BambooHR® vs. Rippling HCM

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
BambooHR®
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
BambooHR is an cloud-based human resources solution that provides onboarding, payroll, and benefits management. It also offers automated time-off management and employee self-service.
$10
per month per user
Rippling HCM
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
Rippling HR is a human resources platform for managing employee records, onboarding, benefits, time and attendance, compliance, and other core people operations in one system. It serves as the HR layer of the broader Rippling platform, giving companies a central place to manage the employee lifecycle while connecting HR data to payroll, IT, and finance workflows when needed.
$8
per month per user
Pricing
BambooHR®Rippling HCM
Editions & Modules
Core
$10
per month per user
Pro
Contact Sales
per month
Elite
Contact Sales
per month
Recommended
$8.00
starting price per user, per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BambooHR®Rippling HCM
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsFor additional pricing details visit the Rippling pricing page.
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Community Pulse
BambooHR®Rippling HCM
Considered Both Products
BambooHR®
Chose BambooHR®
I did not select BambooHR, it was already in use and it works well for the size of the company so there is no reason to change it. Paylocity has better payroll functionality but is lacking on the HRIS side, so BambooHR and Paylocity are somewhat comparable. In my opinion, avoid …
Chose BambooHR®
I've used a few different tools for payroll and benefits. I used Rippling a while ago. I remember it was also pretty easy to use. Paylocity was also pretty easy to use, as far as I remember. Since I'm not the HR rep evaluating the tools for the benefits side, I don't have much …
Chose BambooHR®
BambooHR® was able to provide excellent value for money when compared to the other options we looked at when we carried out a review of them. A previous member of the team had also used BambooHR® at another company and rated them highly which influenced our decision greatly. …
Chose BambooHR®
BambooHR's system was easier to set up with their support team than previous vendors I've used.
Chose BambooHR®
When reviewing which HRIS to go with, BambooHR came out on top for a few reasons. One was the cost compared to others and what you get for that cost. It saved the company money versus what we had, including Lever, ADP, Calamari, etc., and condensed it into one system. Next, the …
Chose BambooHR®
We were already using BambooHR when I started, and I will be switching eventually to one of the other providers if BambooHR does not do more for their Canadian customers
Chose BambooHR®
We have BambooHR because of its great interface and user-friendly design. It meets our employees' needs as well as our employer's needs. We have integrations with some programs where Bonusly isn't able to cover.
Rippling HCM
Chose Rippling HCM
I was not involved in the decision making process for our companies HR tool but I have used both Rippling and BambooHR and I prefer Rippling. i thought Rippling was more user friendly and offered more information and benefits as and HR tool. I would suggest Rippling to anyone.
Chose Rippling HCM
Rippling is more comprehensive than BambooHR in that it is an all-in-one platform that combines HR, IT, and payroll management. It’s ideal for a solution that integrates employee lifecycle management with IT tools. BambooHR is less comprehensive, in that it is primarily …
Chose Rippling HCM
I have experience using BambooHR, and though it has similarities in most features, I would say that Rippling does the job because of its functionality in contract templates that we can utilize for independent international contractors. It is very easy to navigate and set up, …
Chose Rippling HCM
Rippling has a much more modern, user-friendly approach, and it continues to build out their product suite to help create a seamlessly integrated eco-system.

BambooHR is also more modern, but doesn't seem to have the broad product suite that Rippling is pursuing. UKG felt so …
Chose Rippling HCM
Rippling is ahead of the curve on automation for HRIS systems. The others pale in comparison. If you need a system that functions as a multitool, this is doing the work that others cannot
Chose Rippling HCM
Rippling was able to do all they they could do and more. And better. A major plus for us has also been the responsiveness from Rippling that we didn't get from customer support before.
Chose Rippling HCM
Rippling is way ahead. I haven't checked the actual numbers but from our company being a somewhat younger company, we need new ways and more interaction within our programs. Rippling takes the cake by far. We're able to accurately schedule emails, deliver payroll, send …
Chose Rippling HCM
Rippling has a better overall interface, making it easier to keep everything organized and find important information fast. It is also much better at integrating with third party tools, which means we can extend and modify it to fit our needs almost perfectly. This flexibility …
Chose Rippling HCM
The company decided to switch to Rippling for better data management and because it offers more up-to-date features for both the company and employees.

