Parseur integration

BambooHR Integration - Create Employees From Any Document

Parseur is an AI document parser for BambooHR. It extracts employee details from resumes, onboarding forms, and emails and creates the employee in BambooHR.

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Use cases

Automate employee onboarding from the documents you already receive

BambooHR stores the employee record. Someone still has to type it in. Parseur is an AI document parser built for this BambooHR integration: it reads resumes, onboarding forms, and HR emails, extracts the fields you name, and Zapier creates the employee in BambooHR the moment the document arrives. No retyping, no template to build.

Resumes from any job board

Parseur pulls candidate name, email, phone, location, and latest job title from resumes sent to your hiring inbox, whether they come from LinkedIn, Indeed, or a recruiter. Each new hire lands in BambooHR with the basics already filled in.

Onboarding forms and new hire packets

Parseur extracts legal name, address, date of birth, and start date from onboarding forms such as W-4 and I-9 forms, even scanned ones. The employee profile is created in BambooHR without a second pass through the PDF.

Timesheets and HR emails

Parseur reads employee name, hours, and period from emailed timesheets and staffing notifications, so the data reaches BambooHR or your payroll sheet as clean rows instead of attachments waiting in an inbox.

How it works

How the BambooHR integration works

Set it up once. Every new email is parsed and delivered on its own after that.

1. Create your Parseur mailbox

Sign up and get a dedicated email address where your documents land.

2. Forward your emails

Send emails manually or set up auto forwarding so every new one arrives on its own.

3. AI extracts the data

Parseur reads each email and pulls out the fields you need as structured data.

4. Data lands in BambooHR

Zapier picks up the parsed data and sends it to BambooHR in real time.
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What is Parseur?

Parseur is a powerful document processing software to extract text from emails, PDFs and documents and automate your workflow. All Parseur features.

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What is BambooHR?

BambooHR is a one easy-to-use platform that simplifies HR processes.

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What is Zapier?

Zapier is a cloud automation tool that connects apps together. You can connect two or more apps to automate repetitive tasks without coding or relying on developers to build the integration.

Trusted for Zapier workflows in production

BuildYourBnB, a short-term rental business hosting over 10,000 guests per year, uses Parseur with Zapier to route email data into its tools automatically, the same Zapier setup this BambooHR integration uses. Founder Boris Mordkovich replaced hours of manual data entry with a workflow that runs in the background.

Guests hosted per year on Parseur-powered workflows
10,000+
Documents processed by Parseur since 2016
100M+
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5/5

Managing employee data, onboarding documents, and other administrative tasks can be time-consuming and prone to errors. In this article, we’ll show you how to integrate Parseur with Bamboo HR to streamline HR processes.

What is BambooHR?

BambooHR is a leading HR software solution that helps small to medium-sized businesses manage employee data, from hiring and onboarding to performance tracking and benefits administration.

Features of BambooHR

  • HR data and reporting
  • Hiring and onboarding
  • Payroll, time and benefits
  • Employee experience and performance
  • Integration with other apps

How much does BambooHR cost?

The HR solution is priced per employee and month-basis. It offers a free 7-day trial where you can try the HR tool. You can calculate an estimate of annual savings using their ROI calculator. Otherwise, you can always complete their contact form for a free quote.

Why integrate Parseur with BambooHR?

By integrating Parseur with BambooHR, HR teams can automate the recruitment process and data extraction from HR documents into BambooHR, such as employee onboarding forms, resumes, and timesheet.

BambooHR does not advertise resume parsing on its applicant tracking product page, which is a common gap across ATS resume parsing software. Parseur closes it by reading the resume before the data ever reaches BambooHR.

How does the Parseur and BambooHR integration work?

  1. A resume is sent to your Parseur mailbox.
  2. Using AI, Parseur extracts specific data fields (e.g., candidate name, position, start date).
  3. The extracted data is then automatically exported to BambooHR, where it is stored.

What you will need

To set up this integration, you will need:

  • A Parseur account with a configured mailbox
  • A BambooHR account
  • A Zapier account

How to integrate Parseur with BambooHR

Step 1: Create a Parseur mailbox

If you haven't already, sign up for a Parseur account and choose an AI-assisted mailbox. Depending on your requirements, you can also create a custom one.

Step 2: Forward a resume to the mailbox

Upon receiving your document, Parseur will ask you to confirm the mailbox type and name. You can rename the mailbox however you want.

Step 3: Parseur extracts data from the resume

Using our powerful AI parser, data is extracted automatically from when Parseur receives the PDF.

A screen capture of resume data
This is how the CV data will appear with the AI

Step 4: Connect Parseur with Zapier

Go to “export” and “Zapier” and search for BambooHR. This will redirect you to the Zapier dashboard.

BambooHR and Parseur integration
BambooHR and Parseur integration

Select Parseur as the trigger app and choose the specific mailbox you set up earlier. Select "New Document Processed" as the trigger event. Zapier will prompt you to test the trigger by processing a document in Parseur.

Step 5: Connect BambooHR to Zapier

Select BambooHR as the action app and choose the action event as “Create Employee.”

Choose the action app and event
Choose the action app and event

In your BambooHR account, go to the integrations or API section. Generate an API key to connect BambooHR with Zapier.

Generate an API key
Generate an API key

Map the extracted data fields from Parseur to the corresponding fields in BambooHR.

Map the data fields
Map the data fields

Step 6: Test the Integration

Test the Zap to ensure the information flows correctly from Parseur to BambooHR.

Send a test to BambooHR
Send a test to BambooHR

Employee created successfully
Employee created successfully

Parseur will now automatically extract and transfer employee data into your BambooHR account.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about using Parseur to create employees in BambooHR from resumes, onboarding forms, and emails.

Parseur extracts the employee details from a resume, onboarding form, or email, and a Zapier connection uses the BambooHR "Create Employee" action to add the record in real time. You forward the document to your Parseur mailbox, Parseur's AI reads the fields you asked for, and the "New Document Processed" trigger in Zapier passes them to BambooHR. Set it up once and every new document follows the same path.

Parseur can extract any field visible in the document, and BambooHR only requires a first name and last name to create an employee. Common fields are name, personal email, phone, address, job title, department, hire date, and manager. In the Zapier step you map each extracted field to the matching BambooHR field, including custom fields.

Parseur processes every document it receives, so a duplicate resume produces a second parsed record. To avoid creating two employees, add a Zapier search step that looks up the candidate by email in BambooHR first, and only run "Create Employee" when no match is found.

No. You name the fields you want in Parseur, its built-in AI extracts them from any layout, and Zapier connects the two apps without code. There is no template to build and no BambooHR API call to write, although Zapier does need a BambooHR API key to authenticate.

BambooHR does not advertise resume parsing on its applicant tracking product page, so candidate details from a resume still have to be typed in. Parseur fills that gap as an AI resume parser that reads the resume before the data reaches BambooHR and sends the extracted fields through Zapier.

Yes. Every parsed document stays visible in your Parseur mailbox, where you can check and correct any field before it is exported. Many teams review resumes and onboarding forms this way because a resume can carry an old address or a preferred name that should not land in the HR record as is.

Yes. Parseur's AI reads scanned PDFs and images as well as native PDFs and emails, so a photographed I-9 or a scanned W-4 works the same way as a typed form. See the onboarding document extraction guide for the field list.

Yes. Parseur is GDPR compliant and SOC 2 Type II compliant, data travels over HTTPS, and you decide which fields leave Parseur. For highly sensitive values such as bank details or a social security number, keep collection inside BambooHR's own forms and use Parseur for the identity, contact, and job fields.