HRMS migration
Field-level mapping, validation, and rollback between RippleHire and BambooHR. We move data and schema; workflows are rebuilt natively in BambooHR.
RippleHire
Source
BambooHR
Destination
Compatibility
9 of 10
objects map 1:1 between RippleHire and BambooHR.
Complexity
BStandard
Timeline
2-4 weeks
Overview
RippleHire and BambooHR serve different hiring scopes that require careful object mapping before migration begins. RippleHire organizes hiring around Jobs as requisitions with a gamified referral engine and India-native compliance tooling; BambooHR is a unified HRIS that bundles ATS, onboarding, and payroll for small to mid-sized businesses. The most significant migration challenge is RippleHire's lack of a publicly documented bulk-export API, which we resolve by coordinating directly with RippleHire's implementation team to obtain structured CSV or direct exports of Jobs, Candidates, Offers, Referral records, and BGV status flags. BambooHR's ATS module caps open job postings by tier (5 on Core, 25 on Pro, 50 on Elite), so organizations migrating high-volume requisition pipelines may need to upgrade before or after migration. We map referral reward data to BambooHR's employee record custom fields and flag gamification-specific fields (reward eligibility, incentive status) for manual reconciliation post-migration. Offer approval chains and maker-checker workflow outcomes migrate as date-stamped notes; the multi-level routing logic itself does not migrate. Workflow definitions, gamified referral reward schemas, BGV report documents, and analytics dashboards do not transfer as data records.
Every standard and custom field arrives verified.
AI proposes the map; you confirm before any record moves.
Parent–child, lookups, and ownership stay linked.
Calls, emails, meetings — with original timestamps.
Documents, uploads, and inline notes move with the record.
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Object mapping
Each row shows how a RippleHire object lands in BambooHR, including any object-level transformations, lookup resolution, or schema-design dependencies.
Typical mapping — final map is confirmed during the sample migration step.
RippleHire
Jobs (Requisitions)
BambooHR
Job Opening
1:1RippleHire Jobs map to BambooHR Job Openings with status, department, and location preserved. BambooHR Core caps active job openings at 5; Core+ATS raises this to 25; Elite supports 50. We flag any migration scope exceeding the destination tier's job-opening limit and recommend a tier upgrade before or shortly after migration. Job board posting attribution and sourcing channel tags from RippleHire migrate as custom fields on the BambooHR Job Opening.
RippleHire
Candidates
BambooHR
Applicant / Employee (status-dependent)
1:1RippleHire Candidates who are still in the hiring pipeline migrate to BambooHR Applicants. Those with a completed offer migrate to BambooHR Employee records via the onboarding Add Employee flow. We preserve stage progression timestamps, candidate contact details, and any sourcing channel attribution (referral, vendor, job board) as custom fields on the BambooHR record. RippleHire's candidate status history migrates as a note attachment on the record for audit.
RippleHire
Referrals
BambooHR
Employee (custom fields)
lossyRippleHire referral records include referrer identity, referral status, and reward eligibility data that has no native equivalent in BambooHR. We extract the full referral record and map referrer identity to a BambooHR employee custom field (e.g., referral_referrer_name, referral_status, referral_reward_eligible). Any gamification-specific fields such as reward payout status and incentive tier do not map to standard BambooHR fields and are flagged in a written reconciliation document for manual post-migration processing.
RippleHire
Offers
BambooHR
Job Offer
1:1RippleHire offer records migrate to BambooHR Job Offers with offer amount, start date, position title, and acceptance or decline status preserved. The multi-level maker-checker approval chain outcomes (who approved, at which stage, under which policy rule) migrate as date-stamped notes on the offer record. The approval routing logic itself is system-specific and does not migrate; we document the approval chain as a written record for the customer's HR admin to reference when rebuilding offer approval routing in BambooHR's standard approval workflow configuration.
RippleHire
Onboarding
BambooHR
New Hire Packet / Onboarding Task
1:1RippleHire onboarding data including post-offer engagement (POFU) status and BGV status flags migrate to BambooHR's New Hire Packet as task completion records and status flags. Day-one details (first-day schedule, equipment assignments) live in RippleHire's onboarding module and migrate as notes or custom fields on the BambooHR onboarding task list. We carry BGV verification status flags (verified, pending, failed) as custom fields; detailed BGV report documents migrate as attachments to the Employee record.
RippleHire
Background Verification (BGV) Records
BambooHR
Employee Custom Fields / Document Attachment
1:1RippleHire BGV records tracking Aadhaar-based and other India-specific verification checks map to BambooHR employee custom fields (e.g., bgv_status, bgv_date, bgv_provider). Detailed BGV report documents export as file attachments to the employee record. BambooHR does not have a native India-specific BGV module; organizations requiring ongoing Aadhaar-based verification post-migration may need to maintain a third-party BGV integration.
RippleHire
Users (Hiring Team Members)
BambooHR
Employee / User
1:1RippleHire Users (recruiters, hiring managers, admins) map to BambooHR Employee records and receive BambooHR user access corresponding to their RippleHire role. Role-based permissions and access scopes are documented for the customer's BambooHR admin to configure in the destination system. Owner assignments on Jobs, Candidates, and Offers migrate by resolving the RippleHire user email against the BambooHR employee directory.
RippleHire
Custom Fields
BambooHR
Custom Fields
1:1RippleHire custom fields on Jobs and Candidates (industry-specific picklists, conditional attributes, and workflow-specific data) map to equivalent BambooHR custom fields on Job Openings and Employee records. Any picklist or conditional-logic dependencies are flagged in a written inventory for the customer's admin to rebuild as BambooHR conditional visibility rules or custom picklists post-migration.
