Rippling vs. Trello

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Rippling
Score 9.0 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
Trello
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Trello from Atlassian is a project management tool based on a Kanban framework. Trello is ideal for task-management in a to-do list format. It supports sharing boards and cards across users or teams. The product offers a free version, and paid versions add greater automation, collaboration, and administrative control.
$6
per month per user
Pricing
RipplingTrello
Editions & Modules
Recommended
$8.00
starting price per user, per month
Standard
$6
per month per user
Premium
$12.50
per month per user
Enterprise
$17.50
per month per user
Free
Forever Free
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
RipplingTrello
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.A discount is offered for annual billing and for larger numbers of users.
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Community Pulse
RipplingTrello
Considered Both Products
Rippling
Chose Rippling
Significantly better reporting. And end user compatilibility. Much more compatibility for administration as well.
Chose Rippling
I would really like to know why Workday didn’t work...

1 - I submitted my diploma. It was accepted, but for three months I kept getting an error message saying I hadn’t submitted it. I’d talk to support, and they’d say I hadn’t submitted the diploma, but after checking, they'd …
Chose Rippling
Rippling is a far more scalable solution and the offer encompasses a far greater universe of people ops needs such as Healthcare, 401K, etc. Gusto was a great option when we had sub 50 employees and were looking for the most affordable option. Gusto is not a bad offering by any …
Chose Rippling
Very similar to Zenefits. Actually, Rippling is identical. One great thing that Rippling does in comparison is that the enrollment process is significantly easier for things such as benefits. Gusto did not explain things as well as Rippling. I prefer the app structure in …
Chose Rippling
Much easier to use from an admin, manager, and team member perspective. Too clunky and challenging to make changes. Managers' roles weren't very robust so the admins had to make changes on our behalf.
As an employee, the tool was even worse. It just wasn't great and was …
Chose Rippling
The navigation of this platform is atrocious. recording time, was a drawn-up multi-click process, which made reporting extremely time-consuming. The reminders would never show up in my inbox (spam filtered), so understanding deliverables from HR became challenging. Finding …
Chose Rippling
Once onboarded, the process is seamless. We love how it unifies everything the HR and admin prefer without unnecessary hassles, maintaining documents and files across the organization. It also has some really well-built and robust integrations, which made our lives simpler. …
Trello

