Best Payroll Option for Multi-EIN Setup
May 07, 2024
Best Payroll Option for Multi-EIN Setup
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Modules Used
- Payroll
- Employee Management
- Time & Attendance
Overall Satisfaction with Rippling
Rippling is our payroll provider. We use Rippling to pay our employees, to handle tax reporting and interfacing with multiple state governments, and for tracking the time our employees spend on different projects and clients. Rippling is especially great because it offers a "multi-EIN" feature. You can have multiple different companies and legal entities connected together on one Rippling account. No other payroll providers we spoke to offered this feature. This feature was essential for us as a small family of associated startup companies in a shared space and with shared employees and contractors.
- Tax Reporting
- Communication
- Customer Support
- Customizability
- Allowing for a contractor to be paid from multiple companies in one pay period, or to be connected to multiple companies / EINs
- There's currently no ability to cancel a payrun or edit its parameters once you start entering information in. You can archive it but not delete it. This is most relevant when creating reimbursement payruns, as it is easy to select an incorrect option and only realize it too late.
- There are several areas in the application where a back button would be appreciated.
- Rippling simplified paying our employees and reporting taxes to state governments. We saved a lot of time every pay period, perhaps as much as one FTE. So a reasonable estimate is that Rippling saves us $50k a year.
The dealbreaker for us was that we have multiple companies / legal entities that all needed payroll company service. The companies are all interconnected, sharing office and lab space, equipment, contractors, and employees transfer between them. All other payroll companies we investigated did not offer a multi-EIN feature like Rippling. It would have cost us a lot more and been less useful if we went with any other company. So there was no question that Rippling was right for us.
Do you think Rippling delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Rippling's feature set?
Yes
Did Rippling live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Rippling go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Rippling again?
Yes