Name: The Rippling Rundown
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Transcript for "The Rippling Rundown": Hello, everyone. Thanks for joining us today. We'll get things formally kicked off in just a minute or two. But in the meantime, let's continue to keep things warmed up in the chat. Feel free to, if you haven't already, share a quick hello and let us know where you're joining in from. Saw a fellow ATLian also calling in from Atlanta. I've seen some some folks from Spain. Got folks all over the world. Really cool to see. Las Vegas. Okay. See if I can figure out the furthest person away that I've seen so far. I see a London, Germany, Mars. I hope you're not calling in for Mars. North Carolina, not too far from me. Awesome. It's great to see all the interaction in the chat. Alright. Let's formally dive in. Again, hello, everyone, and welcome to the Rippling rundown. I'm Lacy Starks, director of solutions consulting, and I'm very excited to kick off today's event. Whether you're a long time Rippling customer or just getting to know us, you're in for a packed hour of innovation and a look ahead at what's next for your teams to get more done with Rippling. Now before we dive in, a few quick notes for today. First, yes, this webinar is being recorded and will be shared with you directly after the event. Also, please feel free to use the q and a module to send in your questions throughout the session. And finally, feel free to continue to connect with others in the chat as we proceed. Alright. Logistics out of the way. But before we jump into what's new, I do wanna take a step back because to understand why today matters, you have to understand how we got here. So in the nineteen nineties, software moved to the cloud, and businesses could finally run applications directly in a browser. No more heavy installs, no servers to manage. By the end of the decade, even complex business systems were being delivered entirely online. That single idea, software as a service, opened the floodgates. It was supposed to make business simpler, faster, and more connected, and for a while, it did. Specialized tools started popping up everywhere. HR platforms for managing payroll, IT systems for provisioning devices, finance software for tracking spend, collaboration tools for teams, and so on. You name it. Each one solved an immediate pinpoint. But over time, something else happened. Every department bought its own stack. What started as a way to streamline operations turned into a sprawl of more than a 100 different apps inside a single company. Sound familiar? And the result, instead of that one connected online system meant to streamline business, we ended up with data scattered everywhere. Leaders struggling to get a clear picture, often feeling like they're flying blind. Employees spending countless hours reentering the exact same information into multiple systems, a complete productivity killer. And when your data lives in separate places, you can't automate anything end to end. Every process becomes manual. Every update, a copy and paste job. All that complexity slows businesses down. And that is the backdrop for today. The story of SaaS is now a story of fragmentation. Here at Rippling, we call that SAD, software as a disservice. And it's the reason we're here to show you a different path forward. Because at Rippling, we believe the answer isn't to add another point solution to the pile. It's to unify everything. And at the heart of our unified platform is the employee graph, a live map of your entire workforce. It means that the moment you bring data into Rippling, whether it's payroll, expenses, or even external systems like your CRM, GitHub, Jira, etcetera, it doesn't just sit in a database. Instead, it unlocks sites with reporting that finally shows the full picture in one place, new automation by connecting business processes truly end to end so workflows run seamlessly with limited human interaction, and it unlocks more control with granular permissions enforceable across every part of the platform, keeping your business secure and audit ready. Because the more you can automate manual processes, the more powerful your business truly becomes. So that's what today is all about. We're gonna take you through a few key areas where this unified approach makes all the difference. First, platform. You'll see how data in Rippling, yours or a third party, opens up reporting, automation, and custom app possibilities. This is the foundation of everything we do. Next, global, because managing your workforce across borders should not require 10 different vendors. Then travel, where booking, spend, and payroll connect seamlessly. And to tie it all together, you'll hear real stories direct from our customers. Companies showing how Rippling helps save them time, cut costs, and focus on what really matters. Today's session is just a snapshot of what's happening at Rippling. We're making big investments behind the scenes across core features, infrastructure, as well as new product capabilities to make the entire platform faster, smarter, and more connected. What you'll see today is only the beginning. So thanks for being here. We're thrilled to show you what's next. And with that, let's dive right into our first session on data and platform. Over to you, Kyle and Brian. Thank you, Lacey. Hi, everyone. I'm Kyle Boston, VP of product here at Rippling. You just heard how Rippling brings everything together in one system. Now, I want to spend a few minutes talking about the underlying product capabilities and how they can be used by your teams. When you connect your people with business applications and their data, it unlocks entirely new possibilities for what your teams can accomplish. First, let's start with App Studio. App Studio