Rippling vs. SurveyMonkey

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Rippling
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
Rippling’s platform for HR, IT, payroll, and spend management automates the entire employee lifecycle, ensures compliance, supports device management, and provides real-time financial visibility from a central dashboard.
$8
per month per user
SurveyMonkey
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
SurveyMonkey provides free, customizable surveys, and a suite of paid, back-end programs that include data analysis, sample selection, bias elimination, and data representation tools. SurveyMonkey also offers large-scale, enterprise options for companies interested in data analysis, brand management, and consumer focused marketing.
$99
per month
Pricing
RipplingSurveyMonkey
Editions & Modules
Recommended
$8.00
starting price per user, per month
Team Advantage
$25
per month (billed annually) per user (starting at 3 users)
Team Premier
$75
per month (billed annually) per user (starting at 3 users)
Standard Monthly
$99
per month
Individual Plan - Advantage Annual
$468
per year
Individual Plan - Premier Annual
$1,428
per year
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
RipplingSurveyMonkey
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsFor additional pricing details visit the Rippling pricing page.
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Community Pulse
RipplingSurveyMonkey
Features
RipplingSurveyMonkey
Human Resource Management
Comparison of Human Resource Management features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
9.1
1093 Ratings
11% above category average
SurveyMonkey
-
Ratings
Employee demographic data8.9776 Ratings00 Ratings
Employment history8.9801 Ratings00 Ratings
Job profiles and administration9.1913 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.9.2811 Ratings00 Ratings
Organizational charting9.2946 Ratings00 Ratings
Organization and location management9.2841 Ratings00 Ratings
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)9.0648 Ratings00 Ratings
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
9.3
1141 Ratings
13% above category average
SurveyMonkey
-
Ratings
Pay calculation9.31027 Ratings00 Ratings
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment9.0717 Ratings00 Ratings
Benefit plan administration9.0998 Ratings00 Ratings
Direct deposit files9.51001 Ratings00 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management9.4769 Ratings00 Ratings
Reimbursement management9.3674 Ratings00 Ratings
Leave and Attendance Management
Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
9.3
1023 Ratings
13% above category average
SurveyMonkey
-
Ratings
Approval workflow9.4987 Ratings00 Ratings
Balance details9.3940 Ratings00 Ratings
Annual carry-forward and encashment9.3696 Ratings00 Ratings
Employee Self Service
Comparison of Employee Self Service features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
9.2
1188 Ratings
12% above category average
SurveyMonkey
-
Ratings
View and generate pay and benefit information9.41125 Ratings00 Ratings
Update personal information9.51174 Ratings00 Ratings
View company policy documentation9.4975 Ratings00 Ratings
Employee recognition8.6652 Ratings00 Ratings
View job history9.0841 Ratings00 Ratings
Asset Management
Comparison of Asset Management features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
8.9
507 Ratings
10% above category average
SurveyMonkey
-
Ratings
Tracking of all physical assets8.9507 Ratings00 Ratings
HR Reporting
Comparison of HR Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
9.0
617 Ratings
18% above category average
SurveyMonkey
-
Ratings
Report builder8.8597 Ratings00 Ratings
Pre-built reports9.1564 Ratings00 Ratings
Ability to combine HR data with external data9.2511 Ratings00 Ratings
Onboarding
Comparison of Onboarding features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
9.4
846 Ratings
16% above category average
SurveyMonkey
-
Ratings
New hire portal9.5823 Ratings00 Ratings
Manager tracking tools9.3642 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance and Goals
Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
9.0
498 Ratings
11% above category average
SurveyMonkey
-
Ratings
Corporate goal setting9.2428 Ratings00 Ratings
Individual goal setting9.0458 Ratings00 Ratings
Line-of sight-visibility9.1424 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance tracking8.9453 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance Management
Comparison of Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
9.3
572 Ratings
17% above category average
SurveyMonkey
-
Ratings
Performance plans9.2504 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance improvement plans9.2478 Ratings00 Ratings
Review status tracking9.2509 Ratings00 Ratings
Review reminders9.4537 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple review frequency9.3467 Ratings00 Ratings
Succession Planning
Comparison of Succession Planning features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
9.1
423 Ratings
15% above category average
SurveyMonkey
-
Ratings
Create succession plans/pools9.1350 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate ranking9.2361 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate search9.2378 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate development9.0360 Ratings00 Ratings
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
9.0
483 Ratings
