Rippling vs. WorkflowMax

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
WorkflowMax
Score 8.0 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
WorkflowMax is a web-based project management solution.The platform offers end-to-end functionality standard to project management software, including time tracking, lead management, collaboration with external stakeholders, invoicing, integrations, and customizable reporting.
$20
per month
Pricing
RipplingWorkflowMax
Editions & Modules
Recommended
$8.00
starting price per user, per month
Standard
$20
per month
Standard
$35
per month
Premium
$70
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
RipplingWorkflowMax
Free Trial
NoYes
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
RipplingWorkflowMax
Features
RipplingWorkflowMax
Human Resource Management
Comparison of Human Resource Management features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
9.1
1095 Ratings
11% above category average
WorkflowMax
-
Ratings
Employee demographic data8.9777 Ratings00 Ratings
Employment history8.9802 Ratings00 Ratings
Job profiles and administration9.1914 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.9.2812 Ratings00 Ratings
Organizational charting9.2947 Ratings00 Ratings
Organization and location management9.2842 Ratings00 Ratings
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)9.0649 Ratings00 Ratings
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
9.3
1143 Ratings
13% above category average
WorkflowMax
-
Ratings
Pay calculation9.31029 Ratings00 Ratings
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment9.0717 Ratings00 Ratings
Benefit plan administration9.0999 Ratings00 Ratings
Direct deposit files9.51002 Ratings00 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management9.4769 Ratings00 Ratings
Reimbursement management9.3675 Ratings00 Ratings
Leave and Attendance Management
Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
9.3
1025 Ratings
13% above category average
WorkflowMax
-
Ratings
Approval workflow9.4989 Ratings00 Ratings
Balance details9.3941 Ratings00 Ratings
Annual carry-forward and encashment9.3697 Ratings00 Ratings
Employee Self Service
Comparison of Employee Self Service features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
9.2
1190 Ratings
12% above category average
WorkflowMax
-
Ratings
View and generate pay and benefit information9.41126 Ratings00 Ratings
Update personal information9.51176 Ratings00 Ratings
View company policy documentation9.4977 Ratings00 Ratings
Employee recognition8.6653 Ratings00 Ratings
View job history9.0842 Ratings00 Ratings
Asset Management
Comparison of Asset Management features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
8.9
508 Ratings
10% above category average
WorkflowMax
-
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
WorkflowMax
-
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
WorkflowMax
-
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
WorkflowMax
-
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
WorkflowMax
-
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
WorkflowMax
-
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
WorkflowMax
-
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
WorkflowMax
9.3
27 Ratings
18% above category average
Task Management00 Ratings9.525 Ratings
Resource Management00 Ratings9.56 Ratings
Gantt Charts00 Ratings9.23 Ratings
Scheduling00 Ratings9.419 Ratings
Workflow Automation00 Ratings9.54 Ratings
Team Collaboration00 Ratings9.519 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology00 Ratings8.93 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology00 Ratings9.23 Ratings
Document Management00 Ratings9.219 Ratings
Email integration00 Ratings9.44 Ratings
Mobile Access00 Ratings9.221 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking00 Ratings9.624 Ratings
Change request and Case Management00 Ratings9.111 Ratings
Budget and Expense Management00 Ratings9.418 Ratings
Professional Services Automation
Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Product A and Product B
Rippling
-
Ratings
WorkflowMax
9.5
27 Ratings
20% above category average
Quotes/estimates00 Ratings9.723 Ratings
Invoicing00 Ratings9.527 Ratings
Project & financial reporting00 Ratings9.722 Ratings
Integration with accounting software00 Ratings9.227 Ratings
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User Ratings
RipplingWorkflowMax
Likelihood to Recommend
9.2
(1162 ratings)
8.8
(28 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.9
(20 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
9.4
(1161 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.7
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.1
(877 ratings)
7.0
(2 ratings)
In-Person Training
8.6
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.8
(9 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Configurability
6.8
(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
RipplingWorkflowMax
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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Xero
WorkflowMax is very well suited for a business that wants to track time billed by project, to have an easy way to generate invoices for those projects, and to keep track of overall productivity and invoice status. I imagine it can also be adapted to different types of businesses that deal in goods rather than services and time. I am not sure for which scenarios or businesses the program is not appropriate.
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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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Xero
  • You can customize the notifications and this has helped us enormously to schedule dates that we overlooked. Also the templates are customizable which gives the company its own branding on its reports.
  • It is integrated with the Xero platform which makes it very useful to streamline the processes of billing, accounts payable, accounts receivable, petty cash flow and all the accounting and administrative area.
  • It also has a very complete mobile version, where we can be present and monitor the progress of projects in real time, no matter where we are.
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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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Xero
  • Currently the timesheet function allows staff to input time for overlapping periods which can cause some headaches when it comes to payroll and invoicing. We understand this is being addressed.
  • The amount of flexibility in the product can create some challenges when setting up the jobs database at the onset. It is a daunting challenge but worthwhile when completed correctly and rolled out across the firm. Adding new jobs is much easier.
  • No search function to find a specific job, you have to scroll through all jobs allocated to you.
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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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Xero
Because we can't imagine being without it!
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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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Xero
It's easy to use and provides me with instant online access to the management of my business whether I am at my desk or overseas
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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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Xero
No answers on this topic
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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Xero
No answers on this topic
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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Xero
The support team are excellent. The only downside is that you can't phone them!
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In-Person Training
Rippling
The trainer went slow and and answered our questions.
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Xero
No answers on this topic
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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Xero
Decide how to breakdown your ongoing jobs - are they monthly recurring or annual broken into chunks? What are you going to give clients i.e. how will your proposals and invoices look?
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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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Xero
WorkflowMax is much much easier than Streamtime, much more affordable and easier to try out and see if it meets your needs. Streamtime is a great comprehensive product but we lost a year's subscription in investment because we couldn't get answers to the support questions we needed and they had a no refund policy!
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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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Xero
No answers on this topic
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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Xero
  • Max enables Loan Assistant to invoice very quickly and easily and integration with Xero for card payments brings our cashflow forward.
  • Max enables the Loan Assistant team to manage their workflow in an efficient and productive way. The team all work from home. It is the centre of our Loan Assistant universe.
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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.

WorkflowMax Screenshots

Screenshot of WorkflowMax Quoting SoftwareScreenshot of WorkflowMax CRM SoftwareScreenshot of WorkflowMax Project Management SoftwareScreenshot of WorkflowMax Mobile SiteScreenshot of Job Costing | WorkflowMaxScreenshot of Powerful Custom Reporting | WorkflowMax