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Today, we're launching Rippling Automated Compliance, starting with SOC 2.

Most SOC 2 tools simply tell you what's wrong, but they can't help you fix it. They're detection systems bolted on top of tools they don't control, so every gap becomes a distracting side quest.

Rippling is different. We're not a reporting layer on top of your tools — we are the tools. Device management, identity and access, HR, performance management. So, most of your evidence is collected before you start. And when we find a compliance gap, we can actually close it.

That’s how Rippling helps you get a SOC 2 report, fast, without cutting corners.

Your SOC 2 evidence is already in Rippling

Most SOC 2 projects start with months of groundwork before a single piece of evidence is collected — standing up dozens of tools like an IdP, an MDM, a performance management system, then wiring them all into a compliance tool. That's dozens of vendors before you're even at the starting line.

If you're already on Rippling, you're already most of the way to being SOC 2 ready before you even begin. Nikolas Huebecker, a second-time founder who recently got his SOC 2 through Rippling, saw this first-hand.

“We were already compliant because of the way Rippling had us configure our systems. We just had to confirm it.

Nikolas Huebecker
Founder at stealth startup

The foundational data — employee device encryption, app access, security training, document signatures— already lived in one platform. Where a traditional compliance tool would require dozens of integrations, Rippling only needed three.

Rippling doesn't just flag issues, it fixes them

Every other SOC 2 vendor works the same way: detect a problem, alert your team, fix it elsewhere. That's not a product flaw. It's a structural limitation of any system that doesn't control the underlying tools.

When Rippling flags an issue, it takes you right to the fix. Unencrypted device? Encrypt it. Wrong app access after an access review? De-provision it automatically. Security training incomplete? Send a reminder and gate the employee's system access until it's done.

Maintaining compliance goes from a recurring scramble to something you knock out between meetings.

Audits don’t have to be a yearly fire drill

Staying compliant as your company changes — as people join, move, or leave — is where most tools fall apart. Rippling handles it automatically.

“You change one policy, and it ripples across the entire org right away. That's what it means to have compliance embedded into the systems you already run your business on. Can't believe I'm saying this, but I can't wait for next year's audit.

Wayne Hamilton
Founder at Payment Box

When you offboard an employee, Rippling revokes their access, wipes their device, and generates a certificate of data destruction for your auditors all in one system. When you onboard a new hire, their device arrives pre-configured with the right settings. And now with Rippling Automated Compliance, your SOC 2 evidence is collected automatically as your workforce evolves.

Once your evidence is collected, you’re connected with an independent CPA firm and pen testing partners. You can plan the audit, approve and export evidence, and respond to auditor requests all in one centralized portal. The auditor reviews evidence independently and uploads your final SOC 2 report once done. You can get back to running your business.

Get started

Rippling Automated Compliance is available today for SOC 2 Type 1 and Type 2, with more frameworks on the way.

No tickets to chase. No fire drills when the auditor shows up. Book a demo and see it for yourself.

DISCLAIMER

Rippling and its affiliates do not provide tax, accounting, or legal advice. This material has been prepared for informational purposes only, and is not intended to provide or be relied on for tax, accounting, or legal advice. You should consult your own tax, accounting, and legal advisors before engaging in any related activities or transactions.

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Why Rippling AI is different

Today we’re introducing Rippling AI. It’s AI that you can trust to answer deeply specific questions about your company using live data, and then take real action across HR, IT, and Finance.

Most enterprise AI products today are built as thin conversational layers on top of existing software. They may be able to retrieve information or generate a plausible response, but they are not deeply integrated with the underlying data model, business logic, permissions, and workflows of the system itself. When dealing with critical business information, that level of integration is not optional, it’s required.

It returns exact answers, not educated guesses. When you ask Rippling AI a question, it will express the action you want to take, in code. It writes a query. It generates precise SQL, or writes a formula, or builds a report. This approach creates inherent protections against hallucinations, and means that Rippling’s AI rides the tidal wave of investment the underlying foundation model companies have made in code generation. It also means the answers you get back are auditable and deterministic. Rippling’s AI shows its work, and you can verify the approach it’s taking.

It understands your organization. References like “my team” or “last quarter” resolve against your actual data: specific people, specific numbers, specific records. Ambiguous references to departments, candidates, work locations, and names are resolved up-front (“Which John do you mean?”)

Permissions are automatic. Rippling AI inherits your existing roles and access permissions. A manager sees their team. An HR admin sees more. You cannot trust LLMs to filter or redact data correctly, based on your company’s permissions model – but with Rippling, you don’t have to, because the LLM can only access information that the user it’s chatting with can access themselves. If you instruct the LLM to make changes on your behalf, it will tee them up for your review. And these changes will go through whatever approvals your company requires, the same as if they were made by a human.

You’ll probably never build a report yourself again

Rippling AI can build reports in one-shot, and run SQL analysis off of your data in Rippling. For example, let's say you want to create a report of voluntary terminations over the last 6 years. Simply write a prompt, and instead of hours of manual analysis, you get a detailed answer, plus the underlying reports to inspect yourself.

Spot attrition risks by team and manager.

It can also work from images or documents that you upload. Snap a picture of a chart you drew on a whiteboard, and Rippling AI will build it, directly in our BI system.

It takes the tedious work off your plate

There are many cases where AI can take action in the system on your behalf.

Drop in a messy spreadsheet of spot bonuses for your employees and say: “Add these bonuses to payroll. Convert currencies for my review.” Rippling AI maps columns to employee records, validates the data, flags missing information, converts currencies, and stages the payroll run for your approval. What used to be hours of cleanup becomes minutes of review.

Tell the AI to grant someone (or multiple someones) access to key business systems. “Give Jane access to Salesforce”, “Add our new consultant to our corporate travel system”

Or say you need to restructure a team: “Reassign all of David’s direct reports to Jamie effective Monday.” Instead of manually updating profiles one by one, Rippling AI stages the change in one move so you can review and confirm.

It can handle employee questions instantly

Rippling AI gives employees immediate, detailed answers to questions that would otherwise go to HR. Employees can ask about:

• Benefits: “How much does my medical insurance cover for an MRI?” “Why was my FSA claim rejected?”
• Payroll: “My paycheck was lower this pay period than last pay period, it seems wrong, what happened?”
• Policies: “How much parental leave am I eligible for?”, “What’s our expense policy while traveling?”
• Reimbursements: “What’s the status of my reimbursement and when will it get paid out?”

And more.

Employees don’t need to open a case or search for help articles. When an employee doesn’t understand why their paycheck changed, Rippling AI can trace the root cause across payroll, benefits, expenses, and more, and explain exactly what happened.

Get access to Rippling AI

For years, there has been a gap between what leaders want to know and the answers they can get quickly. Teams wait for reports. They chase information across disconnected systems. They make calls without the full picture. Then they spend hours doing manual work to carry out the decision.

Rippling AI closes those gaps. It gives you answers you can verify and actions you can control, all in one place. It helps you understand what is happening, decide what to do next, and move the work forward.

Rippling AI is available today. If you’re already on Rippling, request access to use it with your own data. If you’re not, we’d love to show you what it looks like for your business.

Companies that run on Rippling perform better.

DISCLAIMER

Rippling and its affiliates do not provide tax, accounting, or legal advice. This material has been prepared for informational purposes only, and is not intended to provide or be relied on for tax, accounting, or legal advice. You should consult your own tax, accounting, and legal advisors before engaging in any related activities or transactions.

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When standard software doesn’t fit your business, critical workflows end up in spreadsheets and manual workarounds. Rippling Solutions turns them into custom apps and automations — built in Rippling, by Rippling engineers, with your data, permissions, and policies.

Rippling already automates the most critical parts of running your company, from onboarding to payroll to device management and spend controls. But every business has unique processes that don’t fit neatly into a standard system.

Maybe you need a payroll model that calculates dynamic rates based on real-time sales data. Or a report that merges payroll and overhead data to show true department costs. Or a tool that tracks special equipment and vehicles assigned to your employees. These are the kinds of workflows off-the-shelf apps weren’t built to handle.

And when standard software doesn’t fit, most teams end up with two options: hold the process together with spreadsheets and manual workarounds, or hire third-party consultants for one-off builds that are brittle and expensive to maintain.

Last year, we introduced App Studio, so customers could build custom apps in Rippling, self-serve, to replace simpler spreadsheet processes with something auditable and scalable.

Since then, customers have come to us with more advanced needs: processes that require data from multiple systems, use custom logic, and must hold up over time.

That’s why we’re launching Rippling Solutions

Rippling’s Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) work directly with you to build custom, production-grade apps and automations inside Rippling. That means no handoffs, no workaround tools, and no compromises. Rippling Solutions fits your company perfectly because it's built for your company.

