Moving from Bullhorn
Everything Bullhorn does.
Nothing else to buy.
One platform, one login, from $25 a user.
Free to start. No credit card.
Recruitly does all of these. And more.
Job distribution
Post to 50+ boards from the job itself, applicants back on the pipeline
Stop paying for
- Broadbean
- Idibu
- LogicMelon
Sourcing & contact data
LinkedIn sourcing built in, with email and phone enrichment
Stop paying for
- ContactOut
- Apollo
- Lusha
- SeekOut
Phone system
Click-to-dial in the record, recording, transcription and AI call summaries
Stop paying for
- Aircall
- CloudCall
- RingCentral
WhatsApp & SMS
Two-way messaging and campaigns, no Business API approval
Stop paying for
- Twilio
- Wati
- Respond.io
Email campaigns
Template builder, mailing lists, drip sequences and open tracking
Stop paying for
- Mailchimp
- Lemlist
- Woodpecker
E-signatures
Send terms and offer letters for signature, tracked on the record
Stop paying for
- DocuSign
- PandaDoc
KPIs & leaderboards
Live dashboards, goals, league boards and office TV screens
Stop paying for
- OneUp Sales
- Geckoboard
- Databox
Automation
50+ rules across every module, triggered by application, interview, placement or time
Stop paying for
- Zapier
- Make
It isn’t the licence fee
It’s what your desk looks like at 9am.
Bullhorn and the stack
Logging a call
Dial from the phone tool, find the candidate in the CRM, paste the note back. Half of it never gets written, and the database rots between audits.
Getting a role live
Write the advert in the ATS, re-key it into the posting tool, then chase why one board never went live and where the applicants went.
Sending a CV to a client
Download the CV, reformat it in Word, strip out the current employer by hand, attach it to an email and hope the formatting survives.
Knowing where you are
Export to a spreadsheet on Friday, then reconcile it against the phone system and the job boards to work out what actually happened.
Recruitly
Logging a call
The dialer is in the candidate record. One click, and the call, the recording and the AI summary are on the timeline before you have hung up.
Getting a role live
Write it once, tick the boards, send. Applicants come back onto that job's pipeline as candidates, deduplicated, with the source board recorded.
Sending a CV to a client
Branded from your own template, blind when the client needs it, watermarked — generated from the candidate record in about ten seconds.
Knowing where you are
Live pipelines, KPI goals, team leaderboards and placement revenue sit in the product. On the office TV too, if that is how your floor runs.
The real objection
“We’ve got ten years of data in Bullhorn.”
That is the real reason people stay, so here is the straight answer.
Nothing is retyped, and nothing goes live on a promise.
The full day-by-day migration planDay 1
You send a sample export
A dedicated migration specialist is assigned. They analyse a sample of your Bullhorn data and size the job against what is actually in it.
Day 5
Plan and quote signed off
You get a dated project plan before any money or data moves, so you know what happens on which day and who owns it.
Day 12
You check 100 records per module
Master data first, then a hundred records of each type, side by side with Bullhorn. Your team signs it off, not ours.
Day 14
Full load, and a second sign-off
Candidates and their CVs, branded CVs, contacts, companies, jobs, pipelines, placements, notes, emails and documents. Then you validate again.
Parallel run
Both systems live at once
You keep working in Bullhorn while you satisfy yourself about Recruitly. For a large database we insist on at least a week of this.
Friday → Monday
Delta, then go live
Your final export goes out after close on Friday, the delta is imported over the weekend, and Monday morning you start on Recruitly.
Questions people ask before they move
Is Recruitly a real alternative to Bullhorn for an agency?
Yes. Everything an agency runs on Bullhorn — candidate pipelines, client CRM, business development, placements, compliance and reporting — is here, and so are the things normally contracted separately alongside it: job board distribution, LinkedIn sourcing and contact data, a phone system, WhatsApp and SMS, branded and blind CV generation, digital signatures, email campaigns and workflow automation.
What happens to our data when we move?
A dedicated migration specialist runs it as a two-stage process. Stage one starts around a month before you switch: your Bullhorn export is analysed, mapping scripts are written, then master data and a hundred records per module go in for your team to validate against Bullhorn — only after your sign-off does the full load run, which you sign off as well. Both systems then run in parallel while you satisfy yourself. Stage two is the delta: your final export on the Friday, imported over the weekend, and you start Monday on Recruitly. Master data, notes, emails and conversation history, contacts and companies with their documents, candidates with CVs and branded CVs, jobs, pipelines and placements all come across. Bullhorn is one of the systems we migrate from most often.
Do we still need Broadbean or another multi-poster?
No. Distribution to 50+ job boards is native, including per-board field mapping, and applicants land straight back on the job as candidates rather than being captured elsewhere and synced in. Removing that handoff also removes the most common reason an advert quietly fails to appear.
Do we have to bring our own AI subscription?
No. AI candidate matching, CV rewriting, advert writing and call summaries are part of the platform and run on your own data. There is no separate key to supply and no AI module to license.
Is there anything Bullhorn does better?
High-volume contract and temp staffing with complex pay-and-bill and timesheet requirements is Bullhorn's deepest ground. If that is the core of your business it is worth a specific conversation before you move, and we will tell you plainly if you are better off where you are. For permanent and mixed agencies, the usual experience is that capabilities which were add-ons or spreadsheets become standard features.
How much does Recruitly cost?
From $25 per user per month, with everything above included and no per-module licences. Data migration from Bullhorn is a separate, quoted piece of work — it is specialist hands-on effort and we price it against your actual export rather than pretending it is free. Agencies founded within the last three years qualify for 75% off the subscription through the startup programme.
See it against your own setup
Bring a live role and we will run it end to end — advert out, applicants in, CV to the client.
Free to start. No credit card.
Best Value & Best Ease of Use · Capterra 2026 — Recruiting