Rippling vs. Workday Human Capital Management

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
Workday HCM
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Workday Human Capital Management is a cloud-native system offering a globally consistent user experience. Workday HCM is part of an intelligent, unified system with other Workday products.N/A
Pricing
RipplingWorkday Human Capital Management
Editions & Modules
Recommended
$8.00
starting price per user, per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
RipplingWorkday HCM
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
RipplingWorkday Human Capital Management
Considered Both Products
Rippling
Chose Rippling
In my opinion, Workday is clunky. Rippling is way more intuitive and hides the modules you don't use. Workday just seems outdated.

I haven't had direct exposure being admin on Workday but even from an employee stand point, Rippling seems a lot better and intuitive than workday …
Chose Rippling
Its ease of use, security, user friendly UI helped us a lot
Chose Rippling
Rippling stands out over others with its faster deployment, modern interface, and all-in-one automation for HR, IT, and payroll—making it ideal for fast-growing companies
Chose Rippling
Rippling has a user friendly interface that allows employees to apply for leave and workfrom home easily as compared to bamboo hr Rippling has performance reviews and surveys, helps companies for feedback cycles. workday is also good but its for large enterprise. Rippling …
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
I used Workday at a previous company and it wasn't as seamless as Rippling. The interface was confusing and I often had a hard time navigating to what section I needed. I like Rippling's home page because it's easy to navigate to what you need right away.
Chose Rippling
Other products have always felt designed for only reporting up.
They were clunky and difficult to use, and felt very much designed for the company not the employee user.
Chose Rippling
Rippling is much more intuitive. The UI is much more simple to navigate and does not require you to dig through several menus to find what you need like others do. I remember constant frustration trying to remember where certain features were located in other apps, but Rippling …
Chose Rippling
Rippling's HRIS is similar in quality to BambooHR and Workday. However, where Rippling outshines those platforms is in its added functionality and connection to other portions of the platform as well as other applications. Being able to have our HRIS and Payroll Software on the …
Chose Rippling
Rippling has far better UI and for me personally, is much more intuitive which is more important to me as an employee than a feature-rich software. Information is easier to find, things are easier to update and overall feels better than some of the alternatives out there.
Chose Rippling
Rippling is super easy to use and a lot more intuitive compared to tools like Workday. While Gusto is great for small startups, it isn't as robust as rippling when it comes to managing employees. Hibob works well but it isn't as intuitive or easy to use as rippling in my day to …
Chose Rippling
Rippling is more user-friendly than Workday. With Workday, things you enter would not always save correctly and I had to worry about entering my annual goals and having them get lost. I haven't had problems with Rippling's interface.
Chose Rippling
Did not communicate well with Kronos for payment during contract work
Chose Rippling
As an employee, I enjoy how easy to use Rippling is compared to Workday. All of the features I need are accessible, mobile-friendly, and easy to use. Onboarding was a breeze, as I was able to sign onboarding documents and fill out my employee profile entirely using my phone.
Chose Rippling
Workday is best in class but Rippling is not far behind. I believe people want something intuitive and easy to use and find what they need. Both platforms seem to have that.
Chose Rippling
Rippling was much more user friendly
Chose Rippling
I don't recall what my previous employer used but I do recall how difficult it was to use.
Chose Rippling
Rippling looks more modern and offers an intuitive UI. No bugs found yet.
Workday HCM
Chose Workday Human Capital Management
Workday Human Capital Management is it's own engine without the one stop shop embedded into it. You have to establish the payroll money movement in the beginning whether that is ADP or OSV. UKG and Rippling and one stop shops but pretty much offer the same type of things …
Features
RipplingWorkday Human Capital Management
Human Resource Management
Comparison of Human Resource Management features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
9.0
1119 Ratings
10% above category average
Workday Human Capital Management
8.9
99 Ratings
9% above category average
Employee demographic data8.9795 Ratings8.884 Ratings
Employment history8.9821 Ratings8.394 Ratings
Job profiles and administration9.1934 Ratings8.896 Ratings
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.9.2832 Ratings9.191 Ratings
Organizational charting9.1967 Ratings9.790 Ratings
Organization and location management9.2862 Ratings9.787 Ratings
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)9.0663 Ratings8.362 Ratings
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
9.3
1166 Ratings
14% above category average
Workday Human Capital Management
8.7
82 Ratings
7% above category average
Pay calculation9.31050 Ratings9.570 Ratings
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment9.0737 Ratings9.220 Ratings
Benefit plan administration9.01019 Ratings8.865 Ratings
Direct deposit files9.51022 Ratings8.971 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management9.4789 Ratings9.068 Ratings
Reimbursement management9.3692 Ratings7.745 Ratings
Support for external payroll vendors00 Ratings7.558 Ratings
Leave and Attendance Management
Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
9.3
1046 Ratings
13% above category average
Workday Human Capital Management
8.6
77 Ratings
5% above category average
Approval workflow9.41009 Ratings8.876 Ratings
Balance details9.3962 Ratings8.176 Ratings
Annual carry-forward and encashment9.3717 Ratings8.962 Ratings
Employee Self Service
Comparison of Employee Self Service features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
9.2
1213 Ratings
12% above category average
Workday Human Capital Management
8.3
97 Ratings
1% above category average
View and generate pay and benefit information9.41148 Ratings8.386 Ratings
Update personal information9.51199 Ratings8.295 Ratings
View company policy documentation9.41000 Ratings7.875 Ratings
Employee recognition8.6669 Ratings8.858 Ratings
View job history9.0861 Ratings8.386 Ratings
Asset Management
Comparison of Asset Management features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
8.9
519 Ratings
11% above category average
Workday Human Capital Management
8.4
25 Ratings
5% above category average
Tracking of all physical assets8.9519 Ratings8.425 Ratings
HR Reporting
Comparison of HR Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
9.0
632 Ratings
18% above category average
Workday Human Capital Management
7.6
81 Ratings
1% above category average
Report builder8.8612 Ratings8.977 Ratings
Pre-built reports9.0578 Ratings6.679 Ratings
Ability to combine HR data with external data9.2524 Ratings7.267 Ratings
Onboarding
Comparison of Onboarding features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
9.4
864 Ratings
17% above category average
Workday Human Capital Management
8.9
59 Ratings
11% above category average
New hire portal9.5840 Ratings8.854 Ratings
Manager tracking tools9.3658 Ratings8.955 Ratings
Performance and Goals
Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
9.0
513 Ratings
12% above category average
Workday Human Capital Management
8.8
63 Ratings
9% above category average
Corporate goal setting9.1441 Ratings8.953 Ratings
Individual goal setting8.9471 Ratings8.962 Ratings
Line-of sight-visibility9.1437 Ratings8.753 Ratings
Performance tracking8.9468 Ratings8.961 Ratings
Performance Management
Comparison of Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
