# Frappe HR

People ops you host. Frappe HR is GPL-3.0 — BambooHR and Greenhouse without the employee or applicant seat.

**Replaces:** BambooHR / Greenhouse

**Tier:** Medium

## Problem

BambooHR is the rented HRIS: employees, leave, and a handbook. Greenhouse is the rented ATS: jobs, applicants, and interview kits. Frappe HR (GPL-3.0) covers employee records, leave, attendance, payroll, and recruitment (requisitions, openings, applicants, offers). It sits on the Frappe stack and wants ERPNext. This is not BambooHR's benefits marketplace or Greenhouse's sourcing network.

## Stack

- [Frappe HR](https://frappe.io/hr) — GPL-3.0 HR, payroll, and recruitment (github.com/frappe/hrms)

## Estimated SaaS cost saved

| You stop paying | Typical / year | Self-host instead |
|---|---:|---|
| BambooHR / Greenhouse (small team) | $2,400 | Frappe HR + ERPNext |

**About $2,400 / year** on a small team, before you count lock-in.

## Deploy on Railway

Placeholder: Frappe HR + ERPNext (MariaDB, Redis, workers) plus a volume. This is several services. No one-click template in this repo yet — Start on Railway. CRM contacts stay on /stacks/twenty-crm.

[Start on Railway](https://c17.io/go/railway/frappe-hr?from=%2Fstacks%2Ffrappe-hr.md)

[Twenty if this is a sales pipeline, not people ops](https://c17.io/stacks/twenty-crm)

## AGENT_PROMPT

```
Replace BambooHR or Greenhouse with Frappe HR (https://frappe.io/hr).

- Official Frappe HR / ERPNext install: MariaDB, Redis, workers, sites on a volume. Bind HTTP. Create one employee or one job opening.
- Recruitment is the Greenhouse slice; employee/leave/payroll is the BambooHR slice. Do not claim every marketplace integration.
- Write AGENT_PROMPT.md.
```

## FAQ

### BambooHR or Greenhouse?

Same box. BambooHR is the employee record. Greenhouse is the applicant record. Frappe HR has both. A sales CRM stays on /replace/hubspot.

### Why ERPNext?

Frappe HR is built on that stack. You host the framework plus the HR app. It is more moving parts than a single binary.

Source: https://c17.io/stacks/frappe-hr