is where anyone, not just developers, can create custom applications in Rippling. Think of it as your no code toolkit for building business logic that used to live in spreadsheets or separate tools. With App Studio, you can easily bring more of your team's business processes into Rippling. For example, an HR admin can build a bonus tracker app in minutes, a finance manager could build a mileage tracker app, or an IT leader might create an IT access management app. All of these applications are fully bespoke to match your unique business needs. The key is that every app is powered by Rippling's employee graph and configurable permissions and policies, so it can connect with the other data in Rippling while handling access and data security out of the box. Sometimes the information you need in these custom apps may rely on information from another system that's not already part of the employee graph. Rippling's data connectors, though, let you easily pull information into Rippling from these systems that you use today, whether it's another application, a spreadsheet, or a data file. The value is simple. Extend the information in the employee graph by integrating your siloed data with the same access controls you have in Rippling to unify your company's data that you can use in applications, reports, and workflows. You can choose the type of connector that works best for you: easy CSV uploads, API connectors, or even pre built connectors for popular tools. Let's take a simple example: measuring employee ramp up time. By pulling in task tickets from Jira, you can see how many tickets a new hire completes week by week and how quickly they're improving. With that data now in Rippling, you can use it in reports, apps, and workflows to give managers and employees real time visibility into progress. That's the power of data connectors flexible ways to integrate data into Rippling with endless possibilities once it's here. While App Studio gives your teams the interface to view and interact with data, there are some processes that you may want to automate and that's where Workflow Studio comes in. Workflow Studio lets you automate any process in Rippling using simple point and click logic. Automate actions like sending notifications, distributing documents, updating data, or even making an external API call to external systems. And you can trigger these actions from virtually any event in Rippling. Every automation runs on the same unified platform, so data stays consistent and every team saves hours of manual effort every week. By now you know that App Studio makes it easy to build apps without code, but sometimes you need deeper logic that can only be expressed through custom code. The developer app allows your teams to create ripling functions, which is JavaScript code written by you but deployed, versioned, and run-in an isolated environment managed by Rippling. These functions leverage the same employee graph and platform services as everything else in Rippling. So instead of building standalone tools, your developers can extend Rippling to fit your advanced business logic. It's the best of both worlds. No code apps for most use cases with full developer extensibility when you need it. What if you want to take advantage of some of these advanced capabilities, but you're not sure how to get started? Rippling also offers Rippling solutions through our forward deployed engineers or FDEs. These are Rippling engineers who partner directly with your team to design and launch custom solutions on our platform. It starts with a consultation call where an FDE learns about your goals and maps the right approach. From there, they build alongside you using tools like App Studio, functions, and data connectors. FDEs can create a variety of solutions like automating commission payouts straight into payroll, integrating ATS systems directly into Rippling HRIS, and even creating tip pooling and variable pay apps for different industries. The result? Faster implementations, fewer manual processes, and more value unlocked from the Rippling platform. We are focused on building a platform that doesn't just connect your tools but empowers every team to deliver real business impact. These new products are key ingredients to helping your teams achieve just that. Now I'm passing it over to Brian to show how everything works together. Over to you, Brian. Thanks, Kyle. Hi, everyone. I'm Brian Mazzaferri, head of solutions consulting at Rippling. As Kyle mentioned, what I wanna do now is show you the power of our platform products working together. So let's take a simple example many people can understand, a fitness studio. Like so many organizations, their HR team is juggling data spread across disconnected systems. Membership data in the CRM, purchases in the point of sale system, certifications or training records in an LMS, class attendance, scheduling data in their gym management system. Look. Individually, these systems are fine, but the problem is many key business processes require data from multiple different systems. For example, many fitness studios want to reward instructors based on the class attendance for the classes they teach. But that data lives in their gym management system while payroll data lives in their payroll system and their bonus calculations live in spreadsheets. So they're forced to export data, modify it, reenter it again and again, which not only takes lots of time and effort, but it also exposes them to risks of incorrect payments and limits their ability to drive strategic outcomes from their bonus payments. So here's how Rippling changes all that. First, with data connectors, they can bring attendance data from their gym software directly into Rippling. Now instead of downloading and reuploading files again