta Divisions
Tool to list all division metadata. Use after authenticating to fetch the account's divisions.
List Employment Status Metadata
Tool to list all employment status metadata. Use when you need all defined employment statuses for the company.
Get Meta Job Titles
Tool to retrieve job title metadata. Uses the list-field metadata endpoint and extracts the options for the `jobTitle` field.
Get Meta Locations
Tool to list location metadata. Use when you need all configured company locations for lookups.
Get Time-Off Types Metadata
Tool to list time-off type metadata. Use when you need to discover available time-off types before creating time-off requests.
Get Report
Tool to fetch a built-in or published report in JSON or other formats. Use when you need to retrieve report data or download report files after specifying the report ID and desired output format.
Get Time-Off Balances
Tool to retrieve time-off balances for employees. Use when you need current balances across your team.
Get Time-Off Requests
Tool to list time-off requests within a date range. Use after confirming start and end dates; supports optional filters for status, employee, and time off type.
List Company Reports
Tool to list all available company and custom reports. Use after confirming account setup. Requires 'report' scope for OAuth or an API key with report access permissions.
Get Country Options
Tool to retrieve all available country options. Use when you need a complete list of selectable countries before updating or validating country fields.
Get List Field Details
Tool to get details for all list fields. Use when you need to discover list field options before using them.
Get Tabular Fields Metadata
Tool to list tabular table fields metadata. Use when you need standard table structures before accessing table rows.
Get Users
Tool to list active users with basic info. Use when you need to retrieve current users' IDs, names, and emails.
Update Employee
Tool to update fields on a specified employee record. Use when you need to modify employee properties via BambooHR API after confirming the target employee ID. Example: "Update employee 12345's department to Sales".
Update Time Off Request
Tool to update the status of an existing time-off request. Use when you need to approve, deny, or cancel a request after reviewing it. Example: "Approve time-off request 12345".
Async Interview
Async Interview is an on-demand video interview platform that streamlines the hiring process by allowing candidates to respond to pre-recorded questions at their convenience, enabling employers to review responses asynchronously.
Breathe HR
BreatheHR is a simple, cloud-based HR software designed for SMEs to manage employee records, absences, performance reviews, and other HR processes.
Connecteam
Connecteam is a comprehensive workforce management platform designed to streamline operations, enhance communication, and improve HR processes for deskless teams.
Gusto
Modern payroll, benefits, and HR management platform for small and medium businesses
SAP SuccessFactors
Cloud-based human capital management software covering Employee Central, Recruiting, Performance & Goals, Learning, Compensation, and more.
Talenthr
TalentHR is an intuitive, all-in-one HR tool designed to streamline HR operations for businesses.
Frequently asked questions
What can I automate with BambooHR on Definable?
Anything BambooHR exposes through its API. Common human resources workflows on Definable include automate repetitive tasks, sync data with the rest of your stack, trigger on real-world events. Personas can call any of the 41 BambooHR tools directly, then chain the result into another integration without you writing code.
How does BambooHR authentication work?
BambooHR uses OAUTH2, API_KEY on Definable. You connect once from the integrations page, scoped to the permissions you choose, and from then on any persona that has the integration enabled can act on your behalf. Tokens are encrypted at rest and rotated automatically.
Is the BambooHR integration included in my Definable plan?
Yes — every Definable plan, including Starter, includes access to all 41 BambooHR tools. You only need a separate BambooHR subscription if BambooHR itself charges per seat or per API call.
Is using BambooHR through Definable secure?
Every call from a persona to BambooHR is logged with the user, persona, prompt, and response. Tokens never leave Definable's secrets vault, scopes are configurable per persona, and you can revoke access at any time from the integration page.
How do I get started with BambooHR on Definable?
Sign up for Definable, open the integrations page, find BambooHR, and connect via OAuth or API key. You can immediately attach BambooHR to any persona and start running workflows. The free Starter plan includes 5,000 credits/month.
What BambooHR actions does Definable expose?
Definable exposes all 41 BambooHR actions as callable tools — including `Create Candidate Application`, `Create Job Opening`, `List Job Applications`, plus 38 more. Each tool gets a typed parameter schema so personas know exactly how to call it.
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