HRIS and payroll

Rippling sets them up. ChangeEngine makes them feel welcome.

When Rippling provisions a laptop and accounts, ChangeEngine handles the human part: the welcome, the first-week plan and the manager nudges.

Rippling
Integration details
Category
HRIS and payroll
Connection
Read, or read and write for fields you approve
Setup
About 2 weeks with SSO
Security
SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR
Built by
ChangeEngine
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What connects

The data your programs run on.

Rippling brings HR, payroll, IT and device management into one platform, and is popular with fast-growing companies that hire across countries and want one employee record behind everything.

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Fields you can use

Employee, title, department, team, work location, manager, start date, employment type, country, work email and your custom fields.

You stay in control

You pick the fields that sync and whether the connection is read-only or also writes approved fields back to Rippling. Sensitive fields report coverage only, never values, when your team asks an AI assistant about them.

Who sees it

Editors only see what their role allows, and every change is logged.

Triggers

Events that start programs on their own.

When something changes in your system of record, the right people hear about it on the right channel. Nobody on the People team presses send.

Start date set

Preboarding starts as soon as the start date is in Rippling, with a welcome email and what to expect on day one.

Title change

Promotions trigger congratulations and an announcement your team approves first.

Team change

Moving teams sends the new team's channels, rituals and key links.

Manager change

The new manager gets a handoff note and a prompt to set up a first one-on-one.

Anniversary

Work anniversaries trigger a message from their manager and an optional e-gift.

Offboarding

Leavers get clear last-week steps, and they drop out of every audience after their last day.

What you can do

Six jobs your team stops doing by hand.

Global teams, local messages

Use Rippling country and work location to send time-zone aware updates and local policy news to the people they apply to.

Audiences that keep themselves current

Every department, location and manager in Rippling becomes a live audience. New hires are in on day one, and leavers drop out on their last.

Onboarding that starts on its own

A start date in Rippling kicks off preboarding, day one and the first 90 days, with manager nudges built in.

Milestones nobody forgets

Work anniversaries and promotions recorded in Rippling trigger a message, a manager prompt or an e-gift on the day.

Messages that sound personal

Merge first name, manager, location and role into every email, Slack/Teams post and text, so a company-wide update reads like it was written for one person.

Results by team, site and manager

Every read and click rolls up by the Rippling fields you already track, ready for leadership without a spreadsheet.

In detail

How it works, in practice.

From Rippling record to live audience

Every person in Rippling becomes one ChangeEngine profile. Departments, locations, managers and custom fields turn into audiences you can combine, and they update on every sync.

Built for teams hired across many countries

People hired across many countries get updates in their language and local time, and contractors and employees can each get the version that applies to them.

Read, or read and write

Most teams start read-only. If you want ChangeEngine to send data back to Rippling, you approve write access for specific fields, every change is logged, and you can switch it off at any time.

Setup

Live in about two weeks.

Your services team runs the setup with IT. When you need something that is not in the box, your forward deployed engineer builds it.

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01

IT approves the connection

Your Rippling admin approves access for ChangeEngine, read-only or read and write. We send the exact permission checklist ahead of the call, so IT knows what it is signing off on.

02

We map your fields together

On a working call, we map the Rippling fields you want to use: department, team, work location, manager and start date. You choose what comes across and what stays in Rippling.

03

Programs go live

Audiences fill themselves from Rippling, your first journeys switch on, and you see every person who could not be placed so you can fix the record at the source.

IT and security

Why IT says yes.

Your People team moves fast. Your IT team keeps control of every connection.

Certified

SOC 2 and ISO 27001. GDPR compliant, with data residency in the US, EU or Canada.

Access

Single sign-on over SAML or OAuth, with optional two-factor authentication for editors.

Provisioning

SCIM provisioning, and content shown by HRIS attributes like role, location and employment type.

Encryption

Employee data is encrypted in transit and at rest, and editors only see what their role allows.

Governance

Word-level audit logs, role-based editors, and AI providers contractually barred from training on your data.

Your domain

Run your hub on your own subdomain, like central.yourcompany.com, with a couple of DNS records.

SOC 2 certified
SOC 2
ISO 27001 certified
ISO 27001
GDPR compliant
GDPR
FAQ

Questions teams ask before they connect

Does ChangeEngine replace Rippling's onboarding?

No. Rippling keeps provisioning apps and devices. ChangeEngine adds the communication journey around it, from the first welcome to the 90-day check-in.

Can we use our custom Rippling fields?

Yes. Custom fields map the same way as standard ones, so you can target, personalize or trigger a program on anything your team already keeps up to date in Rippling.

Can we send in each employee's time zone?

Yes. Schedule a send once and it goes out in each recipient's local time.

How long does it take to connect Rippling?

Most teams are live with HRIS and SSO in about two weeks. IT approves the connection, we map fields with you on a call, and your audiences fill themselves.

Is our Rippling data secure in ChangeEngine?

Yes. ChangeEngine is SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certified and GDPR compliant. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, you choose US, EU or Canadian data residency, and AI providers are contractually barred from training on your data.

Can ChangeEngine write data back to Rippling?

Yes, if you want it to. Most teams start read-only. You can turn on write access for the specific fields you approve, every change is logged, and Rippling stays your system of record.

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