Rippling HCM vs. Trakstar Hire

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
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
Trakstar Hire
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Trakstar Hire (formerly RecruiterBox) is a cloud-based ATS boasting a suite of features: a centralized candidate database, batch or mass communication with potential candidates via multiple channels such as email or by leveraging its integration with social networking sites (e.g. LinkedIn), instantaneous posting to multiple job boards, a customizable career page, resume parsing and bulk uploading, and customizable applications including questionnaires. Feedback sharing is facilitated by allowing…N/A
Pricing
Rippling HCMTrakstar Hire
Editions & Modules
Recommended
$8.00
starting price per user, per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Rippling HCMTrakstar Hire
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
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
Rippling HCMTrakstar Hire
Features
Rippling HCMTrakstar Hire
Human Resource Management
Comparison of Human Resource Management features of Product A and Product B
Rippling HCM
9.0
1135 Ratings
10% above category average
Trakstar Hire
-
Ratings
Employee demographic data8.7808 Ratings00 Ratings
Employment history8.8838 Ratings00 Ratings
Job profiles and administration9.2948 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.9.1845 Ratings00 Ratings
Organizational charting9.1984 Ratings00 Ratings
Organization and location management9.1880 Ratings00 Ratings
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)9.0673 Ratings00 Ratings
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
Rippling HCM
9.2
1180 Ratings
12% above category average
Trakstar Hire
-
Ratings
Pay calculation9.31065 Ratings00 Ratings
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment9.0750 Ratings00 Ratings
Benefit plan administration8.91028 Ratings00 Ratings
Direct deposit files9.51035 Ratings00 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management9.4800 Ratings00 Ratings
Reimbursement management9.3702 Ratings00 Ratings
Leave and Attendance Management
Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of Product A and Product B
Rippling HCM
9.2
1060 Ratings
12% above category average
Trakstar Hire
-
Ratings
Approval workflow9.41024 Ratings00 Ratings
Balance details9.2976 Ratings00 Ratings
Annual carry-forward and encashment9.1730 Ratings00 Ratings
Employee Self Service
Comparison of Employee Self Service features of Product A and Product B
Rippling HCM
9.1
1228 Ratings
10% above category average
Trakstar Hire
-
Ratings
View and generate pay and benefit information9.41163 Ratings00 Ratings
Update personal information9.51215 Ratings00 Ratings
View company policy documentation9.31013 Ratings00 Ratings
Employee recognition8.5681 Ratings00 Ratings
View job history8.9877 Ratings00 Ratings
Asset Management
Comparison of Asset Management features of Product A and Product B
Rippling HCM
8.7
528 Ratings
8% above category average
Trakstar Hire
-
Ratings
Tracking of all physical assets8.7530 Ratings00 Ratings
HR Reporting
Comparison of HR Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Rippling HCM
8.8
641 Ratings
16% above category average
Trakstar Hire
-
Ratings
Report builder8.6622 Ratings00 Ratings
Pre-built reports8.9587 Ratings00 Ratings
Ability to combine HR data with external data8.9534 Ratings00 Ratings
Onboarding
Comparison of Onboarding features of Product A and Product B
Rippling HCM
9.3
876 Ratings
15% above category average
Trakstar Hire
-
Ratings
New hire portal9.4853 Ratings00 Ratings
Manager tracking tools9.1670 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance and Goals
Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Product A and Product B
Rippling HCM
9.0
518 Ratings
11% above category average
Trakstar Hire
-
Ratings
Corporate goal setting9.1445 Ratings00 Ratings
Individual goal setting8.9475 Ratings00 Ratings
Line-of sight-visibility9.1441 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance tracking8.8474 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance Management
Comparison of Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
Rippling HCM
9.2
600 Ratings
15% above category average
Trakstar Hire
-
Ratings
Performance plans9.2531 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance improvement plans9.1503 Ratings00 Ratings
Review status tracking9.2534 Ratings00 Ratings
Review reminders9.4566 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple review frequency9.3488 Ratings00 Ratings
Succession Planning
Comparison of Succession Planning features of Product A and Product B
Rippling HCM
9.1
438 Ratings
14% above category average
Trakstar Hire
-
Ratings
Create succession plans/pools9.1364 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate ranking9.1375 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate search9.2393 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate development9.1374 Ratings00 Ratings
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
Rippling HCM
8.9
503 Ratings
13% above category average
Trakstar Hire
8.5
11 Ratings
7% above category average
Job Requisition Management9.0401 Ratings8.410 Ratings
Company Website Posting8.9384 Ratings9.29 Ratings
Publish to Social Media9.1340 Ratings7.37 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting8.7351 Ratings7.58 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention9.0349 Ratings7.811 Ratings
Applicant Tracking8.8386 Ratings9.411 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts9.0472 Ratings9.410 Ratings
Customized Application Form00 Ratings7.110 Ratings
Resume Management00 Ratings8.810 Ratings
Candidate Search00 Ratings8.510 Ratings
Collaboration00 Ratings9.410 Ratings
Task Creation and Delegation00 Ratings7.88 Ratings
Email Templates00 Ratings9.111 Ratings
User Permissions00 Ratings8.611 Ratings
Reporting00 Ratings9.77 Ratings
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Score 9.1 out of 10
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Score 9.1 out of 10
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User Ratings
Rippling HCMTrakstar Hire
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
(1288 ratings)
8.8
(11 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.9
(28 ratings)
1.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
9.3
(1285 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.8
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.9
(960 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
In-Person Training
8.6
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.9
(14 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
7.5
(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
