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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 hundreds of verified reviews, users rate Rippling higher than Employment Hero for 4 key reasons:
Rippling automates more unnecessary admin work
Rippling’s makes it easier to report across HR, IT, and finance
Rippling enables comprehensive management of global and local contractors
Rippling helps you consolidate more software into a single platform
*Reviews compiled across G2, TrustRadius, and Capterra
Rippling
9.3
Ease of Setup
Employment Hero
7.8
Ease of Setup
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01
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.
Features
Automatically sync any changes across the platform (e.g. change in pay, permissions, or expense policy)
Employment Hero
Create custom workflows for onboarding, offboarding, promotions, transitions, surveys, and more
Employment Hero
Automatically trigger HR actions like “send survey,” “assign scheduling,” and “issue payroll payment”
Employment Hero
Automatically trigger IT and finance actions like “create Jira ticket” and “issue corporate card”
Employment Hero
02
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 visualize it any way you want to identify insights and trends. All without a single spreadsheet.
Features
Report on nearly any piece of data across your HR, IT, finance, and third-party apps into a single custom report
Employment Hero
Built-in Excel functionality like In-app pivot tables, formula fields, and custom formulas
Employment Hero
Customizable role-based permissions for building, viewing, and editing reports
Employment Hero
Employment Hero
03
Rippling enables management of global and local contractors
Unlike Employment Hero, Rippling allows you to hire contractors across 185+ 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
Hire and pay international and local contractors directly
Employment Hero
Full access to features for contractors
Employment Hero
Include all contractor data in policies, reports, and automations
Employment Hero
Number of available countries for contractor management
Employment Hero
185+
04
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
HRIS & Payroll
Employment Hero
Headcount Planning
Employment Hero
Scheduling
Employment Hero
Device & Expense Management
Employment Hero
SOC 1 & SOC 2 Type II Compliance
Employment Hero
Third-party integrations
Employment Hero
600+
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Rippling is the only software that unifies your HR, IT, and Finance systems—including payroll, benefits, time tracking, app and device management.