La compañía decidió realizar el cambio a Rippling por mejor manejo de la información y por qué cuentas con funciones más …
Chose Rippling HCM
I think Rippling has more features and is easier to navigate than BambooHR.
Chose Rippling HCM
Really good as everything is under one umbrella. In collage we had to struggle to see what gets integrated or not.
But with Rippling you have everything is infront of me. I just feel more comfortable regarding making things employee changes and things that employees need. this …
Chose Rippling HCM
Its ease of use, security, user friendly UI helped us a lot
Chose Rippling HCM
Rippling has a user friendly interface that allows employees to apply for leave and workfrom home easily as compared to bamboo hr Rippling has performance reviews and surveys, helps companies for feedback cycles. workday is also good but its for large enterprise. Rippling …
Chose Rippling HCM
Rippling has some advantages in terms of time tracking, vacation tracking, and gps tracking. We had several issues with bamboo not working in the past and stopped using it. Rippling also seems to be priced competitively, and most of these companies charge for each additional …
Chose Rippling HCM
Honest they are all better than Rippling in their respective areas, Deel.com international payments / contractor management, and tax filings, Bamboo much better for hiring, and data integrity. Gusto overall easier platform to set up and maintain. Rippling does the best job at …
Chose Rippling HCM
The reason i choose Rippling from other apps is the wide range of integrations it makes the job very easy and also it is very easy to use compared to other software that are available in the market. For me the security it provides is the best feature as it has 2-factor …
Chose Rippling HCM
In my opinion, superior reporting and easier access to manage HR & Benefits. Not too many bells and whistles, the user-friendly platform and data set pulls are great for myself and my clients.
Chose Rippling HCM
Rippling felt more familiar and simpler to use. And our team had previously used Rippling so we were all familiar with it.
Chose Rippling HCM
Rippling seemed to align more with where we wanted to go as an organization than the other software options that we reviewed as part of the selection process. Rippling is continuing to expand their product offerings and it already connects with a number of apps. I really feel …
Chose Rippling HCM
I love that Rippling offers all of these services in one platform
Chose Rippling HCM
Rippling is just far more robust in terms of how it tries to do roll it all into one neat interface for both users and admins, along with the ability to generate customized reports that assist us with doing company-wide support ops, drilldowns or generally massive sweeps.

Chose Rippling HCM
Rippling is much more intuitive. The UI is much more simple to navigate and does not require you to dig through several menus to find what you need like others do. I remember constant frustration trying to remember where certain features were located in other apps, but Rippling …
Features
BambooHR®Rippling HCM
Human Resource Management
Comparison of Human Resource Management features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR®
7.9
323 Ratings
3% below category average
Rippling HCM
9.0
1133 Ratings
10% above category average
Employee demographic data8.3283 Ratings8.7807 Ratings
Employment history8.1284 Ratings8.8835 Ratings
Job profiles and administration8.1293 Ratings9.1945 Ratings
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.7.7265 Ratings9.1844 Ratings
Organizational charting7.8298 Ratings9.1982 Ratings
Organization and location management8.1283 Ratings9.2877 Ratings
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)7.4166 Ratings9.0673 Ratings
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR®
7.6
219 Ratings
7% below category average
Rippling HCM
9.2
1179 Ratings
12% above category average
Pay calculation8.1160 Ratings9.31064 Ratings
Support for external payroll vendors7.0114 Ratings00 Ratings
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment7.4115 Ratings9.0749 Ratings
Benefit plan administration7.1165 Ratings8.91028 Ratings
Direct deposit files8.2158 Ratings9.51034 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management7.9173 Ratings9.4799 Ratings
Reimbursement management7.5106 Ratings9.3701 Ratings
Leave and Attendance Management
Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR®
8.8
279 Ratings
8% above category average
Rippling HCM
9.3
1058 Ratings
13% above category average
Approval workflow8.7274 Ratings9.41021 Ratings
Balance details8.5260 Ratings9.3973 Ratings
Annual carry-forward and encashment9.2129 Ratings9.3727 Ratings
