Global Contractor MANAGEMENT
Compliantly pay contractors anywhere in the world
Hire and pay contractors across the globe, enhance your contractor experience, and simplify compliance.
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Contractor
Send localized agreement
Run KYC check
Add to global payroll
Grant access to apps
Assign onboarding tasks
Simple Administration
The world-class way to hire, pay, and manage
Hire top talent anywhere in the world. We’ll guide the next steps—from handling locally compliant contracts to intuitive payment processes to managing everything in one place.
Hire anywhere quickly
Onboard in 140+ countries within minutes. Contractors can sign agreements, complete KYC verification, enter payroll details, and get a company email address—all in one flow.
Pay without delay
Automate contractor invoices and approvals so you're always ready to pay contractors on time. Send payments in 50+ local currencies without worrying about exchange rates or the complexities of moving money internationally.
Manage in one place
All of your contractors’ workplace needs— time off, time tracking, license provisioning— are centralized within the same quality system as your employees.
CONTRACTOR EXPERIENCE
Easy invoices and faster paychecks
A faster payday starts with easy invoice submissions, review, escalations, and approvals. Then, pay contractors in days.
Approvals at super speed
Auto-approve invoices based on approved timecards, contracts, or custom criteria. Speed up manual reviews with visibility into contractor agreement details, comments, and more.
Status checks in real-time
Check on pending invoices, know exactly what they’re for, see which ones are paid out, and have a unified view for approvers, HR, finance, and contractors.
Contractor controls
Contractors can come in at any time to submit invoices or check their balance and upcoming payments. This gives contractors control to withdraw on their own terms.
Pay in days
Cross-border payments and currency conversions are time consuming, complex, and tedious. Rippling handles all of that and pays international contractors in days, not weeks.
Global AUTOMATION
Gain speed and control
When it comes to contractor processes, eliminate manual mistakes with automation you can trust. Rippling protects you from errors, so your work speeds up.
Do less data entry
Contractors can submit invoices in Rippling, or automatically generate invoices for hourly or fixed-rate contractors. You don’t need to spend time uploading work hours. Approved invoices automatically load into payroll.
Get payroll ready on time
Powerful, flexible tools mean pay runs stay on time. Customize approval routing policies, and create workflows to escalate invoice approval reminders.
Put KYC on autopilot
Rippling automatically collects KYC documents from your contractors and handles compliance work, like identity verification.
Built different
Analyze, automate, and orchestrate anything
Most "all-in-one" software consists of acquired systems. These modules are disconnected, so your business data is, too. Rippling takes a platform approach, building products on a single source of truth for all the business data related to employees. This rich, flexible data source unlocks a powerful set of capabilities.
Permissions
Automatically govern what each person in your company can see, do, and access.
Policies
Build custom policies that enforce your business’s unique rules and procedures.
Workflows
Automate virtually anything with hyper-custom triggers and advanced workflow actions.
Analytics
Make better decisions faster with real-time, unified data in an easy-to-use report builder.
See Rippling in action
Our experts can show you how Rippling effortlessly onboards and manages your global contractors.
FAQ
What is contractor management software?
Contractor management software is a solution that helps businesses streamline the process of hiring, paying, and overseeing independent contractors and freelancers across different countries. It centralizes essential tasks like contractor agreements, worker classification, compliance with local labor laws, and contractor payments — all while automating invoicing, approvals, and payouts in the preferred currency of each contractor.
With a contractor management solution like Rippling, businesses can efficiently onboard, track, and pay international contractors while reducing misclassification risk and ensuring adherence to local tax laws.
Should you use an employer of record (EOR) to hire international contractors?
Using an Employer of Record (EOR) depends on your business needs. If you’re hiring international contractors, an EOR is generally unnecessary since contractors are not legally considered employees. However, if you’re expanding your global workforce and need to hire full-time employees in different countries, an EOR can help you stay compliant with local labor laws and payroll regulations.
How can businesses effectively manage global contractors?
To manage global contractors effectively, businesses should focus on automation, compliance, and efficiency. Rippling simplifies global contractor management by enabling companies to onboard contractors in minutes, automate contractor payments, and stay compliant with local regulations in over 185+ countries. Key strategies include:
- Ensuring proper worker classification to avoid misclassification risks and penalties
- Automating invoices and payment schedules to ensure accurate, on-time payouts in local currency
- Centralizing contractor administration so businesses can track contracts, approvals, and deliverables all in one place
- Streamlining compliance with locally enforceable contractor agreements, in the local language where relevant and with locally enforceable IP protections
With Rippling, businesses can streamline their global hiring process, reduce manual workload, and ensure smooth, cost-effective contractor operations.
Where can I hire contractors with Rippling?
You can hire contractors in 185+ countries.
What currencies does Rippling support to pay global contractors?
We support over 50 unique currencies.
How long does it take to pay contractors in Rippling?
It typically takes 5-10 minutes to process contractor payments in Rippling, including reviewing approvals, data entry, confirming pay amounts, and processing payroll. After pay runs are approved, it typically takes 2-4 days for funds to arrive in a contractor's balance, depending on the bank that funds contractor payroll.
Can contractors submit their own invoices?
Contractors can generate their own invoices, which Rippling automatically routes for appropriate approvals. When Rippling has the information to generate an invoice automatically (like for contract terms of a fixed-rate every month, or hourly contractors who track time using Rippling), Rippling can also auto-generate invoices.