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Global Overview

Hire, pay, and manage people worldwide

Onboard employees and contractors in 90 seconds

Set up new hires with everything they need to be productive—from devices to trainings—no matter where they are.

Pay everyone in their local currency—in minutes

Pay all of your employees and contractors around the world without waiting on transfers or conversion.

Manage HR, IT, and Finance in one unified system

Using multiple systems for your global team? That creates data silos and busy work. Rippling unifies all your systems.

Automate your global compliance work

Understanding and complying with local laws abroad is hard work. Rippling does it for you.

global onboarding

Onboard new hires anywhere, end to end

Set up employees and contractors across the globe with everything they need—from offer letters to benefits to corporate cards—in just 90 seconds.

GLOBAL PAYROLL

Pay your employees and contractors around the world in 90 seconds

Pay everyone in their local currency

Seamlessly pay workers around the world without waiting for any bank transfers or conversion.

Automatically file taxes globally

Rippling instantly calculates and files payroll taxes for your employees worldwide.

Sync all your HR data with payroll

Sync hours, time off, deductions, and more with payroll from a single global system.

Use one GL integration for global spend

Save hours of reconciliation work each month with payroll and expense data that's automatically categorized and synced to your general ledger.

Securely offload payroll tasks

Precisely define which roles have access to payroll data and admin privileges—from approving hours worked to hitting “Run.”

Automate nearly any payroll process

Easily build custom workflows to notify people of important changes and automate administrative tasks—like triggering a reminder to pay a bonus.

Other global payroll providers are faking it

Don’t let their pretty websites fool you. Other global “payroll systems” are actually payroll aggregators. They stitch together third-party payroll vendors in other countries and manually transmit your payroll files to them for processing every pay period. That creates errors, delays and limitations.

Here’s what might happen with them:

You have to submit payroll up to 25 days in advance of your next pay run

You can’t pay hourly workers

You can’t natively manage hours, PTO, or expenses

You can't change your initial pay schedule

You can’t make any changes after you submit payroll

You can’t process equity tax withholdings

You can’t process off-cycle pay runs

GLOBAL HRIS

One HR system for your team everywhere

With Rippling, you can finally bring all of your employee data from around the world into a single system. Rippling dynamically localizes everything—from fields and documents to currencies—based on work location.

GLOBAL HRIS

One HR system for your team

in Canada

in the UK

in the USA

in Germany

in India

in Mexico

everywhere

No other HR system can support a global workforce out of the box

Going global with any other HR system is like building a skyscraper with hand tools. It may be possible. It will never be practical. Whenever you expand into a new country, you’ll repeat foundational work, like building custom fields. And to do anything beyond payroll or hiring, you’ll have to continually patch together disparate systems.

Here’s what you can expect using them:

You can’t manage your domestic and international workforces in a single system

You can’t manage your employee’s time & attendance in the same system

You can’t build unified reports using both your domestic and international HR data

You can’t manage all of your employee expenses, corporate cards, and bills in the same system

You can’t view your entire workforce in a single org chart

You can’t remotely manage your IT—like devices and apps—in the same system

You can’t customize policies by country

You have to manually assign and manage country-specific compliance trainings

GLOBAL EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCE

Tailor your policies, benefits, and culture to every country

Rippling gives you the tools to provide your international workforce with an experience as standardized (or localized) as you like.