Employee Self Service
Comparison of Employee Self Service features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR®
8.5
311 Ratings
4% above category average
Rippling HCM
9.2
1226 Ratings
12% above category average
View and generate pay and benefit information8.5206 Ratings9.41162 Ratings
Update personal information8.9306 Ratings9.51212 Ratings
View company policy documentation8.4264 Ratings9.31010 Ratings
Employee recognition7.9187 Ratings8.5679 Ratings
View job history8.8277 Ratings9.0874 Ratings
Asset Management
Comparison of Asset Management features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR®
9.1
74 Ratings
13% above category average
Rippling HCM
8.8
527 Ratings
9% above category average
Tracking of all physical assets9.174 Ratings8.8528 Ratings
HR Reporting
Comparison of HR Reporting features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR®
7.2
240 Ratings
4% below category average
Rippling HCM
9.0
639 Ratings
18% above category average
Report builder7.4232 Ratings8.7619 Ratings
Pre-built reports7.5230 Ratings9.0585 Ratings
Ability to combine HR data with external data6.9170 Ratings9.2531 Ratings
Onboarding
Comparison of Onboarding features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR®
8.2
260 Ratings
3% above category average
Rippling HCM
9.4
874 Ratings
16% above category average
New hire portal8.4247 Ratings9.5851 Ratings
Manager tracking tools7.9224 Ratings9.3667 Ratings
Performance and Goals
Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR®
7.9
182 Ratings
2% below category average
Rippling HCM
9.0
517 Ratings
11% above category average
Corporate goal setting7.0133 Ratings9.1445 Ratings
Individual goal setting7.9176 Ratings8.9475 Ratings
Line-of sight-visibility9.169 Ratings9.1441 Ratings
Performance tracking7.6168 Ratings8.9472 Ratings
Performance Management
Comparison of Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR®
7.8
202 Ratings
1% below category average
Rippling HCM
9.3
598 Ratings
16% above category average
Performance plans7.3187 Ratings9.2528 Ratings
Performance improvement plans7.3160 Ratings9.2500 Ratings
Review status tracking8.697 Ratings9.2531 Ratings
Review reminders8.1101 Ratings9.4563 Ratings
Multiple review frequency7.7176 Ratings9.3488 Ratings
Succession Planning
Comparison of Succession Planning features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR®
9.1
81 Ratings
14% above category average
Rippling HCM
9.1
438 Ratings
14% above category average
Create succession plans/pools8.946 Ratings9.1364 Ratings
Candidate ranking9.067 Ratings9.1375 Ratings
Candidate search9.068 Ratings9.2393 Ratings
Candidate development9.359 Ratings9.0374 Ratings
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR®
7.9
212 Ratings
1% above category average
Rippling HCM
8.9
502 Ratings
13% above category average
Job Requisition Management7.7161 Ratings9.0400 Ratings
Company Website Posting7.6172 Ratings9.0383 Ratings
Publish to Social Media9.291 Ratings9.1339 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting7.4168 Ratings8.8350 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention7.588 Ratings9.0349 Ratings
Applicant Tracking8.0190 Ratings8.8385 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts8.1202 Ratings9.0471 Ratings
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User Ratings
BambooHR®Rippling HCM
Likelihood to Recommend
8.3
(333 ratings)
9.1
(1285 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.9
(17 ratings)
8.9
(28 ratings)
Usability
8.7
(260 ratings)
9.3
(1282 ratings)
Availability
9.3
(5 ratings)
9.1
(4 ratings)
Performance
8.7
(5 ratings)
8.8
(4 ratings)
Support Rating
8.2
(159 ratings)
8.9
(959 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.6
(2 ratings)
Online Training
8.3
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.6
(6 ratings)
7.9
(14 ratings)
Configurability
7.4
(5 ratings)
7.5
(3 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
8.4
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.6
(2 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.9
(5 ratings)
9.1
(3 ratings)
Professional Services
9.2
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.9
(4 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.1
(4 ratings)
8.6
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
BambooHR®Rippling HCM
Likelihood to Recommend
BambooHR
The best use of it is for employee tracking and vacation requests. It can also be used for payroll; however, my company uses a separate program for that. The best use for it, in my opinion, is staff performance management. All the notes and documents can be added/attached to the employee. You can click on an employee's profile and see what days they have been off, how close they are to achieving goals, etc.