and again, the data just flows automatically. And now that the data lives in Rippling, the HR team can do something powerful, build their own app. The HR team can use App Studio to calculate bonuses based on attendance data, hang out those instructors automatically, and then these instructors can log in to see exactly what they've earned. Let's take a look at the type of thing that's possible to build. So here now, I've got a simple interface where trainers can see their bonus payouts and how they were calculated. This was impossible before since all the data lived across three different systems. But now through the power of data connectors, it's all here and it's all accessible. However, this is why it's so important that it's in Rippling and not just any old database because Rippling drives all our policies and permissions off of our employee graph. We know exactly who should see what data and more importantly, who shouldn't see what data and all of that updates automatically as your org changes. So from the trainer's perspective, this is a game changer. They can log in anytime, see exactly what they've earned. There's no mystery, no waiting for payroll to send a report. It's transparent, it's motivating, and built entirely by HR inside of Rippling. For our HR admins, they can now zoom out with our reports and dashboards right in their app. They can analyze bonus spend by instructor, by class type, by location. They can spot trends. So for instance, it looks like, instructors aren't really taking advantage of this developing time slot bonus. So that means it's likely worth taking a look at the bonus structure there to drive the behaviors we wanna see. What used to be buried in spreadsheets is now live actionable insight. And finally, with Workflow Studio, the HR team can automate a lot of the work they had to manually do before. The moment the trainer's bonus is calculated in the app, Workflow Studio automatically generates a payout request, and that payout flows directly into payroll. No extra data entry, no missed steps. The HR team could even set up notifications so trainers are instantly alerted when their payout is scheduled. No manual work, just easy automation based on simple rules built with point and click. So think about what just happened from the HR team's perspective. Disconnected data was unified in Rippling providing complete visibility. They built a custom app to increase transparency and motivation with their employees. They use reports to turn raw numbers into insights for actionable decisions, and they automated the entire process with workflows. The outcome, a single system that saves hours of manual work reduces errors and gives both HR and employees a better experience. And while we use the fitness studio as the example, the same story applies to any business maintaining a large distributed workforce. You might be pulling sales data from Salesforce, expense data from NetSuite, or training records from an LMS. Whatever the systems, Rippling makes it possible to bring them together in one place. And as you've seen, the real power isn't just unifying that data, it's being able to act on it through apps, reports, and workflows. It's one thing to think about what's possible, but it's another to see it in action. So I'm excited to be here with Tony Wilson from CBTS, who's joining me to share how his team built a custom app inside Rippling to transform a manual, multi day process into something they can now complete in just minutes. So thank you for being here, Tony. Why don't you start by telling us a little bit about yourself and what your company does? Alright. Thanks, Brian. I'm a global HR tech, technology and compliance manager at CBTS, and our company serves enterprise mid market clients for flexible solutions from consulting design and implementation to ongoing optimization management. Love it. Wonderful. Why why don't you tell us a little bit now about the problem you were trying to solve? So what did this process look like before, you built this custom app? Like many companies, we have a spot award program where, you can on the spot, give monetary awards to employees for doing excellent work. Before that, we used a PDF, basically, a fillable document that a requester would submit, complete and send to HR. It would then get routed through multiple layers of approvals and then end up with payroll. Payroll would then process it and would go backwards through those, different people to communicate it back. That took three to four days to go through that process, barring losing the documents somewhere along the way. Sure. Yes. Anytime we're emailing around, we're prone to hope nobody's out of office, all that fun stuff. Well, why don't you tell us a little bit about what you built and, and how it's changed the process? Sure. We built a custom app within Rippling, to basically automate as much of the process as we could. So within this, bonus hub that we created, we have a one page, basically, the the purpose and the process and how it works, and just more of the details for the requester. All they need to do to request a spot award is to go to this tab to request it, and then they'll click on add request. So at this point, they just need to put in the person that's gonna receive the award, the amount of the award, and which ever currency matches the work location country of that employee, and then the reason for the request, what great thing this person did that needs to be recognized on the spot. They could choose then the related budget within their hierarchy. And then once they've completed that, they just click save, and it submits the request to the budget owner. And all the budget owner has to do is review it, click, approve, and it moves on to the next step, which is, triggering a workflow