Apply globally

Create a custom holiday calendar for every country

Design worldwide and country-specific policies

Yes

Offer rich and affordable benefits in every country

Offer equity to everyone, everywhere

Yes

India Employees

Diwali, Oct 24

Paid Holiday

PTO Policy

15d + 1d per year of tenure

Meal Coupon

₹26,400 / year

Option Grants

40,000

USA Employees

Thanksgiving, Nov 23

Paid Holiday

PTO Policy

15d + 1d per year of tenure

401(k) Match

Option Grants

40,000

UK Employees

Boxing Day, Dec 26

Paid Holiday

PTO Policy

15d + 1d per year of tenure

Pension Contribution

Option Grants

40,000

Australia Employees

Anzac Day, Apr 25

Paid Holiday

PTO Policy

15d + 1d per year of tenure

Superannuation

11%

Option Grants

40,000

France Employees

Bastille Day, Jul 14

Paid Holiday

PTO Policy

15d + 1d per year of tenure

Meal Voucher

€25 EUR / day

Option Grants

40,000

Germany Employees

German Unity Day, Oct 3

Paid Holiday

PTO Policy

15d + 1d per year of tenure

Pension Plan

9.35%

Option Grants

40,000

Canada Employees

Canada Day, Jul 1

Paid Holiday

PTO Policy

15d + 1d per year of tenure

RRSP

Option Grants

40,000

50+ Countries

India Employees

Diwali, Oct 24

Paid Holiday

PTO Policy

15d + 1d per year of tenure

Meal Coupon

₹26,400 / year

Option Grants

40,000

USA Employees

Thanksgiving, Nov 23

Paid Holiday

PTO Policy

15d + 1d per year of tenure

401(k) Match

Option Grants

40,000

UK Employees

Boxing Day, Dec 26

Paid Holiday

PTO Policy

15d + 1d per year of tenure

Pension Contribution

Option Grants

40,000

Australia Employees

Anzac Day, Apr 25

Paid Holiday

PTO Policy

15d + 1d per year of tenure

Superannuation

10%

Option Grants

40,000

France Employees

Bastille Day, Jul 14

Paid Holiday

PTO Policy

15d + 1d per year of tenure

Meal Voucher

€38 EUR / day

Option Grants

40,000

Germany Employees

German Unity Day, Oct 3

Paid Holiday

PTO Policy

15d + 1d per year of tenure

Pension Plan

9.35%

Option Grants

40,000

Canada Employees

Canada Day, Jul 1

Paid Holiday

PTO Policy

15d + 1d per year of tenure

RRSP

Option Grants

40,000

50+ Countries

Create a custom holiday calendar for every country

Design worldwide and country-specific policies

Offer rich and affordable benefits in every country

Offer equity to everyone, everywhere

GLOBAL COMPLIANCE AUTOMATION

Automate your compliance, at home and abroad

Localized hiring agreements are just the start. Our compliance automation takes more liability off your plate than any other provider.

Global minimum wage enforcement

Global overtime enforcement

Global leave enforcement

Global compliance training

Global minimum wage enforcement

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Global overtime enforcement

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Lean on our in-country compliance experts

Need help on sensitive employment issues or country-specific laws? Our HR advisors are experts in local jurisdictions.

Global workforce reporting

Report on all your employee data across the world in one place

Monitor global compensation trends by department, location, and more, with built-in conversion to your local currency for easy comparison.

Track all of your company's spend globally—payroll, reimbursements, corporate cards, and bills—and slice the data by office or however else you'd like.

Easily track hiring against open headcount with with reports that show progress by location, start date, cost, and more.

View the total compensation of your domestic and international employees together in a single system: salary, equity, benefits premiums, and more.

Monitor global compensation trends by department, location, and more, with built-in conversion to your local currency for easy comparison.

Track all of your company's spend globally—payroll, reimbursements, corporate cards, and bills—and slice the data by office or however else you'd like.

Easily track hiring against open headcount with with reports that show progress by location, start date, cost, and more.

View the total compensation of your domestic and international employees together in a single system: salary, equity, benefits premiums, and more.

Evaluating other global solutions? Here are some questions to ask.

Questions

Rippling

Global Payroll

How far in advance do I need to process payroll?

Rippling

< 5 days

Others

15-30 days

How this impacts your business

Other global payroll systems work with third-party payroll providers to process your payroll

. They take your payroll file, send it to their partner, wait for the partner to calculate payroll taxes, send your payroll back to you, and then deposit funds to your employees.

With those long payroll processing times, you lose the flexibility you need to manage your business. For example, you have to submit commissions, bonuses, and reimbursements 2-4 weeks in advance of payday. So if you want to pay an employee a bonus but the payroll deadline has already passed, your employee won’t be able to receive their bonus until the following pay cycle—sometimes 45 days later. Plus, adding additional vendors into the mix can lead to errors and inconsistencies.

With Rippling, you can process global payroll in just 5 days, giving you more flexibility to approve hours worked, add commissions and bonuses, and more. Plus, you get to hold onto your money 2-3x longer before it’s sent to your employees. See less

Can I see a breakdown of the gross and net pay before I submit payroll?

Rippling

Others

How this impacts your business

Other global payroll systems manually process your payroll through third-party providers. That

means a third-party provider calculates your taxes and gross pay, making it impossible to see a breakdown of payroll in real time. You’ll have to wait until the third-party provider sends the file back to your EOR for you to see gross payroll—and that can be days.

