Connect BambooHR with Hookshot™ and your stack

BambooHR is a cloud-based human resources management system (HRMS) that helps businesses manage their employees, payroll, and benefits.

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Tools and triggers

What Agents can do in BambooHR

Available tools and events after BambooHR is connected.

  • Create Candidate Application

    Tool to create a candidate application. Use when adding a new applicant to a specific job opening in BambooHR ATS.

  • Create Employee

    Tool to create a new employee record. Use when adding employees via BambooHR API. Returns the new employee's ID.

  • Create Employee Dependent

    Tool to add a dependent to an employee. Use when a new dependent needs to be recorded for benefits or HR tracking. Ensure the employee record exists before calling this tool.

  • Create Employee File Category

    Tool to create new employee file categories. Use when organizing employee files by adding new categories after confirming desired names.

  • Create File Category

    Tool to create new company file categories. Use when organizing company files by adding new categories after confirming desired names.

  • Create Job Opening

    Tool to create a new job opening in BambooHR ATS. Use when you need to open a new job for applicants.

  • Create Time Off Request

    Tool to submit a new time off request. Use after confirming employee ID and valid payload.

  • Get All Employee Dependents

    Tool to retrieve all employee dependents. Use after ensuring your API key has access to benefit settings.

  • Get All Employees

    Retrieves all employees from the BambooHR employee directory including their basic information and status.

  • Get Applicant Statuses

    Tool to retrieve applicant statuses. Use when you need to list ATS statuses for your company; requires ATS settings access.

  • Get Benefit Coverages

    Tool to retrieve standard benefit coverage options. Use when you need to fetch all or specific coverages before configuring benefit plans.

  • Get Changed Employees

    Tool to get employees inserted, updated, or deleted since a given timestamp. Use when fetching incremental HR changes.

  • Get Company EINs

    Tool to retrieve company Employer Identification Numbers (EINs). Use when you need to fetch your account's EINs after authenticating.

  • Get Company Information

    Tool to retrieve company information. Use when you need details about the current account's settings.

  • Get Country Options

    Tool to retrieve all available country options. Use when you need a complete list of selectable countries before updating or validating country fields.

  • Get Custom Employee Fields

    Tool to fetch custom employee field values. Use when you need to retrieve only custom fields for all employees.

  • Get Departments Metadata

    Tool to list department metadata. Use after needing all available department codes and names.

  • Get Employee

    Tool to retrieve detailed information for a specific employee. Use when you need individual employee data by ID.

  • Get Employee Photo

    Tool to retrieve an employee's profile photo by size. Use when you need to download the image binary for the specified employee after confirming their ID.

  • Get Hiring Leads

    Tool to retrieve potential hiring leads (employees who can manage job openings) for use in creating a new job opening. The API key owner must have access to ATS settings.

  • Get Job Summaries

    Tool to retrieve a list of ATS job summaries. Use when you need an overview of all job postings and their key details.

  • Get List Field Details

    Tool to get details for all list fields. Use when you need to discover list field options before using them.

  • Get Member Benefit Events

    Tool to list member benefit events. Use when you need to fetch all benefit events visible to the authenticated user.

  • Get Meta Divisions

    Tool to list all division metadata. Use after authenticating to fetch the account's divisions.

Setup

Connect BambooHR in Hookshot™

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Connection scope

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Team

Shared credential for production and unattended runs.

Personal

Tied to one user—only when the workflow needs their account.

Chat

Team-scoped for supported chat surfaces.

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