Time & Attendance
Manage T&A the stress-free way
Automate time tracking and payroll, stay compliant with local labor laws, and make better staffing decisions across your workforce.
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Connected time tracking & payroll
Sync Payroll with T&A
Other systems are error-prone and take hours of manual work to reconcile. With Rippling, approved hours automatically flow into Payroll—reducing manual data entry and errors.
compliance checks
Safeguard your business from compliance risks
Rippling automatically enforces overtime, meal breaks, and other federal, state, and local labor laws based on each employee’s work location—helping you avoid legal risk and financial penalties.
custom workflows
Free your managers from manual work
Customize Rippling to automate your exact time-tracking needs—from creating job codes and enforcing overtime policies, to routing timecard approvals to managers before payroll runs.
real-time visibility
Make informed decisions for your workforce
Gain visibility into attendance, labor trends, overtime, and more to catch gaps in your staffing, monitor burnout, and track where your employees’ time is going—and what it’s costing you.
Scheduling
Unlock hourly workforce management with Scheduling
Add Scheduling to Time & Attendance and build fully compliant schedules that meet your business's needs.
Manage shifts and track attendance in real time
Ensure schedules are compliant with labor laws
Minimize overtime in your schedules
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Built different
Analyze, automate, and orchestrate anything
Rippling takes a platform approach—building products on a single source of truth for all the business data related to employees. This rich, flexible data source unlocks a powerful set of capabilities.
Permissions
Automatically govern what each person in your company can see, do, and access.
Policies
Build custom policies that enforce your business’s unique rules and procedures.
Workflows
Automate virtually anything with hyper-custom triggers and advanced workflow actions.
Analytics
Make better decisions faster with real-time, unified data in an easy-to-use report builder.
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Companies that run on Rippling perform better
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See how Rippling can help you automate time tracking and simplify compliance, no matter your business size.
FAQs
What is time and attendance software?
Time and attendance software is a time-tracking application used for payroll purposes, allowing companies to track, edit, and approve employee hours, which are then integrated into payroll systems to compute compensation.
What are the key benefits of using time and attendance software?
The key benefits of using time and attendance software include time saving automations, seamless integrations with payroll, customizable policies to fit specific organizational needs, proactive alerts and approval chains to manage and resolve issues before they occur, enhanced reporting, improved compliance safeguards, and a user friendly interface to streamline the whole process for both managers and employees.
Why is time tracking important?
Time tracking is important because it allows for accurate tracking, editing, and approval of employee hours, which are essential for payroll processing, compliance with labor laws, and gaining insights into workforce productivity.
How is Rippling different from other time and attendance systems?
Rippling’s unified data structure unlocks key differentiators compared to other T&A systems. With Rippling, you’re able to fully integrate from check-in to paycheck, automate away busywork with workflows, and customize policies for complete control.
How do time and attendance systems ensure compliance with labor laws?
Time and attendance systems ensure compliance with labor laws through automated enforcement of breaks and overtime, real-time alerts for non-compliance issues, pre-built policies that regularly updated to reflect current labor laws, integration with payroll for accurate and compliant payment, and audit trails to track compliance from start to finish.
What is the difference between traditional and online time and attendance systems?
Overall, online time and attendance systems offer greater efficiency, flexibility, and accuracy compared to traditional systems. Online systems remove manual processes such as paper time sheets or punch cards, are accessible from anywhere with an internet connection, supporting remote work and flexible schedules, seamlessly integrate with payroll, HR, and other management systems, ensuring accurate and efficient data transfer, and provide advanced reporting tools and ensure compliance with labor laws through automated updates and features.
Does Rippling Time & Attendance have a mobile app?
Yes—employees can easily clock in and out through Rippling’s mobile app. Additionally, managers and payroll admins can easily view, edit, add, and approve employee timesheets directly from their mobile devices.