Rippling Global Payroll is a payroll engine built and processed in-house through software. As a result , it processes payroll from start to finish, with no delays or errors. You’ll be able to see the exact amounts for taxes and net pay as you run payroll, making it easy to plan pay runs and avoid surprises. See less

Do you have a built-in time & attendance tool that automatically calculates payroll and overtime for hourly employees?

Rippling

Others

How this impacts your business

Other global hiring systems do not have native time & attendance software, nor do they allow you to classify employees as hourly in their system. Theref

ore you’re forced to misclassify them as contractors so that you can pay them hourly, or you miss out on a massive candidate pool due to system limitations.

With Rippling, you can hire salaried or hourly employees as long as the country allows it. Global hourly employees can use Rippling Time & Attendance, which syncs seamlessly with Rippling Global Payroll, so you never have to do any manual calculations to pay these employees. It also calculates overtime in every country, so it’s easy to stay on top of compliance. See less

Can I process off-cycle pay runs?

Rippling

Others

How this impacts your business

Because other systems partner with third-party payroll providers, you have to submit payroll 15-30 days in adv

ance. That means if you need to pay out a bonus or a reimbursement, you can’t do it until the next pay run, which is often a month later.

With Rippling, you can run off-cycle payroll as needed. That’s because we built a native payroll system. We don’t rely on third-party payroll partners, which is often the cause of inflexible payroll. See less

Do you automatically calculate prorated payruns if I hire a new employee mid-pay cycle?

Rippling

Others

How this impacts your business

With other systems, you'll spend time calculating prorated payroll whenever new hires join mid-cycle. It looks s

omething like this:

With Rippling, proration is automatically calculated. When you process payroll, you can see the breakdown instantly, giving you the confidence that you’re processing payroll accurately for your new employees. See less

Do you manage currency conversion for payroll adjustments, like reimbursements and bonuses?

Rippling

Others

How this impacts your business

In other systems, making a payroll adjustment, like adding a reimbursement, bonus, or commis

sion to a pay run, requires manual conversion from USD into an employee's local currency.

With Rippling, we automatically do this conversion for you in Global Payroll. We also show you what the converted amount is at the time of the pay run, so there are no surprises. See less

Will you withhold taxes when employees exercise stock options?

Rippling

Others

How this impacts your business

Other systems will not and cannot help with stock option exercise withholdings, effectively forcing non

compliance on companies that wish to provide stock options. They will say they support equity grants, but when employees exercise, you need to withhold taxes in payroll—almost none will let you do this in their system because of the overhead required for them to make manual, one-off adjustments in 3rd-party systems.

Rippling will support equity tax withholdings and tax forms/reporting, making it easy on you and your employees. See less

Global HRIS

How long does it take to send employment agreements to new hires through your system?

Rippling

90 seconds

Others

up to 14 days

How this impacts your business

Other systems require manual, backend work to onboard global employees into their system. That mea

ns it can take several days, and sometimes even weeks, to send out employment agreements, which can result in new hires going elsewhere.

With Rippling, you can instantly send new hires employment agreements. We use technology to check work authorization, so agreements can be sent instantly. See less

Can we store and manage all of our global employee data in one system?

Rippling

Others

How this impacts your business

Without Rippling, you’re stuck managing your global workforce out of multiple systems, which re

sults in siloed or incomplete data. That makes it nearly impossible to run reports on your entire workforce or to automate workflows across the employee lifecycle.

Rippling’s global HRIS can store employee data—like HR, Payroll, Benefits, IT, and Finance—all over the world. We also localize every field, so you never have to question the data’s integrity or wonder if you’re collecting the right information. See less

Can we instantly make changes to employees' data, such as initiating a promotion or changing a last name?

Rippling

Others

How this impacts your business

Other systems require you to amend an existing contract or create a new contract whene

ver any changes to an employee’s personal information—like address or phone number—need to occur.

With Rippling, you can easily make changes to an employee, and the change will automatically update across Rippling. Or, you can simply specify a future date, and we’ll wait to change it until then with no impact to your current operations. See less

Do you have all of the HR tools we need to manage our global workforce natively built into your platform?

Rippling

Others

How this impacts your business

Without Rippling, you have to buy and patch together a wide array of point solutions to check a

ll your workforce management boxes. For example, you’ll need to buy an ATS, time-tracking, employee surveys, learning management, and more.