With Rippling Solutions, Rippling doesn’t just support your core HR operations. It can also power your most unique processes through custom apps and automations that run on your data, permissions, and policies.

Built by engineers who understand your unique problems

Rippling FDEs are full-stack engineers who build Rippling Solutions. And they don’t operate in the background. They meet directly with customers, identify the job to be done, and build exactly what’s needed.

That means no translation layer. The person who understands your use case is the same person writing the code. As Kevin Bai, a Rippling FDE, puts it:

“There is no handoff. And that not only drives efficiency. It drives alignment.”

Built in Rippling. Connected to everything.

Unlike standalone apps or external builders, every FDE-built solution lives inside of Rippling. That means:

• Your data is already there, and you can augment it with third-party data. No more manual transfers or consolidation.
• Your employees are already there. No new logins or systems to adopt.
• Your governance is already there. Every app inherits Rippling’s permissions and policies.

Whether you’re solving complex pay structures, compliance, asset tracking, scheduling, or cross-system reporting, the building blocks are already in place. That’s what makes these solutions fast to ship, easy to maintain, and ready to scale.

What Rippling is building for customers

Rippling Solutions is already changing how teams run critical workflows. Here are a few examples of what we’ve built for our customers:

• When Athena needed a way to track licenses and credentials for over 250 clinicians, they worked with a Rippling engineer to build and launch a solution in a single session. “The support was amazing,” said HR Director Charlene Feliciano. “I’m leaving feeling confident I can manage this on my own. And if I need help, I know I’ll get it.” Read more.
• Sequoia Riverlands replaced spreadsheet-based project cost calculations with an app that combines employee pay, benefits, per-employee overhead, and other third-party business data to forecast total project costs. “The impact that this app will have will be pretty incredible,” said Phil Daubenspeck, Chief Investments and Partnerships Officer. Read more.
• A fast-growing fitness studio replaced spreadsheet-based instructor pay calculations with an app that pulls class data from Mindbody and automatically calculates pay and bonuses. Now payroll runs accurately and on time, without manual updates or spreadsheet maintenance.

These are the kinds of operational workflows that most software ignores. With Rippling Solutions, they can be codified directly in Rippling, instead of scattered across spreadsheets.

Rippling fits your business, and evolves with it

Every company has its own logic and processes. Most software can’t accommodate that without months of customization, brittle integrations, or painful compromises.

Rippling can.

When your system of record is programmable, and you can work directly with a Rippling engineer, there are fewer limits. Instead of duct-taped tools, you get custom apps and automations built directly in Rippling, delivered quickly and designed to scale as your business evolves. And unlike a one-off build from a third-party consultant, maintenance doesn't fall solely on your team. Rippling helps keep your solution running reliably with ongoing maintenance and support.

Explore Rippling Solutions with an expert

How many manual processes are slowing your business? Connect with an expert to see what we can build for your team.

Learn more.

DISCLAIMER

Rippling and its affiliates do not provide tax, accounting, or legal advice. This material has been prepared for informational purposes only, and is not intended to provide or be relied on for tax, accounting, or legal advice. You should consult your own tax, accounting, and legal advisors before engaging in any related activities or transactions.

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A strong year starts with strong systems. These updates add more structure to your learning systems, simplify employee departures, make travel booking a breeze, and expand payroll coverage, helping you run a more globally organized business.

Featured

• Book 10+ hotel rooms at once in Rippling Travel

  Tap My Trips, then Book Room Block, and submit your requirements. A Rippling Travel Expert will contact hotels for you, negotiate heavily discounted rates, and even scope food and event space, all while keeping your business anonymous. You’ll get a quote list to review and book. Learn more.

• Personalize and standardize LMS learning journeys at scale

  Create custom LMS Learning Paths for everything from compliance certifications to onboarding by linking courses together. You can create linear or flexible paths, set dynamic due dates, enforce checkpoints with quizzes, and automate enrollment based on employee attributes. Learn more.

• Compliantly, easily run payroll in Brazil, Mexico, the Philippines, and Spain

  Manage your entire global workforce and pay them fast in one system, including employees in Brazil, Mexico, the Philippines, and Spain. Take advantage of powerful cross-company reporting and get help from local payroll experts whenever you need it.

• Set advanced offboarding actions for Microsoft 365

  Now you can configure offboarding rules for Microsoft 365 accounts, including account deactivation, license reclamation, files and mailbox transfer, and email forwarding. Learn more.

Platform

• Apply policies to employee data based on time

  Use point-in-time Supergroups to create Supergroups based on historical employee data. For instance, you can exclude employees from a Supergroup who were not based at a specific location at a given time. This way, payroll, scheduling, and eligibility stay accurate, even as roles change. Learn more.

HCM

• Route time approvals by job code

  You can now build Time & Attendance approval policies based on job codes. That means you can automatically route shifts to the right approvers when employees work specific jobs, locations, or projects. Learn more.

• Stay compliant with US leave and holiday default policies

  If you’re a US non-EOR company, you now have access to default sick leave and holiday policies to support state and local compliance. These policies are available for you to apply them if and when it makes sense for your team. Existing custom policies will continue to apply. Learn more.

• Fix approved payroll correction errors without support tickets

  We’ve expanded self-serve payroll actions so you can move an approved payroll correction back to draft or archive it while preserving audit history, making it easy to fix errors without recreating pay runs or filing a support ticket. Learn more about payroll corrections.

• Schedule interviews faster with self-serve rescheduling and bulk availability requests

  Interview scheduling is now even more efficient in Rippling Recruiting. Recruiters can send availability requests in bulk, and candidates can reschedule or cancel interviews directly from their invite, saving time and reducing email back-and-forth. Learn more.

• Streamline pre-offer approvals with a decision-to-offer stage

  Route pre-offer decisions through a structured approval chain instead of scattered emails. Recruiters can submit role, level, comp, and justification for review, with every approval, rejection, and comment automatically captured for visibility and compliance. Learn more.

• Help interviewers give better interviews by sharing candidate feedback

  You can now decide to give interviewers access to feedback from previous interviews after they submit their own feedback. This enables them to better prepare using context from previous interviews without introducing bias. Learn more.

Finance

• Auto-attach IRS-compliant receipts to Travel transactions

  When employees book flights or prepaid hotels using the Bill to Company payment method, Rippling will automatically generate and attach an IRS-compliant receipt to the related transaction. No manual work required. Learn more.

• Filter transactions by client, job, project, and more

  Previously, grid filters only worked for standard fields like Vendor, Amount, and Purchase Date. Now, you can filter transactions by custom dimensions such as Client, Job, or Project, allowing you to quickly find, review, and export any data you need. Learn more.

• Activate auto-attached invoices and receipts in NetSuite

  In addition to syncing NetSuite transactions with Rippling, you can now enable attachment-level sync for NetSuite. To get started, enable auto-attached receipts in the Accounting Integrations tab. Learn more.

• Understand and analyze all your spend with an improved Spend Analytics Dashboard

  You’ll now see new filtering options and more robust reporting (like “Monthly Expenses by Expense Type”) all in a simpler, more intuitive Spend Analytics Dashboard. Tap the Finances Overview tab and head to Spend Overview to get started. Learn more.

IT

• Eliminate email account creation errors with work email policies

  With configurable email creation policies, you can auto-generate work email accounts, prevent duplicates, and disable manual edits during hiring and transitions. That means fewer mistakes and less follow-up for busy admins. Learn more.

• Strengthen endpoint security with new SentinelOne add-ons

  Rippling now supports three new SentinelOne add-ons — Purple AI, Vigilance MDR, and Cloud Funnel — so you can detect threats faster, investigate incidents smarter, and respond with confidence, all from your existing security stack. Learn more.

• Take control of RPass sharing with folder-based permissions

  Control who sees what in RPass. Sharing permissions are now dictated by folders, eliminating conflicting access rules. Existing multi-purpose folders convert to tags, so you get clean organization without compromising security or visibility. Learn more.

• Set up Google SSO faster with a simpler admin experience

  Get inbound SSO configured with fewer steps and fewer surprises. Upload metadata XML files directly from your IdP and follow clear prompts that prevent test failures before they happen. Learn more.

• Upgrade your Zendesk integration with OAuth2

  Improve security and reduce reconnects by upgrading your Zendesk integration to OAuth2. Once upgraded, Rippling automatically refreshes tokens and keeps your connection stable, while existing Basic Auth setups continue working until you’re ready to switch. Learn more.

