BambooHR owns the HR side of a departure — the record, the term date, the paperwork. Passage owns the IT side — disabling accounts, revoking sessions, reclaiming licenses, returning devices, and proving it. They're two halves of the same job.
BambooHR is excellent at the HR workflow: it records that Jane is leaving Friday, assigns offboarding tasks, and stores the paperwork. What it does not do is reach into Entra and set accountEnabled=false, call revokeSignInSessions, pull paid licenses, or strip group memberships. Those are IT actions in identity consoles — and in most companies they happen by hand, late, and unproven. That gap between "HR knows" and "IT did it" is exactly where orphaned-account risk lives.
Passage runs the IT deprovisioning as a gated, provable leaver run: real disable/revoke/reclaim actions across Microsoft 365, Google, Okta, and JumpCloud; human steps (mailbox, device) tracked with owners; a closure gate that won't let the run finish until critical steps are done; and a hash-anchored evidence record mapped to SOC 2, HIPAA, NIST 800-171, and CMMC.
| Capability | Passage | BambooHR |
|---|---|---|
| HR record, term date, paperwork | No — by design | Yes |
| Disable accounts in Entra / Google | Yes | No |
| Revoke active sign-in sessions | Yes | No |
| Reclaim paid licenses & SaaS seats | Yes | No |
| Device-return enforced as closure gate | Yes | Task reminder only |
| Hash-anchored audit evidence | Yes | No |
| Works alongside your HRIS | Yes (term-date trigger) | Is the HRIS |
Comparison reflects the HR-suite vs IT-deprovisioning split as of 2026; verify current BambooHR capabilities directly, as vendor offerings change.
This isn't a rip-and-replace pitch. Keep BambooHR for HR; add Passage for the IT actions it was never built to perform. A term date set in your HRIS can trigger a draft leaver run in Passage, so the moment HR knows, IT is already executing. See the offboarding checklist for everything that run covers.
No. BambooHR manages the HR offboarding workflow but does not disable Microsoft 365 or Google accounts, revoke sessions, or reclaim licenses. Those IT actions are what Passage runs and proves.
Yes — they solve different halves. BambooHR owns the HR record and term date; Passage takes the trigger and runs the IT deprovisioning, then emits audit evidence. Complementary, not competing.