Rippling Launches Time & Attendance to Streamline Employee Time Tracking from Check-in to Paycheck

HR and IT management platform maker Rippling has launched its new Time & Attendance solution, that automatically syncs with a business’ payroll and general ledger to ensure maximum accuracy and compliance. Using Rippling, the entire time tracking process is seamlessly integrated from check-in, approving hours, running payroll, to posting journal entries.

“Over 50 percent of the US workforce is hourly or project-based, yet many HR leaders are still stuck between a rock and a hard place when it comes to finding the right technology solution for Time & Attendance,” said Sachith Gullapalli, Software Engineer, Rippling. “Generally, companies have two choices when it comes to tracking hours. They can use a stand-alone T&A provider that can provide a deep level of time tracking functionality, but still spend hours on administrative busywork like reconciling hours with payroll and building employee profiles in two separate systems. They also have the option to use a clunky, all-in-one system that integrates T&A with payroll, but lacks the configurability you need to build custom policies unique to your business. Neither of these options are ideal.”

Rippling’s Time & Attendance automates the entire employee time tracking process from check-in to paycheck. It empowers organizations to create automated workflows that resolve issues before they happen and build custom policies to manage efficiently.

Primary features and benefits of Rippling’s new Time & Attendance solution include:

Customize policies for the way you work

With Rippling, users are always in control over the rules and logic for time tracking, so they can customize the system to fit their company’s precise needs — from creating custom pay types and job codes to overtime and break policies.

Since Rippling enables users to build out their org chart and company holiday schedule in one place, they can create new policies and have them apply to every employee, without the need to import any new information.

For example, if an employee gets promoted to shift manager and becomes a new approver of time cards, Rippling will automatically change their permissions and grant them the appropriate access once you update your org chart.

Or, in a few clicks users can automatically apply overtime pay anytime an employee works on company holidays, as specified by the organization’s holiday calendar in Rippling.

Automated workflows give you full visibility and control

Rippling also keeps track of every time card so users don’t have to. Every HR leader’s biggest nightmare when it comes to time and attendance is an unexpected crisis: rising overtime costs, compliance violations, or unapproved timesheets. With Time & Attendance, just set up workflows once, and Rippling will notify users before issues arise—like when an employee is approaching overtime. Rippling even helps automate the approval process.

For example: users can automatically send an alert via email or the Rippling mobile app to an employee’s supervisor 10 minutes before they start accruing double overtime pay. And then, if they don’t approve, auto-clock them out.

Built-in functionality to keep your workplace safe and compliant

Staying on top of every state and local labor compliance laws can quickly bury a team in administrative busywork. That’s why Rippling pre-built every state’s minimum wage, overtime, and break policies into their core product. In fact, whenever users hire a worker in a new state, default overtime and break policies are automatically created and enforced based on that state’s policies so users are never at risk for financial penalties. Users can also create custom reports that leverage T&A specific variables like missed breaks, gross overtime pay, or timecard change history to run comprehensive compliance audits.

Lastly, the scope of workplace safety has expanded dramatically since the Covid-19 pandemic and is now one of the top strategic priorities for any HR Leader. That’s why Rippling provides a touchless check-in experience to its customers, particularly with the Rippling kiosk app. Also, via Rippling’s QR code option, users can have employees safely scan a QR code on the kiosk and check-in on their own mobile device while ensuring they are physically on-site and prevent “buddy punching” from occurring.

Seamlessly integrated with payroll and HRIS to eliminate manual errors

Rippling knows that payroll delays or errors can have disastrous financial consequences for their users’ hourly workforce, especially during these times where 52 percent of hourly workers have $0 in emergency savings and 76 percent have already missed or delayed a bill payment. These errors are commonplace with a report by Workforce Institute on engaging employees through payroll finding that 82 million Americans are impacted by payroll issues each year.

Using an all-in-one solution for payroll, HR, and time and attendance like Rippling ensures an organization’s payroll is accurate and delivered on time, as approved hours are automatically synced to payroll. That means no more entering hours manually, data syncing issues, or late approvals from supervisors. Users will also be able to configure automated reminders to all approvers of time to ensure employee hours are approved before each payroll deadline. Users can even automatically trigger multiple approval chains or specify a new approver in the case the main approver is on PTO.

When users run payroll, admins can review and approve necessary timecards right inside a pay run to avoid payment delays. And since Rippling logs exactly which hours have been paid out, in the event there are any hours that get added after a payroll run has been approved, users are immediately alerted so they can create an off-cycle pay run to resolve the issue.

Once users run payroll, they can leverage Rippling integrations with accounting systems like NetSuite, Sage Intacct, Xero, and Quickbooks Online to automatically post a journal entry into their general ledger (GL) with all the data mapped exactly the way they need it to be.

Rippling is the first way for businesses to manage their HR and IT — from payroll and benefits, to employee computers and apps — all in one, modern system. Rippling is headquartered in San Francisco and has raised over $210 million from top-tier investors, including Founders Fund, Kleiner Perkins, Initialized Capital, Threshold Ventures, and Y Combinator. For more information, please visit www.rippling.com.