Rippling has built 20+ products—from HRIS to Payroll and Device Management to Spend Management—to support your global workforce. We also integrate with 500+ third-party apps, so you always have what you need at your fingertips. See less

Can we run custom and joined reports on all of our domestic and global employee data—including HR, IT, and Finance—in one place?

Rippling

Others

How this impacts your business

Other global systems only provide canned, inflexible reports. That means whenever you need i

insights into your domestic and global employees, you have to manually download CSVs from multiple systems, then combine and manipulate the data.

With Rippling, you can report on every piece of employee data across your HR, IT, Finance, and third-party systems. Then, you can visualize, filter, drill down, aggregate, and group data to get the exact insights you need. See less

Can we create custom HR, IT, and Finance policies for every employee based on country and role?

Rippling

Others

How this impacts your business

With other global hiring systems, there’s no way to create custom policies and apply them to specific grou

ps of employees. As a result, you manage your workforce the way your system forces you to versus the way you want to. And as an admin, it’s nearly impossible to know which policies apply to whom.

Rippling lets you build everything from custom PTO policies to app access policies, and then automatically apply them to employees based on “Supergroups” —policy membership lists you define based on any employee attributes within your company, such as location, department, tenure, and devices. See less

Can we view a real-time, unified org chart of all our domestic and international employees in your system?

Rippling

Others

How this impacts your business

Without Rippling, you can’t view your entire company in one org chart, because other global solutions are

n’t capable of storing all of your domestic and international employee data in one unified platform.

With Rippling, your domestic and international employees are all housed in one system, which means you get a complete view of your entire org chart. See less

Can we build custom workflow automation? For example, an alert if an employee is 90 days away from their equity fully vesting?

Rippling

Others

How this impacts your business

Without Rippling, processes are painstakingly manual. To complete even the most mundane tasks y

ou have to remember each one or set calendar reminders.

With Rippling, you can automate nearly any manual process across multiple systems at once. Because Rippling houses all your data and business context—from your org structure to third-party app data— you can trigger actions based on any attribute, like an employee’s role, PTO balance, device OS, or spend limit. See less

Can you create custom approval workflows?

Rippling

Others

How this impacts your business

With other global systems you have to manually view and approve everything because they have no c

oncept of automated approval chains. Only a small number of users are able to access the system. And on top of that, they don’t have all of your employee data. So if, for example, you want to route a compensation increase request to your Finance business partner, you have to do that via email.

With Rippling, you can define your approvals based on your organization's roles (instead of specific people). Whenever someone requests a change, Rippling will automatically send it to the right people in your company for approval. See less

Can we manage benefits open enrollment for employees through your system?

Rippling

Others

How this impacts your business

Other systems will email you a PDF that lists benefit plan options for your employees, then will a

sk you to respond to the email with your chosen plan offerings and contribution scheme. As your employee onboards, they’ll have to correspond over email to select their plan.

With Rippling Global Benefits Administration, you select the plan and contribution scheme directly in your account. As your employee onboards, they’ll get the option to view and enroll in a plan. See less

Global Compliance

Do you automatically calculate overtime in every country?

Rippling

Others

How this impacts your business

If you don’t track and pay overtime correctly, your business is at risk of receiving fines or penalties. Other sys

tems can’t even track hours, so it’s impossible to know if you’re complying with overtime rules in other countries.

Rippling Time & Attendance has built-in overtime rules for every country where payroll is supported. We’ll automatically alert you when an employee works overtime and calculate overtime pay based on local laws.See less

Do you automatically assign required country-specific compliance training to EOR employees?

Rippling

Others

How this impacts your business

Without Rippling, you have to figure out if a country requires employee compliance train

ing, then find a system to enable that training. Otherwise, your business is at risk of breaking the law.

With Rippling, we automatically enroll employees in country-specific compliance courses and track their progress to ensure courses are completed by the mandated deadline. See less

Can you automatically alert me if my employee is being paid under minimum wage?

Rippling

Others

How this impacts your business

Rippling will automatically alert you if you’re paying an employee under minimum wage, and provide you with guidance on how to fix it.

Global IT

Can we automatically provision apps, like Slack, Gmail and AWS, whenever new employees onboard?

Rippling

Others

How this impacts your business

Other systems have zero IT functionality. That means you have to manually provision apps for y

our employees, every time someone onboards or transitions roles. Then, when someone leaves, you have to remember to manually deprovision apps, to ensure their access is removed.

