What's new in Rippling — September '24 Release

Published

Oct 1, 2024

Here at Rippling, we build and ship at lightning speed. Read on to see all 20 updates we shipped this month to help free you to work on hard problems and achieve your business goals. 

We’re launching something big 

Meet Talent Signal: AI to drive new hire success

What if you could pull up a chair next to every new hire to review everything they’ve done in their first 90 days, assess how they’re tracking, and provide helpful feedback? Well, now you can. Talent Signal reviews the first 90 days of work product for new hires in engineering, customer support, and, soon, sales roles to generate a performance signal for each employee. It provides an independent view of how they’re ramping up, and gives managers concrete, actionable examples to support coaching conversations. 

Book a live session with a platform expert in Rippling Workshop

Rippling Workshop is now available in the Rippling App Shop. Book hourly sessions with a Rippling Expert to build advanced workflows, custom reports, approval policies, and more. You can even schedule time to dive into Rippling best practices or get one-on-one platform training.

We’re leveling up our HCM

Support self-guided learning with employee self-enrollment

Goodbye, manual enrollment. Hello, active learning. With our new self-enrollment feature, your employees can now easily enroll in any course themselves—freeing your admins from cumbersome work and making it easier for your team to develop.

Streamline headcount planning with collaborative scenarios

Headcount planning can be a tangled mess of mismanaged spreadsheets. But with collaborative scenarios, it’s now built on a single source of truth, allowing for greater visibility, flexibility, and shareability to keep  managers and teams informed across your entire org.

Create custom courses faster than ever 

You asked for it. We built it. The iFrame embed feature is live in Custom Course Builder. Now you can embed Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Maps, website links, and more into your courses for the fastest and easiest custom course creation yet.

Streamline bulk document distribution 

Our enhanced bulk document workflows let admins save and resume drafts at any time and take bulk actions like canceling requests or sending reminders. Rippling will double check for missing information and send a prompt to your admin to ensure all documents are accurate before sending.

Make e-signatures even easier with fillable fields 

Your admins can now add text boxes and checkboxes to documents. These free-form fillable fields simplify the signing process and make it easier to gather the essential employee information you need to maintain compliance. 

Pay out premiums at regular rate of pay 

Instead of paying out premiums at a flat rate or a multiple of base pay, you can now pay out at the regular rate of pay—helping safeguard your business from compliance risks. 

Specify your Qualifying Life Event (QLE) Approvers 

Rather than inundate your entire admin team with extra work and notifications, you can now select specific benefit admins to review and approve QLE requests. Designated QLE approvers will see a  'QLE' tab in their dashboards, allowing them to view and manage all QLE requests. 

Gain greater visibility into tax payments made via paper check

Stay fully informed and in control of your tax payments. Now, you can see a copy of each check, send date, and detailed tracking events for tax payments made via paper checks.

We’re continuing to support international businesses 

We’re always expanding the coverage of Rippling for your international teams. Last month we launched:

Correct pay runs by employee or entire run automatically

With our enhanced corrections flow, you can now automatically enter pay run corrections based on the entire run or an individual employee, simplifying either type of correction.

Monitor EOR email status 

You can now easily track which system-generated emails your EOR employees have received from Rippling and resend as needed.

We’re making enhancements across IT 

Strengthen security with Device Trust 

Using Rippling’s unified MDM and IdP, you can now easily enforce behavioral detection rules with Supergroups to ensure only applicable users with managed devices can access specific third-party apps and company resources. Setup only takes a few clicks and maintenance is a breeze, with Rippling acting as the certificate authority moving forward.

Access 100+ new titles in our expanded Windows MDM software catalog

We’re constantly growing our Windows MDM software catalog, and with this latest update, you can access more than 100 new titles. Still not seeing your software of choice? Simply request a new title to be added by contacting Rippling support. 

Utilize Zero Day support for MacOS Sequoia

Rippling Device Management is compatible with Sequoia from day one. You can manage and control exactly when employees can make the update to Sequoia on the Updates tab of the Devices app, as well as easily identify which devices in your fleet are eligible

We’re supercharging Spend 

Streamline Spend requests with Slack approvals

You can log into Rippling to approve spend requests, or you can select Slack notifications and approve spend requests on the fly. With this latest integration, approvers can easily and quickly review, approve, or reject anything from expense requests to card limit changes right from Slack.

Approve Spend requests in Rippling’s Approval app

Spend admins no longer have to review and approve expense requests, virtual card requests, card limit changes, transactions, and bills inside the Spend app. Now, they can review and approve spend requests faster—right inside the Approvals app next to all their other Rippling approval requests.

We’re constantly innovating

We’ll be back next month with our latest and greatest. If you’re curious about what we’re up to next, schedule time with us to get a sneak preview of our platform improvements.

See you next month!

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last edited: October 1, 2024

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