Rippling HCM vs. UKG Ready

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
UKG Ready
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
The UKG Ready® software suite is a centralized HCM solution designed for small to mid-sized businesses. It automates and streamlines HR, payroll, benefits, time, talent, and scheduling processes. UKG Ready's suite of tools offer actionable insights while helping to ensure compliance. Using AI, it draws on work, people, and culture data to boost efficiency and productivity. For example, UKG Ready streamlines core HR functions by centralizing…N/A
Pricing
Rippling HCMUKG Ready
Editions & Modules
Recommended
$8.00
starting price per user, per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Rippling HCMUKG Ready
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeRequired
Additional DetailsFor additional pricing details visit the Rippling pricing page.
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Community Pulse
Rippling HCMUKG Ready
Considered Both Products
Rippling HCM
Chose Rippling HCM
UKG's system is ancient and their sales staff was bordering harassment. Paylocity was a very close second for us, in the end their system was just way to similar to the "frankensteined" Paycor system, just parts bought over the decades and jammed together to create one system …
UKG Ready
Chose UKG Ready
UKG Ready reporting is one of their best features. If you enter data into the system you can run a report on it and export it in multiple formats. It is an invaluable tool which most other payroll/HR platforms lack.
Features
Rippling HCMUKG Ready
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
UKG Ready
8.0
259 Ratings
2% below category average
Employee demographic data8.7808 Ratings9.1229 Ratings
Employment history8.8838 Ratings8.5220 Ratings
Job profiles and administration9.2948 Ratings8.5224 Ratings
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.9.1845 Ratings7.6209 Ratings
Organizational charting9.1984 Ratings6.4170 Ratings
Organization and location management9.1880 Ratings7.7197 Ratings
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)9.0673 Ratings8.5171 Ratings
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
Rippling HCM
9.2
1180 Ratings
12% above category average
UKG Ready
8.4
251 Ratings
3% above category average
Pay calculation9.31065 Ratings8.9233 Ratings
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment9.0750 Ratings8.4126 Ratings
Benefit plan administration8.91028 Ratings8.4186 Ratings
Direct deposit files9.51035 Ratings8.9193 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management9.4800 Ratings8.1177 Ratings
Reimbursement management9.3702 Ratings8.05 Ratings
Support for external payroll vendors00 Ratings7.9140 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
UKG Ready
8.0
226 Ratings
2% below category average
Approval workflow9.41024 Ratings7.7209 Ratings
Balance details9.2976 Ratings7.6216 Ratings
Annual carry-forward and encashment9.1730 Ratings8.7187 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
UKG Ready
8.0
239 Ratings
3% below category average
View and generate pay and benefit information9.41163 Ratings8.4220 Ratings
Update personal information9.51215 Ratings8.3227 Ratings
View company policy documentation9.31013 Ratings8.2187 Ratings
Employee recognition8.4681 Ratings6.96 Ratings
View job history8.9877 Ratings8.1194 Ratings
Asset Management
Comparison of Asset Management features of Product A and Product B
Rippling HCM
8.7
528 Ratings
8% above category average
UKG Ready
8.7
91 Ratings
8% above category average
Tracking of all physical assets8.7530 Ratings8.791 Ratings
HR Reporting
Comparison of HR Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Rippling HCM
8.8
641 Ratings
16% above category average
UKG Ready
8.1
242 Ratings
7% above category average
Report builder8.6622 Ratings8.5236 Ratings
Pre-built reports8.9587 Ratings8.7236 Ratings
Ability to combine HR data with external data8.9534 Ratings7.211 Ratings
Onboarding
Comparison of Onboarding features of Product A and Product B
Rippling HCM
9.2
876 Ratings
14% above category average
UKG Ready
7.7
169 Ratings
3% below category average
New hire portal9.4853 Ratings7.9167 Ratings
Manager tracking tools9.1670 Ratings7.5139 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
UKG Ready
7.7
107 Ratings
5% below category average
Corporate goal setting9.1445 Ratings8.36 Ratings
Individual goal setting8.9475 Ratings7.199 Ratings
