Rippling Performance Management runs reviews, goals and 1:1s on one HR platform
Rippling Performance Management runs review rounds, goals and 1:1 meetings on Rippling’s HR platform. Rippling gives a custom quote after you say which services you need. Most products cost a fee per employee per month, and some also carry a monthly base fee.
Rippling sells Performance Management with its core HR platform
Rippling Performance Management covers review rounds, goals and 1:1 meetings. Rippling sells it only with its core platform.
You want reviews, goals, 1:1s and pay decisions linked to Rippling’s HR and payroll records. You accept a custom quote that is mostly per employee per month.
You want a list price for Performance Management. You want to buy performance tools without Rippling’s core platform.
Rippling gives a custom quote. Most Rippling products cost a fee per employee per month. Some also carry a monthly base fee.
The legal entity behind Rippling’s website is Rippling People Center Inc. Check that your order form uses the same name. Rippling has raised $1.8 billion from investors including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia and Bedrock.
Review rounds, goals and 1:1s that read employee records in Rippling
Rippling Performance Management is a set of apps. The apps are Goals, Review Cycles and 1:1s. Rippling builds them on one shared employee data platform, together with the main HR system and payroll. The performance features sit in one platform, which keeps the performance data consistent.
A review round can include four kinds of review. They are the manager’s review of a team member, a review of the manager, a self-review and a peer review. The admin who runs the round picks which kinds to use. The admin can also add calibration or pay stages. In a calibration meeting, leaders check that managers rate people on the same scale.
The admin sets who is reviewed using employee details such as department, tenure or work location. Review questions can change by any employee detail, using groups Rippling calls Supergroups. Customers can also set rules for what happens when someone’s manager changed recently. A manager writes the evaluation of a team member and sees that person’s goal completion beside it.
Milestone reviews are a Review Cycles feature. They hold feedback conversations more often than formal reviews. They can start an evaluation from any data in Rippling. Examples are 30, 60 and 90 day check-ins and reviews on an employee’s start date anniversary.
Calibration uses drag-and-drop nine-box grids and customisable worksheets. A nine-box grid places each employee by performance and potential. During calibration, Rippling controls who can see which ratings automatically. Its reports can also break down performance ratings by employee demographics.
Goals can be assigned, tracked and shared. They also appear in performance reviews. People can give and ask for feedback inside Rippling or in Slack. That feedback then appears at review time. In a 1:1 meeting, the employee’s goals and past feedback appear during the conversation. Managers assign and track action items there.
Rippling fills in pay recommendations from the company’s pay policies. It also uses context such as calibration results and length of service. When you set raise guidelines for a review round, Rippling advises managers on how to split their team’s raise budget. Pay decisions can then move from Review Cycles into Rippling Payroll, with approval rules.
Rippling tells buyers to use Rippling AI for insights such as pay gaps, manager effectiveness and internal moves. It works from Rippling data plus data from tools you connect. Each answer links to the records behind it.
Reporting lines, an AI certification and pay recommendations work in your favour
Review rounds read roles and reporting lines from the platform
Review Cycles takes roles and reporting lines from Rippling. That data is already there. Review rounds follow people who change roles or managers.
Rippling is certified for managing AI
The standard is ISO 42001. Rippling holds that certification.
Managers start pay decisions from a suggestion
Each suggestion comes from company pay policy.
Three customers, from 50 to over 600 employees
LightForce grew from 36 to over 600 employees
LightForce grew from 36 to over 600 employees across six countries. It added Performance Management as a Rippling customer. Rippling reports a 4x decrease in the time LightForce needs to administer reviews. Rippling puts LightForce in the 500 to 999 employee group.
AssuranceLab had no formal review process
AssuranceLab has 50 to 99 employees. It reports 96% more review participation with Rippling’s tool.
Bathhouse linked support results to pay
Bathhouse has 335 employees. Its payroll manager used Rippling AI and Rippling’s Data Cloud tool to build a dashboard. The dashboard connects support ticket closure rates in Zendesk to payroll data. Managers get a live view of how pay and performance relate. Rippling ties this result to Rippling AI and Data Cloud. Ask whether Performance Management reports can show the same link.
The core platform, other products and the AI features all need checking
Performance Management comes only with the core Rippling Platform
Rippling sells each HR product on its own, but only with the required core platform. Some Rippling products carry a monthly base fee. A UK reseller prices the core platform that way. Add the core platform cost when you compare Rippling with a tool you buy alone.