15% above category average
SurveyMonkey
-
Ratings
Job Requisition Management9.0384 Ratings00 Ratings
Company Website Posting9.0369 Ratings00 Ratings
Publish to Social Media9.2326 Ratings00 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting8.9337 Ratings00 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention9.1337 Ratings00 Ratings
Applicant Tracking8.9370 Ratings00 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts9.1453 Ratings00 Ratings
Survey Format & Appearance
Comparison of Survey Format & Appearance features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
-
Ratings
SurveyMonkey
7.2
76 Ratings
10% below category average
Survey templates00 Ratings8.075 Ratings
Themes00 Ratings7.367 Ratings
Custom logo/branding00 Ratings6.367 Ratings
Survey Content
Comparison of Survey Content features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
-
Ratings
SurveyMonkey
7.6
78 Ratings
11% below category average
Changes to live survey00 Ratings7.062 Ratings
Question design help00 Ratings6.872 Ratings
Multiple question types00 Ratings9.078 Ratings
Survey Logic
Comparison of Survey Logic features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
-
Ratings
SurveyMonkey
7.3
72 Ratings
13% below category average
Survey logic flexibility00 Ratings7.372 Ratings
Survey Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Survey Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
-
Ratings
SurveyMonkey
7.1
78 Ratings
13% below category average
Response tracking00 Ratings7.577 Ratings
Data export00 Ratings6.374 Ratings
Standard reports00 Ratings8.077 Ratings
Custom reports00 Ratings6.864 Ratings
Analytics00 Ratings7.065 Ratings
Survey Administration & Security
Comparison of Survey Administration & Security features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
-
Ratings
SurveyMonkey
8.3
67 Ratings
4% below category average
Access controls00 Ratings8.067 Ratings
Compliance00 Ratings8.558 Ratings
Survey Distribution
Comparison of Survey Distribution features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
-
Ratings
SurveyMonkey
7.5
48 Ratings
7% below category average
Vendor-offered crowdsourcing00 Ratings7.332 Ratings
Respondent restrictions00 Ratings7.846 Ratings
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User Ratings
RipplingSurveyMonkey
Likelihood to Recommend
9.2
(1162 ratings)
8.7
(110 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.9
(20 ratings)
9.0
(26 ratings)
Usability
9.4
(1161 ratings)
9.0
(41 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(4 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
8.7
(4 ratings)
6.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
9.1
(877 ratings)
9.4
(35 ratings)
In-Person Training
8.6
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.8
(9 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Configurability
6.8
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.1
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
8.6
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
RipplingSurveyMonkey
Likelihood to Recommend
Rippling
Rippling is extremely user friendly an allows our employees to help themselves in a lot of areas that previously required HR team assistance. Three areas I feel are not well suited for our organization is the inability to reset passwords manually, allocation of hours, and the software's inability to spot a rehire with a new application. We have several associates who moonlight/pick up shifts at other locations. This is infrequent so it woudn't make sense to allocate a percentage of their time to the properties where they're moonlighting. When we manually allocate those hours to the receiving property, the allocations do not take effect on the back end for our accounting department. It's creating a lot of journal entries and back-end corrections in our Accounting software. When it comes to applications, we have a new Director of Talent Acquisition who is not familiar with every previously-hired associate. This has caused duplication of profiles when we rehire an associate. If the DoTA isn't familiar with the associate and hires them in the "talent" portion of the website, it creates a new profile for them rather than recognizing their duplicated information (such as SSN or passport number). This has caused us to end up with dupliate profiles for several rehires. The system is very tech-y it should allow us to either merge the profiles or cause a notification/error to alert the hiring person that this associate/new hire is a rehire. Our previous software (UKG) was able to do this.
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Momentive (SurveyMonkey, Inc)
SurveyMonkey is well suited for external, professional, client-facing forms and complex question types. I've tried generating forms on HubSpot, and it's not nearly as intuitive or clean-looking, and not all question types are supported (e.g. Likert scales). For quick, internal forms that don't need to be as pretty or professional, I find that Google Forms is the quickest and easiest to pull together, especially since it has a single, universal respondent link. If I wanted to embed a link in a mass email, SurveyMonkey doesn't allow multiple respondents to use the same link on my plan.
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Pros
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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Momentive (SurveyMonkey, Inc)
  • Keeps identifiable information anonymous.
