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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Paylocity

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/APaylocity provides 24/7 access to your online payroll and human resource data management. Paylocity offers highly customizable payroll functionality, as well as HR, benefits administration, and time and talent management programs.N/A

    Rippling

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/ARippling’s platform for HR, IT, payroll, and spend management automates the entire employee lifecycle, ensures compliance, supports device management, and provides real-time financial visibility from a central dashboard.

    $8

    per month per user

    Pricing
    PaylocityRippling
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    $8.00
    starting price per user, per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    PaylocityRippling
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—For additional pricing details visit the Rippling pricing page.
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    Community Pulse
    PaylocityRippling
    Considered Both Products
    Paylocity
    Chose Paylocity
    Rippling offers more features with robust features
    Incentivized
    Chose Paylocity
    We selected Paylocity because Rippling lacked a core integration that we required. We left Paycor due to poor IT management, unexplained glitches with no plans to resolve, and a general degradation in the functionality of the site. Paycor grew too fast too quickly, and did not …
    Incentivized
    Chose Paylocity
    We were very close to selecting Proliant or Rippling. Proliant because their customer service was superior to any of the other platforms we looked at. They were so much more personable and ready to work with us. However, we chose Paylocity because Proliant didn't have many …
    Incentivized
    Chose Paylocity
    We evaluated and are in the process of moving to Rippling. This was based on some decision maker's conversations with other organization. Alhtough we asked Paylocity if it is a PEO - the answer was no - most of the functionality of Rippling could have been available at …
    Incentivized
    Chose Paylocity
    TriNet is horrible -- no other words necessary! Against Rippling, Paylocity generally meets some of their functionality and value. Years ago we selected Paylocity because we were leaving ADP and needed more functionality, better customer service, etc. Paylocity was priced …
    Incentivized
    Chose Paylocity
    ADP TotalSource - Too expensive
    Paycom - Complicated implementation, not so user friendly
    Bamboo HR - too simple, didn't include everything we wanted
    Incentivized
    Chose Paylocity
    Paylocity was the easiest from an employee perspective and also had the most intuitive workflows from the HR side. The ability to create our own reports was very important to us and the open API has meant it is easy to use and integrate with our other solutions as we grow.
    Incentivized
    Chose Paylocity
    Very Similar.
    Incentivized
    Chose Paylocity
    Paylocity has been a good fit with a wide offering that has fit our growing organization well. It is well integrated, and we are able to integrate expenses, and our benefits admin system pretty seemlessly as well as it being easy to push candidates from recruiting to onboarding …
    Incentivized
    Chose Paylocity
    Fairly close but in the end, we loved the L&D and recruiting features Paylocity had to offer.
    Incentivized
    Chose Paylocity
    Paylocity seemed the most user-friendly and robust system, that fit our budget
    Incentivized
    Chose Paylocity
    They are mostly parity. But it's difficult to walk away from always-on-demand live account manager.
    Incentivized
    Chose Paylocity