• Connect Rippling to any IdP with the new IdP Connector

  Make SSO work with the IdP you already use. The new IdP Connector SKU supports SSO from any provider, includes Okta, Entra, and Google integrations, and lets you add a custom SCIM integration for unsupported IdPs.

Global

• Update any benefits enrollment worldwide

  Fix enrollment discrepancies, align records with carriers, and prevent downstream payroll and invoicing issues without delays or manual workarounds using offline changes. Just select Benefits, choose the country, find the employee, and click Update to get started. Learn more.

• Easily onboard and manage employees in Guatemala and Congo

  Onboard employees in 2 minutes or less in Guatemala and Congo with pre-set, automated onboarding flows that collect the right employee data to be compliant. Manage in org charts, maintain policies, and include in your reporting. Learn more about Global HRIS.

• Simplify Australia payroll setup with bulk tax imports

  Upload Australian tax withholding details in a single file to update key tax information across supported entities without manual, employee-by-employee work. Learn more.

• Streamlined authentication for EU and UK Payroll

  To meet EU and UK Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) requirements with less friction, you can now complete a one-time verification to trust employees as beneficiaries. After that, additional verification is only required for high-risk actions, such as changing bank details. Learn more.

• Get ready for Canada year-end filing with new payroll updates

  Review 2025 year-end filing drafts for T4, T4A, and RL-1 in Rippling, automatically apply TD1-IN Indigenous employee tax exemptions, and reduce over-withholding for commissioned employees with TD1X support. All designed to improve accuracy and year-end compliance.

Customers

• Join us live and automate like a pro

  On February 17 at 11 a.m. PT, learn how Liquid Death, Chess.com, and other HR teams are crushing manual busy work and saving weeks of time with Rippling-only automations. You’ll get practical workflows you can put to use immediately. RSVP here.

• Get certified in Rippling Benefits Administration

  Build confidence managing employee benefits in Rippling with our latest certification course for Benefits Admins. Learn how to set up, manage, and maintain benefits with ease. SHRM members can earn SHRM PDC credits upon completion. Register for the free course on Rippling U.

DISCLAIMER
Rippling and its affiliates do not provide tax, accounting, or legal advice. This material has been prepared for informational purposes only, and is not intended to provide or be relied on for tax, accounting, or legal advice. You should consult your own tax, accounting, and legal advisors before engaging in any related activities or transactions.

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Rippling is excited to announce that, as an Apple Business Partner, we can now further deliver on our promise to manage the full lifecycle for every employee and device seamlessly.

As a part of today’s announcement, Rippling is launching a new Device Store, which now includes an expanded lineup of Apple® products, including iPhone® devices. Combined with Rippling’s Device Buyback program, which allows companies to instantly sell back Apple devices at leading market rates directly within Rippling, businesses can now lower total cost of ownership (TCO) and maximize the value of their entire Apple fleet in one platform.

More than 90 percent of Rippling’s 5,000+ employees use Mac® computers. We’ve seen firsthand how Apple helps people improve productivity and employee satisfaction – and as an Apple Business Partner, we make procurement, zero-touch deployment, device management, and secure end of life simple. The unique combination of Apple hardware paired with Rippling software and services leads to a secure and accessible experience for users, while making it easy for IT to deploy, manage, and secure devices at scale.

How Rippling is Redefining the Apple Device Lifecycle

Apple builds best-in-class devices loved by modern workforces. Rippling provides the simplest way to procure, configure, secure, manage, retrieve, and resell those devices without juggling multiple systems or vendors.

Rippling provides an unmatched experience when it comes to managing Apple devices:

• Procure → manage → sell back devices all in one platform
• Zero-touch onboarding seamlessly integrates Apple Business Manager and Automated Device Enrollment
• Real-time security enforcement and compliance through Declarative Device Management protocol from Apple
• Industry-leading resale value available automatically via Rippling Device Buyback

The New Rippling Device Store

Rippling originally launched the Device Store to solve one of the biggest gaps in onboarding today: getting employees their laptops pre-configured with the right specs, apps, and security settings before their start date.

Rippling is the easiest way to onboard a new employee, and we built the Device Store to empower every hiring manager to get their new hires a device that arrives ready to work on day one. It doesn’t just fall on IT teams anymore. We’re freeing them to focus on more important work.

We’ve fully redesigned the Rippling Device Store with a modern interface, faster workflows, and an expanded product catalog, including 500+ models of laptops, desktops, displays, tablets, phones, and accessories available for instant shipping in the U.S. and Canada.

New features in the upgraded Device Store:

• Bulk purchasing for teams, new hires, or refresh cycles
• Support for MacBook Pro® with M5, MacBook Air® with M4 and newly added iPhone® devices
• Streamlined store design for faster browsing and ordering
• Ability to buy devices directly from the approved catalog
• Add or remove devices from your organization’s approved list
• Auto-replacement of out-of-stock SKUs with similar models
• Completely redesigned store experience inside Hiring and Assign flows

Rippling ships devices in just days, not weeks, already pre-configured with apps, security policies, and access settings, so employees can open their laptop and start working on Day 1.

Deep Integration with Apple Business Manager

Rippling’s integration with Apple Business Manager now goes even further, offering full visibility and zero-touch control over Apple devices from the moment they’re purchased.

New Apple Business Manager capabilities include:

• Viewing and assigning pre-staged Apple devices inside Rippling
• Automated Device Enrollment to auto-enroll devices into Rippling MDM upon activation
• Instant enforcement of security policies the moment a device is turned on
• Bulk release from Apple Business Manager during Rippling Device Buyback, no manual steps required

Rippling was an early adopter of the new Apple Business Manager APIs, now integrated into their platform, setting a new standard for automated, hands-off Apple lifecycle management.

Next-Generation Apple Management with Declarative Device Management

Rippling leverages next-generation Declarative Device Management protocol across macOS®, iOS®, and iPadOS®. Device configuration is faster, more reliable, and more secure than ever.

Benefits include:

• Real-time enforcement of passcodes, OS updates, security settings
• Devices proactively report compliance status
• Audit-ready templates for SOC 2, NIST, and CIS (Levels 1 and 2)
• Ability to build fully custom Apple policies from one central view

Policies managed in Rippling include:

• Passcodes & password rules
• Inactivity locks & screen timeout
• Login attempt limits
• OS update deferrals & enforcement windows
• Automatic update controls
• Security updates & rapid security response management
• Cross-platform enforcement frequency

This ensures every Apple device stays secure, compliant, and up-to-date without manual intervention, minimizing device downtime.

Instantly Reclaim the Value of Your Apple Fleet with Device Buyback

A refreshed Apple fleet starts with reclaiming the value of the aged device.

Rippling’s new Device Buyback program gives IT and finance teams a fast, automated way to sell back aging Apple devices at best-in-class market rates without coordinating with third-party recyclers or logistics partners.

We’ve already seen the average customer save between $10,000-$20,000 by selling back their aged Apple devices sitting in storage.

Device Buyback highlights:

• See real-time market value for stored Mac devices
• Sell back as many devices as you want at once
• Automatic cleanup actions:
  • Device is securely erased
  • Disconnected from Rippling MDM
  • Released from Apple Business Manager
• Receive certificates of secure data destruction for every device
• Rippling handles logistics, processing, and responsible disposal

By automating retrieval and resale, Rippling helps companies recover budget, clean up inventory, and fund future Apple hardware refreshes.

Apple Devices Power Your Team. Rippling Powers the Lifecycle.

Rippling goes further than other tools on the market which typically stop at configuration, managing the device, the user, inventory and logistics, and the end-of-life process in one integrated system.

Rippling manages everything:

• Purchase from the Rippling Device Store
• Zero-touch deployment
• Identity-based provisioning
• Real-time Apple DDM
• Device retrieval & warehousing
• Device Buyback
• Secure disposal with data wiping certificates

Explore the new Device Store or learn more about Rippling Device Lifecycle Management to see how Rippling is redefining the employee experience with Apple devices.

Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, macOS, iPad, iPadOS, MacBook Air and MacBook Pro are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries.

DISCLAIMER

Rippling and its affiliates do not provide tax, accounting, or legal advice. This material has been prepared for informational purposes only, and is not intended to provide or be relied on for tax, accounting, or legal advice. You should consult your own tax, accounting, and legal advisors before engaging in any related activities or transactions.

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Today, I’m thrilled to share all of the exciting new features we’ve built for Rippling Recruiting this year. With these releases, Rippling is the first and only HR platform to build an applicant tracking system as powerful as a specialized recruiting solution — so talent teams can finally have the all-in-one dream without sacrificing the features they need to hire top talent, faster.