to payroll. Wonderful. So if I'm hearing you, you you really leverage the employee graph here, right, where you you can understand who somebody's budget is. You can use them for approvals. I imagine you're also limiting visibility of who can see what spot bonuses based on, manager hierarchy and permissions too. Yep. Absolutely. Within it, the requester can only request from the budget owner that's above them in the hierarchy. And the budget owner can see only the people within their hierarchy as well. So it's it's all siloed and and separated out. And how do you track the, budget? The so you say budget owners. So I imagine there's, like, a a cap that people have either monthly or annually. And and are you tracking that in the system too? Yep. That's correct. So within that, we have this tab that is only visible to admins and to budget owners. Again, the budget owner only sees theirs or if they have somebody that has a budget below them in the hierarchy. So they just see their name. They see the allocated budget that they have, how much they've used, and what the balance is remaining for the time period. So they have quick glance at that. And that's all they that's all they really need to do to get into it. We do send a workflow to them that periodically will tell them they've hit 50% or 75%, so they're aware, to try to push information instead of pull. Because I imagine the old system, there was like, this is maybe tracked on a spreadsheet somewhere or folks didn't necessarily know. Right? You're just emailing these PDFs. Yeah. It was the wild west. It was just requests, and they would go through and get paid, and and no one was really watching. No one was they really had no idea. Wow. So visibility and control. And I heard you mentioned workflows there. Do you wanna show us maybe a little bit about, how you're kinda pushing for the data around with workflows? Sure. The first workflow that I mentioned is basically the payment request. So once it's been approved by the budget owner, it just triggers an automatic payment into the payroll app. So it's there and waiting for the payroll team to process it at payroll time. Love it. That easy. A one step workflow based on the you've used the rippling employee graph, obviously, app builder, but, use our built in approvals and then workflows to just all tie it all together. Wow. So why is I mean, maybe just to bring this home for folks, Tony, what impact has this had kind of on your business and your day to day? So multiple things. So one is now we have a centralized, trackable, and transparent place for all of this to be managed. The requester has full visibility to where their request is in the process. They're notified at the right time, so it's all just in time processing of the spot award. We processed about 800 of these last year, and, you know, it could take, again, three or four days for this whole process to get get through with the email chains. And now it's really three to four minutes at the most to process one through. That's just super easy to do. Well, wonderful. Thank you, Tony, so much for sharing that with us. That's so cool to see and, great work on on building this app. Alright. So everything you've seen so far, folks, data connectors, App Studio, workflows, it's all about creating one connected foundation for your business. But what happens when your team isn't just across systems, but across countries? To show how Rippling makes managing a global workforce just as simple, I'll hand it over to Rob. Thank you, Brian. I'm Rob Fee. I'm the VP of Global, and I'm excited to take you through a few major updates to our Global Product Suite. A majority of companies today have international workforces, and many are still managing them through a patchwork of spreadsheets and disconnected systems. Managing international workforces can be super tough to say the least. There are foreign onboarding requirements, complex payroll processes that are spreadsheet heavy and take weeks. There are unfamiliar tax filings and ever changing compliance requirements. It can be both extremely nerve wracking and extremely time consuming. Rippling built its global products like Global HRS, Global Payroll, Contractors, and Employer of Record to make it easy to manage your entire global workforce all in one place. Now, with Rippling, you can onboard, manage, and pay employees all over the world, and you get reporting that is accurate, real time, infinitely customizable across your entire business. Your employees, on the other hand, get a more unified employee experience and they get to be in one org chart and feel like part of the same team. So to start, I'm very excited to announce the launch of our brand new Contractor of Record product. With Contractor of Record, companies can onboard contractors under Rippling entities. Rippling will manage worker misclassification risk. Misclassification, of course, is when a a company, either intentionally or unintentionally, misclassifies a worker that should be an employee as a contractor. A contractor can challenge their classification in court, and companies can face fines and litigation costs that run into tens of thousands for a misclassified worker. So to show you how it works, when you onboard a new contractor, you'll enter some basic details. In this case, I've got a contractor in Spain. I'm hiring them through the contractor record service, and I'm hiring them as an entity. We'll then help with a classification assessment. There are some questions here, for instance, how much does your company control how the work is done? That is, is there extensive training, exact work procedures, daily oversight? You'll answer high control, medium, or low. There are other questions here. Does your company control when the work is done? Is the