  • Being able to close the survey at a set time without having to remember to do so.
  • Takes the guess work out of response collecting.
  • Makes it easy to categorize responses within the same survey. Being able to add tags to open-ended questions makes it easy for us to identify patterns in responses.
  • An array of survey options and questions.
  • An all around great product that meets multiple needs.
  • Can have multiple collectors for the same survey to included manual input.
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Cons
Rippling
  • The overall look and feel of Rippling is dated; it looks like it's straight out of the 00's.
  • The could be more functionality in the LMS, expanded features, more options, it works, and it's basic, but it could be really great with a few added features.
  • The shift from using people's personal email to log in to their work email, not everyone wants to use their personal information to log into a work system.
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Momentive (SurveyMonkey, Inc)
  • I would like to have more customizable options for branding it to our hospital colors. Some survey options allow you to enter html color codes. SurveyMonkey allows you to change colors and you have to pick from selected options.
  • Embedding the surveys into a webpage, like WordPress is not as seamless as other services.
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Likelihood to Renew
Rippling
The AI assistant has always been able to direct me to the correct solution to any question i have about Rippling. Payroll is so easy, it takes about 10 minutes to go through the process.
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Momentive (SurveyMonkey, Inc)
Compared to other competitors in the market (including a few I've used internally), if you're looking for a survey application, this one does the job and it's quite inexpensive too. Considering the fact that it comes with a handy mobile application too (on iOS and Android), you also get flexibility thrown in the deal too.
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Usability
Rippling
Very intuitive, user-friendly, and modern interface that doesn't make you cringe when you have to access it for anything. The admin navigation is easier compared to our previous system, and doesn't feel like a maze of complicated jargon. On the user side, the benefits enrollment process was a breeze, and felt so much more informative and efficient. Accessing the benefits post-enrollment is also very straightforward.
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Momentive (SurveyMonkey, Inc)
It does everything a survey software should do, and it does it very well. I can't speak for how well it would work for a business that was surveying tens of thousands of people - but for a small business of 50 employees with a couple of thousand clients, it does everything it needs to do.
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Reliability and Availability
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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Momentive (SurveyMonkey, Inc)
No answers on this topic
Performance
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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Momentive (SurveyMonkey, Inc)
still to many limitations for more complex surveys --skips, filtered questions, etc.
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Support Rating
Rippling
The highlight of my customer support experience was my first interaction with them: I had a small issue with my birthdate, and it was fixed very quickly—on the same day. It's pretty incredible to have things like that sorted out in the same day, which is a rare thing to see lately.
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Momentive (SurveyMonkey, Inc)
I've never had to contact the SurveyMonkey customer care team directly, but they have a pretty good library of help articles on their website. Everything from designing and executing your survey to account and billing questions. I never had a need for further support from Survey Monkey.
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In-Person Training
Rippling
The trainer went slow and and answered our questions.
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Momentive (SurveyMonkey, Inc)
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
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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Momentive (SurveyMonkey, Inc)
Implementation not required.
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Alternatives Considered
Rippling
We chose Rippling primarily based on cost and feature set available. As a small organization, budget is a high priority. Rippling gave us enterprise-level features at an affordable cost for an early stage start up. We appreciate that we have the opportunity to expand our feature set within Rippling as our business and workforce grow.
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Momentive (SurveyMonkey, Inc)
SurveyMonkey is easier to customize and provides much more in depth analytics. SurveyMonkey also provides better templates providing us with a better presentation to our employees. SurveyMonkey also comes with a more trustworthy platform that ensures confidentiality, which is incredibly important to our employees and means we're getting more reliable results from the surveys.
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Scalability
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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Momentive (SurveyMonkey, Inc)
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
Rippling
  • Our HR team used to spend almost three days doing payroll calculations before Rippling. This platform has cut that time down by 75%! Now they can devote the time they would've spent on payroll to other important tasks.
  • Rippling saves employees time by making time-tracking less of a headache.
  • Rippling has so many so many services that it's essentially a one-stop-shop for centralized HR solutions!
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Momentive (SurveyMonkey, Inc)
  • The speed at which we can develop, program, execute and generate actual usable results provides significant value, particularly when we need fresh numbers to illustrate a point.
  • The fact that we can execute a research project so quickly means that new research is always a primary option when we're developing campaigns. That's a huge value proposition.
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ScreenShots

Rippling 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.