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Rippling
It has a favourites section for commonly used functions. This is perfect for logging in pre-sift and managing my timekeeping. It is easy to view my payslip. It is well-documented and accurate, and it also provides me with an accurate timeline for when to expect my pay to clear. Overall, very easy to use and great interface.
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Pros
BambooHR
  • Ease of use for established staff and admins, all the way down to brand new hires.
  • Integrations, especially for posting and managing jobs during the hiring process.
  • Making regularly occurring things like meetings and assessments easy to customize and to action easily.
  • Being able to assign out tasks for onboarding and offboarding.
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Rippling
  • Keeping track of and entering time off and watching time of approvals
  • Providing fast links to access accounts for health/retirement benefits
  • Extremely convenient access to see how much money is left in my flexible savings account and reordering a new card if I need one
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Cons
BambooHR
  • No file viewer (need to download the attachments).
  • No option to enable notifications if certain people are out (you can just check, but it would be nice to have).
  • No customization of my personal view (f.e., i can't have the PTO page be my default).
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Rippling
  • Rippling could improve their payment days. Currently they make employee payments around the 15th and 30th of the month, but it varies slightly with every month. It would make more sense to do this payment on every other Friday or every other Monday.
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Likelihood to Renew
BambooHR
There's nothing wrong with this platform. I would recommend it to any business starting with more than 10 employees. I will continue to use the program for as long as I need to, hoping they continue being tremendous and finding other ways to incorporate more technology.
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Rippling
I've been fully impressed with the tool so far in my 6 months of being a daily user. It's rare to run into an issue that can't be solved. Customer service is quick to respond and are usually very helpful. The price is great for the upgrade we got from our past tool. We hit our ROI within the first month.
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Usability
BambooHR
I had never used BambooHR® before and when I was hired the company already had the software but no one truly owned it (no HR previous to me) so I had to simply log in and figure things out for myself. Extremely intuitive! If there was anything I wanted to figure out or learn more about, the resources, step-by-step instructions and videos were there for support.
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Rippling
I think you are redundant with these questions. I have mentioned how easy of to use and a great tool for tracking activity. It wastes no time and has what you need. I am pleased with its usability, and if it were up to me, I would keep using it.
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Reliability and Availability
BambooHR
Yes, there is a huge team in the back of the online platform or it looks like it because I have never been left without an answer when I have a question or waiting from a response on my chat .... There must be a huge team, this is so great and I always seem to have someone that is very knowledgeable too. So many times in the past I had to leave with customer service that would connect you with someone else because of the expertise, here everyone seems to be some kind of an expert in the HR function.
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Rippling
I like that the availability in using Rippling at any given time is useful to me. Getting on the site freely when I need gives me security of knowing that I can be in control of viewing health insurance and hours information. I have yet to get any errors in using the Rippling app.
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Performance
BambooHR
I love BambooHR. Reports are easy to run and download and it usually covers any types of requests I get from the management team. You get excel or .csv downloads/reports and it is fast and simple, not too crowded so it is easy to read through. We don't integrate the tool yet but again, soon we will. we just did not had the time to utilize it yet but that's the plan.
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Rippling
Rippling's performance has been great, no errors or glitches yet so far. I am confident that Going from one page to the next and all its complexity usage does not lag or times out, it works effectively and efficiently. While using Rippling and other apps it does not tend to slow it down, works great. No complaints.
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Support Rating
BambooHR
Support has always been excellent. I was skeptical about not having a dedicated account manager at first, but my concerns were quickly eased. I love the different options for communication. Being able to chat, send emails or call a representative are great so that my workflow isn't disrupted by having to complete a call. I have never had an issue reaching anyone and the email follow up is great!
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Rippling
They have been quite responsive to questions and clarifying settings, approaches, listening to feedback. Their knowledge base and training seem well-established and user-focused. Really like their offerings in Rippling U to help orient admins on features, functionality, and best practices. The IT implementation specialist was kind, efficient, and walked us through each screen, explaining different scenarios as we got things configured. They followed up after each call with action items, recommendations, and made themselves available between working sessions. The whole process felt very productive.
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In-Person Training
BambooHR
I didn't have in-person training besides teaching my managers how to use the program. However, I couldn't omit this question (maybe a system glitch).
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Rippling
The trainer went slow and and answered our questions.
