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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 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
*Reviews compiled across G2, TrustRadius, and Capterra
Rippling
9.6
Meets Requirements
Employment Hero
8.4
Meets Requirements
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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. 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
Automatically sync any changes across the platform (e.g. change in pay, permissions, or expense policy)
Employment Hero
(e.g. payroll does not fully sync with rest of platform)
Create custom workflows for onboarding, offboarding, promotions, transitions, surveys, and more
Employment Hero
(no custom workflows)
Automatically trigger tasks and alerts like “overtime maximum exceeded”
Employment Hero
(for pre-built workflows only)
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
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 visualise it any way you want to identify insights and trends. All without a single spreadsheet.
Features
Pre-built reports like headcount trends and costs by department
Employment Hero
(e.g. payroll does not fully sync with rest of platform)
(but unable to edit)
Report on nearly any piece of data across your HR, IT, Finance, and third-party apps into a single custom report
Employment Hero
(e.g. employment status, shift schedule, and survey response)
(e.g. cannot create “compensation cost report that includes contractors”)
Basic report functionality, like filtering and date-range selection
Employment Hero
(e.g. filter by department and hire date range)
(e.g. cannot create “performance report for last quarter and filter by department”)
Built-in Excel functionality like pivot tables and custom formulas
Employment Hero
(e.g. analyse average expenses by department directly on platform)
(must download and analyse in a spreadsheet)
03
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
Hire and pay international and local contractors directly
Employment Hero
(requires manual workarounds)
Full access to features for contractors
Employment Hero
(e.g. contractors cannot be assigned onboarding tasks, LMS courses, etc.)
Include all contractor data in policies, reports, and automations
Employment Hero
(contractor payroll data unavailable, and workflows not applicable to contractors)
# of countries to hire contractors
Employment Hero
150+
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
Compensation Management
Employment Hero
Pre-built modern awards recognition
Employment Hero
SOC 1 & SOC 2 Type II Compliance
Employment Hero
Third-party integrations
Employment Hero
540+
(e.g. missing Jira, Zoom, SFDC, etc.)
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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.