Powerful features vs. a unified system: the tradeoff you don’t need to make

There is nothing recruiters and candidates hate more than the applicant tracking systems offered by HR all-in-one platforms – I know this from the hundreds of recruiters I’ve spoken to over the years. The loathing runs so deep that many applicants refuse to apply to companies that use them, which means missing out on potential top talent.

Having an applicant tracking system (ATS) in the same platform as HR should be a dream: after all, once candidates are hired, they become employees, and once employees leave your company, they become candidates again. Shouldn’t one system encompass the entire lifecycle? Talent leaders are under pressure to consolidate their tech stack, and using an all-in-one system would result in streamlined workflows between recruiting and HR teams in addition to cost savings. So why doesn’t it work?

The problem is that these legacy HR systems only offer “check-the-box” applicant tracking systems to meet buyers’ surface-level requirements. This barebones functionality isn't nearly as powerful as specialized recruiting solutions.

Talent teams deserve better, which is why many instead turn to specialized, dedicated recruiting solutions like Greenhouse, Ashby, and countless others. Before I joined Rippling to lead the development of our talent products, I spent most of the last decade building purpose-built solutions for world-class recruiting teams, from Fortune 500 companies to today’s fastest-growing tech companies. My team and I lived and breathed recruiting, and our customers loved us for the expertise and depth we brought to our products.

However, I’d still hear over and over from customers how much they wished for the all-in-one dream. With an ATS that’s siloed from the rest of the HR system, onboarding new hires means duplicative data entry and missed handoffs, gleaning actionable data requires manual data pulls and joins across disparate systems and incongruous data models, and aligning on a source of truth for approved headcount is nearly impossible.

At Rippling, we believe you shouldn’t have to choose.

We built Rippling Recruiting to be the best of both worlds

Today, I’m excited to share all of the exciting new features we’ve built for Rippling Recruiting this year because, for the first time ever, it means talent teams can finally have the best of both worlds: an applicant tracking system with the power you expect from a point solution, built right inside your core HR platform.

We’ve built innovative, AI-powered features like Application Review and Interview Assistant to help you identify and hire top talent faster than ever. Rippling’s own team of over a hundred recruiters uses Rippling Recruiting daily as their applicant tracking system, which is rapidly evolving week-over-week thanks to their feedback, our dedicated R&D team, and thousands of customers like Chess.com.

Here’s a glimpse of some of the exciting ways our new AI-powered features can help you hire better:

Accelerate hiring with Application Review

Surface top candidates instantly using criteria that you define so that you can skip the manual resume sifting and reach top talent before your competitors snatch them up. Understand exactly why a candidate did or didn’t meet the criteria with transparent profile summaries, and help protect against potential biases with built-in checks that flag problematic criteria before they’re applied.

Improve hiring outcomes with Interview Assistant

Give more thorough feedback, faster by using AI to automatically record and transcribe interviews. Easily identify takeaways from interviews with interview summaries based on transcripts and leverage data-driven insights from recordings to train and coach interviewers, keeping your hiring bar consistent and high.

Make better hiring decisions with candidate feedback summaries

Synthesize each interviewer’s feedback form using AI to create a digestible summary of a candidate’s strengths and areas of improvement. This gives hiring teams a helpful snapshot of a candidate’s performance, making it easier to align on a decision quickly, reducing time-to-hire,and expediting the time it takes to extend an offer.

Save time and improve the candidate experience with smart scheduling

Quickly identify the best times to schedule interviews by analyzing all of your interviewers’ calendars to generate a range of options. Candidates can then choose their ideal option, streamlining and simplifying the whole interview process. For simple 1:1 interviews, candidates can also schedule their own interviews from available slots. Rippling even books meeting rooms and automatically adds a video conference link if applicable.

Post jobs faster without the manual work

Leverage AI to instantly create job descriptions based on inputs like job title, employment type, and years of experience. Automatically remove potentially biased or exclusionary language to help you maintain compliance and fairness. Once the job description is ready, you can then post it in seconds to your external or internal job boards.

Screen candidates at scale with AI Video Screens [Coming soon]

Save hours of recruiter time by adding asynchronous video screens to your hiring process. Create custom questionnaire templates with configurable response times, then invite candidates to record their answers at their convenience without the burden of scheduling. Reviewers can watch candidate responses in batches (even at 2x speed!) and leave feedback directly, helping you identify top talent faster while giving candidates a flexible experience. AI-generated transcripts and summaries make it easy to quickly assess responses.

Protect your pipeline with applicant fraud detection [Coming soon]

Automatically identify suspicious applications before they waste your team's time. Rippling analyzes each application in real-time, checking for signals like VPN usage, disposable email addresses, location mismatches, and newly-created contact information. Each applicant receives a fraud risk score, giving recruiters a heads-up when something doesn't add up so you can focus on legitimate candidates and keep your pipeline clean.

“In addition to innovative AI features, we’ve also released a series of exciting improvements to our ATS, including:

• Bi-directional Candidate Texting: The hiring team can message candidates directly in Rippling’s ATS for faster, more personal communication.
• Custom Fields: Whether you need to collect industry certifications, specific qualifications, or any other unique data points, you can now add custom fields to capture the information that matters most to your organization. Plus, if candidates become employees, these custom fields seamlessly transfer to their employee profiles.
• Interactive offer letters: Bring offers to life for candidates with interactive views of potential job earnings over time — base pay and equity included.
• Agency Portal: Collaborate confidently with external recruiters with job-specific permissions to protect your data, streamlined submissions directly into your ATS, and automated sourcing attribution to clearly track which agencies deliver results.
• Job templates: Define role details like location or title once with job templates, and automatically apply that information during the hiring process. This saves time, reduces errors, and ensures consistency across all your hiring
• Onboarding tracker: The onboarding tracker gives you a single, consolidated view of every new hire’s progress, from at-a-glance summaries for your whole team to detailed, step-by-step logs for any individual.

Finally, a platform both recruiters and HR can love

Beyond the features you’d expect from a specialized solution, Rippling Recruiting unlocks benefits only possible because the ATS is natively integrated into our best-in-class HR platform and powered by Rippling’s Employee Graph. That means:

• Job requisitions open instantly when headcount is approved
• Backfill roles auto-create when employees offboard
• Onboarding launches automatically when offers are signed

Because HR and talent data lives in a unified system, you can also capture insights no other ATS can deliver. Instead of just tracking pipeline metrics, you can optimize your talent strategy based on insights like which interviewers consistently hire top performers, which sourcing channels lead to employees with the longest tenure, and how performance and retention vary by role, team, and hiring manager.

Get started in seconds

Come try for yourself with our exclusive offer: 3 months free of Rippling Recruiting.*

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The Rippling Corporate Card is issued by Fifth Third Bank, N.A. Member FDIC, and Celtic Bank, Member FDIC, pursuant to a license from Visa® U.S.A. Inc. Visa is a trademark owned by Visa International Service Association and used under license. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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• Sell back unwanted devices with Device Buyback
  Reclaim value and easily dispose of old devices right within Rippling. See the real-time resell value of all your Macs and PCs stored in Rippling US warehouses. Get a certificate of data destruction with every device sold. Learn more.

• Contractors can now rapid-transfer balances to linked debit cards
  When withdrawing money, contractors can now skip slow wires and local bank transfers and push Balance amounts to a linked debit card in minutes. Learn more.

• Set up spend policies faster than ever
  Save time by copying an existing spend policy and tweaking a few details before applying it to a new group. Strengthen controls by blocking vendors directly from a transaction or reimbursement without leaving your review flow. Learn more.

What else is new?

Platform

• Eliminate risks when launching changes with Sandbox
  Test workflows, permissions, and onboarding flows safely with Rippling’s new customer sandbox. It’s a copy of your Rippling environment to test things out before going live. Preview exactly what employees see and train new admins without impacting your live setup. For more information, connect with your account manager. Learn more.

• Save hours by bulk approving thousands of requests at once
  Skip the bottlenecks and approve thousands of requests at a time. It’s the same workflow you already know, rebuilt and ready for your busiest days. Learn more.

• Quickly build Supergroups using bulk import
  Importing roles into a Supergroup is now dramatically faster. Upload any list of names, emails, or role IDs, and Rippling automatically finds exact matches and helps you resolve duplicates. Learn more.

• Write faster with an improved and intuitive Rich Text Editor
  Experience a smoother, more modern writing experience in Rippling with our new Rich Text Editor. Quickly insert elements with slash commands, format text in place with a floating toolbar, and rely on dynamic placeholders for guidance.

HCM

• See all carrier integration statuses in real time
  Track all of your carrier integrations with our revamped Integrations tab. Follow setup and transmissions in real time with a timeline view that shows you exactly where every integration stands, whether it’s testing, live, or paused due to renewals. Learn more.