Line-of sight-visibility9.1441 Ratings8.17 Ratings
Performance tracking8.8474 Ratings7.1105 Ratings
Performance Management
Comparison of Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
Rippling HCM
9.2
600 Ratings
15% above category average
UKG Ready
8.0
133 Ratings
1% above category average
Performance plans9.2531 Ratings7.3121 Ratings
Performance improvement plans9.1503 Ratings7.5110 Ratings
Review status tracking9.2534 Ratings8.7118 Ratings
Review reminders9.4566 Ratings8.8124 Ratings
Multiple review frequency9.3488 Ratings7.8108 Ratings
Succession Planning
Comparison of Succession Planning features of Product A and Product B
Rippling HCM
9.1
438 Ratings
14% above category average
UKG Ready
6.9
54 Ratings
13% below category average
Create succession plans/pools9.1364 Ratings6.146 Ratings
Candidate ranking9.1375 Ratings6.827 Ratings
Candidate search9.2393 Ratings7.432 Ratings
Candidate development9.1374 Ratings7.327 Ratings
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
Rippling HCM
8.9
503 Ratings
13% above category average
UKG Ready
7.2
137 Ratings
8% below category average
Job Requisition Management9.0401 Ratings7.7118 Ratings
Company Website Posting8.9384 Ratings8.0113 Ratings
Publish to Social Media9.1340 Ratings6.687 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting8.7351 Ratings7.293 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention9.0349 Ratings6.289 Ratings
Applicant Tracking8.8386 Ratings7.9118 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts9.0472 Ratings7.3126 Ratings
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User Ratings
Rippling HCMUKG Ready
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
(1288 ratings)
8.2
(286 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.9
(28 ratings)
8.0
(19 ratings)
Usability
9.3
(1285 ratings)
8.2
(169 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(4 ratings)
5.0
(4 ratings)
Performance
8.8
(4 ratings)
5.0
(8 ratings)
Support Rating
8.9
(960 ratings)
5.0
(75 ratings)
In-Person Training
8.6
(2 ratings)
7.8
(2 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
6.0
(4 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.9
(14 ratings)
5.0
(11 ratings)
Configurability
7.5
(3 ratings)
5.0
(5 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.1
(2 ratings)
6.0
(131 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.1
(3 ratings)
3.0
(4 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.1
(2 ratings)
5.0
(4 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
8.6
(2 ratings)
5.0
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
Rippling HCMUKG Ready
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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UKG
UKG Ready is a terrific platform for companies with a
dedicated individual or team to administer the solution. Reporting is robust, and the solution is very powerful when workflows and access are configured
appropriately. Training for administrators is thorough and also time intensive.
Small teams with limited capacity to learn the system and complete
trainings during implementation will take longer to get up to speed with all
the features and may struggle with troubleshooting issues without Support. Our
small team continued to make some manual changes until we could learn more
about the tools that could automate the activity (implementing cost of
living adjustments on each employee's anniversary date, for
example). As a result, some of our processes took longer in the new
platform until we could either gain more experience in the solution, complete the trainings, or get help from support. UKG Ready is a powerful, sophisticated solution that allows customization to meet most needs. Multi-layered activities that may assign tasks or "to do items" and also require multiple approvers can be accomplished with UKG Ready. These robust features will also require thoughtful planning and configuration in workflows and/or security profiles to ensure automating these activities is seamless.
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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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UKG
  • Support—UKG support, from the Account Managers to CSMs to Ready Support, is amazing. They are always willing to help!
  • Documentation—UKG has built-in online documentation, which is a live, easy-to-use version of a very lengthy manual.
  • Ease of use- the system is intuitive, easy to train others to use.
