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Migrating your data from BambooHR

Written by Ben Feldman
Updated over 4 months ago

To export the data from Bamboo, we require 4 reports that can be easily exported from their reports.

To go to the reports, click reports on the left pane and then go into custom report -> new report

The first report should be all the info that is important to you, except job and history data ( as we will include this in a separate report.

We recommend the following fields

  • First Name

  • Last Name

  • Email Address

  • Phone Number

  • Date of Birth

  • Gender

  • Personal Email

  • Nationality

  • Employee ID

  • National ID

  • Passport Number

  • NI Number

  • SSN

  • Address (First Line)

  • City State/Province

  • Zip Code

  • Emergency Contact Full Name

  • Emergency Contact Relationship

  • Emergency Contact Phone Number

  • Start Date

  • Termination Date

  • Termination Reason

Next, you can export the job history. Here, the email address of the employee and the effective date is critical - the rest is up to you and the data that you'd like to store

Its important to opt into "show history"

  • Email address

  • Effective date

  • Location

  • Department

  • Team

  • Job title

  • Reports to

and finally the compensation history is the same: Here, the email address of the employee and the effective date is critical - the rest is up to you and the data that you'd like to store

Its important to opt into "show history"

  • Email address

  • Effective date

  • pay rate

  • Pay schedule

  • Pay type

  • Currency code

  • Compensation change reason

Finally, we'll need the employees current time away balance.

Here, the report will need to include

  • Email address

  • All reasons and their current balance.

Once all 4 of these files have been downloaded, we can start migrating the data into Shapes by following the steps here.

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to support@shapes.co

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