MambaHR vs Oyster

Oyster hires and pays people in other countries.

MambaHR does the HR admin for your team at home.

Oyster is an employer of record: it legally employs people for you in other countries and handles their pay. For the team you employ in the US, MambaHR does the HR admin: leave, hiring, onboarding and compliance answers. You approve what matters.

The difference

What changes for your team.

Hiring abroad is a different job from US HR.

Oyster is built for hiring across borders. Your US team needs federal and state leave rules, state compliance and onboarding that follows up for you. MambaHR is built for that.

Requests handled, not just tracked.

Oyster gives you a platform and checklists. With MambaHR, employees ask in Slack and the admin gets done. You approve what matters.

Someone still does the US admin.

With Oyster handling people abroad, your US policy questions, offers and leave still land on a desk. MambaHR takes them off it.

Side by side

MambaHR vs Oyster.

Including the rows where Oyster does more.

MambaHROyster
Employees and managers ask in Slack✓Not included
Does the admin work, with you approving what matters✓Not included
US leave: federal family leave (FMLA) and state rules✓Basic only
Federal and state employment law answers, with the law cited✓Focus on global employment
Hiring people in other countriesNot included✓
Payroll for US employeesMambaHR prepares the changes and you approve each run. Payroll run through Deel (Powered by Deel) is an add-on on every plan.Change file, or Deel-managed✓
Hiring: job posts, applications, interviews, offersHR Ops Manager plan and up✓Global hiring only
Onboarding tasks done for you✓Partial
Time to get startedData imported in a day1 to 3 weeks
Every change logged✓Partial

Keep Oyster for people abroad. For your US team, MambaHR is one price per employee, per plan, from $14.

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Oyster is a good way to hire across borders. MambaHR does the HR admin for the team you employ at home. You can use both.

Questions

MambaHR and Oyster, answered.

Do MambaHR and Oyster work together?

Oyster is a good way to hire across borders. MambaHR does the HR admin for the team you employ at home. You can use both.

What does Oyster do that MambaHR does not?

Oyster covers these, and MambaHR does not: hiring people in other countries.

What does MambaHR cost alongside Oyster?

Keep Oyster for people abroad. For your US team, MambaHR is one price per employee, per plan, from $14. Plans are billed annually, with no yearly minimum.

How do we start with MambaHR if we use Oyster?

Your people data comes into MambaHR by CSV in a day: people, history, documents and time-off balances. Requests get handled the day after the import.

Getting started

Set up in a day, not a quarter.

Day 1

Your data imports

People, history, documents and time-off balances, imported by CSV in one pass. Nothing typed in twice.

Day 2

Requests start coming in

Slack connected, your policies loaded, approvals set to go to the right people. Employees and managers start asking.

Week 1

The admin is getting done

Time off approved within your policy, questions answered with the law cited, and the first payroll changes ready for you to approve.

See it on your own requests.

Join early access. When your group opens, we import your data and switch you over.