For most small companies, HR software is bought for four things: knowing who works here, what they earn, when they are off, and hiring the next one. Everything beyond that — payroll runs, tax filings, benefits administration — matters enormously at a certain size and not at all before it. BambooHR does the whole spectrum. Delorean does the four, connected to the rest of the company.
| BambooHR | Delorean | |
|---|---|---|
| Employee records | Complete, with documents, history and custom fields | Person, role, salary and their file, visible only to owner and admin |
| Leave and absence | Policies, accruals, approval flows | You request, your manager approves, and it lands in the company calendar |
| Payroll | Payroll runs and tax integrations | Not included — the salary is recorded, the payroll run is not |
| Hiring | An applicant tracking system | A job opens and appears on the company's own public page |
| Org chart | Yes | Not yet — the reporting line is not stored today |
| Time tracking | Yes, with timesheets | Not yet — a real gap for shift-based businesses |
| The rest of the company | A separate system | The same product: the approved leave shows up in the calendar everyone already looks at |
Written from each product's public documentation. They are mature tools and this page says where they are still better. No prices here: they change on their own and the page would end up lying without anyone touching it.
For a company that wants records, salaries, leave and hiring in the same place as its work, yes. If you need payroll runs and tax compliance, you need a dedicated HR system.
The person requests it, their manager approves or rejects it, and the approved absence appears in the company calendar so nobody plans work for a week when half the team is away.
Only owner and admin. It is not a permission you have to remember to set — the module is closed by default to everyone else.
Yes. It appears on your company's own public page, at your own address, without paying a job board.
No. The salary is part of the employee record; producing and filing payroll is not something this pretends to do.
Not yet. It is on the roadmap.
Not yet. For a restaurant or a pharmacy, where the shift is the payroll, that is a genuine gap today.
Not yet — who reports to whom is not stored, so there is nothing to draw.
You can build it on top of tickets with a template. There is no dedicated onboarding module.
The product works in three languages. Country-specific labour compliance is exactly what a dedicated HR system is for.