Payroll
Rippling Payroll supports this many payroll runs, including off-cycle payrolls, at no additional cost:
Unlimited payroll runs
Name the three ways employees can clock in and out with Rippling Time.
Web, mobile app, and kiosk.
True or False: A company must join Rippling PEO to purchase HR Services.
HR Services can work alongside PEO, BOR or BOB.
We're opening locations in several new states and HR is overwhelmed by registrations and compliance administration.
HR Services
Gusto is primarily built for this segment of the market, with most customers having fewer than roughly this many employees.
Small businesses / under ~50 employees.
Name three types of employee or payroll changes Rippling can automatically incorporate into payroll without manually re-entering the data.
- Salary changes, bonuses, deductions, benefits changes, time off, approved hours/overtime, commissions, reimbursements
This Rippling Time capability can build schedules using employee availability, PTO, overtime and labor requirements.
What is AI-assisted Scheduling?
Name three services included with HR Services.
HR Advisors, state/local payroll tax account administration, workplace posters, Mineral/HR Help Desk, EPLI, and LMS are examples.
“My managers spend hours every week building schedules around PTO, availability and overtime."
Rippling Time / Scheduling
As a company grows, ADP may require them to move between these three core HCM platforms. Name them.
RUN, Workforce Now, and Lyric HCM. RUN targets 1–49 employees, WFN 50–999, and Lyric 1,000+.
A company operates across multiple states. Name three payroll tax responsibilities Rippling can automate.
Calculating, filing, and remitting federal, state, and local payroll taxes.
Name three things a manager can review within Rippling Timesheets beyond simply total hours worked.
Schedules, PTO, breaks, job codes, overtime, exceptions, comments, attachments, or change history.
What is the key difference between HR Services and a PEO?
HR Services provides HR/compliance support without requiring the customer to enter the PEO/co-employment model.
Employees need to clock in from their phones, but managers want to ensure they're actually at the worksite.
Rippling Time — mobile clock-in + geofencing.
Name two platform capabilities Rippling has that Gusto does not.
Native IT, corporate cards, procurement, travel, Workflow Studio, open customer API, employee-level compliance monitoring, multiple EINs within one account, headcount planning, compensation bands, custom surveys, etc.
An admin sees an unexpected difference in an employee's paycheck. What can Rippling Payroll AI do to help them investigate it?
Explain paycheck changes and investigate discrepancies using the employee/payroll data already in Rippling.
What Rippling Time functionality helps businesses manage different meal-break and overtime requirements across locations?
Configurable break and overtime compliance rules/policies.
A company expands into three new states. What administrative task can HR Services help take off its plate?
Opening and administering state and local payroll tax accounts and helping manage associated compliance requirements.
“Payroll is constantly delayed because we're fixing missed punches, incorrect hours and overtime before processing.”
Rippling Time + Payroll
Why does Rippling internally categorize Paychex as a “Frankenstein” platform?
Its HCM platform is composed of technology from numerous acquisitions, resulting in siloed data/reporting and more limited cross-module automation. The battlecard notes 16 acquisitions as of June 2025.
An employee was overpaid on a previous payroll. What capability in the updated Payroll experience can simplify correcting that overpayment?
Negative earnings/deductions can be used in a pay run to account for the overpayment rather than requiring a separate correction payroll.
What is the architectural advantage of having Time, Scheduling, HR and Payroll on Rippling instead of separate systems?
They operate from the same underlying employee data, so changes and approved hours flow between systems without exports, imports or manual reconciliation.
Name the three U.S. eligibility requirements for HR Services.
U.S.-based employees, U.S. headquarters address, and U.S. EIN.
“We have one system for scheduling, another for time tracking, another for payroll, and HR maintains spreadsheets to keep everything straight.”
Rippling's unified platform — particularly Time + Payroll + Core HR
Your prospect says, “ADP basically does everything Rippling does.” Name three product/platform differences that distinguish Rippling.
Any three of: one platform that scales across company sizes; unified employee graph across HR, IT & Finance; Workflow Studio; Data Cloud; native IT; native Finance; broader global capabilities across company sizes; 650+ integrations/open API; employee-level compliance monitoring; company-wide governed AI.