Rippling

Rippling is a workforce management platform that unifies HR, IT, and finance operations in a single system. Founded in 2016 by Parker Conrad (co-founder of Zenefits), Rippling takes a radically different approach to business software: rather than integrating separate tools, it treats employee data as a single source of truth that automatically powers payroll, benefits, app provisioning, device management, and spend tracking simultaneously.\n\nWhen you onboard an employee in Rippling, a single workflow can simultaneously add them to payroll, enroll them in benefits, provision their email account and Slack, ship them a laptop, set up their expense card, and assign them to the right permission groups — all triggered from one action. Offboarding reverses everything in the same integrated way. This "compound software" approach eliminates the manual coordination between HR, IT, and finance that costs most companies significant time.\n\nRippling's modular architecture lets companies buy only what they need. Core products include Rippling HR (employee records, onboarding, org chart), Payroll (US domestic), Employer of Record (EOR for global hiring), IT (app and device management), and Spend (expense and corporate cards). Each module is powerful individually but becomes exponentially more valuable when combined.\n\nRippling is particularly well-suited for tech companies, fast-growing startups, and businesses with distributed or international teams. Its policy engine and workflow automation are sophisticated enough to replace multiple point solutions.\n\nPricing is modular and not fully transparent. The core platform starts at $8/employee/month. Additional modules (payroll, benefits, IT, EOR) are priced separately. Full implementation typically runs $21-29/employee/month for a comprehensive HR bundle. EOR services start at approximately $499-599/employee/month. A demo is required to get exact pricing.