HCM software that makes HR more strategic

Rippling centralises and automates approval processes, allowing users to manage approval policies, see pending approvals and review past requests in one place. With configurable policies for everything from hiring to offboarding, granting access to apps or data, and creating approval chains for headcount and expenses, Rippling ensures the right employees are notified and their approval is collected before actions are taken, with the ability to send reminders for time-sensitive requests. You can even configure approval chains with multiple approvers and rely on Rippling to automatically re-route approvals if the required person is out of office.

Rippling offers an Administrative Services Offering (ASO) for companies looking to leave behind the compliance busy work. Rippling automates the filing and remittance of national, regional and local taxes, as well as the creation and maintenance of state unemployment tax accounts and government unemployment insurance (SUI) rates. ASO customers get access to Rippling’s team of PHR and SHRM-CP certified HR experts for guidance on leave, terminations, performance management and more. The ASO package also includes a number of Rippling apps, including LMS, automating all required compliance trainings. Visit rippling.com/aso to learn more.

Easily set up and manage compensation bands for every role in the organisation in one place, ensuring a consistent and equitable structure across departments. Auto-adjust bands based on factors you define, like location. Native multi-currency support and built-in permissions let you give the right people access to the right bands risk-free. Setup auto-alerts for things like a compa-ratio falling below a defined threshold, or to review compensation after key employee lifecycle events.

Automatically set up and enforce global, national, regional and local labour policies with built-in compliance monitoring and receive alerts with recommended action plans for potential issues.

View, manage and navigate all data in Rippling, create custom fields with specific permissions and easily identify data sources and relationships between data.

Rippling offers a full-service document management and storage system that allows you to create customisable document templates and collect signatures from employees and contractors. Automate document assignments based on role, office, location and more to streamline your workflows.

Automate employee data collection for EEO (Equal Employment Opportunity) reports.

The Employee Graph is the single source of all employee data that automatically syncs across all modules. It includes all the data that is housed in Rippling – from employee data, device data and third-party app data.

News Feed is a customisable digital bulletin board where you and your team can communicate, access important company resources and stay up-to-date with team updates.

Onboarding and offboarding in Rippling can each be completed in 90 seconds. These flows are natively built into Rippling and allow for admins to activate an employee or deactivate an employee alongside all of their needed applications easily, without any manual work.

Employees can easily make their own profile updates, such as changing their address, benefits or withholding information, through Rippling’s easy-to-use, self-service platform.

Rippling offers automated verification of income and employment.

Access Global HR experts with an average of 10+ years of local HR experience who can advise you on your questions. If you need extra help with the details of an employee issue, talk to someone who understands the local culture and requirements.

Rippling’s organisation chart visually conveys a company’s internal structure, detailing roles, responsibilities and hierarchy with easy-to-read labels and colour coding based on selected attributes. Users can filter and visualise the chart by key dimensions like department and location, with additional data points available depending on user permissions.

The HR Help Desk offers real-time compliance updates, customisable employee handbook solutions and access to a broad content library to support your HR needs. HR Help Desk Experts includes access to PHR and SHRM-CP certified professionals who provide tailored advice and support, ensuring your business meets regulatory requirements and utilises best HR practices. Both HR Help Desk and Help Desk Experts are sold separately.

The Rippling mobile app empowers employees with self-service capabilities, allowing them to access critical tools and resources from day one, including submitting time off, viewing documents, accessing company information and more.

Admins can create and assign permission profiles in Rippling based on role or attribute, using Supergroups to ensure employees automatically receive the appropriate access. Rippling updates profile assignments dynamically as group memberships change, supporting custom groups like all managers or employees with specific compensation levels.

Rippling allows you to configure automated policies specific to your business for hiring, transitions, terminations, granting application access and more, or to leverage a pre-built policy recipe library. You can also manage policy exceptions and enable built-in safeguards with optional warning notifications to ensure compliance.

With Rippling, your data is accessible, organised and secure. Rippling’s powerful reporting capabilities enable any user to build point-and-click reports, visuals and pivots using Excel-like functionality. No coding or expensive business intelligence software required. Easily navigate all data available in Rippling without having to clean messy exports or pivot multiple CSV files. Permissions are governed at the data layer, meaning recipients will only see data they have permission to view, so you can safely and securely share reports. And if you’re not sure where to start, Rippling has hundreds of pre-built report templates to get you started.

Built-in task management with tools for assigning tasks based on any attribute, like role, department, location or tenure. Automatically assign tasks with email notification reminders. Team members can filter and sort their task lists, as well as snooze eligible tasks that aren't as time-sensitive. Rippling’s pre-built task recipe library can help you get started.

Manage, review and approve holiday, PTO and time off requests, view accruals and balances, and configure time off policies.