• Gain even greater control over hiring flows
  Easily select which fields, like Department, Job Family, Level, and Team, are visible, editable, and/or required in the hiring flow using custom rules. For example, hide Job Family for contractors or require Department for full-time employees, and Rippling will apply those settings automatically to each profile. Learn more.

• Remove system access for terminated employees on exact dates
  Schedule the specific date an employee loses system access, instead of “effective immediately” or “last day of work.” This gives you more flexibility over offboarding. Learn more.

• Give employees more scheduling flexibility with shift splits
  Employees now have more control over their schedules. Instead of giving away or picking up full shifts, they can choose the exact hours they want to take on or hand off, helping teams stay covered while making schedules easier to manage. Learn more.

• Stay compliant with new 2025–2026 federal payroll rules
  Get prepared for upcoming SECURE 2.0 and OBBBA payroll mandates with our newly-published Help Center guidance. Rippling will handle all key changes automatically, but some client actions are required to ensure contributions, tip earnings, and overtime reporting stays compliant. Learn more.

Finance

• Update reimbursements easily with in-line grid editing
  Update draft reimbursements right from the main page without opening each one. You can now save your work even if required fields are missing, and a new “Expense report” column shows the context for each item at a glance. Learn more.

• Download any finance data in Rippling as a CSV
  Export data from any visible grid in Rippling into a CSV to share that information with stakeholders, move data into external models or dashboards, or support any offline workflow that your team prefers. Learn more.

• Save on rental cars, with your discounts or ours
  Put your corporate discount codes into Rippling to make sure all travelers get the lowest rates possible. Don’t have a negotiated rate? Travelers will automatically get Rippling-negotiated rental car discounts just by booking in Rippling. Learn more.

• Let approved travel book itself
  When you get approval to book a flight, Rippling automatically books your proposed itinerary when the travel is approved. If an option is no longer available, Rippling alerts the traveler and helps them quickly find a comparable alternative. Learn more.

• Bring your entire vendor list from NetSuite into Rippling
  Import your entire vendor list directly from NetSuite and Rippling will automatically map them correctly, enrich existing records, and skip duplicate entries. Now you’re ready to start paying vendors in just a few clicks. Learn more.

• Change settings faster with a redesigned interface
  Finance Settings has a newly-streamlined design, complete with clearer organization and simpler navigation. Every product’s settings now live in one place, making it easier to manage all of your workflows from start to finish.

IT

• Automatically create and remove user accounts for third-party apps
  You can now choose whether Rippling automatically creates or removes user accounts when access changes, giving you precise control over app lifecycle management. Learn more.

Global

• Decide who pays contractor wire fees with new role-level controls
  Choose whether the company or contractors pay wire fees directly at the role level. This gives you better cost control, greater flexibility across teams, and a consistent payment experience for contractors worldwide. Learn more.

Canada

• Get ready for 2025 payroll year-end
  Year-end can be hectic, but payroll doesn't have to be. Our 2025 checklist walks you through everything you need to review, confirm, and close out, helping you stay compliant and avoid surprises during one of the busiest times of the year. Learn more.

India

• Ensure accurate state tax deductions with Registered Branch support
  Admins can now mark work locations as Registered Branches and enter state tax credentials directly in Rippling. Taxes will be deducted based on each employee’s work location, ensuring compliant state tax reporting and simplifying operations for organizations with multi-state footprints. Learn more.

Australia

• Manage Long Service Leave (LSL) with precision
  Rippling calculates LSL using each employee’s Continuous Service and state rules, shows pro-rata and available balances, supports editable adjustments, and validates termination eligibility, making compliance and liability reporting far simpler. Learn more.

Customers

• Close out 2025 with confidence
  Year-end compliance comes with deadlines you can’t afford to miss. We’ve created two End-of-Year Compliance Checklists to help you wrap up 2025 cleanly and prepare for 2026.
  If you manage payroll, benefits, and HR, use our End of Year 2025 Compliance Checklist to stay on top of deadlines, filings, and upcoming 2026 changes.
  If you’re a founder juggling HR alongside everything else, our Startup End-of-Year 2025 Compliance Checklist breaks down the critical steps you need to take now to stay compliant.

DISCLAIMER

Rippling and its affiliates do not provide tax, accounting, or legal advice. This material has been prepared for informational purposes only, and is not intended to provide or be relied on for tax, accounting, or legal advice. You should consult your own tax, accounting, and legal advisors before engaging in any related activities or transactions.

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Finance

Turn your Rippling rewards into airline miles and hotel stays
Redeem rewards for travel with leading partners, including Oneworld, SkyTeam, and Star Alliance. So you can make business purchases go farther. Learn more.

Global

Manage Records of Employment (ROE) filings in Canada with flexible controls
Create drafts for any reason (like termination and non-termination), refresh them with the latest earnings data, and submit amendments any time they’re needed.

Announcement

Keep approvals moving while approvers are out
On December 20th, we’re launching a new feature that lets managers approve employee requests if other approvers are unavailable, without super admin intervention. Because this expands certain users’ approval capabilities, you’ll be able to manage or disable this permission at any time. To request early access to this feature, sign up here.

Platform

Find what matters faster with filtered lookup results
With Lookup Filters, you can now define which objects show up in Lookup Fields, like employees in a specific role or department, so you only see what you need. Learn more.

• Transfer ownership of Saved Supergroups with ease
  Never lose access to critical groups again. Admins and owners can now transfer Saved Supergroup ownership, either proactively or automatically during a termination, so editing rights and workflows stay intact. Learn more.

HCM

Control peer reviewer nominations in Performance Management
Prevent irrelevant feedback by limiting nominations to specific groups or participants, keeping reviews accurate without manually reviewing each nomination. Learn more.

• Ensure compliance with required course videos in LMS
  Make sure mandatory training is viewed. Now users can’t fast-forward through required videos, and progress is automatically tracked for easy completion later. Learn more.

• Save time and stay consistent with default 1:1 templates in Performance Management
  Set it up once, and you’re done. Default titles and templates are automatically applied to every new event, so 1:1s stay the same and are effortless to manage. Learn more.

• Plan smarter with cross-department scenario modeling in Headcount Planning
  Easily model hiring across departments in one shared view, improving visibility, reducing back-and-forth, and making it easier to request backfills. Learn more.

Finance

Earn corporate flight rewards when booking in Rippling Travel
Add your loyalty program details for airlines like American, Delta, and United to earn both corporate and personal flight rewards with every booking. Learn more.

• Book flights, hotels, and now car rentals on mobile
  Complete your travel plans in seconds. You can now reserve rental cars directly from the Rippling mobile app, right alongside flights and hotels in Rippling Travel. Learn more.

IT

Log in seamlessly and securely with RPass in Firefox
Keep all of your passwords saved and up to date with RPass, now available in Firefox Add-ons. Log in with one click, share credentials safely, and eliminate exposed workarounds. Download now.

• Keep RPass organized with folders and tags
  Group credentials into shared folders for your team, add tags to quickly categorize items, and find things fast. Each credential inherits folder permissions, keeping collaboration simple and secure. Learn more.

Global

Preview your first Global Payroll run even earlier
Review and edit your first pay run as soon as payroll setup is complete. No need to wait for entity activation. This gives you more time to verify details and make adjustments before your first submission. Learn more.

• Hire US contractors under any global entity
  US-based contractors are no longer limited to US entities. You can now assign them to any global entity, streamlining cross-border hiring and unifying payroll management worldwide. Learn more.

Country updates

Canada and Germany
View and manage all payroll filings in one place
Easily view, create, and manage all employee and employer filings in the new unified Records tab, which combines the former Filings Preview and Filings & Documents tabs.

Canada
Simplify payroll management across all of Canada
Stay compliant and accurate across provinces. Report, override, and retroactively correct an employee's Province of Employment, access detailed Employer Health Tax reports with new data fields and reporting recipes, and catch tax issues early with year-end filing validations.

Austria
Hire and manage employees in Austria with EOR
Rippling’s EOR service is now available in Austria, letting you compliantly hire, onboard, and pay employees without setting up a local entity. Learn more.

Australia
Stay compliant with four new Modern Awards
Rippling now offers seeded policies for four additional Modern Awards, Children’s Services, Educational Services (Childcare), Sporting Organisations, and Amusements, Events & Recreation, helping Australian employers maintain Fair Work compliance with less effort. Learn more.

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We’ve heard it from countless IT admins over the years: “I’ve got a pile of old laptops just sitting in a closet or warehouse collecting dust. What do I do with them?”