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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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UKG
  • Custom reporting is not intuitive
  • Learning and training is poor and has not provided our team with a way to approach our problems in a cost-effective and meaningful way
  • Consistent glitches in some areas result in errors that persist through multiple payrolls despite a thorough review of all settings
  • Reports don't live in the same place, multiple types of reports exist in multiple places with little explanation of the difference. We often build custom reports only to have them disappear or have to spend a long time trying to find them.
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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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UKG
We plan to renew our support and use of UKG Ready each year unless it becomes unavailable or the district seeks another vendor. As of now, there are no plans to changes vendors. The district staff is now familiar with using UKG. Another vendor will need to meet the same expectations we have come to enjoy with using UKG
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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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UKG
We have been very happy with the product. Occasionally, there are things we run into that do not seem so clear, yet the customer service provided by UKG community and service cases is unparalleled. Their specialists have been great to take the time to walk us through how to properly set up open enrollment and we appreciate the written follow up from the service cases so we can save the instructions.
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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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UKG
The system seems very stable. Being hosted in the cloud, we are vulnerable to internet speeds and busy times. The system has been down a couple times over the 3 months we have been live, but Kronos resolved the issues very quickly. To have access from a desktop, tablet, time clock, or phone app is one of the best features....users have almost NO REASON they can't clock in.
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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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UKG
We were always told that Kronos was the best, but there are reports that we got out of ADP and other payroll providers that we cannot get out of Kronos. One example is a report of Productive/Non-productive hours by department. We also need the dollar amount associated with the hours. This is information that is required on our cost report and we were told that that report is unavailable. It is very frustrating when I can't get what I need.
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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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UKG
If I was only rating support itself that would be a 10. Every support case I have entered has been addressed efficiently and with the desired result. On the implementation and transition to support there were multiple issues that those doing the implementation or transition could not answer or workflows and various settings left undone only to be discovered later. We implemented 3 different modules and the expertise we got for each one varied widely.
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In-Person Training
Rippling
The trainer went slow and and answered our questions.
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UKG
Our in-person training was a hybrid. Live online training with an instructor. They were very knowledgeable of the product & the area they were training on. I asked several specific questions and if they didn't know the answer immediately they followed up after class.
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Online Training
Rippling
No answers on this topic
UKG
Pretty good online training, you have many how to options and can watch them several times. It can be hard at times to dig through the amount of data online but can usually find what you are looking for. Also you can download documentation for setting up the profiles and policies.
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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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UKG
Make sure the people who are doing the build have extensive knowledge on employment law and asking the right questions. I would bet that the people who helped with our builds did not read any of our employment contracts or ordinances; and when I asked questions about how other companies handled certain basic dictates from federal employment laws, they didn't have any idea what FMLA, FLSA, etc were.
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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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UKG
UKG is much easier to use and customize for our business needs. I enjoy that the time piece is directly connected with the payroll function. This is something that we didn't see when working with Paylocity. There was a manual time data upload that we needed to process into the Payroll function to process payroll. UKG has this setup and it's just a click of a button, so simple!
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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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UKG
Thus far we are able to add as many users as necessary, implement 3 different bargaining units, 5 different types of user groups. Very flexible.
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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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UKG
  • This is basic, but we finally know how many employees we have! It sounds ridiculous, but prior to UKG Ready we were on a payroll system that's reports were only as accurate as the last payroll cycle, so they were always 2 weeks behind and static. UKG Ready allows for realtime, daily reporting of information.
  • We are able to get salary data for our various locations to be able to compare them to each other, as well as across our "competitors" and external competition.
  • The data provided allows us to be able to understand the trends at individual locations including attrition, advancement, raise information, and other data points that we haven't historically done comparisons on
  • We can see the demographic and geographical information for our employees and the benefits that they elect
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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.

UKG Ready Screenshots

Screenshot of the employee mobile interface.Screenshot of trust index survey results.Screenshot of the manager dashboard.Screenshot of payroll analytics.