Integrations / Human Resources
Manage BambooHR employees and files from WhatsApp
Flann connects BambooHR to the WhatsApp chat you already run your business from. You ask, and Flann picks the right BambooHR action. Staff questions arrive at awkward times. Who covers Friday? When Flann can read BambooHR, you answer from your phone in a sentence, and when a question turns out to be a grievance or a sensitive matter, Flann routes it to the right person on your team.
42 actions in BambooHR. 32 only look things up, and 10 create, update, send or delete. You connect with your API key.
What you can ask Flann to do in BambooHR
Type it or say it in a voice note. Flann works out which BambooHR action you mean.
“Show me my employees in BambooHR.”
“Look up the report in BambooHR.”
“Show me my hiring leads in BambooHR.”
“Create an employee in BambooHR.”
“Upload a company file in BambooHR.”
“Create a file category in BambooHR.”
What Flann can work with in BambooHR
BambooHR gives Flann 42 actions across 21 kinds of record. These are the ones you are most likely to use.
| Record | What Flann can do | Actions |
|---|---|---|
| Employees | createlook upupdate | 4 |
| Files | look upupload | 2 |
| Reports | look up | 2 |
| Employee dependents | createlook up | 2 |
Side by side, the two ways of working in BambooHR:
| Compare | Opening BambooHRLog in, find it, do it | BambooHR through FlannAsk and get it done |
|---|---|---|
| Getting started on a job | Log in and click through the screens | Text or voice note, in your own words |
| Looking things up about employees | By hand, screen by screen | 32 look-ups, answered straight away |
| Creating and updating | Typed in by hand | 10 changes, made from a message |
| BambooHR records | All of them, one screen at a time | 21 kinds, from one chat |
| Set-up | Nothing new to set up | Your BambooHR API key, once |
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Step by step: BambooHR jobs you can hand to Flann
What happens between your message and the result in BambooHR.
Create an employee from a voice note
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “Create an employee in BambooHR with these details.”
- Flann runs
Get All Employeesin BambooHR and shows you what it found. - Flann runs
Create Employeein BambooHR. - Flann creates it in BambooHR and confirms in the chat.
Get answers about your files
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “What is the latest on our files in BambooHR?”
- Flann runs
List Company Filesin BambooHR and shows you what it found. - Nothing in BambooHR is changed: these are look-ups, so they run straight away.
Check your reports from WhatsApp
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “Show me where our reports in BambooHR stand.”
- Flann runs
List Company ReportsandGet Reportin BambooHR and shows you what it found. - Nothing in BambooHR is changed: these are look-ups, so they run straight away.
The BambooHR jobs you can stop doing yourself
You stay in charge of what goes out. Flann does the reading, the drafting and the chasing.
Holiday balances on request
Today
Staff ask how much leave they have left. Each question means logging in, finding the person and reading the figure back to them.
With Flann
“How many holiday days does Priya have left this year?”
Because a look-up changes nothing, Flann reads Priya’s balance from BambooHR and replies straight away. If you like, it drafts a short answer you can pass on to her.
What you stop doing: Logging in just to read out a number is over.
Sensitive issues to the right person
Today
Grievances and awkward staff matters reach you through whatever channel is nearest. They deserve proper handling, yet they often sit unanswered while the day runs away.
With Flann
“Jess raised a complaint about her manager. Who should handle it?”
Flann looks up Jess’s team and reporting line in BambooHR and suggests who on your side should take it. It drafts a short, neutral handover note with the facts you gave.
What you stop doing: Sensitive issues no longer wait in your head until you find a quiet moment.
More on this: how to hand repetitive tasks to an AI agent on WhatsApp.
How Flann connects to BambooHR
- Open Connectors in Flann and choose BambooHR.
- Paste your BambooHR API key into the secure form Flann opens. You will find the key in your BambooHR account settings.
- Ask Flann for what you need on WhatsApp, by text or voice note. It picks the right BambooHR action itself.
Reading from BambooHR is instant. BambooHR stays connected until you remove it in Connectors.
Ways to use BambooHR with Flann
Keep records current
Tell Flann what changed.
Handle requests quickly
A staff member asks for time off.
Who is in this week
Ask Flann who is off this week. It checks BambooHR and tells you before you plan the rota.
Everything Flann can do in BambooHR
All 42 BambooHR actions, as Flann sees them.
Looks up 32
- Get All Employees
- Get Employee
- Get Meta Divisions
- Get All Employee Dependents
- Get Applicant Statuses
- Get Benefit Coverages
- Get Changed Employees
- Get Company EINs
- Get Company Information
- Get Country Options
- Get Custom Employee Fields
- Get Departments Metadata
- Get Employee Photo
- Get Hiring Leads
- Get Job Summaries
- Get List Field Details
- Get Member Benefit Events
- Get Meta Job Titles
- Get Meta Locations
- Get Report
- Get Tabular Fields Metadata
- Get Time-Off Balances
- Get Time-Off Policies
- Get Time-Off Requests
- Get Time-Off Types Metadata
- Get Users
- List Company Files
- List Company Reports
- List Datasets
- List Employment Status Metadata
and 2 more
Changes 10
- Create Candidate Application
- Create Employee
- Create Employee Dependent
- Create Employee File Category
- Create File Category
- Create Job Opening
- Create Time Off Request
- Update Employee
- Update Time Off Request
- Upload Company File
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Common questions
What can Flann do with employees in BambooHR?
Flann can create, look up and update employees in BambooHR, using 4 actions (Create Employee, Get All Employees, Get Employee, Update Employee). Looking up runs straight away and changes nothing. The other actions create or change employees in BambooHR.
What can Flann do with files in BambooHR?
Flann can look up and upload files in BambooHR, using 2 actions (List Company Files, Upload Company File). Looking up runs straight away and changes nothing. The other actions create or change files in BambooHR.
How does Flann connect to BambooHR?
Open Connectors in Flann, choose BambooHR and paste your BambooHR API key into a secure form. You will find the key in your BambooHR account settings. Once it is connected, Flann can use 42 actions in BambooHR.
How do I ask Flann to do something in BambooHR?
Message Flann on WhatsApp the way you would message a colleague, or send a voice note. Flann picks the BambooHR action that fits and asks if anything is missing.
Does connecting BambooHR cost extra?
No. BambooHR is included in every Flann plan, along with every other app Flann connects to.