Rippling

Rippling does not publish payroll pricing in Australia. It quotes on your team size, the modules you select and extras such as device management or app provisioning, so the only way to get a figure is to ask Rippling for one. Until you have that quote, you cannot line it up against the providers in the payroll table that publish a rate.

Yes. Rippling reports to the ATO under STP Phase 2 for Australian payroll, and handles superannuation and leave in the same system that runs its HR and IT workflows.

Yes. Rippling interprets Modern Awards in its Australian payroll, including penalty rates, overtime and shift loadings. We do not list which awards it covers, so if your staff are on a less common award, ask Rippling to show you that award working in a demo.

What is different about Rippling is not the pay run. It reports under STP Phase 2, interprets Modern Awards and handles Payday Super, as an Australian payroll platform has to. The difference is what sits around the pay run: Rippling also manages staff devices and software access, so a new starter's payroll record, laptop and logins are set up together, and shut off together when they leave.

Rippling payroll is for a business that hires and offboards often and wants the payroll record, the laptop and the software logins handled in one place. If you simply need to pay a handful of staff correctly, that is more system than the job needs. And because Rippling's Australian pricing is quote-only, you cannot check the cost against other providers until you have asked.

Rippling and Employment Hero both offer HR and payroll together for Australian teams. Employment Hero has a published per-employee rate, while Rippling's Australian pricing is quote-only, so the two cannot be compared on cost until Rippling has quoted. Both handle award interpretation, and Rippling adds device and app management; compare the two rows in the payroll table for the rest.

Yes. Rippling supports Payday Super in Australia: super is calculated and paid with each pay run alongside STP Phase 2 reporting, so contributions leave on the same cycle as wages.

Rippling does not publish a price in Australia. It sells by module and quotes on the modules you choose and the size of your team, so the way to get a figure is to ask Rippling for a quote.

Yes. Rippling runs payroll natively in Australia and reports wages, tax and super to the ATO under STP Phase 2 each pay run. It also interprets Modern Awards and handles Payday Super through the same payroll engine.

Rippling manages the laptop as well as the person. Alongside employee records, leave and onboarding, it can set up and manage staff devices and software licences, a job HR software usually leaves to whoever looks after your IT. That is useful if you hire often and hand out equipment. If you do neither, it is scope you would pay for and not use, and with quote-only pricing in Australia you cannot see what it costs up front.

It can be, but you will not know what it costs until Rippling quotes, because it publishes no Australian price. Rippling sells HR, payroll and IT management by module, which is more than many small teams use. If you want to compare on price first, start with the providers in the table above that publish a per-employee rate.

No lock-in contract is listed for Rippling in Australia. Rippling sells by quote here, so the term you get is whatever is written in your quote. Ask for the contract length and the notice period in writing before you agree to anything.

In Australia, Rippling's accounting and finance integrations are: Xero, NetSuite, QBO, Sage. If your accounting software is not on that list, raise it with Rippling before you ask for a quote, because re-keying payroll journals by hand every pay run is a cost too.