No answer on this topic

Features
RipplingTrello
Human Resource Management
Comparison of Human Resource Management features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
9.1
1097 Ratings
11% above category average
Trello
-
Ratings
Employee demographic data8.9779 Ratings00 Ratings
Employment history8.9804 Ratings00 Ratings
Job profiles and administration9.1916 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.9.2814 Ratings00 Ratings
Organizational charting9.2948 Ratings00 Ratings
Organization and location management9.2843 Ratings00 Ratings
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)9.0650 Ratings00 Ratings
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
9.3
1144 Ratings
13% above category average
Trello
-
Ratings
Pay calculation9.31030 Ratings00 Ratings
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment9.0718 Ratings00 Ratings
Benefit plan administration9.01000 Ratings00 Ratings
Direct deposit files9.51003 Ratings00 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management9.4770 Ratings00 Ratings
Reimbursement management9.3676 Ratings00 Ratings
Leave and Attendance Management
Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
9.3
1026 Ratings
13% above category average
Trello
-
Ratings
Approval workflow9.4990 Ratings00 Ratings
Balance details9.3942 Ratings00 Ratings
Annual carry-forward and encashment9.3698 Ratings00 Ratings
Employee Self Service
Comparison of Employee Self Service features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
9.2
1191 Ratings
12% above category average
Trello
-
Ratings
View and generate pay and benefit information9.41127 Ratings00 Ratings
Update personal information9.51177 Ratings00 Ratings
View company policy documentation9.4978 Ratings00 Ratings
Employee recognition8.6654 Ratings00 Ratings
View job history9.0843 Ratings00 Ratings
Asset Management
Comparison of Asset Management features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
8.9
508 Ratings
10% above category average
Trello
-
Ratings
Tracking of all physical assets8.9508 Ratings00 Ratings
HR Reporting
Comparison of HR Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
9.0
617 Ratings
18% above category average
Trello
-
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
Trello
-
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
499 Ratings
11% above category average
Trello
-
Ratings
Corporate goal setting9.2429 Ratings00 Ratings
Individual goal setting9.0458 Ratings00 Ratings
Line-of sight-visibility9.1424 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance tracking8.9454 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance Management
Comparison of Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
9.3
574 Ratings
17% above category average
Trello
-
Ratings
Performance plans9.2505 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance improvement plans9.2479 Ratings00 Ratings
Review status tracking9.2510 Ratings00 Ratings
Review reminders9.4539 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple review frequency9.3467 Ratings00 Ratings
Succession Planning
Comparison of Succession Planning features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
9.1
424 Ratings
15% above category average
Trello
-
Ratings
Create succession plans/pools9.1350 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate ranking9.2361 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate search9.2379 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate development9.0360 Ratings00 Ratings
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
9.0
484 Ratings
15% above category average
Trello
-
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 Alerts9.1454 Ratings00 Ratings
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
-
Ratings
Trello
8.5
222 Ratings
9% above category average
Task Management00 Ratings9.5222 Ratings
Resource Management00 Ratings9.3185 Ratings
Gantt Charts00 Ratings7.173 Ratings
Scheduling00 Ratings9.1168 Ratings
Workflow Automation00 Ratings8.2142 Ratings
Team Collaboration00 Ratings9.0218 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology00 Ratings8.9147 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology00 Ratings7.6115 Ratings
Document Management00 Ratings8.2159 Ratings
Email integration00 Ratings7.7146 Ratings
Mobile Access00 Ratings9.1192 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking00 Ratings9.388 Ratings
Change request and Case Management00 Ratings8.8102 Ratings
Budget and Expense Management00 Ratings7.773 Ratings
Professional Services Automation
Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
-
Ratings
Trello
6.0
72 Ratings
25% below category average
Quotes/estimates00 Ratings6.149 Ratings
Invoicing00 Ratings5.042 Ratings
Project & financial reporting00 Ratings6.758 Ratings
Integration with accounting software00 Ratings6.144 Ratings
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User Ratings
RipplingTrello
Likelihood to Recommend
9.2
(1162 ratings)
9.4
(222 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.9
(20 ratings)
10.0
(6 ratings)
Usability
9.4
(1161 ratings)
9.4
(60 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(4 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
8.7
(4 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
9.1
(877 ratings)
9.9
(81 ratings)
In-Person Training
8.6
(2 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.8
(9 ratings)
8.0
(2 ratings)
Configurability
6.8
(3 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.1
(3 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.1
(2 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
8.6
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
RipplingTrello
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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Atlassian
For teams or individuals with lots of individual tasks/details to track, Trello is perfect! It basically removes the need for a paper checklist. For those that need an overall project management tool that requires less tasks and more overarching goals, collaboration amongst various teams, and gantt charts I would suggest monday.com
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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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Atlassian
  • Helps track employees "to do before hire", "to do after hired," and "to do when employee leaves"
  • Provides important information on each employee like personal information along with data collected during the time of hire and during employment time
  • Allows more than one person to be assigned to a task per employee and will remain open until everyone involved has completed their task
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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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Atlassian
  • I use colour coding a lot so I would like a wider range of colour options.
  • Also as a visual thinker I would like to be able to easily add images to cards.
  • I would like to be able to attach a wider range of file formats to cards.
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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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Atlassian
I am very likely to renew Trello, because it doesn't cost anything to do so. I am also very likely to use Trello's upgraded features in the future because a lot of my team's data is stored on there and they have already gotten used to the platform. Trello is very easy for new team members to pick up, making the onboarding and usability very streamlined.
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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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Atlassian
Trello is incredibly intuitive, both on desktop and mobile right away. It is also full of helpful features that make it even easier to use, and is flexible enough to suit almost any organizational need. Onboarding for the software is thorough, but concise, and the service is frequently updated with even more QOL improvements.
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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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Atlassian
yes always support available when I need it!
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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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Atlassian
Never experienced issues with the above!
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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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Atlassian
I haven't reached out to their support very often and their support is very limited anyway for the free users. They do have tons of great articles and videos in their Help Center and constantly send emails with updates and add-ons to the product. The fact that I've barely ever had to contact their support team means that they've developed a great product.
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In-Person Training
Rippling
The trainer went slow and and answered our questions.
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Atlassian
It was helpful and informative! It was back before the pandemic in 2019 so I'm not sure if they still do it but I really enjoyed the experience
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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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Atlassian
For our small business, getting a few of us started well on Trello was the key, I think. As long as a couple of us were really comfortable with the interface, we could lead others and help them with any questions. From now on, anyone who works with us just naturally uses Trello for information sharing - it's just part of what we do.
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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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Atlassian
Trello is more simple and not as "robust" as the other tools, but it's easier to use and manage and understand and ACTUALLY get stuff done with. It's simplicity is part of the beauty of using it. You don't need a million options that nobody uses, you just need to get stuff done.
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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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Atlassian
Feels like anyone across the org (no matter their location) can use the tool easily!
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Professional Services
Rippling
No answers on this topic
Atlassian
Not sure if we use those
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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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Atlassian
  • Trello keeps me organized, focused, and on track. I could filter the Trello board to only see my issues and understand what I needed to work on and when.
  • Trello helped our team implement an agile structure. It's a very simple kanban method of viewing all of your team's tasks and statuses. You can completely customize the columns to your team's specific workflow and create tags relevant to your work.
  • Trello helps reduce unnecessary communications between teams. When I want to request translations, I simply create a card on the localization Trello board -- no need to directly message anyone on the team, and I can watch the status of the card change from "in progress" to "in review" to "translated," all without having to directly ask for updates.
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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.