BambooHR alternative: PORTWARE

BambooHR is HR software for small and midsize businesses. If you are looking for a system that runs every process in one place, speaks Turkish and adapts to your company, instead of or alongside BambooHR, consider PORTWARE.

For companies looking to replace or complement BambooHR, PORTWARE is a web-based business management system that runs every process, including employees, leave, payroll and expenses, in one place. It is built on the world's most widely used open-source business-management core, speaks Turkish and English, is ready for Turkish e-invoicing, is tailored to your company and keeps its database on your own server. You can move one process at a time.

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In companies searching for BambooHR, HR often runs cut off from projects, sales and accounting. In PORTWARE an employee's leave shows in team workload, their hours in the project and their expenses in accounting, in the same system.

Employees raise their own leave and expense requests, managers approve, and HR follows balances and payroll from one place.

The first question a company using BambooHR asks about PORTWARE is its data: customers, products, stock and open balances move with import templates, and processes are set up and tried in a demo account first.

You do not have to switch everything at once. Most companies start with one process (for example sales and quotations, or projects) and move the others into the same system later.

What you get with PORTWARE

Employee records, departments and org chart
Job positions and applicant pipeline
Time-off requests, approvals and balances
Check-in, check-out and overtime
Payroll, deductions and accounting integration
Expense receipts, approval and reimbursement

PORTWARE at a glance

Product: PORTWARE — Productive Business Management System: fully integrated and web-based; ERP, CRM, manufacturing, PLM, quality, projects, finance, HR, documents, office and AI on one platform
Maker: PORTWARE
Core: The world's most widely used open-source business-management core (LGPL-3) — open schema
Access: Browser and mobile; nothing to install on the client
Hosting: On your own server or on PORTWARE's
Languages: Turkish and English interface, documents and reports
Compliance: Turkish e-Invoice, e-Archive, e-Waybill and the uniform chart of accounts installed
Office: Word, Excel and presentation files in the browser, on the record, co-edited; versioned, differences cell by cell (PORTWARE Office)
AI: Cowork AI on every screen; the company picks the provider and model with its own keys
Integration: REST and XML-RPC API, Excel/CSV import and export

Frequently asked questions

Is there leave and attendance tracking?

Yes. Leave types, approval flow, balances and check-in/out records are installed.

Is payroll calculated?

Yes. Payroll rules, deductions and journal entries are in the payroll app.

Can recruitment be managed?

Yes. Job positions, applicant stages and interview planning are in the recruitment app.

What is PORTWARE's licence model — is there a per-user fee?

PORTWARE's core is the world's most widely used open-source (LGPL-3) business-management core; the modules PORTWARE writes are licensed LGPL-3. No closed-source per-user licence fee is required. The cost is in setup, tailoring, training and support services, quoted to your scope.

Where is our data kept, and whose server is it on?

The database runs wherever you want it: on your own server or on one PORTWARE manages. The schema is open and the whole dataset can be exported at any time. Backups are taken daily and kept on a separate server.

Does it integrate with the other programs we use?

Yes. PORTWARE exposes REST and XML-RPC APIs and talks to banks, e-invoice providers, e-commerce and shop-floor systems through them. For bulk data, Excel/CSV import and export is available on every screen.

How are training and support provided?

The system ships its own handbook, application guides and per-screen help. On top of that PORTWARE trains the team during go-live and provides upgrades and support afterwards.

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