Whether it’s from offboarding employees, device refresh cycles, or just outdated hardware sitting on a shelf, those assets lose value every day — often still loaded with sensitive company data. Managing the “last mile” of the device lifecycle is continually one of the most painful and forgotten parts of IT operations.

Today, I’m thrilled to say we’ve closed that loop with the launch of Device Buyback in Rippling Inventory Management — the easiest way to safely retire old hardware and get value back instantly. IT teams can now securely sell and dispose of eligible devices in just a few clicks. Every device is professionally wiped, certified for data destruction, and earns money back.

“It's impressive how quickly we turned unused devices sitting in storage into nearly $5,000 in buyback credit.”

David Lisk
Operations at AIQ

How Device Buyback works

Device Buyback is easy and accessed directly within the Rippling Devices app. Admins can select and sell multiple devices at once — there’s no limit to how many you can process in a single transaction. Rippling even handles unenrolling devices from Mobile Device Management (MDM) and Apple Business Manager (ABM) or Microsoft Entra in bulk, something most other providers don’t support.

Here’s how it works:

• Check value instantly: Eligible devices stored in Rippling’s US warehouse display real-time resale value directly in the Rippling Devices portal.
• Select and sell: Choose which devices you want to sell back to Rippling. Select as many devices as you want per transaction. Bulk processing dramatically reduces the time and effort it takes to manage Device Buyback, especially for larger organizations or IT teams dealing with lots of unused devices or high turnover.
• Track progress: Manage the entire buyback flow within Rippling, from eligibility checks to credit issuance and certificate retrieval.
• Save on Rippling: Once devices are processed, credits are automatically applied to your next Rippling invoice.
• Secure data wiping: Our partners ensure all data is securely wiped, compliant with NIST SP 800-88, ISO and ADISA, and provide certificates for your peace of mind, which you can download in the device details page three weeks after the sale has been processed.
• Reuse or recycle: Devices are repurposed or refurbished for resale, or responsibly recycled to eliminate waste.

It’s simple, secure, and fully integrated into the platform you already use to manage your devices.

The value for IT and Finance

Adding Device Buyback to Rippling Inventory Management delivers measurable benefits across IT and Finance teams:

• Recover costs: Turn unused laptops into credits that reduce future bills.
• Save time: Skip the hassle of negotiating with and shipping to third-party resellers or OEM trade-ins. Rippling handles it all, fast.
• Stay compliant: Ensure data is securely removed and certificates are created for compliance evidence.
• Support sustainability: Devices are either resold for reuse or responsibly recycled.
• Reduce clutter: No more warehouses — or IT closets — filled with aging devices.

It’s secure device disposal that pays for itself.

“Rippling is night and day compared to sending to resellers—no messy logistics, no back-and-forth with reps, and no hidden fees. I see market resale value in real-time, the process is self-service, and I get Certificates of Destruction to prove compliance.”

Brandon Kofer
Senior IT Manager at Brightside Health

How much can I make back?

Most laptops today sell for between $100 and $800 each, but ultimately it depends on the device’s age and condition and its market value. Think about how many unused devices you have sitting in a closet or warehouse. For many companies, that’s thousands of dollars. That’s real money your company could be putting back into its IT budget instead of leaving on the shelf.

End-to-end device lifecycle management

When we built Rippling Inventory Management, our goal was to create your “virtual IT admin” — handling all the logistics of buying, shipping, storing, and tracking devices so you don’t have to. Combining Inventory Management with Rippling Device Management, IT teams everything they need in one platform to manage the entire device lifecycle:

• Purchase & Provisioning: Buy new devices directly in Rippling’s Device Store and automatically configure them with the right apps, accounts, and security settings before they even ship.
• Deployment: Ship devices to offices or remote employees anywhere in the world.
• Management: Enforce security policies, monitor compliance, and track devices in real time.
• Retrieval & Storage: Automatically retrieve devices from departing employees and store them securely in Rippling’s global warehouses.

Now, with Device Buyback, Rippling completes the lifecycle. It’s easy to securely retire unused hardware, ensure data is wiped and certified for destruction, and reclaim the remaining value of every device.

Whether you’re refreshing your fleet or clearing out old inventory, you can turn idle assets from a security risk into immediate savings, all within Rippling. From procurement to buyback, every step of your device’s journey is automated, secure, and visible in one system.

Want to see how Rippling streamlines the full device lifecycle? Book a demo to explore how Rippling simplifies IT across identity, access, and device lifecycle management. Or start a 14-day free trial (no credit card required).

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Rippling and its affiliates do not provide tax, accounting, or legal advice. This material has been prepared for informational purposes only, and is not intended to provide or be relied on for tax, accounting, or legal advice. You should consult your own tax, accounting, and legal advisors before engaging in any related activities or transactions.

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• HCM
  Find top candidates in seconds with AI-powered Application Review

• HCM
  Simplify team communication with Rippling Chat

• IT
  Streamline app access control with Access Assignments

What else is new?

• Platform
  Build smarter automations with the new Developer App

  App Studio users can now write serverless code, trigger automations, and push updates to third-party systems all powered by Rippling’s APIs and SDK. Learn more.

• Reduce eye strain with Dark Mode

  Easily switch to Dark Mode in your account settings, making it easier on your eyes, especially at night or in low-light environments. Learn more.

• Bulk upload documents with granular permissions

  Upload thousands of employee files, auto-match folders, and set precise folder-level permissions. Automatically provision folders for new hires with exact access every time. Learn more.

• Manage Saved Supergroups with new flexibility

  You can now transfer Supergroup ownership at any time and schedule membership definition changes in advance. Easily preview changes, make edits, or cancel them altogether. Learn more.

• Automate smarter with scheduled conditional triggers

  Get full control over when automations run by adding conditions to scheduled workflows and only execute for records with criteria you specify. Learn more.

HCM

• Manage all time off in our redesigned Time Off grid

  Toggle between past, current, and upcoming requests, edit or cancel easily, and view both accrual and event-based requests all in one place. Learn more.

• Ensure LMS course comprehension with AI-generated quizzes

  Automatically create quizzes from your course content to measure learner understanding. Customize difficulty and question types, like short answers or multiple choice. Learn more.

• Reach job candidates faster via text

  Message candidates directly in Rippling’s ATS for faster, more personal communication. Learn more.

• Uncover key workforce trends with AI survey insights

  AI categorizes employee sentiment at scale, helping you to quickly identify areas of opportunity. You can also now compare survey results over time and automatically calculate NPS and engagement scores. Learn more.

• Review payroll faster with new pay grid search

  No more scrolling through entire runs just to make a quick change, you can now find any employee or earning type instantly by searching within the pay grid. Learn more.

Spend

• Eliminate repetitive tasks with bulk bill actions

  Edit, delete, download, or mark multiple bills as paid all in one step. Spend less time managing and more time closing each month. Learn more.

• Stop expense fraud automatically with built-in AI detection

  Rippling automatically flags manipulated receipts and invoices, catching AI-generated or edited files before approval. Built into every transaction review, it keeps your books clean and your finance team confident. Learn more.

IT

• Centralize every device policy in one place

  The new Policies tab in Devices lets you manage all security and configuration policies, like passwords and OS updates, in minutes. Create and deploy custom or pre-built compliance frameworks for SOC 2, NIS, and CIS Level 1 and 2. Learn more.

Global

• See tax breakdowns for every earning type

  Easily see which taxes apply to every earning type in Global Payroll, with a detailed breakdown by applicable country-specific taxes. Now available for Canada payroll, with more countries coming soon. Learn more.

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HCM

Build a feedback culture with 1:1s
Turn routine check-ins into meaningful growth conversations with 1:1s in Performance Management. Document discussions, track action items, and drive accountability with structured meetings between managers and employees.
Learn more.

Control your hiring spend with Budgeting
Our new Budgeting feature in Headcount Planning closes the gap between your financial targets and hiring strategy. Now, you can set spending limits and track your hiring plan against your budget in real time throughout the hiring process.
Learn more.

Global

Hire and manage your German workforce in Rippling
Rippling's all-in-one platform is now available in Germany, designed to manage the unique complexities of HR, payroll, and IT in Germany. From automating intricate tax and social security calculations to ensuring compliance with mandatory time-tracking laws, our system handles it all.
Learn more.

WHAT ELSE IS NEW?

Platform

Gain more control over custom objects
Set rules for who gets access based on details in the record itself, not just who owns it. For example, you might allow HR managers to view all employee licenses that are set to expire this quarter.
Learn more.