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Online Training
BambooHR
Overall this training was great and our implementation specialist was wonderful and very helpful. We felt really prepared once our training was completed, But we could get additional help immediately even when we were live. The continuation Support heros after implementation are wonderful and you can always get a LIVE person each time you call into their office.
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Rippling
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
BambooHR
We implemented bambooHR in Fall, 2023 then implemented Payroll 1/1/24. A vital piece of information was not known or missed in that we are exempt from State Unemployment Tax and have a Reimbursement Set-up, so bambooHR did not send Payroll Reports to the State. Those reports need to be sent regardless if we are exempt or not.
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Rippling
It's really easy to implement in comparison to other tools or applications. Different key points are easily configured and implemented as per need, having different configurations in systems. Implementation is something which binds the different parameters of an organization in a single row. Implementation of rippling is much easier, quicker, and error free than any other software. I recommend it strongly!
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Alternatives Considered
BambooHR
BambooHR® was a great fit for our organization of 75-100 people. We became too big for our small custom MS Access system but not big enough for Workday. Lattice was more of an employee engagement and performance management system and didn't have some of the HR management and API integration we wanted. BambooHR® was robust enough to scale with us and provided the features and functionality we needed.
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Rippling
Rippling far outshines Employment Hero from an LMS perspective; the EH LMS is really bad and has very little functionality, as well as being completely user-unfriendly. The UE is much better with Rippling, no more searching for things that are in obscure places or running reports that need refining to the extreme.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
BambooHR
Since my organization has dropped with employees, I always find ways to reduce costs. I thought there would be a cheaper option, but I was glad that my package included a lot for the price, and downgrading would cost more. The rep could have let me downgraded and taken me to a higher package. I am thankful that didn't happen.
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Rippling
No answers on this topic
Scalability
BambooHR
There is so much you can do with this platform, it is incredible and so welcoming. We don't utilize it 100% yet just because we are growing and the HR team has not been able to concentrate on other areas offered to us but but we will soon. Which is also why we got the product, specifically because what BambooHR can do to help us meet our growing business needs.
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Rippling
I can go on here and see all my hours and pto plus health benefits. I like to have the work handbook handy to refer to legal things. How to work my role within it's limits. Being able to put in my hours and view when they are approved is a huge benefit for me.
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Professional Services
BambooHR
VERY professional!
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Rippling
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
BambooHR
  • HR team members have been saved thousands of hours over the 3.5 years we've had BambooHR®. It saved me personally several hours a day once BambooHR® was set up. Specifically, onboarding, offboarding, and a formal Hiring system are the major time savers.
  • Employee Information is much easier to access and is all centralized. Employees are empowered to update their information when applicable, and we have designed custom access levels for different positions and managers to ensure every individual is seeing the appropriate types of information about employees.
  • We saved significant money by switching from Lattice to BambooHR®'s Performance Management solution. This solution is less advanced, but the simplicity meets our needs perfectly fine, and it even saves time for managers and employees by BambooHR®'s standard questions, carefully designed to get to the heart of performance and improvement.
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Rippling
  • It was great to receive money from other country.
  • It was very helpful to use an user friendly platform for my first oversea job.
  • It was great to keep track of the amount of money I've received for the time I was employed overseas.
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ScreenShots

BambooHR® Screenshots

Screenshot of the Job Info tabScreenshot of Onboarding TasksScreenshot of a New Hire PacketScreenshot of an Employee Performance ReportScreenshot of Employee Satisfaction (eNPS®)Screenshot of Open Enrollment

Rippling HCM Screenshots

Screenshot of the Rippling Dashboard: Employees' home for their payroll, benefits, documents, devices, expenses, and apps.Screenshot of Rippling Payroll: Runs payroll in 90 seconds. Pays employees and contractors around the world. Automatic tax filing.Screenshot of Rippling Benefits Administration: For the management of employees' Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, FSA, HSA, and commuter benefits.Screenshot of Rippling Single Sign-On: Employees can access all of their SaaS apps in one click from their Rippling dashboard.Screenshot of Rippling’s Time & Attendance platform. This integrates with the rest of the product suite so that when employees clock in, their approved hours automatically synced with payroll and accounting systems.Screenshot of Rippling Mobile Device Management: To manage employees' computers and devices 100% remotely.