Rippling vs. Employment Hero

Employment Hero is not an all-in-one platform, and lacks key features across everything from contractor management to reporting. According to 5,500+ reviews*, users preferred Rippling over Employment Hero for 4 key reasons:

Rippling automates more unnecessary admin work

Rippling’s reports encompass more workforce data

Rippling enables comprehensive management of global and local contractors

Rippling provides a breadth of solutions that inhibit the need to purchase more software to scale

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*Reviews compiled across G2, TrustRadius, and Capterra

Rippling

9.6

Meets Requirements

Employment Hero

8.4

Meets Requirements

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Rippling automates more of your unnecessary administrative work

Rippling automates administrative work out of the box. A change in one Rippling module ‘ripples out’ to the rest of the platform and is synced in real-time. Rippling also allows you to build custom workflows across your HR, IT, Finance, and third-party apps. For example, you can build the following workflow: “If a contractor is converted to a full time employee, update their tax withholdings, assign compliance courses, and provision access to Slack.”

Features

Employment Hero

Automatically sync any changes across the platform (e.g. change in pay, permissions, or expense policy)

(e.g. payroll does not fully sync with rest of platform)

Employment Hero

(only licence provisioning)

Create custom workflows for onboarding, offboarding, promotions, transitions, surveys, and more

(no custom workflows)

Employment Hero

(only licence provisioning)

Automatically trigger tasks and alerts like “overtime maximum exceeded”

(for pre-built workflows only)

Employment Hero

(only licence provisioning)

Automatically trigger HR actions like “send survey,” “assign training course,” and “issue payroll payment”

Employment Hero

Automatically trigger IT and Finance actions like “create Jira ticket” and “issue corporate card”

Employment Hero

Rippling allows you to identify insights across all of your workforce data

Rippling allows you to pull in nearly any piece of data from your HR, IT, Finance, and third-party apps, and then visualise it any way you want to identify insights and trends. All without a single spreadsheet.

Features

Employment Hero

Pre-built reports like headcount trends and costs by department

(e.g. payroll does not fully sync with rest of platform)

(but unable to edit)

Employment Hero

(only licence provisioning)

Report on nearly any piece of data across your HR, IT, Finance, and third-party apps into a single custom report

(e.g. employment status, shift schedule, and survey response)

(e.g. cannot create “compensation cost report that includes contractors”)

Employment Hero

(only licence provisioning)

Basic report functionality, like filtering and date-range selection

(e.g. filter by department and hire date range)

(e.g. cannot create “performance report for last quarter and filter by department”)

Employment Hero

(only licence provisioning)

Built-in Excel functionality like pivot tables and custom formulas

(e.g. analyse average expenses by department directly on platform)

(must download and analyse in a spreadsheet)

Employment Hero

(only licence provisioning)

Rippling enables management of global and local contractors

Unlike Employment Hero, Rippling allows you to hire contractors across 150+ countries and pay them directly on the platform. Contractors also gain access to the same platform experience as your employees, and you are able to include them in any policies, reports, and automations.

Features

Employment Hero

Hire and pay international and local contractors directly

(requires manual workarounds)

Employment Hero

(only licence provisioning)

Full access to features for contractors

(e.g. contractors cannot be assigned onboarding tasks, LMS courses, etc.)

Employment Hero

(only licence provisioning)

Include all contractor data in policies, reports, and automations

(contractor payroll data unavailable, and workflows not applicable to contractors)

Employment Hero

(only licence provisioning)

# of countries to hire contractors

150+

Not shared

Employment Hero

30s

Not shared

Rippling scales with your business, keeping you from purchasing more software

While Employment Hero can meet the basic needs of companies with less than 50 employees, customers find that it lacks both the breadth of solutions and key features required to meet growing business needs.

Features

Employment Hero

HRIS & Payroll

Employment Hero

Headcount Planning

Employment Hero

Compensation Management

Employment Hero

Pre-built modern awards recognition

Employment Hero

SOC 1 & SOC 2 Type II Compliance

Employment Hero

Third-party integrations

540+

(e.g. missing Jira, Zoom, SFDC, etc.)

Employment Hero

30s

(e.g. missing Jira, Zoom, SFDC, etc.)

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Rippling vs. Employment Hero

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Rippling automates more of your unnecessary administrative work

Rippling allows you to identify insights across all of your workforce data

Rippling enables management of global and local contractors

Rippling scales with your business, keeping you from purchasing more software

“A lot of things just don't work. There are so many improvements needed. The Independent Contractor [feature] is totally useless. I had one offshore person and it was a total disaster.

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Rippling vs. Employment Hero

Care to compare?

Rippling automates more of your unnecessary administrative work

Rippling allows you to identify insights across all of your workforce data

Rippling enables management of global and local contractors

Rippling scales with your business, keeping you from purchasing more software

“A lot of things just don't work. There are so many improvements needed. The Independent Contractor [feature] is totally useless. I had one offshore person and it was a total disaster.

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