9.3
590 Ratings
17% above category average
Workday Human Capital Management
8.2
66 Ratings
4% above category average
Performance plans9.2521 Ratings8.365 Ratings
Performance improvement plans9.2493 Ratings8.257 Ratings
Review status tracking9.2524 Ratings8.261 Ratings
Review reminders9.4555 Ratings8.360 Ratings
Multiple review frequency9.3480 Ratings8.253 Ratings
Succession Planning
Comparison of Succession Planning features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
9.1
434 Ratings
15% above category average
Workday Human Capital Management
7.9
43 Ratings
1% above category average
Create succession plans/pools9.1360 Ratings8.237 Ratings
Candidate ranking9.2371 Ratings7.937 Ratings
Candidate search9.2389 Ratings8.041 Ratings
Candidate development9.0370 Ratings7.739 Ratings
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
9.0
497 Ratings
14% above category average
Workday Human Capital Management
8.3
51 Ratings
6% above category average
Job Requisition Management9.0395 Ratings8.748 Ratings
Company Website Posting9.0379 Ratings8.841 Ratings
Publish to Social Media9.1336 Ratings7.436 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting8.9347 Ratings8.842 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention9.0345 Ratings8.542 Ratings
Applicant Tracking8.9381 Ratings8.042 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts9.0467 Ratings8.146 Ratings
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User Ratings
RipplingWorkday Human Capital Management
Likelihood to Recommend
9.2
(1269 ratings)
8.3
(133 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.9
(25 ratings)
9.0
(18 ratings)
Usability
9.3
(1266 ratings)
7.9
(15 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(4 ratings)
6.6
(8 ratings)
Performance
8.7
(4 ratings)
7.3
(7 ratings)
Support Rating
8.9
(947 ratings)
8.0
(27 ratings)
In-Person Training
8.6
(2 ratings)
9.6
(6 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(7 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.8
(11 ratings)
8.0
(11 ratings)
Configurability
7.1
(3 ratings)
7.5
(2 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.1
(2 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.1
(3 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.1
(2 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
8.6
(2 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
RipplingWorkday Human Capital Management
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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Workday
I would say it's well suited in every environment because I think it does so much. It's like the holy grail of HRIS systems is what I like to call it because thinking about all parts of the employee lifecycle, it lives here in Workday Human Capital Management. So I love the fact that you can do the people data analytics, you can store employee records, the talent acquisition pieces there. I'm thinking I can't think of anything negative right now except for the fact that I can't drill down into the data for the people analytics side. Other than that, I think it's literally, yeah, the holy grail of HRIS systems, I love it and I would highly recommend it.
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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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Workday
  • Groups employees in management hierarchies and creates Org Charts that are easy to navigate and allow for visualizing management chains regardless of employee locations
  • Intuitive and easy to use. The Workday search functionality works very much like Google; one can search for anything that they have access to in the database and drill down into the various details. All information is connected through hyperlinks and users can easily keep digging into the details for as far as their security access would take them.
  • Tasks such as to do, review or approve items are sent to the user's Workday Inbox, very much resembling email. Notifications about outstanding "to do" items are also sent to each the user's work email address on a daily basis.
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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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Workday
  • Should have more option in time sheet like choose project code or something.
  • On The pay page, it should have options to view past salaries; it may be there already but not in the version that I use.
  • The employee information page does not have a back button to navigate to the previous page.
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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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Workday
It is work to make one system the source of truth for our data, but now that it is done, there is less work involved in staying on this path. This means for us that maintaining and/or implementing new modules like performance, finance, talent, etc. is simple. It's a no-brainer
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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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Workday
Workday's on a great path in terms of user experience. Their goals is to deliver a use experience that doesn't require training or instruction, like Amazon on the consumer side for example. That's hard to do when you're talking about complex business processes and important and sensitive employee information, but they're doing it well
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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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Workday
In 2014, Workday has changed the update process. There will be two updates a year; the updates will be delivered to customers typically in a 24 hour window during these two weekends a year. They also keep the Community up-to-date about any planned outages, etc. There is weekly scheduled downtime on Friday night.
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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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Workday
From my perspective, the system runs like a well oiled machine and I have not had any issues with customers complaining about speed. If a report is taking long to run, the report can run in the background and you can go about your business. For larger enterprises, there is additional space and machines to process the application in what Workday refers to it as Extended Configuration Tenant
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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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Workday
Workday is still learning about the needs of higher education. I have seen rapid improvement in support and knowledge over the last year so am confident this will continue to improve. Overall however, I have found the Support Team to be extremely responsive and Workday offers the advantage of having support across several timezones so that we never wait more than a few hours for a response.
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In-Person Training
Rippling
The trainer went slow and and answered our questions.
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Workday
Some training is offered online. Cost is per-person. This also gets quite expensive. Training doesn’t follow a logical path A to B. Starts in middle. When you try to do it afterwards at your desk, difficult.
• Training scenarios are not very real
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Online Training
Rippling
No answers on this topic
Workday
I have done for report writing and mass imports (EIBs). They give materials and you run through examples, i.e. you don’t just watch them do tasks, so that is helpful. Training is expensive – a single reporting writing class is $600 per person for virtual training
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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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Workday
It was implemented before my joining the company. At my last company, we used Workday professional services.