Build workflow condition triggers more intuitively
Instead of first choosing between a "current" or "previous" state of an employee field, you can go directly to the field you're interested in and then choose if you want the trigger to fire based on the value before the change, after the change, or if the value changed at all.
Learn more.

Eliminate manual data pulls with new history functions
Quickly get insights like an employee’s time in role or date of last raise using the new RQL functions “VALUESASOF” and “DATEOFCHANGE”.
Learn more.

Track notifications sent to employees
You can now run a report to see which employees received which email, Slack, SMS, or mobile push alerts, and when.
Learn more.

Reduce eye strain with Dark Mode
Easily switch to Dark Mode in your account settings, making it easier on your eyes, especially at night or in low-light environments.
Learn more.

HCM

Stay on budget with real-time labor costs in Scheduling
You can now view real-time labor costs directly on a schedule, enabling you to make informed decisions about staffing and avoid budget overages.
Learn more.

Improve time accuracy with enhanced break surveys
When employees forget to log a break, they can enter the exact start and end times directly in the clock-out survey on mobile or the Timeclock app.
Learn more.

Customize recruiting approvals
You can now create custom approval policies, such as routing approvals to the recruiter, their manager, or the hiring manager and more. Learn more about setting up
offer letter
and
job requisition
approvals.

Control who participates in upward reviews
Select which employee groups (i.e. Contractors) you’d like to exclude from participating in upward reviews
Learn more.

Automate employment verification requests
Rippling has partnered with Equifax to offer employees free, automated verifications of income and employment. Equifax handles these requests automatically and securely, saving you time while giving employees the verifications they need for loans or credit without the wait.
Learn more.

Save time by sending onboarding invites in bulk
Send onboarding links to multiple employees or contractors at once. Use filters to target specific groups, like all new managers, and customize the invite for each batch.
Learn more.

Spend

More ways to improve your travel experience
Simplify travel and save money with several new updates. Easily upload and book company-negotiated hotel rates, and automatically track and apply airline credits. Plus, get clear check-in instructions for hotel stays, including whether your trip is prepaid and how to share payment details with the hotel.
Learn more.

Save time managing spend policies with redesigned interface
We've simplified the spend policy builder, organized policies by type, and surfaced most common actions to help you find what you need and reduce setup time.

IT

Easily sync third-party groups and resolve membership issues
The new user grid and group sync give you a clear view of all members across Rippling and third-party groups, with on-demand refreshes to pull the latest changes. Use flexible push options to keep groups aligned, resolve mismatches with one-click fixes, and track all activity in the sync history.
Learn more.

Automatically uninstall software from devices
Rippling will automatically install and uninstall managed software based on your Supergroup settings. IT admins can also manually uninstall any software directly from the device details page.
Learn more.

Streamline Apple device management with ABM sync
Syncing your Apple Business Manager (ABM) account with Rippling allows you to manage all your company's Apple devices from a single place, whether purchased through Rippling, Apple, or another vendor. You can assign, track, and prepare devices for enrollment, or release them from ABM with one click.
Learn more.

Global

Secure, compliant Payroll for European businesses
Rippling has been granted an Electronic Money Institution (EMI) License by the Central Bank of Ireland, underscoring our commitment to rigorous compliance standards and the delivery of reliable financial services to businesses across Europe.
Learn more.

Streamline global contractor payments
Give contractors better visibility into upcoming payments, more control over their payments, and access to chat support for payments questions. Support for Contractor Balance has now expanded to companies based in the UK, Canada, Ireland, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Singapore, and New Zealand.
Learn more.

Expedite global pay runs with bank transfers
Get a shorter processing time for your global pay runs by selecting Bank Transfer as a funding method, enabling 2-day payroll.
Learn more.

Adding Ukraine to our 70+ EOR countries worldwide
You can now easily hire, pay, and manage employees in Ukraine, all from a single platform.
Learn more.

Please note: In accordance with international sanctions, EOR services in Ukraine are not available for employees residing in or working from the following sanctioned regions: Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk Kherson, and Zaporizhzhya. Note that Ukraine EOR is not supported for employees who live or work in sanctioned regions (Crimea, Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, or Zaporizhzhya).
Quick hits:

• The new tax regime comparison tool provides an accurate comparison of your income tax under the old and new tax regimes in India and allows you to save your declarations.
  Learn more.
• Our redesigned pay type creation flow in Canada allows you to easily create custom pay types and preview their exact tax treatment, ensuring accurate calculations and reducing the risk of costly errors.
  Learn more.

See you next month!

Schedule a demo with Rippling today
This blog is based on information available to Rippling as of September 28, 2025.
Disclaimer: Rippling and its affiliates do not provide tax, accounting, or legal advice. This material has been prepared for informational purposes only, and is not intended to provide or be relied on for tax, accounting, or legal advice. You should consult your own tax, accounting, and legal advisors before engaging in any related activities or transactions.
LAST EDITED: SEPTEMBER 29, 2025

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Save time and money with Rippling Travel

Rippling Travel is here! Spend less time and money on business travel. Book flights, hotels, and cars in seconds, auto-enforce policies other systems can't, and never chase another receipt. The best part? The subscription is free.

Automate time tracking with the Rippling Timeclock device

With the new Rippling Timeclock device, your team can clock in using a fingerprint, badge, or facial recognition, eliminating time theft and getting everyone to work in seconds.

Manage expenses on the go

Our redesigned mobile app makes it easy for your team to submit expenses, manage cards, and approve transactions from anywhere. Add a Rippling corporate card to Apple Pay or Google Wallet with just a few taps, and handle all your approvals directly from your phone.

Access employee details in search

Searching an employee's name now displays a new card with their contact information and quick actions (e.g., 1:1 access), eliminating the need to leave the search view for employee details.

Troubleshoot your workflows

Quickly diagnose issues in your automations with step-by-step logs for any workflow execution. Now you can spot where a process went wrong and update the workflow to keep it running smoothly.

Find your perfect report recipe with improved search

Easily search our 200+ report recipes using simple or complex phrases like "pay run details" or "how many days off have people taken?" to quickly find relevant recipes without needing to know the exact title.

Standardize your hiring with job templates

Define role details like location or title once with job templates, and automatically apply that information during the hiring process. This saves time, reduces errors, and ensures consistency across all your hiring.

Track onboarding progress in one place

Stop manually tracking onboarding. The onboarding tracker gives you a single, consolidated view of every new hire’s progress, from at-a-glance summaries for your whole team to detailed, step-by-step logs for any individual.

Create and manage live course training

Rippling LMS now supports managing instructor-led training, including course creation, scheduling, registration, attendance tracking, and self-recording for attendees.

Quickly remind employees to complete LMS courses

Ensure no one falls behind on training. Send reminder emails for LMS courses to multiple employees, or your entire company, in just a few clicks.

Schedule interviews right the first time with visibility into interviewers' PTO

When you're scheduling interviews in Recruiting, you will now see an interviewer's PTO directly on the calendar, which helps you prevent scheduling conflicts.

Streamline sign-ins everywhere with redesigned RPass

RPass now allows you to add/edit credentials directly in the browser extension. Plus, our improved autofill functionality works seamlessly on more websites for faster credential management and site logins.

Manage your entire organization on Slack Enterprise Grid

Rippling's Slack integration now supports the Enterprise Grid tier, allowing you to manage users and groups at the organization level. This means you can provision users to both your main organization and their primary workspace, and easily manage IDP groups, all from one place.

Experience smarter Apple device management

Rippling now supports Apple's Declarative Device Management (DDM) for faster, more reliable device management. Devices can self-manage and report compliance issues in real-time, enhancing security and policy enforcement.

Hire COR contractors in 48 new countries

We've expanded country coverage for Contractor of Record, allowing you to hire and manage contractors without worrying about misclassification risk in more locations, with dozens more countries coming soon.

Streamline contractor invoicing with tax management

Contractors can now easily add taxes (VAT, GST, sales tax) to invoices directly within Rippling, enabled via Contractor Hub for simplified tax management and accurate invoicing.

Localized HRIS now in over 100 countries

The British Virgin Islands is the latest country where Rippling offers localized HRIS fields by default on employee and contractor profiles.

Review payroll-ready status across entities at a glance

Global Payroll's new entities tab provides a clear overview and status of each entity, showing you exactly what's needed before your first payroll for new countries or entities.

Track all global payroll transactions in one place

The new report offers visibility into all transactions between Rippling and your company, including net pay, taxes, garnishments, refunds, and more across your company or filtered by entity.