Some features sit in other Rippling products
Pay decisions can move into Rippling Payroll. Rippling also offers Headcount Planning, Surveys, Recruiting and learning courses (a learning management system) beside Performance Management. Ask which of them sit inside the Performance Management price. In May 2024 Rippling described a future plan to feed GitHub and Salesforce data into Goals. Ask whether that plan is on sale today.
Talent Signal reads employees’ work
Rippling announced Talent Signal, an AI tool that reviews the first 90 days of a new hire’s work. It creates a performance signal for each employee. It reads engineers’ code contributions, sales teams’ call transcripts, and support agents’ customer emails and chats. A manager gets a detailed report when an employee receives a High Potential or Pay Attention signal. Rippling promises Talent Signal will never replace a manager’s judgement of the whole person. Customers were invited to its Early Access programme on 27 December 2024. That release was trained on data from Rippling’s own workforce and from alpha-test customers who opted in. Ask whether Talent Signal is part of Performance Management and whether you can switch it off.
Rippling AI in Slack can reach any Rippling data
Rippling AI in Slack reads the thread where someone mentions it, including shared files. It also has access to any data in Rippling. Ask who can mention it in Slack and what review data that person can already see.
All data sits in US data centres
Rippling keeps all data in the US, in Amazon Web Services data centres. These span multiple availability zones. Each zone is a separate site in one region. If you employ people outside the US, ask where your staff data is stored and processed.
Rippling gives a custom quote, mostly per employee per month
Rippling gives a custom quote once you say which services you need. Most Rippling products cost a fee per employee per month. Some also carry a monthly base fee.
Generation Digital is a reseller in the UK government’s G-Cloud 15 catalogue. It prices Rippling as a monthly base fee for the core platform plus a fixed amount per employee per month. Generation Digital also builds the price from separate parts and needs a custom quote.
Rippling prices each product with AI features from $36 per employee per month. Select products start lower. Ask whether Performance Management is priced at $36 or lower.
You could also run review steps with agents built on your own systems. We have mapped what that looks like. The HR Agent Map
Ten questions before you sign
- Is there a monthly base fee, and what are the per-employee rates for the core platform and for Performance Management? Good answer: Each rate in writing, with the headcount it applies to.
- Do the AI features come inside the Performance Management price, or at the $36 rate? Good answer: The order form covers each AI feature and its rate.
- Is Talent Signal part of what we buy, and can we switch it off? Good answer: A written answer on both, and a switch an admin controls.
- Are the GitHub and Salesforce feeds into Goals on sale today? Good answer: Yes, with a named customer who uses them.
- Does Rippling’s pledge not to train AI models on usage data cover review text and ratings? Good answer: Yes, stated in the contract itself.
- Who can mention Rippling AI in Slack, and what review data can they reach? Good answer: Only data the person already has permission to see.
- If we do not run Rippling Payroll, how do pay decisions leave Review Cycles? Good answer: A named method, shown in a live demo.
- Where is our staff data stored and processed, and which outside companies handle it? Good answer: A named country for each system and a full list of companies.
- What uptime promise, renewal price limit and notice period will the order form contain? Good answer: Three written figures on the order form for our company.
- How do we take our review history out when the contract ends? Good answer: The export format and the number of days, both in the contract.
Alternatives to Rippling Performance Management
Alternatives to Rippling include BambooHR, ADP, Lattice, 15Five and Leapsome, or buying nothing.
BambooHR’s Pro plan includes 360 review rounds, where several colleagues give feedback, and 1:1s. Its pricing card puts Pro at $17 per employee per month. Its pricing FAQ gives a starting price of $17.50, so ask BambooHR which figure applies. ADP sells Performance Management as an add-on to ADP Workforce Now. ADP reveals the price only after you log in to its Marketplace.
Lattice, 15Five and Leapsome each charge per person for their performance tools. Lattice Performance costs $10 per seat per month, with a $4,000 minimum annual agreement. 15Five Perform costs $11 per user per month, billed annually. Leapsome Performance Reviews cost 7 euros per employee per month on its price estimator. Leapsome always includes its HR platform in the plan.
Our guide to performance management software sorts the whole market by the job each product does.
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