Based upon my experience at my last company, I would rate the implementation experience an 8/10. There are different ways to set things up and we had different people telling us different things. It set us back a couple of times.

Regarding configuration advice, we could set things up where every manager has supervisory organizations, or have it financially based i.e. aligned to cost center/department. We chose the individual manager path and I think we should have chosen a department route. Going down the individual manager path, to maintain the information, we have to inactivate a supervisory org whenever a manager changes/leaves.
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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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Workday
Workday is an incomplete product, by this I mean it must work alongside other products and does not work by itself. Trying to make several different products work smoothly together becomes very challenging. As compared to ADP products, when purchased all together work very well all together. Also, ADP has extensive Training programs and extensive Customer Support. So ADP's products are far superior to Workday's products in my opinion.
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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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Workday
Workday has released Financials and is continuing to develop it's Human Capital Management footprint with the addition of Workday Recruiting. I think customers will find that is easy to add on additional functionality in the system. Workday does make it easy for customers to make changes without relying on IT resources. The Business Process framework is a visual tool that allows functional resources to make changes and see the flow of the transaction
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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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Workday
  • Positive ROI, we were one of the first organizations that went with Workday HCM, and we received numerous discounts. Cloud systems are the way to go and we feel the system is stable for our growing work force.
  • The user conferences have been helpful to network and learn more deepness in the modules and functionality.
  • Right off the bat, our implementation costs were lower than budgeted and we had less 'billing' surprises.
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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.

Workday HCM Screenshots

Screenshot of Workday Human Capital Management HomepageScreenshot of Workday Human Capital Management Manager Insights HubScreenshot of Workday Human Capital Management HR Partners HubScreenshot of Workday Human Capital Management Expense AnalysisScreenshot of Workday Human Capital Management Skills DashboardScreenshot of Workday Human Capital Management HR Operations and Compliance Dashboard