Rippling makes it easy for employees and managers to view an employee’s total direct and indirect compensation holistically and forecast potential future earnings.

In addition to 100s of out-of-the-box automations across the Rippling platform, Workflow Studio lets you build advanced custom workflows that can trigger off of any data or event in Rippling to not only send notifications, emails, Slack or Teams messages, but also take action across any Rippling app or select integrated third party apps.

Rippling integrates with more than 150 of the leading 401(k) providers. Rippling automatically syncs employee data, including contribution and deductions, and offers a seamless online enrolment process, eliminating the need for manual enrolment forms.

Rippling can automate the annual 1094/1095-C filings with the IRS and your employees. Rippling’s ACA app covers sponsored medical insurance plans and enrolments and is fully compliant with the Affordable Care Act.

Run benefits enrolment end-to-end with automated employee deductions in Payroll. Rippling automatically submits enrolments to insurance carriers and gives administrators one place to manage all benefit plan information and track employee enrolment progress. Rippling offers global benefits administration so you can manage benefits for your entire organisation in one place. Employees can self-serve their benefits selection, view plan comparisons and see how it impacts take-home pay during enrolment, and even process their own QLEs right from the employee profile. Configure contribution schemes, waiting periods and employee tiers. Fully compliant with COBRA and ACA requirements and can work with any broker. The Ben Admin app auto-generates summary plan description documents, premium-only plan documents and even gives you the option to attach custom documents and enrolment materials. EDI and carrier connections are also available and sold separately.

Rippling can send required COBRA notices to terminated employees and administer their COBRA elections, collecting their premium payments automatically. Rippling’s COBRA administration app is fully compliant with federal COBRA requirements.

Rippling makes administering Commuter Benefits easy. Employees can elect to allocate pre-tax funds for eligible parking and travel expenses and update their contributions directly in Rippling with deductions automatically processing in Payroll. Employees get a single debit card for all eligible expenses that works across all enrolled accounts (HSA, FSA and Commuter). Employees can set annual or monthly contribution amounts, and submit reimbursement claims online or via the Rippling mobile app.

Rippling administers Flex Benefits plans, including Health Savings Accounts (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Commuter. Rippling also integrates with many of the most popular third-party flex benefits administrators. For more details on Rippling’s native Flex Benefits products, see the HSA, FSA and Commuter descriptions.

Rippling makes administering FSAs easy. Employees can elect to allocate pre-tax funds for eligible health expenses and update their contributions directly in Rippling with deductions automatically processing in Payroll. Rippling supports both individual FSA and dependent care FSA plans. Employees get a single debit card for all eligible expenses that works across all enrolled accounts (HSA, FSA and Commuter). Employees can set annual or monthly contribution amounts, and submit reimbursement claims online or via the Rippling mobile app.

Rippling makes administering HSAs easy. When paired with an HSA-eligible benefits plan, employees can elect to allocate pre-tax funds for health expenses and update their contributions directly in Rippling with deductions automatically processing in Payroll. Employees get a single debit card for all eligible expenses that works across all enrolled accounts (HSA, FSA and Commuter). Employees can set annual or monthly contribution amounts, and submit reimbursement claims online or via the Rippling mobile app.

Rippling Brokerage makes it easy to shop, compare and get quotes for small group health plans in all fifty states. Rippling’s broker-licensed Benefit Advisors can help with benefit plan selection and support with set-up and completing the open enrolment process for employees. Brokerage customers also get access to Rippling’s Benefit Specialists for annual plan renewals and plan changes.

Rippling offers a Professional Employer Organisation (PEO) for companies looking to access large group health plans through a PEO with an industry-leading combination of award-winning software and services. With the co-employment of a PEO, you can access large group medical, dental and vision plans, as well as ancillary benefits like life insurance and AD&D. Rippling PEO customers also get access to employment practices liability insurance (EPLI) and workers’ compensation insurance coverage. Rippling automates the filing and remittance of national, regional and local taxes, as well as the creation and maintenance of state unemployment tax accounts and government unemployment insurance (SUI) rates. PEO customers get access to Rippling’s team of PHR and SHRM-CP certified HR experts for guidance on leave, terminations, performance management and more. The PEO package also includes a number of Rippling apps, including LMS, automating all required compliance trainings. Visit rippling.com/peo to learn more.

Rippling seamlessly integrates with many of the most popular third-party benefits administrators. Rippling regularly syncs vital employee data, including demographics and compensation, as well as payroll data, including contributions and deductions. Rippling offers support for integration implementation and testing.

Rippling seamlessly integrates with many of the most popular third-party flex benefits providers. Rippling regularly syncs employee and payroll data, including contributions and deductions. Rippling offers support for integration implementation and testing, and offers simple employee Single Sign-On (SSO) access to the third-party system.

