Sage HR vs BambooHR

Sage HR gives you core HR and leave management as standard at R28 per employee a month and charges for each extra module: Timesheets and Performance at R14 and Expenses at R10 per employee a month. The pricing page also shows a calculator, so run it with your headcount and the modules you want. BambooHR's page is more direct: Core at about R167, Pro at about R284 and Elite at about R418 per employee per month for more than 25 employees, and flat monthly rates for companies of 25 or fewer of about R4 180, R7 110 and R10 870.

For a team of fifteen, BambooHR's Core flat rate of about R4 180 a month works out to about R280 per person, which is higher than its per employee rate for larger companies.

Both cover employee records and time off. Sage HR's modules add performance with goals, one to ones and 360 feedback, shift scheduling, timesheets, expenses submitted from a mobile app and recruitment with job ads and an applicant pipeline. BambooHR's tiers add hiring and onboarding in Core, performance management with 360 reviews and recognition in Pro, and compensation management, custom dashboards and over 300 compliance training courses in Elite.

Sage HR is sold by Sage South Africa with a rand pricing page, and Sage's payroll pages describe leave managed under the BCEA. The HR pricing page does not detail leave rules, so ask how family responsibility and maternity leave are configured. BambooHR makes no South African claims and limits payroll and benefits to US employees, so a South African business would use it for HR records only.

Sage HR's trial lets you use demo data or your own employee information for 30 days with no credit card.

Sage HR's calculator makes quick comparison harder and payroll sits outside it. BambooHR restricts payroll to the US and says nothing about South African compliance.