    Some of these other platforms were less expensive than Paylocity but lacked the integrations we sought. They also did not have the customer support and knowledge base Paylocity does. The demo for Paylocity was far more robust and curtailed our pain points than any other demo …
    Incentivized
    Chose Paylocity
    Price Ease of system commitment to a long-term relationship.
    Incentivized
    Chose Paylocity
    I am actively vetting other systems. I'm looking for a system with a unified database, position seat management, and more robust reporting. While the all other systems I mentioned don't meet all these requirements, some do. What it has shown, is that Paylocity is lagging behind …
    Incentivized
    Chose Paylocity
    We did not select Paylocity. It was chosen before i got here. If I had made the selection, we would not have gone with Paylocity.
    Incentivized
    Chose Paylocity
    Paylocity is really designed for the user and the entire experience is very intuitive.
    Incentivized
    Chose Paylocity
    Paylocity does a lot well, and at a price point that is competitive. They have a great team of support staff who are always willing to help issues to resolution.
    Incentivized
    Chose Paylocity
    Paylocity provides the best value for our needs at this time and offers the most comprehensive set of tools.
    Incentivized
    Chose Paylocity
    Paylocity had better pricing at the time.
    Incentivized
    Chose Paylocity
    Paylocity was very user friendly from the beginning and the cost compared to other products was a no brainer.
    Incentivized
    Chose Paylocity
    I inherited Paylocity 5 yrs ago and it was great, and it’s only gone down hill over the last 2 years.
    Incentivized
    Chose Paylocity
    Cost
    Incentivized
    Rippling
    Chose Rippling
    Paylocity was good, and had some feature that in a way I preferred ( pie chart in the paystub ; easier to locate accumulation and usage of PTO ) , however rippling is overall easier and more oriented to a less time consuming approach . it's also very final user friendly, …
    Incentivized
    Chose Rippling
    In my opinion, Paylocity was a pain in the [...] to navigate. The app was constantly buggy to outright broken. It made us remember an arbitrary code for login that password managers didn't support. To me, just felt clunky compared to Rippling in almost every way. It did have a …
    Incentivized
    Chose Rippling
    Rippling is much easier to use. It is better maintained and more accessible, which, in the end, makes it easier to use. I think there are a lot more options and things that you can do on Rippling compared to Paylocity. I feel more secure with my Rippling account.
    Incentivized
    Chose Rippling
    At a high level, Rippling is just more intuitive. Paylocity was hard to navigate, and I often found myself visiting multiple pages to find what I wanted. Rippling's navigation makes it easy to find what I'm looking for quickly without getting lost. Also, we recently went …
    Incentivized
    Chose Rippling
    Rippling is more advanced than Paylocity was. It gives me more information and reminds me of important dates, such as birthdays and anniversaries. It's easier for my maintenance team to use as well. Rippling has better time management tools than Paylocity did. It also sends …
    Incentivized
    Chose Rippling
    Paylocity was much higher in price, and their tax management was non-existent, which was not feasible since we have a multi-state payroll.
    Incentivized
    Chose Rippling
    Rippling is leaps and bounds ahead of Paylocity and ADP. Paylocity and ADP are archaic and outdated and are some of my least favorite HR/benefit software I have used. Rippling has been awesome to use and has a better UI, more features, better support, and is in my opinion the …
    Incentivized
    Chose Rippling
    The ease of use and admin and employee interface of Rippling blows Paychex Flex out of the water. For a young and tech-oriented startup, Rippling is by far a better fit for our team!