Country-specific global payroll updates

Canadian payroll now features more organized and secure pay statements, enhanced vacation tracking in both dollars and time, and a final approval step for termination ROEs. Rippling can now automatically calculate and pay certain entity-level taxes in the UK and Canada based on a percentage of gross payroll. Statutory pay is now automatically deducted from your monthly tax bill, eliminating the need for a manual year-end claim in the UK. New Zealand Global Payroll customers can now fund payroll via a bank file.

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Build powerful no-code apps to automate any business process

If you’re tracking projects in spreadsheets or siloed tools, it’s already out of date. Now, you can build exactly what you need, no code required, using your real-time Rippling data, roles, and workflows to automate the work that slows your team down.

Improve hiring outcomes with Interview Assistant

• Interview Assistant lets you focus entirely on your candidate by automatically recording interviews and generating AI-powered summaries. This helps you craft more precise feedback, and make consistent, data-backed hiring decisions. Now available to Recruiting Pro customers.

Get faster feedback with surveys in Slack

• Send survey reminders and collect responses directly in Slack. It's the easiest and quickest way to boost participation and get the insights you need, without the manual follow-up.

Unlock efficiency with new Workflow Studio capabilities

• We have five new features in Workflow Studio: send summary emails, choose the “organizer” for automated calendar invites, use custom date and time variables for precise workflow scheduling, and easily duplicate or transfer workflow ownership.

Track permissions, approvals, and group membership

• Get clear, exportable reports of all system access and every approval decision. Plus, easily report on who belongs to which Saved Supergroups, making it simple to track and audit access permissions.

Connect data with lookup fields

• Easily link information between different data points like employees, devices, and departments with the new lookup field type in custom fields. This means you can now create dynamic, interconnected relationships within your company's data.

Save time with streamlined document management

• The accepted upload file types are now consistent everywhere in Rippling. What's more, you can instantly notify employees when bulk uploading documents, ensuring they're always in the loop.

Filter for the best candidates faster with advanced search

• Quickly pinpoint qualified candidates by searching resumes with specific keywords and applying advanced filters like location. Once found, take bulk actions like moving them to the next stage or changing the application source.

Speed up clock-ins with default settings

• Now, you can set default job or department selections on the Timeclock app for your devices, removing repetitive steps and saving your employees time when clocking in.

Improved auto-linking of receipts and card purchases

• With enhanced receipt matching, you'll experience fewer accidental reimbursement requests for card-paid transactions, as receipts are now automatically linked to card purchases and even re-attempted for up to seven days if there's an initial mismatch.

Avoid a backlog of spend approvals while you’re out of office

• You can now delegate approval responsibilities when you submit a leave request, both the original approver and their delegate will appear as pending approvers on requests.

Seamlessly migrate Macs to Rippling MDM with zero downtime

• Transition your Mac devices to Rippling MDM using a script that silently installs the new agent and removes the old MDM profile, avoiding the need for device wipes or downtime.

Pay employees in key markets from any country

• If your company is in a country without Rippling's direct payment setup, you can now pay employees in Australia, the UK, India, Singapore, and New Zealand using a bank file generated by Rippling. Refer to the links for country-specific bank file information.

Track employee hours with precision for Australian employees

• Accurately record your employees' work schedules, from exact daily start and end times to flexible work patterns to ensure your Australian staff are paid correctly for every hour worked, including overtime.

Simplify your payroll and benefits management (UK)

• Our new wage classes automatically apply tax relief for statutory pay and cover all taxable pay situations. You can also bulk update employee tax codes. Global Payroll admins can now directly manage the P11D(b) tax form for benefits subject to National Insurance Contributions (NICs). This includes options to preview, add external benefits, or opt out before auto-submission by the HMRC deadline. Rippling handles all required changes for the new tax year. New pay run tooltips clarify all default UK payroll earnings at a glance.

Streamline your Payroll and HR (Canada)

• Termination Record Of Employment (ROE): preview, change, and approve ROEs in Rippling before sending them and track submission status. Employer Health Tax (EHT): manage multiple EHT accounts separately, which can help with specific tax exemptions. Tax Preview: you no longer have to wait until the end of the year to see your T4, T4A, and RL-1 tax information. You can now view it anytime, based on your pay runs so far. Paystub language: all Canadian employees can now pick whether they want their paystub in English or French.

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Hire contractors globally without misclassification risk

• Confidently expand your global team using our new Contractor of Record service. Rippling mitigates worker misclassification risk so you can get back to business without worry.

Set up spending rules instantly with new policy templates

• Skip building expense policies from scratch. Pre-built policies for common scenarios like receipt requirements, vendor restrictions, and employee controls mean you can have spend rules running in minutes.

Save hours during month-end close with new bulk actions

• Simultaneously update multiple fields across thousands of expenses and transactions. Export data with receipts attached and mark items as paid in bulk. Select specific rows, all visible items, or use filters to target exactly the data you need.

Create a job application right from your inbox

• Now you can create new job applications by simply forwarding resumes to a unique email address assigned to a job posting. Rippling will parse the resume and create a new application.

Find help right from the search bar

• Search Help Center articles from anywhere in Rippling by typing into the main search bar.

Easily track every employee change

• Partial admins can now quickly find all employee changes through enhanced filters including custom fields. Plus, you can set these reports to send automatically through workflows.

Create a consistent branded employee experience

• Now available for Pro users, you can upload your company logo and it will automatically appear across desktop, mobile, and all Rippling-generated emails.

Quickly find the data you need in reports

• Easily find information with improved search results, an object-specific search option, and better organization with enhanced metadata.

Get more done with new workflow recipes

• Automate common tasks with 25 new workflow recipes. Some of our favorites include automatically blocking calendars for PTO or requesting Glassdoor reviews from new hires.

Unlock deeper insights with enhanced reporting

• Reports now offer more customization, including percentile values for compensation and employee tenure as well as setting reports to your fiscal calendar (year/quarter/start date).

Export detailed report data

• Now you can drill down into aggregated reports and download the underlying individual data rows with a single click, streamlining your detailed analysis.

Take control with granular PTO management

• Allow specific employees to manage timeoff settings and policies without granting them full access to leave requests and balances.

Encourage candid feedback

• Direct reports can now give anonymous upward feedback to their managers.

Enrich custom courses with PDFs

• Now, you can include PDFs directly within the courses you build.

Simplify audits by downloading course certifications in bulk

• Download all completed enrollment certificates for a course at once to streamline record-keeping and stay compliant.

Streamline your time tracking approvals

• Build advanced, multi-step policies, assign granular permissions, bulk-approve entries in seconds, and soft-lock timesheets to prevent last-minute changes.

Turn bill payments into cashback with Rippling cards

• Pay bills directly with a Rippling card to earn rewards while maintaining your existing approval workflows.

Control who logs in and how with multiple identity providers

• Easily assign specific identity providers like Okta or Entra ID to different teams. Plus, you get a built-in safety net: you can instantly roll back permissions or use Rippling's own SSO as an emergency backup.

Manage iPad’s globally

• You can now manage and store all iPad devices across Rippling global warehouses.

Explore 100+ New Products in Canada Device Store

• Rippling recently added additional products in the Canada Device Store across Windows and Mac laptop and desktop models. (Requires Device Management)

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Easily track tasks on your Rippling homepage

• Managing your to-do list shouldn’t be part of your to-do list. That’s why we've added a task summary widget to the Rippling homepage. Now, you can get a heads-up view of all your pending tasks and approvals every time you log in—keeping your days focused and work flowing from sign on to sign off.

Rippling + Microsoft 365: Faster, more simple workflows have arrived

• You can now manage Microsoft 365 directly in Rippling. Buy and upgrade licenses, automate provisioning, and sync Teams and SharePoint groups with employee data for faster and simpler IT and HR workflows.

Customize email sends in Workflow Studio

• You asked, we answered. You can now customize workflows that determine how emails are sent. In Group mode, everyone copied in one message. And in Individual mode, personalized emails reach the recipient without exposing others’ email addresses.

Keep accurate employee records with the ability to edit effective dates

• Adjust effective dates of historical changes in an employee's profile to easily correct errors and ensure accuracy. Plus, get notified for potential downstream impacts on payroll, benefits, and more.

Set time off expiration rules

• New functionality lets you set specific expiration rules for accrued time off according to your company policies. Now, your team’s time off balances auto-update without any manual work required.

Require approvals for new job reqs

• You can now require approvals to open or edit job reqs. Approvers can easily approve or reject changes directly from Slack, email, or the approvals tab. Once all required approvals are met, the job listing will automatically go live.

Send offer letters directly from Rippling Recruiting

• Easily craft and send offer letters with pre-built templates and stay aligned with automated approval chains all inside Rippling. And for Recruiting Pro customers, bring offers to life for candidates with interactive views of potential job earnings over time—base pay and equity included.

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