worker managing other employees? Is the worker using company equipment, laptops, etcetera? On the back end, our legal team's done extensive research on country specific risk factors and thresholds. And so all of your inputs on geo and the answers to this classification assessment go through a risk model, and contract is accepted. And you can continue with the onboarding from here by addition adding additional role details. And, of course, the system will guide you through everything else you need to onboard that contractor, including locally compliant contractor agreements, background checks, etcetera. In the event of a misclassification claim, Rippling bears liability, and we'll manage that directly so you can stay focused on your business. Once a contractor's on the platform, it's the same great Rippling contractors experience. So contractors get a contractor hub where they can manage everything. They can manage automatic withdrawals, withdrawal schedule, or review activity. They can keep funds in their contractor wallet, which we call balance. They can withdraw funds either instantly to their bank accounts or to payment providers like Wise or to linked debit cards, and they can do this in over 50 supported currencies. They obviously get invoicing, which you see here is customizable. And, of course, there's real time payment tracking with time stamps, which can eliminate a lot of confusion and questions. Contractor of record is now live and operational in over 100 countries, and we will be extending that to over 150 through the 2026. Most companies wanna move fast in hiring, and they want peace of mind about compliance without needing to field a worldwide network of legal experts. Rippling contractor of record lets companies mitigate risk, focus on their business, and move quickly. Okay. Second, I wanna talk about some major updates to our global payroll. To date, Rippling's built one of the world's preeminent global payroll products. We built it entirely in house down to the slab of concrete, not through requiring old legacy payroll systems. Because payroll has been built in house, it is fully integrated with our HRIS, with our time and attendance, our admin, expenses. So all data and changes flow seamlessly from those systems over the payroll without the need for any imports, reconciliation or keying in any changes. You get instant gross to net calculations that let you catch and fix issues right on the spot, and you get payroll block periods on the order of a few days where many today have block periods of weeks. In addition, there are custom pay schedules. There are infinite free off cycle runs. There are automated filings and automated payments that works. And we built this today in 10 countries, including The US, The UK, Canada, Australia, India, Singapore, France, and others. I'm very excited to announce the launch of a new country, Germany. Germany global payroll was a very big lift. Building gold standard, fully government compliant payroll in Germany is not an easy task. Besides it being a complex regulatory environment, companies have to pass regulatory certification through the ITSG that literally covers thousands of pages of test cases in eight point font to even operate in the country. And we're one of a handful of companies that have achieved the certification in the past decade. So I wanna show you Germany Global Payroll. Before I show you the payroll engine, I wanna show a quick overview of some of the important payroll inputs, including a powerful time slash leave system. So you can see here there are over 50 government compliant time off policies like maternity leave and the like with pre built defaults that are maintained continuously by Rippling. Includes not just policies, and accrual rules and the like, but also pay rules about how those leaves need to be paid out. You can obviously create new policies and to show new policy here, this is all in German, obviously. We, of course, have English, just in case you're unfamiliar with. So, actually, let's switch to English so this is a little less scary. And you can see here we have all the Englishes you could ever want. We saw time. Let's take a quick look at payroll. So we'll click in. We will look at our drafts for our German pay run. It'll take a second to load here. And here, you see your German pay run. If you scroll over, you can see your columns, the salary, reimbursements, different bonuses, entitlements. You can obviously click into any detail and view change history. We move forward. Here, we review hourly employees and now interns. And now we get to calculate payroll. It's thinking really hard here. And here we have it. Instant gross to net, all deductions and taxes calculated. You can obviously click into individual detail to drill down on anything you want, and you can preview the actual pay stubs all in real time. There are many other things happening here, which I won't demonstrate live, things like automated tax filings, automated payments, and the like. We, of course, have very extensive support, including a full managed payroll service for extra help navigating the complexity. As of now, Germany Global Payroll is live and operational, and we're supporting not just companies with employees in Germany, but also companies headquartered and native to Germany. I do have one more thing. We've had so many customers ask for additional Global Payroll country coverage, and we've been working on another model for global payroll that's a little more similar to other players in the space. You'll still interact a 100% with Rippling global payroll. However, data will flow out to best in class third party payroll systems, and you'll still be able to review and approve runs, and then finalize pay run data and pay stubs will flow back into Rippling. So