RippleHire
Talent Sourcing Channels
BambooHR
Employee / Applicant Custom Fields
1:1RippleHire unifies referral, agency/vendor, and job board sourcing under a single channel attribution model. We preserve source attribution at the candidate and offer level as custom fields on the BambooHR Applicant or Employee record (e.g., candidate_source, referral_referrer_id). Vendor-specific pipeline stages that are RippleHire-specific do not map to BambooHR's ATS and are flagged for manual reconciliation.
RippleHire
Workflows and Approvals
BambooHR
N/A
1:1RippleHire maker-checker workflow configurations govern offer approvals and other approval gates as system-level workflow definitions. These are configuration artifacts rather than transactional records. We map the outcome records (who approved, when, under which policy) as date-stamped notes on the relevant Offer record. The workflow routing logic itself is not transferable to BambooHR's approval engine and is documented in a written workflow inventory for the customer's HR admin to rebuild in BambooHR's standard approval configuration.
| RippleHire | BambooHR | Compatibility | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jobs (Requisitions) | Job Opening1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Candidates | Applicant / Employee (status-dependent)1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Referrals | Employee (custom fields)lossy | Fully supported | |
| Offers | Job Offer1:1 | Mapping required | |
| Onboarding | New Hire Packet / Onboarding Task1:1 | Mapping required | |
| Background Verification (BGV) Records | Employee Custom Fields / Document Attachment1:1 | Mapping required | |
| Users (Hiring Team Members) | Employee / User1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Custom Fields | Custom Fields1:1 | Mapping required | |
| Talent Sourcing Channels | Employee / Applicant Custom Fields1:1 | Mapping required | |
| Workflows and Approvals | N/A1:1 | Mapping required |
Gotchas + challenges
Platform-specific issues from each side, plus the pair-specific challenges that don't show up on either platform's page on its own.
RippleHire gotchas
No publicly documented REST API or bulk export endpoint
Gamified referral data lives in a proprietary reward schema
Offer approval chains use maker-checker workflow that is source-system specific
BambooHR gotchas
Undocumented API rate limits can trigger 503 errors
Per-employee pricing model requires active record count verification
API credentials must be sent on every request to avoid extra round trips
Custom field schema varies per account and requires manual inventory
Document and attachment exports are not covered by standard report exports
Pair-specific challenges
Migration approach
Discovery and data export coordination
We audit the RippleHire instance for all Jobs (active and archived), Candidates, Offers, Referrals, Onboarding records, BGV status flags, and custom field configurations. Simultaneously, we initiate coordination with RippleHire's implementation or support team to request structured CSV exports or direct database exports of the required objects. This vendor coordination step is the critical path item for the migration timeline because RippleHire does not expose a public bulk-export API. We also identify BambooHR's current ATS tier and job-opening limits to flag any cap conflicts before migration begins.
BambooHR schema preparation and tier gap analysis
We map RippleHire objects to BambooHR equivalents and identify custom field requirements. This includes provisioning custom fields on Job Openings for sourcing attribution and job board posting data, custom fields on Employee and Applicant records for referral data, BGV status, and any RippleHire custom property mappings. We also prepare a written document identifying the BambooHR tier upgrade requirement if the active job opening count exceeds the current tier's cap.
Sandbox migration and reconciliation
We run a full migration into BambooHR using a test environment or shadow copy to validate record counts, custom field population, and referrer attribution mapping. The customer's HR lead spot-checks 25-50 candidate and offer records against the RippleHire source data and reviews the referral data reconciliation report. Any mapping corrections and custom field adjustments occur in this phase before production migration begins.
Data extraction and transformation
Upon receiving RippleHire's structured export files, we transform each object into BambooHR-compatible import format. Referral records with reward eligibility and incentive tier data that cannot map directly to BambooHR fields are written to a reconciliation CSV for manual post-migration processing. Offer approval chain outcomes are extracted as date-stamped note text. BGV status flags are written to employee custom fields; detailed BGV documents are exported as file attachments.
Production migration in dependency order
We run production migration in record-dependency sequence: Users and Employees (hiring team members) first, then Job Openings, then Applicants for candidates still in pipeline, then Offers with approval notes, then onboarding task data, then referrals to employee custom fields, then BGV status flags and attachments. Each phase emits a row-count reconciliation report before the next phase begins. We use BambooHR's API with batch chunking and rate-limit handling for all phases.
Cutover, validation, and referral workflow handoff
We freeze RippleHire writes during cutover and run a final delta migration of records modified during the migration window. We deliver the referral reconciliation document (gamified reward data requiring manual post-migration handling), the approval-chain inventory (offer approval routing requiring rebuild in BambooHR's standard approval configuration), and the BGV gap analysis (India-native verification requiring third-party integration if ongoing compliance is required). We support a one-week hypercare window for reconciliation issues raised by the HR team.
Platform deep dives
RippleHire
Source
Strengths
Weaknesses
BambooHR
Destination
Strengths
Weaknesses
Complexity grading
Standard HRMS migration. 1 of 7 objects need a mapping; the rest are 1:1.
Overall complexity
Standard migration
Derived from compatibility, mapping clarity, API constraints, and data volume across RippleHire and BambooHR.
Object compatibility
1 of 7 objects need a mapping; the rest are 1:1.
Field mapping clarity
Field mapping is derived from defaults — final spec confirmed during the sample migration.
Timeline complexity
7-object category — typical timelines run 2–7 days end-to-end.
API constraints
RippleHire: Not publicly documented.
Data volume sensitivity
RippleHire doesn't expose a bulk API — REST + parallelization used for high-volume runs.
Estimator
Rule-based pricing — no per-record fees, no manual quotes. Migrations over 2M records are scoped individually.
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