Rippling vs. UKG Ready

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Rippling
Score 9.0 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 7.8 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
RipplingUKG Ready
Editions & Modules
Recommended
$8.00
starting price per user, per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
RipplingUKG 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
RipplingUKG Ready
Considered Both Products
Rippling
Chose Rippling
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
RipplingUKG Ready
Human Resource Management
Comparison of Human Resource Management features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
9.0
1124 Ratings
10% above category average
UKG Ready
8.3
252 Ratings
2% above category average
Employee demographic data8.8799 Ratings8.9222 Ratings
Employment history8.9826 Ratings8.3213 Ratings
Job profiles and administration9.1938 Ratings8.2216 Ratings
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.9.2835 Ratings8.2202 Ratings
Organizational charting9.1972 Ratings7.9164 Ratings
Organization and location management9.2867 Ratings8.2191 Ratings
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)9.0666 Ratings8.8164 Ratings
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
9.3
1171 Ratings
14% above category average
UKG Ready
8.3
245 Ratings
2% above category average
Pay calculation9.31055 Ratings8.5227 Ratings
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment9.0741 Ratings7.9121 Ratings
Benefit plan administration9.01021 Ratings8.4180 Ratings
Direct deposit files9.51026 Ratings8.6186 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management9.4792 Ratings8.8171 Ratings
Reimbursement management9.3694 Ratings7.74 Ratings
Support for external payroll vendors00 Ratings7.9139 Ratings
Leave and Attendance Management
Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
9.3
1051 Ratings
13% above category average
UKG Ready
7.9
221 Ratings
3% below category average
Approval workflow9.41014 Ratings7.4203 Ratings
Balance details9.3966 Ratings7.5211 Ratings
Annual carry-forward and encashment9.3720 Ratings8.8182 Ratings
Employee Self Service
Comparison of Employee Self Service features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
9.2
1218 Ratings
12% above category average
UKG Ready
7.5
234 Ratings
8% below category average
View and generate pay and benefit information9.41153 Ratings8.0214 Ratings
Update personal information9.51204 Ratings8.3221 Ratings
View company policy documentation9.41003 Ratings8.0181 Ratings
Employee recognition8.6672 Ratings4.72 Ratings
View job history9.0866 Ratings8.3188 Ratings
Asset Management
Comparison of Asset Management features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
8.8
521 Ratings
9% above category average
UKG Ready
8.7
90 Ratings
8% above category average
Tracking of all physical assets8.8521 Ratings8.790 Ratings
HR Reporting
Comparison of HR Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
9.0
635 Ratings
18% above category average
UKG Ready
7.5
237 Ratings
0% below category average
Report builder8.7615 Ratings8.1230 Ratings
Pre-built reports9.0581 Ratings8.4230 Ratings
Ability to combine HR data with external data9.2527 Ratings6.15 Ratings
Onboarding
Comparison of Onboarding features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
9.4
868 Ratings
16% above category average
UKG Ready
7.9
164 Ratings
1% below category average
New hire portal9.5844 Ratings8.1161 Ratings
Manager tracking tools9.3660 Ratings7.6134 Ratings
Performance and Goals
Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
9.0
514 Ratings
11% above category average
UKG Ready
6.8
102 Ratings
17% below category average
Corporate goal setting9.1442 Ratings7.31 Ratings
Individual goal setting8.9472 Ratings6.894 Ratings
Line-of sight-visibility9.1438 Ratings6.41 Ratings
Performance tracking8.9469 Ratings6.8100 Ratings
Performance Management
Comparison of Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
9.3
594 Ratings
17% above category average
UKG Ready
7.5
128 Ratings
5% below category average
Performance plans9.2524 Ratings6.7115 Ratings
Performance improvement plans9.2496 Ratings6.7105 Ratings
Review status tracking9.2527 Ratings8.3113 Ratings
Review reminders9.4559 Ratings8.5119 Ratings
Multiple review frequency9.3484 Ratings7.1103 Ratings
Succession Planning
Comparison of Succession Planning features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
9.1
435 Ratings
15% above category average
UKG Ready
6.9
52 Ratings
13% below category average
Create succession plans/pools9.1361 Ratings6.144 Ratings
Candidate ranking9.1372 Ratings6.825 Ratings
Candidate search9.2390 Ratings7.430 Ratings
Candidate development9.0371 Ratings7.225 Ratings
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
9.0
499 Ratings
14% above category average
UKG Ready
7.6
132 Ratings
3% below category average
Job Requisition Management9.0397 Ratings7.6112 Ratings
Company Website Posting9.0380 Ratings7.8108 Ratings
Publish to Social Media9.1336 Ratings7.484 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting8.8347 Ratings7.690 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention9.0346 Ratings7.585 Ratings
Applicant Tracking8.9382 Ratings7.8113 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts9.0468 Ratings7.2121 Ratings
User Ratings
RipplingUKG Ready
Likelihood to Recommend
9.2
(1275 ratings)
8.2
(278 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.8
(25 ratings)
8.0
(19 ratings)
Usability
9.3
(1272 ratings)
8.4
(161 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(4 ratings)
5.0
(4 ratings)
Performance
8.7
(4 ratings)
5.0
(8 ratings)
Support Rating
8.9
(950 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
7.7
(11 ratings)
5.0
(11 ratings)
Configurability
7.2
(3 ratings)
5.0
(5 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.1
(2 ratings)
6.1
(125 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
RipplingUKG 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
Overall, this is the most comprehensive and user friendly HRIS/payroll platform I have used throughout the past 10 years. I would highly recommend UKG Ready to colleagues because of not only how user friendly it is but the level of customer service provided through UKG community and service cases. UKG Ready is quick to acknowledge cases submitted and get back to customers.
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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
UKG is the platform with the best overall usability on both an admin and user side. Employees find it easy to update personal information, the dashboards are clear and easy to follow, and the navigation of it is also easy to follow. Overall my favorite platform to use and learn more about.
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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
We currently use Paycom and are extremely dissatisfied with the lack of functionality and poor customer service. Rippling and ADP were other vendors we evaluated who performed well and offer a lot of functionality but we decided UKG was the best fit for our needs now and to scale with our strategic growth plans.
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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 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.