we're going to go live with our first eight countries on 01/01/2026, and we will be expanding coverage to about 40 countries throughout the rest of 2026. Rippling mission is to free smart people to work on hard problems, and we are very focused on bringing a great workforce management experience to your entire employee base. So you can spend less time on admin, more time on your mission. I'd now like to introduce a customer of ours, Katie Bradfield, the head of global payroll and rewards at EdgeConnects. And we're going to hear her perspective on running her global workforce on Earthly. Katie, thank you so much for being here. Really appreciate you taking the time. I'd love to hear a little bit about you and your background, a little bit about EdgeConnects. Sure. So EdgeConnects is a data center company. We're relatively young. We've been around for fifteen years, and I joined the company five and a half years ago. And at that time, we had about a 120 employees. The vast majority of those were in The US, and we had just a handful of people over in Europe. And over the last five and a half years, the size of the company has actually tripled. So we're now about 360 employees, and we've hired employees across 19 countries and 24 entities. So we're we're running payroll for those 24 entities every month. And it's a lot to manage. We've got, you know, them across Europe and Asia, and then we've got a little bit in South America as well. So there's there's just a lot to to keep track of and keep organized. Makes a ton of sense and great to hear about the growth. I'd love to hear about some of the things that led you to evaluate Rippling in the first place. Sure. So we were looking for a better way to keep track of our payroll and, find, you know, some consistency because, you know, using individual accountants in each country provided very vastly different experience, in each country. So we did switch to a global payroll platform, thinking that that would help us, but, it still utilized local payroll partners. So we were having to submit our monthly payroll data. You know, granted it wasn't through email anymore, but we had to upload it into the portal usually in the first week of each month for a pay date at the end of the month. And, you know, waiting for those local partners to run the reports and, you know, just, like, I I'm as guilty as anybody. You know, I'll wait until the deadline to get the data to them, and then they would wait until the deadline to get it back to me. And so by the time I got the reports back, if there were any changes that we wanted to make, it was very, very difficult to get them to make those changes. And so we needed country specific information in all of these different countries, and it just wasn't set up to accept those details. It didn't always know what we would need for payroll. And so we were collecting additional data outside of our HRIS because we didn't wanna create all of these custom fields, for each country, and so we didn't have the data all in one place. When I would call for support, it was just luck of the draw, whoever answered the phone, and whether or not they understood my issue and knew how to fix it. So support was pretty poor. That's that's crazy. We'd love to hear a little bit about the few things that you found most impactful since moving to Rippling. Yeah. So Rippling really stood out as the best platform for us due to the native payroll. So being able to make changes in the system and have them instantly reflected in our payroll reports was a game changer for us. With the cutoff, you know, I have about probably two weeks more time to get data into the system before, you know, the the final cutoff for the pay date. You know, it just gets you you're able to make changes so much later in the month through Rippling. The reporting is fantastic. You know, I can run on as many I can run reports on as many payrolls as I want. I can put them all in a common currency. I can you know, there's just so much flexibility, and you can customize everything. It's it's fantastic. We really appreciate that Rippling has already created the fields, the country specific fields for new hires so that when they come on board, you know, we know that we're collecting the right information and that we're inputting it correctly. So there's a lot more confidence that we're compliant, whereas we maybe were not before because we didn't have anybody. There was an expert that was checking that. Yeah. And I understand that you guys are on the new Germany global payroll too. Love to hear a little bit about how that's been. Yeah. So we just transitioned this month, and it was super smooth. Our account our our implementation manager was very clear on what was required. As with many of these perils, you're dealing with foreign terms, like, literally, you know, foreign language terminology where there probably isn't an English equivalent. And so sometimes we would just have to get on a Zoom call, and I would share my screen. And I would show her what I had, and she would help me identify what pieces of information she needed. And she caught some compliance issues. You know, there were things where she had questions. She's like, well, this doesn't make any sense because, you know, by law, you're supposed to do this. I was like, well, for five and a half years, we haven't been doing that. And so it's really, you know, it gave me a lot of confidence. So we're we're doing things better by switching. Yeah. You're far from alone in that. We we actually see that quite quite a bit, and it's pretty understandable just given, you know, you you know, you don't speak German and there's a thousand plus pages of regulatory German to go through, can be pretty tough sometimes. Thank you so much, Katie. I'm being