BambooHR is the HR platform that most small and mid-sized teams encounter first when they outgrow spreadsheets.
Per-employee pricingCloudFree trial
Best HR Software for Hourly Teams
HR platforms for businesses with shift and hourly staff, comparing per-employee costs, payroll add-ons and time tracking in BambooHR, TriNet Zenefits, Rippling and ADP.
What this audience should prioritize
Hourly workforces lean on the parts of HR software that salaried offices barely touch: time tracking, frequent onboarding and pay that changes every period. Turnover also means the per-employee bill moves month to month. The core records system has to stay simple enough for store or site managers to use.
BambooHR includes time tracking alongside records and onboarding for companies of 25 to 300 employees, at $10 PEPM on Core, though payroll is a paid add-on. TriNet Zenefits no longer publishes its pricing; third-party estimates put its HR Plus tiers at about $35 to $65 per employee per month (low confidence). Both fit smaller hourly employers, and TriNet Zenefits tends to be outgrown around 150 to 200 employees.
ADP handles multi-schedule and multi-entity payroll for employers of 50 to more than 1,000 people, with Workforce Now estimated at $23 to $30 PEPM for the software and implementation lasting eight to sixteen weeks. Rippling's core is estimated at $8 PEPM plus a $35 to $40 monthly base, and HR plus payroll at $15 to $28 PEPM. Misconfigured Rippling automations can cascade errors from HR into IT and finance.
Shortlist candidates for Hourly Teams
HiBob, marketed as 'Bob', is the HR platform that mid-market companies choose when they want something more modern than BambooHR but less enterprise than Workday.
Custom quoteCloud
Rippling is the HR platform that refused to stay in its lane.
Modular pricingCloud
greytHR, from Greytip Software, is a rupee-priced HRMS and payroll system for Indian SMBs and mid-sized firms.
Tiered pricingCloudFree trial
Darwinbox is an enterprise HCM suite, founded in 2015, that reports 1,400+ organizations and 4.5 million employees.
Custom quoteCloud
Keka is an HR, payroll, hiring and PSA platform from Keka Technologies used by 12,500+ companies, mostly in India.
Tiered pricingCloudFree trial
Workday HCM is the enterprise human capital management platform that competes head-to-head with SAP SuccessFactors and Oracle HCM Cloud for the largest organizations in the world.
Custom quoteCloud
KING OF TIME is a Japanese cloud attendance, HR and payroll system from Human Technologies, Inc.
Tiered pricingCloudFree trial
Kakitangan.com is a Malaysian HR and payroll system operated by Coastal Hectare Sdn Bhd.
Tiered pricingCloudFree trial
BrioHR is a cloud HR and payroll platform for Malaysia and Singapore with 1,000+ client organizations and ISO 27001 certification.
Tiered pricingCloudFree trial
Sprout Solutions is a Philippine HR and payroll vendor with 2,000+ clients and 350,000+ users.
Custom quoteCloud
GreatDay HR is an Indonesian HRIS managed by PT People Intelligence Indonesia and used by 4,000+ companies.
Custom quoteCloud
Bayzat is a Dubai-founded platform, started in 2012, that combines HR, WPS payroll, finance tools and employee health insurance for UAE and Saudi employers.
Custom quoteCloud
gulfHR is a cloud HR and payroll system sold in the Middle East since 2003, covering Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, the UAE, Oman, Jordan and Egypt.
Custom quoteCloud
Humi, a Toronto HR, payroll and benefits platform for Canadian SMBs, was acquired by Employment Hero in January 2025 in a deal valued above C$100 million.
Custom quoteCloud
Zucchetti HR is the people-management suite of Gruppo Zucchetti, the Lodi software house founded in 1978.
Custom quoteCloud/On-premise
TeamSystem HR is the HR line of Pesaro-based TeamSystem, majority-owned by Hellman & Friedman.
Custom quoteCloud/On-premise
TOTVS is Brazil's largest ERP vendor (B3: TOTS3, 70,000+ clients).
Custom quoteCloud/On-premise
Senior Sistemas, founded in 1988 in Blumenau, sells a Brazilian HCM line built around payroll and time tracking.
Custom quoteCloud/On-premise
Zenefits, now sold as the TriNet HR Platform, is the HR platform that SMBs choose when benefits administration is the buying trigger.
Per-employee pricingCloudFree trial
ADP is the payroll and HR platform that mid-market companies encounter when they need the reliability of the world's largest payroll processor behind their employee operations.
Base + per-employee pricingCloud
TriNet Zenefits is the former Zenefits HR software, now sold by TriNet as its HR Platform and HR Plus service tiers.
Per-employee pricingCloudFree trial
Workday is the cloud-native enterprise HCM platform that large organizations choose when they need HR, payroll, talent management, workforce planning, and financial planning unified in a single system of record.
Custom quoteCloud
ERPNext HR now ships as Frappe HR, a separate open-source app split out of ERPNext at version 14 that still requires ERPNext.
Free / open sourceSelf-hosted
Odoo Community is the free edition of the Odoo suite, licensed under LGPLv3 and self-hosted on your own servers.
Free / open sourceSelf-hosted
Frequently asked questions
Does per-employee pricing penalize high-turnover employers?
It can. Most tools here bill per employee per month, so a seasonal hiring spike raises the invoice. Whether terminated or seasonal workers still count toward the bill is a question to put to BambooHR, ADP or Rippling during the quote.