    Paylocity has some more nitty-gritty payroll editing and adjustment capabilities, which I hope …
    Incentivized
    Chose Rippling
    It blows Paylocity out of the water! The thing I struggled with the most when using Paylocity was the navigation/information architecture of the application. The layout of the information did not make sense and I could never find the "thing" I was looking for.
    Incentivized
    Chose Rippling
    Rippling seems to have more features overall than Paylocity. They do have similar functionality, but Rippling is fAR easier to navigate than Paylocity. I don't have as much experience with Paylocity from more than a clock in/clock out and selecting medical coverage perspective. …
    Incentivized
    Chose Rippling
    I've enjoyed my experience with Rippling significantly more than Paylocity primarily due to its ease of use. Rippling has an app that is more functional and a web platform that is more intuitive than anything I experienced with Paylocity. It was challenging at times to figure …
    Incentivized
    Chose Rippling
    Rippling has more information and is easier to access.
    Incentivized
    Chose Rippling
    Rippling seems to have a wider range of features than similar products, but some of them are not currently used.
    Incentivized
    Chose Rippling
    Light years better from a usability standpoint. Easier to scale with than Gusto, which really starts to fall apart at about 100 employees. And finally, the ability to integrate with a majority of the systems we're already using today and to provision (and deprovision) those in …
    Incentivized
    Chose Rippling
    I recently moved an employer/company to Rippling from TriNet. The experience has been oustanding and this employer is very happy with the move to Rippling. The service support from TriNet is severely lacking and it is very difficult for employers and employees to get any …
    Incentivized
    Chose Rippling
    In my opinion, superior reporting and easier access to manage HR & Benefits. Not too many bells and whistles, the user-friendly platform and data set pulls are great for myself and my clients.
    Incentivized
    Chose Rippling
    Rippling far outdoes the competition. Other products are quite overstimulating and confusing.
    Incentivized
    Chose Rippling
    Rippling provides more features than the other products and the user interface is easier to use and integrates better with other platforms. We use NetSuite, and Rippling integrates well with NetSuite. Rippling also is a lot faster when it comes to loading screens and opening …
    Incentivized
    Chose Rippling
    Rippling has one of the best UI, customer service was incredible, lot more offerings for the value of money we are paying to them. We also noted that other service providers HRIS system was not as great as Rippling where it can connect with ERP (without syncing errors) and …
    Incentivized
    Chose Rippling
    More automations, great price, great employee-interface, easy to add modules & make changes.
    Incentivized
    Chose Rippling
    Rippling is much more intuitive. The UI is much more simple to navigate and does not require you to dig through several menus to find what you need like others do. I remember constant frustration trying to remember where certain features were located in other apps, but Rippling …
    Incentivized
    Chose Rippling
    Rippling is a much better software all around
    Incentivized
    Chose Rippling
    Like I mentioned before, it puts everything I need to manage my paycheck, insurance benefits and time off all in one. While the other products have some of those features it didn't have them all and definitely not in as easy to deal with format. I do think Rippling has made a …
    Incentivized
    Chose Rippling
    Rippling is easily the worst of all worlds, and is super cumbersome, has the worst UI, and an all around nightmare to find what you need.
    Incentivized
    Chose Rippling
    Traditional payroll software has a clunky user experience. They get the job done, but it's at the expense of more time spent by my HR team in supporting employees in using the software to find what they need. Rippling's self-service features work because it's intuitive and easy …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    PaylocityRippling
    Human Resource Management
    Comparison of Human Resource Management features of Paylocity and Rippling
    Feature
    Paylocity
    7.8
    1146 Ratings
    Rippling
    9.2
    826 Ratings
    Employee demographic data8.41088 Ratings9.1573 Ratings
    Employment history8.21050 Ratings8.9589 Ratings
    Job profiles and administration8.0980 Ratings9.3683 Ratings
    Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.7.6993 Ratings9.2593 Ratings
    Organizational charting7.2923 Ratings9.3707 Ratings
    Organization and location management7.8899 Ratings9.2617 Ratings
    Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)7.7770 Ratings9.2479 Ratings
    Payroll Management
    Comparison of Payroll Management features of Paylocity and Rippling
    Feature
    Paylocity
    8.1
    1115 Ratings
    Rippling
    9.1
    871 Ratings
