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Rippling vs Tick: Which is a better fit?

Updated on February 10th, 2025
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API
4.6
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Customizable Reports
4.9
Activity Tracking
4.0
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4.6
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Activity Tracking
4.0
User satisfaction
4.9
User reviews3,564
Ease of use
4.9
Functionality
4.8
Value for money
4.8
Customer support
4.8
4.5
User reviews1,449
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4.5
Functionality
4.2
Value for money
4.3
Customer support
4.4
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Companies and professionals looking for a straightforward web based time tracking application that helps them hit their budgets and run more profitable projects.

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Shawn M
Owner - Managing Broker
3.0

Shawn M.: Hello, my name is Shawn. I'm the owner and managing broker of X2 Mortgage. We focus primarily on residential and commercial mortgage lending. When it comes to Rippling, I would give it a three out of five stars. Prior to using Rippling, we were really just running everything off of QuickBooks Online. We are a very small company, so there isn't a great comparison between the two. However, QuickBooks was great for running a company with five or less employees. We were able to run payroll out of there and do everything from that, but it wasn't great for kind of onboarding, offboarding and doing multiple payroll runs maybe weekly. So we simplified everything from a company level when we were using QuickBooks. There was a switch to Rippling because we are a growing company, we are onboarding a lot of people very quickly. We are also offboarding a lot of people because we have a high turnover in our industry, and we needed something where we can offboard and onboard a lot easier. So we decided to go with Rippling, mainly because of the fact that it had a really great tech stack. It integrated with a lot of our existing services that we use. We're able to quickly send out an offer letter to a candidate, have them sign it, and immediately start the onboarding process where we could just have one person running HR. They could run all the payroll, they can do everything very streamlined and very efficiently. The onboarding and integrating with Rippling, it was pretty easy for the most part. They have phenomenal tech stack. When it came to onboarding someone, you really just went through the prompts, get it all kind of sent out to that person. In terms of the existing stuff that we worked with in terms of the integrations, we were using pretty much everything off of Google Workspace. So being able to create their accounts as soon as someone's onboarded or suspend their account as soon as someone's offboarded was really great, and Rippling does make that incredibly easy. Anyone considering going with Rippling, if you do have a high turnover rate or you're constantly hiring or firing people, I think it's phenomenal for offboarding and onboarding. It makes things extremely efficient. You don't need a huge HR development to handle all that. Our HR manager can onboard someone in a matter of 30 minutes, so it's really great for that reason. I will say that if you're looking for a little more hands-on, Rippling's probably not your option. They don't have the best support at all. So if you're not very tech savvy, you're not really going to be able to get your system set up perfectly, and you could schedule time with them, or you could reach out to their support or submit a ticket. But in terms of some of the other competitors in the space, their support is lacking tremendously. So I will say this is definitely for someone who is very tech savvy and who wants to kind of do everything on their own and have everything automated on their own. However, if you need more of that hand holding, I don't think Rippling is necessarily the route for you.

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Adam S
Vice President, Innovation & Strategy
4.0

Adam: My name is Adam. I'm a chief strategy officer. I give Tick four out of five stars. For more reviews like these, click below. Our use case for Tick was simplified, integrated time tracking where an agency can track time across multiple tasks, multiple projects, and of course, multiple clients. Tick made that really easy for us and it integrated with our project management system at the time, which was Basecamp, in a really seamless way. The best thing about Tick is its simplicity. It works right in Chrome. It just does what it's supposed to do. Pick a task, it'll log your time, and you're done. It doesn't over-complicate things like a lot of time tracking apps we've used. Ironically, the thing I like least about Tick is also its simplicity. It only does what it's supposed to do, which is great. It doesn't offer the kind of data, the kind of analytics, and the kind of really robust integration with enterprise grade systems that we ultimately need in a lot of cases.

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Rippling

Top Features
30/39
  • Biometric Recognition
  • Budget Tracking
  • Calendar Management
  • Clock In/Out
  • Location Tracking
  • Multi-Language
  • Payroll Integration
  • Productivity Analysis
  • Project Time Tracking
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Activity Tracking
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • API
  • Approval Process Control
  • Attendance Tracking
  • Automatic Time Capture
  • Billable & Non-Billable Hours
  • Billing & Invoicing
  • Compliance Management
  • Customizable Reports
  • Data Import/Export
  • Employee Database
  • Employee Management
  • Employee Scheduling
  • Mobile Access
  • Multiple Billing Rates
  • Offline Time Tracking
  • Online Time Tracking
  • Overtime Calculation
  • Real-Time Updates
  • Reminders
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • Task Management
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Timesheet Management
  • Usage Tracking/Analytics
  • Vacation/Leave Tracking
  • Workflow Management
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Tick

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Rippling
Deployment
  • Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
  • Desktop - Mac
  • Desktop - Windows
  • Desktop - Linux
  • Desktop - Chromebook
  • On-Premise - Windows
  • On-Premise - Linux
  • Mobile - Android
  • Mobile - iPhone
  • Mobile - iPad
Support
  • Email/Help Desk
  • FAQs/Forum
  • Knowledge Base
  • Phone Support
  • 24/7 (Live rep)
  • Chat
Training
  • In Person
  • Live Online
  • Webinars
  • Documentation
  • Videos
Tick
Deployment
  • Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
  • Desktop - Mac
  • Desktop - Windows
  • Desktop - Linux
  • Desktop - Chromebook
  • On-Premise - Windows
  • On-Premise - Linux
  • Mobile - Android
  • Mobile - iPhone
  • Mobile - iPad
Support
  • Email/Help Desk
  • FAQs/Forum
  • Knowledge Base
  • Phone Support
  • 24/7 (Live rep)
  • Chat
Training
  • In Person
  • Live Online
  • Webinars
  • Documentation
  • Videos
Rippling
  • By Rippling
  • Located in United States
  • Founded in 2012
Tick
  • By Higher Pixels
  • Located in United States
  • Founded in 2005
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