With Rippling, you can automatically provision all the apps an employee needs at once when you onboard them. Then, they can easily access their apps via SSO, so you never have to deal with app access or issues. And when you offboard employees, you can select the exact date and time to remove their access. See less

Can we manage and monitor the security of our employees’ devices?

Rippling

Others

How this impacts your business

Other systems don’t have the functionality to support your employees’ devices. That means you’

re left relying on other disparate point solutions or you’re not monitoring device security at all.

With Rippling, you can instantly see the status of your entire fleet, like when viruses are detected, and lock and wipe them if a laptop is stolen. Plus, you can enforce your employees to use multi-factor authentication to double down on security. See less

Global Finance

Can our employees submit their expenses directly through your system/mobile app?

Rippling

Others

How this impacts your business

Without Rippling, you have to use a separate system—or a combination of emails and spr

eadsheets—to manage employee expenses.

Rippling offers the fastest way to reimburse employees and contractors for corporate expenses, wherever they are in the world. When you reimburse employees through Rippling Payroll, you can even pay them in their local currency while reporting on expenses in your own. See less

Can we automatically issue corporate cards to new hires with pre-set limits? And then automatically disable their cards when they leave?

Rippling

Others

How this impacts your business

Without Rippling, you have to manually issue cards to your employees and apply spending limits. If some

one leaves your company, you have to remember to go back into your credit card account to disable their card.

With Rippling, you can issue corporate cards to your teams with pre-set limits based on their role attributes. If someone leaves your company, Rippling will automatically disable the card for you. See less

Can we review, approve, and reimburse expenses directly through your system?

Rippling

Others

How this impacts your business

With other global solutions, you have to review and approve expenses in another sys

tem, then add reimbursements manually to each pay run. You can’t even set up recurring expense reimbursements.

With Rippling, you can review, approve and reimburse expenses directly in Global Payroll. See less

Can we create and manage all of our spend policies directly through your system?

Rippling

Others

How this impacts your business

Without Rippling, you have to manually assign expense policies to employees and trust they wo

n’t go outside of the policy.

Rippling lets you build expense policies based on any employee data in your company—from your org structure to employee levels. We’ll alert you if an expense submitted is out-of-policy, so you can take quick action. See less

Can we pay our international bills through your system?

Rippling

Others

How this impacts your business

Without Rippling, you have to pay international bills through a separate system, which results i

n siloed expense data.

With Rippling, you can pay bills directly from your accounts. See less

global WORKFORCE MANAGEMENT

Everything you need to run HR, IT, and Finance globally

Global HR

Global HRIS

Global Time & Attendance

Global Employee Surveys

Global Learning Management

Global Applicant Tracking

Global Compliance

Global HR Workflow Automation

Global Workforce Analytics

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Global IT

Global Device Management

Global App Management

Global Security Management

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Global Finance

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GLOBALLY SCALABLE SOLUTION

The only platform that can scale your international workforce

A business hiring its first contractor abroad has different needs from one operating several global offices. Rippling can help you address every stage of your international growth, while allowing you to transition easily between them.

Global contractor payments

Hire and pay contractors globally. No entity required.

Global Employer of Record (EOR) services

Hire and pay employees globally. No entity required.

Global Payroll via your entities

Run payroll for employees globally via your own entities.

FAQs

What is an Employer of Record (EOR)?

An employer of record (EOR) enables companies to legally hire and collaborate with employees overseas without opening their own local entity in that country, while fully complying with local employment and tax laws. An EOR takes on the responsibility of establishing its own legal entity in a country to hire employees on the client’s behalf. It handles the legal requirements of employment, such as payroll, employment contracts, vacation, leave, and taxes, while allowing you to continue to manage employees’ day-to-day work.

How quickly can I get an employee onboarded?

This can vary depending on the country and pace with which the employees onboards, but Rippling EOR makes it as quick as possible. We have automated most of the process, from automatically generating locally compliant documents to auto-approving 95% of employment agreements.

If I’m managing employees through Rippling EOR in one country, then decide to open a local entity, can I still use Rippling to manage and pay those employees?

Yes. If you decide to open a local entity, you can continue to use Rippling to manage your local workforce, and Rippling Global Payroll to pay them through your entity. We make the switch as easy as possible, and all your data and tools will remain the same.

Does Rippling support immigration?

We offer immigration services backed by top tier immigration advisers, and sponsor immigration visas in many countries. Enquire for more information.

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