Payroll
Rippling offers both local and global payroll capabilities with complete country-specific compliance. It allows businesses to hire and pay employees anywhere without worrying about dealing with fluctuating labor laws.
Companies can easily grant permissions to relevant people to take actions like approving, viewing, or even creating new pay runs. Users can run as many payroll cycles as they want, giving them the flexibility to pay a diverse workforce easily.
Its payroll feature is synced with internal features like benefits, time management, and expense management, ensuring all changes are updated in real time.
UKG offers multi-country payroll and processes all manual calculations on the user's behalf, helping them save time and navigate complex processes.
The payroll functionality offers detailed insights into each payroll run, such as payroll history, deductions, and other relevant data in one place. This helps businesses plan their growth accordingly by having a bigger picture of how company resources are being used.
With UKG’s payment services, organizations can delegate repetitive and time-consuming tasks to experts. This service automates and manages third-party payments on behalf of an organization’s employees, allowing them to be more productive.
Winner: Rippling wins as it offers global payroll capabilities that are synced with other internal functionalities such as time-tracking and expense management.
Time And Attendance
Rippling’s time and attendance tracking features are synced with its payroll. This means it’ll automatically take employee hours and add them to payroll calculations. This saves HR professionals a lot of time and eliminates manual data entry and potential errors associated with it.
The platform ensures that organizations comply with local laws regarding employee mealtime breaks and overtime to manage billable employee hours effectively. Furthermore, the software also streamlines manual work by routing timecards approval to managers before the final payroll submission.
UKG allows businesses to conveniently track time and attendance for their full-time and hourly employees. It saves managers from doing separate calculations for hourly employees and simplifies the payroll process later. The software also enables employees to easily check in and register their working hours accurately.
It also offers detailed absence data management, allowing managers to check trends such as planned leaves and extended absences. These insights enable organizations to take necessary measures for boosting workforce productivity.
Winner: Rippling takes the lead because its time-tracking features are synced with payroll, saving businesses from manual data entry.
Scheduling
Rippling empowers businesses to create and manage custom schedules based on ongoing requirements. The platform offers intuitive tools and controls that give managers the ability to drag and drop, copy shifts, set schedule patterns, and add breaks to their schedules.
Admin can assess scheduled shifts and review the ones costing them the most. Factoring in each shift’s cost allows organizations to plan schedules effectively while staying within their budget.
UKG leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to help companies predict their future staffing requirements by analyzing past trends. This accurate forecasting allows them to create custom schedules to fulfill their requirements without overburdening their workforce.
Employees can identify their shift preferences and availability so that managers can assign shifts to enhance work life balance. This flexibility significantly enhances employee satisfaction, eventually leading to more productivity. Additionally, employees can view their scheduled shifts from a mobile device, ensuring there are no missed shifts.
Winner: UKG is the clear winner as it utilizes AI for accurate staff forecasting that helps with efficient scheduling.
Analytics And Reporting
Rippling centralizes company data and presents it in a simple yet detailed manner. Users can apply filters to gain access to department and team-wise information from specific dates. This data set helps managers review team performances and suggest strategies for improvements. The platform also connects all data points within an organization, allowing multiple departments to access and share information for deeper insights and better decision-making.
It also enables users to visualize stats using scatter plots, graphs, bubble charts, and more. It helps stakeholders better comprehend scattered information and implement company-wide strategies for innovation.
UKG equips managers with a range of analytics and reporting tools. Managers can use these tools to conduct sentiment analysis, labor analysis, labor expense analysis, and more. These data-backed reports help analyze individual team performance and identify areas that could be improved.
The platform offers 350+ report designs, allowing managers to present the data in the most appropriate format. Furthermore, they can visualize the information using pie charts, sheets, bar graphs, and more.
The customizable KPI dashboard shows how well different teams, departments, and employees are performing. It enables administrators to get real-time visibility on collective team efforts.
Winner: UKG wins since it offers a wide range of tools and features, including pre-built reports, sentiment analysis, and a KPI dashboard.
Compliance And Legal Requirements
Rippling has pre-built compliance policies that are automatically updated in real-time to ensure businesses stay compliant with recent regulatory changes.
In terms of benefits administration, it handles an organization’s COBRA payments and sends timely ACA notices to ensure important tasks are not delayed. The system keeps track of any change in policies on a state and federal level. It also files forms like 1094-C and 1095-C, generates documents like Section 125 POP, and distributes SPDs.
Additionally, the software is certified by local taxation authorities in supported countries and submits payroll taxes on time.
UKG provides a detailed and centralized compliance dashboard, allowing managers to promptly respond to requests like data erasure and data portability. Being able to respond to these requests properly and on time helps businesses stay away from legal complications.
The software’s ‘Automated Tax Lookup’ feature uses geo-location technology to recommend employee tax rates based on an employee's location. It could save HR professionals a lot of time and effort, especially during wage calculations.
Its tax filing services help manage and file taxes for more than 8000 tax codes on federal, state, and local levels inside of the US. Furthermore, it’ll download, print, and file forms like W-2s and 1099s.
Winner: This one’s a tie as both offer extensive tools and services, from form filling to taxation and real-time compliance updates.