    Pay calculation8.61087 Ratings9.1774 Ratings
    Support for external payroll vendors7.3533 Ratings00 Ratings
    Off-cycle/On-Demand payment8.4822 Ratings9.1511 Ratings
    Benefit plan administration7.6752 Ratings8.8772 Ratings
    Direct deposit files8.91084 Ratings9.4765 Ratings
    Salary revision and increment management8.0866 Ratings9.2561 Ratings
    Reimbursement management7.8543 Ratings9.3480 Ratings
    Leave and Attendance Management
    Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of Paylocity and Rippling
    Feature
    Paylocity
    7.5
    943 Ratings
    Rippling
    9.2
    769 Ratings
    Approval workflow7.3841 Ratings9.2742 Ratings
    Balance details7.4900 Ratings9.3693 Ratings
    Annual carry-forward and encashment7.7709 Ratings9.0499 Ratings
    Employee Self Service
    Comparison of Employee Self Service features of Paylocity and Rippling
    Feature
    Paylocity
    8.4
    1127 Ratings
    Rippling
    9.3
    916 Ratings
    View and generate pay and benefit information8.61097 Ratings9.4869 Ratings
    Update personal information8.91117 Ratings9.3905 Ratings
    View company policy documentation8.0899 Ratings9.5740 Ratings
    Employee recognition8.2811 Ratings9.0478 Ratings
    View job history8.5963 Ratings9.3632 Ratings
    Asset Management
    Comparison of Asset Management features of Paylocity and Rippling
    Feature
    Paylocity
    7.0
    349 Ratings
    Rippling
    9.3
    368 Ratings
    Tracking of all physical assets7.0349 Ratings9.3368 Ratings
    HR Reporting
    Comparison of HR Reporting features of Paylocity and Rippling
    Feature
    Paylocity
    7.4
    1038 Ratings
    Rippling
    9.1
    435 Ratings
    Report builder7.5993 Ratings9.2421 Ratings
    Pre-built reports7.51013 Ratings9.1400 Ratings
    Ability to combine HR data with external data7.3645 Ratings9.1352 Ratings
    Onboarding
    Comparison of Onboarding features of Paylocity and Rippling
    Feature
    Paylocity
    8.3
    975 Ratings
    Rippling
    9.3
    637 Ratings
    New hire portal8.5969 Ratings9.5621 Ratings
    Manager tracking tools8.1778 Ratings9.2466 Ratings
    Performance and Goals
    Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Paylocity and Rippling
    Feature
    Paylocity
    7.6
    536 Ratings
    Rippling
    9.2
    325 Ratings
    Corporate goal setting7.7422 Ratings9.2272 Ratings
    Individual goal setting7.5493 Ratings9.2294 Ratings
    Line-of sight-visibility7.6371 Ratings9.3273 Ratings
    Performance tracking7.7499 Ratings9.3290 Ratings
    Performance Management
    Comparison of Performance Management features of Paylocity and Rippling
    Feature
    Paylocity
    7.5
    678 Ratings
    Rippling
    9.3
    377 Ratings
    Performance plans7.3614 Ratings9.2328 Ratings
    Performance improvement plans7.4526 Ratings9.2310 Ratings
    Review status tracking7.4625 Ratings9.2330 Ratings
    Review reminders7.7629 Ratings9.4355 Ratings
    Multiple review frequency7.5526 Ratings9.4298 Ratings
    Succession Planning
    Comparison of Succession Planning features of Paylocity and Rippling
    Feature
    Paylocity
    7.1
    352 Ratings
    Rippling
    9.1
    280 Ratings
    Create succession plans/pools6.4235 Ratings9.0227 Ratings
    Candidate ranking6.9289 Ratings9.2240 Ratings
    Candidate search7.8322 Ratings9.0247 Ratings
    Candidate development7.3261 Ratings9.0235 Ratings
    Recruiting / ATS
    Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Paylocity and Rippling
    Feature
    Paylocity
    7.9
    644 Ratings
    Rippling
    9.4
    318 Ratings
    Job Requisition Management8.0550 Ratings9.2250 Ratings
    Company Website Posting8.2573 Ratings9.2240 Ratings
    Publish to Social Media7.9451 Ratings9.4212 Ratings
    Job Search Site Posting7.8546 Ratings9.5218 Ratings
    Duplicate Candidate Prevention7.5466 Ratings9.5220 Ratings
    Applicant Tracking8.1595 Ratings9.4233 Ratings
    Notifications and Alerts7.9592 Ratings9.4292 Ratings
    User Ratings
    PaylocityRippling
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (1213 ratings)
    9.1
    (964 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.3
    (118 ratings)
    9.1
    (15 ratings)
    Usability
    9.3
    (78 ratings)
    9.2
    (961 ratings)
    Availability
    9.8
    (17 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    9.7
    (17 ratings)
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.8
    (105 ratings)
    9.3
    (771 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.3
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.8
    (15 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.9
    (55 ratings)
    8.4
    (4 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.7
    (13 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.6
    (13 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.1
    (15 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.5
    (16 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.8
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.7
    (17 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.0
    (16 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)