Rippling

Score9 out of 10

2,640 Reviews and Ratings

What is Rippling?

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.

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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.

Screenshot of Manages employee spend, including corporate cards, expenses, bill pay, and payroll.

Screenshot of Reports & Graphs: Reports can be created and visualized with custom graphs that track compensation changes, employee turnover, and workforce diversity.

Screenshot of where the hiring process is connected, and the recruiting administrative work is automated.

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Screenshot of the Rippling Dashboard: Employees' home for their payroll, benefits, documents, devices, expenses, and apps.

Direct deposit files
Direct deposit is the ability to electronically transfer pay to an employee’s personal bank account.
Category average: 8.8
Update personal information
Employees can update personal profile with change of address, dependents, or other personal data.
Category average: 8.7
New hire portal
New hire portal eliminates printing and mailing with a personalized portal of all required reading, corporate information, and all forms and other paperwork, online.
Category average: 8.2

Applicant Tracking
Applicant tracking allows recruiters to assign applicants to various stages so others can see status at a glance
Category average: 7.9
Report builder
Report builder allows custom reports to be created using a GUI.
Category average: 7.5
Employee recognition
thank a team member
Category average: 7.6

Edson Alejandro Ortiz Colores View profile

Team Lead in Product Management at Dyad Law P.C. (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use it to track attendance, time, vacation days, PTOs, and One-on-one sessions. I have been using it for almost a year, and some of the features I like and have helped me a lot are how easy it is to track activity. It saves all changes. Rippling has helped me create good templates for one-on-one sessions with my team and customize them. You can keep track of all approvals, which is great when you have a large or small team.

Pros

Tracking your team's (and own) attendance.
Clock in and time tracking.
One-on-one sessions.

Cons

Navigation when you are a new user.
Keeping your own favorite pages.
Nitpicking: be able to change its theme.

Return on Investment

It saves times.
Easy to use.
Great IA assistance.

Alternatives Considered

Clockify

Usability

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Bonusly

Sawyer King

Electronics Engineer in Research & Development at Enaex Applied Technology Center (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Rippling to manage our financial matters, 401(k) distributions, PTO requests, and company credit cards. Rippling, as of late, has been addressing 401(k) distribution issues. The last company they used was not doing well, so they switched to a different one. Things went well until the company was bought out, and Rippling had to find another solution.

Pros

Rippling does a good job of making their website very user friendly.
They also make managing employees and benefits very well.
They handle the 401k distribution and which company is used very well also.

Cons

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.

Return on Investment

We do not usually use rippling for this type of thing, so I cannot add anything to this section.

Usability

Stephanie Murray View profile

Human Resources Coordinator in Human Resources at The Time Group (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am the Human Resources Coordinator for the organization. While the software has IT and Financial features, the organization only utizlies the HR functionality of the software. We have since switched our corporate cards to the Rippling Finance/Cards, but most of our usage is strictly HR functions only.

Pros

Payroll processing
Job and pay changes
Calculating retropay
Reviews/feedback
Expenses/Reimbursements
Training/education
Helpdesk/Customer support

Cons

Password resets - admins should be able to reset passwords for users
Reporting - i can pull the same report twice and get two completely different outputs
Less dependency on AI. The Rippling on the Road 2026 felt like an AI positive brainwashing session. It felt like we were being forced to learn about/utilize AI functionality within the software. We need to depend on computers less as a society. Its dumbing us as a civilization.

Return on Investment

Faster hiring process w/ integration w/ Checkr - has doubled our orientation class group size
Easier reviews/promotions/salary increases
More accurate timekeeping

Alternatives Considered

BambooHR®, UKG Ready, Paycom and ADP WorkForce Suite

Usability

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Entrata

Micah King View profile

Sr. IT Security Administrator in Information Technology at Spreedly (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Rippling has already made a big impact on our environment just in allowing us to consolidate all of our employees from multiple countries/regions into one platform vs managing through separate vendors. And we are also able to use Rippling as our EOR for contractor users, which is another huge benefit!

Rippling has also enabled us to finally leverage HRIS-as-master functionality with our IdP. This is going to be huge in streamlining and automating our user lifecycle processes, significantly reducing manual tedium and multiple layers of required human validation. Big time savings there that will help us redirect bandwidth towards innovating and scaling.

We have already been diving deep into using their Workflow Studio to build out other user lifecycle process automations that we had not been able to do before because of disconnected systems. Even more time back in our day!

Pros

Very granular criteria for creating dynamic groups that can sync down to our IdP and other baseline apps.
Modern, user-friendly, and intuitive navigation for users and admins. Our old system was very difficult to navigate, and Rippling is so much cleaner, cohesive, and pleasant to work in.
Workflow Studio that enables taking the already streamlined experience to another level. We can now automate our onboarding emails with flexibility to tailor different templates based on new hire criteria. Optimizes comms between IT and HR for user lifecycle events.

Cons

While they have a lot of available app integrations, there is room to expand. Also, some of the app integrations seem to require that your plan or subscription is transferred/purchased through Rippling in order to unlock full integration capabilities.
The limitation of 10 active "advanced" workflows (workflows that are triggered by anything other than "Relative to Start Date") is a little disappointing. It would be nice to have more "advanced" workflows to really boost a company's automations.
The Rippling IT offering is appealing as far as seamless integration with the rest of the product suite, but it lacks the granularity of custom settings needed for mid-level to enterprise security settings.

Return on Investment

Being able to create dynamic app/IdP sync groups is going to empower our IT to save hours of time having to tediously maintain groups with limited rule-based assignments.
Workflow Studio automations around new hire onboarding is also going to save our People Ops and IT hours and bandwidth with onboarding tasks and communications, avoiding missed tasks and other mistakes. Reduces points of failure because of the flexibility of configuration for the automations to account for various scenarios.
Using Rippling as the provisioning source for day 1 baseline apps is also going to help streamline the user experience, allowing them to ramp up within a day rather than a whole week.

Alternatives Considered

UKG Pro and BambooHR®

Usability

Other Software Used

Okta, Google Workspace, Slack, Jamf Pro

Jordan Guy

Customer Support in Customer Service at Cherry Technologies (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In my role at my organization I use Rippling for keeping track of my time off and upcoming time off, keeping track of my pay, accessing health and retirement benefits, signing documents, and looking at corporate charts to see who reports to who and ensuring that information is accurate. I also use it for my flexible savings account.

Pros

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

Cons

Sometimes finding certain documents can be a challenge without a search bar that analyzes words within the document
It would be nice if I got notifications for new updates made by the company to my benefits (an employee left, a new benefit has change, my pay has changed, etc.)
That third party authorization through authy is a bit annoying to go through every time I log in, I would love to just login with my username and password and that's it

Return on Investment

As an individual contributor we have not used Rippling yet in terms of goal calculation and it would be nice to see where I'm at for my bonus payout
Many employees are very happy having Rippling compared to their other HR softwares at previous jobs which helps retention
Documentation that needs to be signed is much easier to track as opposed to tracking documentation through simple emails

Alternatives Considered

Workday Workforce Management and Kronos Workforce Dimensions / UKG Dimensions (discontinued)

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Direct deposit files

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New hire portal

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