Connectors / Integration
Connect 15Five and BambooHR for a Workforce That Actually Stays in Sync
Automate employee data sync between your performance management and HR systems — no manual reconciliation, no stale records.
15Five + BambooHR integration
15Five and BambooHR show up in most modern HR stacks for good reason — 15Five handles continuous performance management and employee engagement, while BambooHR holds the system of record for employee data and HR workflows. But when the two run independently, HR teams end up manually reconciling employee records, hand-adding new hires to performance cycles, and chasing down data across disconnected systems. Integrating 15Five with BambooHR through tray.ai cuts through that friction so employee information flows between both systems automatically — accurate, timely, and actually useful.
Connecting 15Five and BambooHR gives you a unified view of your workforce: core HR data like job titles, departments, and managers living in BambooHR alongside performance check-ins, OKRs, and engagement scores in 15Five. When a new hire appears in BambooHR, they're automatically provisioned in 15Five and dropped into the right performance cycle — no manual setup. When someone changes roles or managers, that update flows into 15Five immediately so reporting structures and check-in relationships don't go stale. The integration cuts HR administrative work, prevents the data inconsistencies that erode manager trust, and means people managers always have the context they need without toggling between platforms or running error-prone manual exports.
Automate & integrate 15Five + BambooHR
Automating 15Five and BambooHR business processes or integrating data is made easy with Tray.ai.
Use case
Automated New Hire Provisioning into 15Five
When a new employee is created in BambooHR, tray.ai automatically provisions them in 15Five with the correct department, manager, and role. New hires get included in performance check-in cycles from day one without HR manually setting up each user. This closes the common gap where employees are onboarded in BambooHR but don't appear in 15Five for days — or weeks.
- New employees enter their first performance cycle on time, which matters more than most teams realize
- HR teams skip hours of manual user setup across both platforms
- Employee data is consistent across HR and performance systems from the moment of hire
Use case
Real-Time Employee Profile Updates Across Systems
When an employee's job title, department, location, or manager changes in BambooHR, tray.ai pushes those updates to 15Five automatically. Performance reporting structures, check-in relationships, and OKR alignments stay accurate without anyone duplicating data entry. Managers see current team compositions and reporting hierarchies in 15Five — not last month's org chart.
- No more mismatched employee data between HR and performance systems
- Manager-employee relationships in 15Five stay accurate after every org change
- Reduces compliance risk from outdated records sitting in performance management workflows
Use case
Automated Offboarding and Deprovisioning
When an employee is marked terminated or inactive in BambooHR, tray.ai deactivates their 15Five account right away — removing them from active performance cycles and check-in workflows without delay. Departed employees stop receiving performance notifications, and you stop paying for their license seat. HR teams no longer need to cross-reference departure dates across multiple systems.
- Immediate deactivation of departed employees across both platforms
- Cuts unnecessary 15Five seat costs for inactive users
- Keeps ex-employees out of active performance workflows
Use case
Syncing Manager Relationships for Accurate Performance Hierarchies
BambooHR is where manager-employee relationships live, but 15Five depends on those same relationships to route check-ins and performance reviews correctly. tray.ai keeps the two in sync so any manager change in BambooHR is reflected in 15Five's reporting structure right away. The right managers get their direct reports' check-ins and review submissions without anyone manually reassigning them.
- Performance reviews and check-ins always route to the correct manager
- No orphaned check-ins when managers transition
- HR admins stop manually updating reporting relationships in two separate systems
Use case
Department and Group Synchronization for Targeted Engagement
15Five uses groups and departments to segment engagement surveys, OKR visibility, and performance cycles. Syncing department data from BambooHR into 15Five via tray.ai means engagement initiatives and performance programs always reach the right employee cohorts — automatically. When employees move between departments in BambooHR, their 15Five group memberships follow.
