Rippling Product Overview

Rippling Global is a workforce management system that allows admins to hire, pay, and manage employees and contractors across the world in the same system they use for their US employees. It enables employers to manage all their people operations in one place — from onboarding to offboarding, and everything in between.

It brings all employee data into a unified record. As a result, organizations don't need to reconcile and enter data in different systems. The platform gives businesses a single place to manage, update, and report on everything.

Rippling accelerates onboarding employees and contractors. Admins can set up new hires with everything they need to be productive — from devices to training — no matter where they are. Admins can pay their employees and contractors around the world without waiting on transfers or currency conversions.

The platform unites disparate systems to reduce data silos and automates global compliance work. Organizations can understand and comply with local laws abroad. With Rippling, businesses can dynamically localize everything — from form fields to documents to currencies — based on work location.

Pros of Rippling

Rippling Global Payroll is a full-service, global payroll engine that processes pay runs and automatically calculates, files, and pays taxes. Admins can process payroll in five days and view taxes, gross pay, and currency conversions during pay runs.
It simplifies adding bonuses, commissions, and reimbursements. It enables organizations to adjust pay runs after they've been submitted and prorate payroll or run off-cycle pay runs for both domestic and international employees and contractors.
Rippling Global Payroll integrates seamlessly with Rippling Time and Attendance, Rippling Spend Management, and Rippling Benefits Administration, so employers never have to worry about manually calculating payroll or updating deductions and expenses.
Its EOR feature allows businesses to hire international employees, even if they haven't set up an entity in a particular country. A critical advantage of Rippling EOR is that businesses can seamlessly move off of the EOR to pay employees through their own entities on Global Payroll, should the need arise.

Cons of Rippling

According to users, Rippling gives limited design customization options.
Pricing is not transparent and according to users can be one of the pricier options for basic payroll management.
Not ideal for small businesses that need limited features.

Breakdown of core features

EOR

Rippling EOR (employer-of-record) is built on top of the platform, letting admins instantly set up new hires with everything they need like apps, benefits, time tracking, compliance courses, and PTO policies.

When an admin onboards a new employee, Rippling automatically adjusts the hiring and onboarding flows country by country. Once an employee's work location is selected, the system knows exactly what data to collect from that country.

Additionally, the software streamlines compliance, reporting, and policy enforcement. Salary, cost of employment, and EOR fees are displayed during onboarding, so admins can view expected costs before processing new hires.

Because Rippling Global EOR works seamlessly with Rippling Global Payroll, admins can process payroll in under five days, run off-cycle pay runs, reimburse expenses, pay commissions, and automatically calculate pay for hourly employees.

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Time and attendance

Businesses can automatically track employees' hours from clock-in to paycheck with Rippling, eliminating manual data entry, syncing issues, or late approvals from supervisors.

Employees can clock in and out in seconds using a tablet kiosk, the Rippling mobile app, or their computers. Moreover, approved hours in the system instantly sync with payroll. Rippling keeps an eye on everyone's time cards and notifies admins and teams before issues arise — like when an employee is approaching overtime.

Talent management

Rippling Talent Management empowers employers to find, develop, and engage top talent. Organizations can optimize their entire hiring process with sourcing, frictionless tracking, and custom report creation.

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Global workforce management

The platform consolidates all employee data from international teams into a single system. It dynamically localizes everything based on work location.

Global employers can set up employees and contractors with everything they need, including offer letters, benefits, and corporate cards. In addition, Rippling calculates and files payroll taxes instantly for employees worldwide.

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