Rippling HCMTrakstar Hire
Likelihood to Recommend
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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Mitratech
Before, it was a nightmare of spreadsheets, email templates, and needless to say, many many applicants fell through the cracks or left with a bad impression of our firm due to the poor communication. With Trakstar, we're able to easily track where every applicant is in the funnel, collect information on how they are doing, and manage the whole communication process. I love being able to work in both Gmail and in their software and I love how it tracks the conversations so that I can easily go back and review where things are with any given applicant. That said, the product is more geared toward someone that is hiring for one person per role. We make it work, but there is a lot of functionality that doesn't get used because of that
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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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Mitratech
  • You can create your own fully customized job board, so that you have indefinite openings for different types of jobs, and so that all interested parties can apply to meet certain openings. This is an excellent way to organize each candidate from the beginning.
  • Recruiterbox lets us program our own workflows within the platform, which are useful to better define the work organization that must be in place for all recruiting processes to meet the right requirements, and this is reflected in improved reporting.
  • The platform automatically creates analyses based on the resumes of each candidate, so that, depending on each resume, they are shown offers that are fully compatible with their type of employee and their previous work operations.
  • We like the customer service offered by Recruiterbox, which has been able to meet our employment needs in a short time and in a mostly accurate way. Thanks to this, we were able to solve the usage error we had with the platform and our current results are much more profitable in terms of analytics of recruitment operations.
  • Recruiterbox is an exemplary service in terms of usability mechanics, with an extraordinary ease of application and a deployment that allows us to work on different platforms without any usability problems or labor errors, as with most human talent services nowadays.
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Cons
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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Mitratech
  • The interface isn't dazzling. But it's clean. Perhaps there's some opportunity to sexy up the UI.
  • The labeling was a bit awkward, and doesn't work so cleanly when you forward a candidate to the data store, via the application email. For example, you can add the candidate manually using the web-based UI, or you can forward an application from your email client to an email alias. Also, the conversion from email-to-"creation of candidate profile" was not entirely great. But it was close enough to get the name logged in there. You just have to properly label and format the profile later, if you want the candidate repository to be well sorted and easily searchable.
  • You cannot transfer jobs from one account to another. What I mean by this is: If you have multiple organizations within a single tenant, you can move the position within that tenant. But let's say you and a colleague signed up separately, and want to merge candidate databases and job settings. It's a no go. You'll have to do a bulk import. Which kind worked out to be an imperfect migration for us.
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Likelihood to Renew
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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Mitratech
We have not renewed our subscription for Recruiterbox. Although it is a great platform with great customer service, it does not have the functionality our company needs to be able to scale and there weren't plans to develop that functionality soon.
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Usability
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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Mitratech
Recruiterbox is extremely easy to use and to learn. The only function that is difficult to use, even once you have the hang of the system, is reporting.
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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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Mitratech
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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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Mitratech
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Support Rating
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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Mitratech
The customer service has always been fantastic. We were always taken care of and no issue or problem went unsolved.
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In-Person Training
Rippling
The trainer went slow and and answered our questions.
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Mitratech
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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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Mitratech
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Alternatives Considered
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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Mitratech
Recruiterbox does not have as many features as other products I have used, however I would rate it very strong for ease of use. If you need something simple & out of the box, I had no complaints. I also experienced very few, if any, bugs while using the product.
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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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Mitratech
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Return on Investment
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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Mitratech
  • By automatically managing the recruitment process, the tool frees up the working time of different employees, which is reflected in efficiency and performance in the working day.
  • The use of Recruiterbox allowed us to generate fewer expenses in paperwork or recruitment systems, which is specifically noticeable in accounting.
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ScreenShots

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.