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Migrating your data from BambooHR

Which four reports to export from BambooHR, and which fields to include, before importing your data into Shapes.

Written by Efrat Barak Zadok

To export your data from BambooHR, we need 4 reports, which can be easily exported from BambooHR's reports.

To go to the reports, click Reports on the left pane and then go into Custom Report → New Report.

The first report should include all the information 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, export the job history. Here, the employee's email address and the effective date are critical — the rest is up to you and the data you'd like to store.

It's important to opt into Show history.

  • Email address

  • Effective date

  • Location

  • Department

  • Team

  • Job title

  • Reports to

The compensation history works the same way: the employee's email address and the effective date are critical — the rest is up to you and the data you'd like to store.

It's 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 balances.

This report needs to include:

  • Email address

  • All reasons and their current balance

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

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