Rippling Vs BambooHR: Which HR Software Is Right For Your Business?

Payroll

Rippling simplifies payroll processing with error-free calculations and automatic tax filing to federal, state, and local agencies. The system is fully customizable, allowing you to set up pay types such as tips, bonuses, and recurring payments. It also supports multiple pay rates, garnishments, and retroactive pay while allowing managers to delegate control of payroll tasks using employee attributes.

With global payroll support, businesses can pay employees and contractors worldwide. Rippling enables employees to access their pay stubs and tax documents, even after leaving the company. Additional features include paperless W-2, W-4, and 1099 filings, multiple approvers, and real-time visibility into payroll changes with a pay run comparison tool.

BambooHR's payroll feature offers a comprehensive automated solution that ensures accurate and on-time paydays by calculating and filing taxes (federal, state, and local). The platform supports multi-rate payroll, allowing businesses to assign different pay rates for employees working multiple roles with automated hour tracking.

It also prioritizes data security, using measures like SOC II compliance, advanced encryption, continuous monitoring, and backup redundancy to protect sensitive payroll data.

Benefit Administration

Rippling's benefits administration allows businesses to choose from over 4000 affordable benefits plans or integrate their existing ones seamlessly. New hires are automatically invited to enroll in eligible benefits, and open enrollment is streamlined with progress tracking, reminders, and alerts.

The system automates ACA and COBRA compliance by handling notices, payments, and payroll deductions while reducing errors and manual work. Employees can manage their benefits with self-service tools, access enrollment details, and make updates directly in the system.

BambooHR offers open enrollment, new hire benefit elections, and qualifying life events (QLEs) by allowing HR to create enrollment windows with automatic data saving. The system displays each employee's enrollment status, allowing you to review and approve elections.

It provides reports like the Enrollment Window Election Summary and Benefit Election Changes, tracking approved elections and carrier notifications. BambooHR syncs enrollment data with top benefits providers and supports all major plan types. When combined with 'BambooHR Payroll', it automates benefit deductions, eliminating manual data entry.

Onboarding

BambooHR enhances the new hire experience by streamlining paperwork and facilitating meaningful introductions. With customizable 'New Hire Packet Templates', you can tailor onboarding materials for various job types, departments, and locations, ensuring relevance and engagement. Automated onboarding tasks are sent to new hires so they can complete the necessary steps at their own pace, like team introductions or what to expect on the first day.

HiBob streamlines the onboarding process with customizable checklists, ensuring every task is completed on time. Preboarding workflows allow new hires to finish paperwork before day one. The 'People Directory' and 'Org Chart' introduce employees to their colleagues and company structure, while 'Shoutouts' publicly welcome new hires, fostering a sense of belonging. Tailoring onboarding workflows to specific roles provides a personalized experience that enhances engagement from the start.

Time Tracking

Rippling's time and attendance feature automates time tracking, syncs approved hours with payroll and ensures compliance with labor laws for overtime, breaks, and work locations. Managers can customize workflows to create job codes, enforce overtime policies, and automate timecard approvals.

Real-time visibility into attendance, labor trends, and overtime helps businesses manage staffing, prevent burnout, and control costs. When paired with Rippling's 'Scheduling' feature, the software creates compliant shifts, tracks attendance in real-time, and reduces overtime.

BambooHR simplifies time and attendance management, ensuring accuracy and ease. Employees can easily clock in and clock out from their desktop and mobile app, track hours by specific tasks or projects, and edit timesheets with real-time updates.

Managers can approve timesheets with a single click, while automatic reminders ensure timely submissions and approvals. BambooHR’s mobile app offers geolocation tracking, providing managers with real-time location data. Its Payroll Hours Report combines general, overtime, and PTO hours for streamlined payroll processing.

Performance Management

Rippling's performance management feature is a complete solution for managing and improving employee performance. The HR team can easily customize review cycles by configuring questions, permission, and timelines. The software uses holistic employee data, such as tenure and compa-ratio, to calibrate performance ratings, ensuring fair and consistent evaluation while reducing bias.

Custom reporting tools provide valuable insights into performance trends, enabling comparisons across time, cycles, demographics, and departments. The Platform automates merit cycles by assigning budgets based on performance ratings. Managers can then allocate raises based on pre-set rules, and approved changes are seamlessly synced with Payroll.

BambooHR improves employee performance through 360-degree feedback, where employees receive valuable input from self-assessments, managers, peers, and more. The system lets you customize performance review cycles with specific questions and schedules for Product, Sales, and Customer support.

It also supports 1:1 meetings between managers and employees with tools like Global Status Report for goal tracking and progress monitoring. Organizations can use the platform to meet their specific needs with features like new hire check-ins (30, 60, and 90 days), project-based evaluations, and department-wide reviews.