BambooHR LMS alternatives and BambooHR LMS integrations compared

Not a full one. BambooHR has a Training module that records training, and it sells BambooHR Compliance Training, powered by EasyLlama, a set of ready-made compliance courses that run inside your BambooHR account. What it does not have is a course builder for your own onboarding or product training, learning paths, or a player for SCORM files you already own.

BambooHR's own help center describes the Training module as a place to "set up training by adding trainings and training categories," view them in Upcoming and Completed tables, and "record a training as completed from the employee profile" or in bulk with the power edit tool. Past-due dates show in orange. Email alerts remind people. That is a training record, not a training delivery system.

So the honest answer to "does BambooHR have an LMS" is that it has the two ends of one: a compliance course library and a place to log completions. Everything in the middle, the courses that are specific to your company, comes from somewhere else.

BambooHR does not sell training on its own. The courses come with the HR plan, and the HR plan is priced per employee. BambooHR's pricing FAQ gives the rates: "$10.25 USD per employee per month for Core, $17.50 USD per employee per month for Pro, and $25 USD per employee per month for Elite," with volume discounts applied automatically. Companies of 25 employees or fewer pay a flat $250, $425 or $650 a month.

The course count is what changes between plans. Core includes one EasyLlama course on harassment prevention. Pro includes 15, covering topics such as harassment and discrimination prevention and cyber security. Elite includes 300+.

That makes the cost of BambooHR training the difference between plans, not a training line item. Our arithmetic at the published list rates, before volume discounts:

Pro and Elite also add performance management, compensation tools and more, so the whole gap is not a training price. But if a library of compliance courses is the reason you are looking at an upgrade, it is the number to hold up against a separate LMS. For comparison, CompanyLMS Business is $7 per active learner a month, or $6 billed annually, and it bills only people who trained that month.

More than in most HR suites. BambooHR's Marketplace lists 16 third-party apps in its Learning and Training category, plus its own EasyLlama-powered compliance training. We read each LMS listing in October 2026; the table shows what each one says syncs.

The other listings in the category are Northpass (now sold as Skilljar by Gainsight, see our Northpass pricing note), Learn Amp, Travitor, ProProfs Training Maker, BIS Safety Software, and the compliance course vendors EasyLlama and Traliant. Two big names are not in the category at all: Docebo and 360Learning had no BambooHR listing when we checked, although 360Learning's own pricing FAQ names BambooHR among its HRIS connections, so ask it how that sync works. SkyPrep's plan rules are in our SkyPrep pricing breakdown.

The single question that sorts these connectors is whether training completions come back into BambooHR. Every listing above sends people into the LMS. Only four say they write completions back: Absorb, TalentLMS, Tovuti LMS and Cornerstone Galaxy Accelerate.

That matters if BambooHR is where your auditors, managers or HR generalists look. With a one-way sync, the LMS holds the training record and BambooHR does not, so a manager checking an employee profile sees nothing in the Training tab. With a write-back, the LMS completion lands in BambooHR as a completed training with a date and, on most of these, the hours.

Read the field tables before you sign. Cornerstone's listing says "only completed trainings will be synched into BambooHR," so in-progress and overdue status stays in Cornerstone. TalentLMS writes the completion date and the course time, rounded. Tovuti goes furthest: it creates the courses and course categories in BambooHR and syncs certificates with their expiration dates in both directions.

A practical alternative to a write-back is to keep BambooHR as the source of people data and treat the LMS as the system of record for training. That is how CompanyLMS works: import learners from a BambooHR report by CSV on any plan, or provision them with SSO and SCIM on Enterprise, and run assignments, completions, certificates and renewal reminders in one place with a per-employee audit trail you can export.

The Training tab is enough if your training happens somewhere else and you only need proof it happened: a forklift class at a vendor, a CPR card, a state-mandated harassment course from EasyLlama. Set the training up with a recurring frequency, record completions in bulk, and let the email alerts chase people.

You need an LMS when the training itself is yours: new-hire onboarding by role, SOPs, product knowledge, safety procedures specific to your sites, sales certification. BambooHR cannot deliver those courses, test people on them, or issue a certificate that renews itself. It can only record that someone told it they finished.

The tell is usually the spreadsheet. If someone on your team keeps a sheet of who watched which onboarding video so they can type completions into BambooHR, the Training tab is being used as an LMS it is not. That is exactly the job certification tracking software and a corporate LMS take over.

Stay with BambooHR Training if your needs are compliance courses plus records, and you are already on, or happy to pay for, the plan with the course count you need.

Pick a connector with completion write-back (Absorb, TalentLMS, Tovuti, Cornerstone) if BambooHR must stay the one place anyone checks training status. Budget accordingly: Absorb and Cornerstone quote, Tovuti starts at $7,500 a year for 100 annual learners, and TalentLMS publishes band pricing.

Pick a priced standalone LMS if the LMS will be the training system of record, you want a rate you can read before a sales call, and you want certifications delivered, tracked and renewed in the same place. CompanyLMS is built for that: $4 or $7 per active learner a month, learners imported from BambooHR by CSV, and compliance and onboarding paths ready to assign. Try it in the course builder above before you talk to anyone.

If you are comparing HR suites as well, our notes on Paycom LMS alternatives, Paycor LMS alternatives and ADP LMS alternatives cover how the other payroll vendors handle training.