Rippling Review

About Rippling

Rippling is a workforce platform that combines HR, IT and finance tools with payroll. Rippling describes itself as a platform that unifies HR, IT, finance and more on a single source of truth for employee data, and says it integrates with 600+ apps. Its product list includes HRIS, payroll, benefits administration, time and attendance, scheduling, recruiting, performance and learning management, device management, identity and access management, expenses, corporate cards, bill pay, travel, global payroll and employer of record.

Rippling does not publish prices. Its pricing page is a quote request form, and its FAQ says most Rippling products are billed per employee per month, that some may be charged at (or include) a monthly base fee, and that each HR, finance and IT product can be purchased separately. You tell Rippling which products you need and it sends a custom quote.

For payroll itself, Rippling says it calculates payroll taxes and files them with federal, state and local agencies, that HR data such as new hires, salary changes and benefits deductions flows into payroll automatically, and that it integrates with accounting systems including QuickBooks, Xero and NetSuite. Its payroll page does not mention certified payroll, prevailing-wage reporting or job costing, so a contractor doing public work should ask about those before signing.

The trade-off: Rippling is built to run many HR, IT and finance functions in one place, which suits a growing company with office staff, laptops and several benefit plans to manage. A small trades shop that only needs to pay a crew and file payroll taxes will be paying for a platform built around much more than that, and it cannot compare the cost until it has a quote.