Best Payroll Option for Multi-EIN Setup
May 07, 2024

Best Payroll Option for Multi-EIN Setup

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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.
We haven't had to contact Rippling support very often, but when we have they have been quick to respond and diligent in following up on the issues. One thing that surprised me about Rippling support is how you interact with the same case worker to resolve an issue over a long period of time. Most customer support I've interacted with, you speak to a new member of the support staff every time you interface with them. But with Rippling, we had someone assigned to our case and they worked on it until it was resolved. They also kept us updated on the situation and communicated with us regularly until the problem was solved.

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

Rippling is easy to use. There are one or two hiccups in the application that prevent me from rating it a 10. This is mostly a few parts of the application where you can't go back or exit a page to correct a setting and instead have to complete the section then delete or re-enter the correct information from the beginning.
Rippling is the best payroll provider if you have multiple companies that you want registered together. No other payroll provider we spoke to offered the multi-EIN feature that Rippling provides.

We are a small company and Rippling works great for us at our size. I do not know how well the application scales, but I could see the systems being less than ideal for very large companies.

Similarly, a very small company many not need all the features that Rippling offers and can get away with a cheaper payroll company. For example, a sole proprietorship with two employees probably should use Gusto or some other option if they need a payroll company, but Rippling would still be a useful service for these companies vs. no payroll company at all. It is just a matter of price.

Rippling Feature Ratings

Employee demographic data
Not Rated
Employment history
Not Rated
Job profiles and administration
10
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.
10
Organizational charting
Not Rated
Organization and location management
Not Rated
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)
Not Rated
Pay calculation
10
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment
Not Rated
Benefit plan administration
Not Rated
Direct deposit files
10
Salary revision and increment management
10
Reimbursement management
8
Approval workflow
Not Rated
Balance details
Not Rated
Annual carry-forward and encashment
Not Rated
View and generate pay and benefit information
Not Rated
Update personal information
Not Rated
View job history
Not Rated
View company policy documentation
Not Rated
Employee recognition
Not Rated
Tracking of all physical assets
Not Rated
Report builder
10
Pre-built reports
Not Rated
Ability to combine HR data with external data
Not Rated
Performance plans
Not Rated
Performance improvement plans
Not Rated
Review status tracking
Not Rated
Review reminders
Not Rated
Multiple review frequency
Not Rated
Create succession plans/pools
Not Rated
Candidate ranking
Not Rated
Candidate search
Not Rated
Candidate development
Not Rated
New hire portal
8
Manager tracking tools
Not Rated
Corporate goal setting
Not Rated
Individual goal setting
Not Rated
Line-of sight-visibility
Not Rated
Performance tracking
Not Rated
Job Requisition Management
Not Rated
Company Website Posting
Not Rated
Publish to Social Media
Not Rated
Job Search Site Posting
Not Rated
Duplicate Candidate Prevention
Not Rated
Applicant Tracking
Not Rated
Notifications and Alerts
Not Rated