BambooHR and Tray

BambooHR is your HR system of record, but it doesn’t update or trigger actions across other tools. Tray connects BambooHR with IT, payroll, finance, and collaboration systems to keep employee data accurate and automate onboarding and offboarding.

Tray acts as the integration and governance layer between BambooHR and enterprise systems such as Okta, ServiceNow, and NetSuite. Workflows can run in both directions, update only approved fields, and branch based on roles or regions.

Tray’s AI orchestration platform combines secure infrastructure, cross-system automation, and agent capabilities so HR and IT teams can manage data and processes safely at scale.

With Tray, you can build powerful BambooHR
Automations
set up
Integrations
and
Build Agents
that can take action.

Automations

Automations with Tray and BambooHR

Tray automates how BambooHR connects with your other systems. Employee events such as new hires, updates, or terminations can start workflows that create tickets, sync records, or notify teams across HR, IT, and finance.

Workflows use BambooHR webhooks or scheduled polling to detect changes, manage dependencies like access setup or removal, and keep every system in sync.

Each workflow includes retries, error handling, and sequencing controls so actions happen in the right order without data loss. Logic and approvals ensure sensitive changes, such as salary or access updates, follow policy and remain governed.

Integrations

Integrations with Tray and BambooHR

Tray connects BambooHR with your HR, IT, and finance tools. Integrations keep employee records aligned across systems so every team works from the same source of truth. Tray supports hybrid HR environments where BambooHR can serve as either the source or target alongside systems like Workday, ADP, or other HR and identity platforms. Workflows can extend with HTTP steps for systems not covered by native Tray connectors, giving teams flexibility to integrate specialized tools while keeping governance consistent.

BambooHR integration capabilities

Integrate BambooHR with 700+ applications using the BambooHR connector or any system with an API using Tray’s HTTP connector. Everything you need to automate employee data, onboarding, and offboarding comes standard.

Manage employee data across systems

  • Create and update records: Add new hires, update job titles, and sync personal details
  • Sync key fields: Keep job, department, and manager data current
  • Handle deltas: Process only changed records using timestamps or custom logic
  • Deactivate users: Trigger downstream offboarding workflows when employment ends
  • Attach files: Upload or sync employee documents from connected storage

Build

Build agents with Tray and BambooHR

Tray agents use BambooHR data to help HR and IT teams act directly from chat or web tools. Agents can combine data from BambooHR, Okta, and finance systems to act in context under IT-defined permissions.

Ground agents with relevant knowledge

  • Combine sources: Use BambooHR with identity or finance data for context-aware actions
  • Build a BambooHR data source: Query approved employee and job data through APIs
  • Filter scope: Limit access by department, role, or region
  • Detect changes: Use polling or schedules to capture updates
  • Use company knowledge: Return approved data grounded in internal content and link back to the correct records

FAQs

Yes. Tray integrates through the official BambooHR API using secure authentication and scoped credentials.

What comes standard with Tray

Whether your systems are in the cloud or on-premises, Tray lets you connect to them, automate processes, and deploy agents to take action across your technology stack. Security teams can trust that all connections are managed securely and access is properly governed.

Universal connectivity

  • 700+ prebuilt connectors plus a universal HTTP connector for any REST API.
  • Build custom connectors that behave like native ones.
  • Connect to cloud or on-prem systems.

Learn more about our connectivity options

On-premises connectivity

  • Connect to on-premises systems using Tray, whether they are first-party or third-party.
  • Work around firewalls and SSO providers with flexible connection methods.
  • Support a range of on-premises security protocols to enable secure integration.

Learn more about on-premises connectivity

Authentication management

  • Collect and store sensitive authentications securely with Tray.
  • Encrypt all data at rest to ensure maximum security.
  • Partition authentications into secure workspaces with role-based access control to restrict access.

Learn more about authentication management

Security and governance

  • SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA.
  • Encryption in transit and at rest, detailed audit logs, and least-privilege access via scoped connections and OAuth scopes.

Learn more about security and governance