Create custom courses based on your business’s needs that incorporate images, videos, rich text, quizzes and more.

Create and enforce a headcount plan for your organisation. Headcount Planning automatically incorporates movements of talent in and out of the company, with attrition and new joiners automatically updated in your plan. You can model the financial impact of adding or removing headcount with multi-metric views that make it easy to explore your plan in terms of cost or people and build custom approval flows for backfills and new headcount requests. Headcount Planning is built to support global organisations, automatically accounting for multiple currencies.

Rippling aids employers in administering and tracking national and regionally-required compliance training, such as anti-harassment training or bystander intervention, with fully automated course enrolment, progress tracking, automated reminders and easy reporting.

Rippling offers a suite of performance management applications to manage the entire talent lifecycle, including Review Cycles, Goals and 1:1s.

Rippling’s natively-built applicant tracking system (ATS) is the first ATS that lets everyone—from recruiters and hiring managers to department heads—hire more efficiently. 
Recruiting integrates with thousands of job boards and makes it easy to create a branded career page and job posts. Create dynamic templates for emailing candidates and structuring recruiting pipelines and processes. The candidate database supports passive talent discovery and nurturing, letting you search candidates and prospects based on attributes such as skills, keywords, previous company and interview history with Boolean search, letting you get as granular as you’d like. Recruiting also supports job questionnaires, knockout questions, candidate tags and interview feedback forms. Recruiting saves you time and eliminates human error by automatically creating offer letters by pulling in role and candidate data. Recruiting Pro introduces AI to make hiring more efficient, thanks to AI-powered candidates smart scheduling, interview feedback summaries and job descriptions. It also includes bulk candidate management, support for employee referrals and the ability to have multiple branded career pages. Recruiting Pro even levels up the candidate experience by empowering candidates to self-schedule their interviews from time slots that work for the interviewers.

Create end-to-end performance review cycles for the entire company or a subset of employees. Rippling also makes it easy to setup milestone reviews, which can be triggered by any employee attribute or event, such as a one-year anniversary or a 90-day new hire review. Review Cycles supports full 360º reviews (self, peer, downward and upward) and can be fully customised with question sets, completion reminders and granular permissions. Review Cycles Pro supports full calibration processes and running merit compensation cycles. Customise calibration to match your organisation’s unique parameters and let Rippling’s granular role-based permissions securely provide each manager with calibration worksheets and "9-boxes" with drag and drop functionality. Cycle administrators can define merit cycle budgets, create detailed merit matrices and allocate budgets to department leaders with compensation changes seamlessly pushing to Payroll and your Payroll approvals flow. When a review cycle is complete, Rippling makes it easy to generate and share performance and compensation packets with employees.

Surveys are a powerful tool for everything from pulse checks to engagement surveys, new hire onboarding feedback and exit surveys. You can create any survey from scratch or start from one of our customisable survey templates. Surveys supports multiple question types, including agree/disagree, short & long answer, multiple choice, checkbox, dropdown, date, Likert scale and an up-to-date employee picker. Surveys can either be sent ad hoc, or triggered by custom workflows based on any employee attribute, milestone or event—you can even create follow up surveys that are triggered based on prior survey responses. Go deeper in analysing results by combining survey data with any other data in Rippling. You can securely share survey data and reports with key stakeholders, with Rippling's role based permission systems ensuring they only have access to the sub-set of data that’s within their scope. Surveys supports anonymous responses, letting leaders reply to anonymous comments and enabling a back-and-forth conversation where the employee remains fully confidential. Surveys also supports importing questions and exporting results via CSV.

Rippling has pre-built national and regional compliant overtime and break policies, and you can create policies tailored to your company-specific requirements.

Approved hours from Time & Attendance instantly sync with payroll, no manual data entry or uploads required. You can even review timesheets directly inside each pay run.

Rippling allows you to create, view, edit and publish schedules, sort and filter by various criteria, colour code shifts and evaluate shift eligibility. You can also manage open shifts, add breaks, collect employee availability, track skills and certifications, and facilitate shift swaps and other changes with approval. You can also create and customise company-specific scheduling policies, leverage real-time attendance alerts, build custom reports and more. Employees can view, swap and manage shifts all from the mobile app as well as receive real-time alerts and notifications.

Time and Attendance allows employees to clock in/out via web, mobile or kiosk, with support for timesheet entry/editing, unlimited job codes, geolocation and both paid and unpaid breaks. It integrates seamlessly with Payroll, ensuring hours flow directly into payroll for approval, and with the Rippling Time Off app to track holidays and PTO. Highly configurable policies, alerts and audit log reporting help maintain compliance with federal and state regulations.