- Engagement surveys and OKRs reach the correct employee segments every time
- Department-level performance analytics in 15Five reflect accurate headcount
- No manual group management in 15Five after each org restructure
Use case
Performance Data Export to BambooHR for Unified HR Records
Performance signals from 15Five — review completion status, engagement scores, high-five recognitions — can be written back into BambooHR custom fields so HR teams have a full picture of employee health without leaving their HRIS. tray.ai handles this on a scheduled or event-driven basis. HR business partners can pull performance trends alongside compensation history, tenure, and other HR data in one place.
- HR leaders get a complete view of employee performance inside BambooHR
- Performance data feeds into compensation planning and promotion decisions
- Less context-switching for HR business partners managing both systems
Challenges Tray.ai solves
Common obstacles when integrating 15Five and BambooHR — and how Tray.ai handles them.
Challenge
Keeping Employee Records in Sync Across Two Separate Systems
BambooHR and 15Five each maintain their own employee data with no native bi-directional sync. When HR updates records in BambooHR — promotions, manager changes, location shifts — those changes don't flow to 15Five automatically. The result is mismatched data, broken reporting hierarchies, and managers looking at team information that's weeks out of date.
How Tray.ai helps
tray.ai uses real-time, event-driven triggers on BambooHR record changes and maps field values directly to 15Five user attributes. Every update propagates within minutes — no manual exports, no spreadsheet reconciliation.
Challenge
Managing the Full Employee Lifecycle Without Manual Touchpoints
Onboarding and offboarding requires coordinated actions across BambooHR and 15Five, but most HR teams still rely on manual checklists. A new hire missed in 15Five misses their first check-in cycle. A terminated employee left active in 15Five keeps receiving notifications and consuming a paid license seat.
How Tray.ai helps
tray.ai automates the full lifecycle — creating users in 15Five when new hires appear in BambooHR, deactivating accounts the moment a termination is recorded. HR teams get a zero-touch process without having to think about it.
Challenge
Handling Custom Fields and Non-Standard Data Mappings
Every company configures BambooHR and 15Five differently — unique custom fields, department taxonomies, group naming conventions that don't map cleanly out of the box. Standard point-to-point integrations tend to break the moment an organization customizes its HR data model, and then someone has to fix it.
How Tray.ai helps
tray.ai's flexible data mapper lets teams build custom field transformations and conditional logic that translate BambooHR's data structure into exactly what 15Five expects — custom fields, lookup tables, dynamic group assignments — without writing code.
Templates
Pre-built workflows for 15Five and BambooHR you can deploy in minutes.
New Employee in BambooHR → Provision User in 15Five
BambooHR 
15Five This template watches BambooHR for newly created employee records and automatically creates a matching user in 15Five with the right department, manager, location, and role data. The new employee gets enrolled in the appropriate performance group and check-in cycle — no manual HR intervention needed.
BambooHR Employee Update → Sync Profile Changes to 15Five
BambooHR 15Five This template listens for field-level changes on employee records in BambooHR — job title, department, manager, location — and pushes those updates to the matching user profile in 15Five. Both platforms stay in sync without anyone touching a spreadsheet.
BambooHR Termination → Deactivate 15Five User
BambooHR 15Five When an employee's status changes to terminated or inactive in BambooHR, this template deactivates their 15Five account, removes them from active performance cycles, and logs the offboarding action for audit purposes.
15Five Review Completion → Update BambooHR Custom Field
15Five BambooHR Once a performance review cycle closes in 15Five, this template writes the review completion status and summary score back to a designated custom field on the employee's BambooHR profile — giving HR teams a single record of performance data alongside everything else they track.
BambooHR Work Anniversary → Trigger 15Five Milestone Review
BambooHR 15Five This template monitors BambooHR for upcoming employee work anniversaries and automatically initiates a milestone-based performance review or check-in prompt in 15Five ahead of the date — so every employee gets a consistent recognition and reflection moment, not just the ones whose managers remember.
BambooHR Department Sync → Update 15Five Groups
BambooHR 15Five This template runs on a schedule, comparing department memberships between BambooHR and 15Five and automatically adding or removing employees from the right 15Five groups to match the current org structure in BambooHR.
How Tray.ai makes this work
15Five + BambooHR runs on the full Tray.ai platform
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