mindful of time here, but super appreciate you being on, sharing your experience. Glad it's been great. Mhmm. And I think, we can move on to the next session. Thank you. Thanks, Rob. It's great to see how much easier Rippling is making it to hire, pay, and manage people around the world. I do wanna take a quick moment to say thank you for the feedback being shared in chat. We'll be providing that directly with the appropriate teams across both product and customer experience, and we sincerely appreciate the opportunity to keep getting better and making sure that your experience is faster and more helpful. But in keeping with the programming for today, for those of you currently focused on expanding globally, we'd love to hear from you. Let's make this interactive. We're launching a poll for you now. What's the biggest driver behind your company's global hiring strategy? Go ahead and select the answer that best fits your organization. Cost efficiency. Okay. Yes. Definitely tracks. Expansion into new regions. Exciting. I see some support for the remote workforce. Okay. Awesome. Alright. Super, super interesting. Thanks everyone for weighing in. It's really, really cool to see what's driving global hiring across your industries. Now, of course, hiring and managing people all over the world is just one part of running a business. The other big piece is controlling how those employees spend from travel to expenses to payments. So that's where Rippling Spend suite within our unified platform comes into play. To show you what that looks like in action, I'll hand it over to Matt and Timo to talk more about the latest and greatest with Rippling Spend. Thanks, Lacey. Hi, everyone. My name is Matt. I am the GM of Rippling Spend, and I'm going to talk to you all about how our unified platform benefits you from a finance perspective and give you an overview of our finance suite. So taking a step back, this is what most of the world looks like today when managing their spend. They have a point solution for corporate cards, travel and expense management, bill payments, procurement, and so on. And sitting alongside that is their payroll and HRIS and ERP. And without getting too in the weeds, the bottom line is this creates a lot of manual administration work, creates a lot of out of policy spend and a lot of reconciliation errors. And so what we're doing, on on the finance suite is bringing all of your spend applications into one platform. So, we have our own corporate card, expense management tool, travel management, tool, and bill payment tool, and we're also launching procurement soon. And these are all directly integrated with our payroll and HRIS, and also integrates with your ERP and, of course, all sits on that single layer, of of employee data. And so each one of these applications are really built to save you time and money. So for instance, our corporate card, and expense management solution, you can create policies like, I don't want my employees to be able to purchase meal delivery services. So as soon as they go to use their virtual or physical card, they'll receive a text instantly saying your transaction's been declined, and it'll actually show them the policy why. And if it's in policy, we'll instantly text them and say, please, snap a picture of the receipt and tell us why you purchased this, and then we'll match the receipt, automatically categorize it, and add the memo. So that's reconciliation work that you, your managers, and your finance team doesn't have to do. And so in terms of a maturity model, again, this is what most of the world looks like today, but there are new solutions like Rippling Spend and Ramp and Brex, that are bringing all of these spend management solutions into one platform. And then next to that is still a separate payroll and HRIS. But what we're doing is not only giving, you know, customers the option to consolidate finance, but also consolidate their payroll and HR, systems alongside that. And so, you know, having these things together, first and foremost, allows you just to offer a much better employee experience to you and your managers because, you know, they can do everything from a single mobile app, like, view their pay stubs, request time off to booking a business trip, or submitting a reimbursement. And, of course, for your managers and admins, that means only one system to learn and train on, and you don't have to create approval process across five different systems, permissions across five different That's all, you know, in one platform. And so the product benefit of that, besides just the convenience for employees and managers, is things like, going out of office. You know, when a manager goes out of office, what happens is an employee requests a reimbursement, or or a bill payment request, and those requests just stay in the manager's inbox until they get back, which is bad for the employee and slows the whole company down. But with Rippling, because it's connected to your HRIS, as soon as they request PTO, that manager can delegate their approval request to the next best person or you can automatically choose the next best person. That way no one even has to think about what to do with approval requests, and other solutions can't do that because it's not one platform. Or let's take off boarding. You know, in addition to generating their severance agreements, turning off their laptop, and so on, you can automatically cut their final check, reassign or disable their corporate card, cancel upcoming business trips. You can do all of that in a single offboarding flow, where, again, other solutions can't do that because they don't have this unified layer of onboarding, offboarding, etcetera. And so just to sort of illustrate what this looks like tangibly, I'm gonna have Timo, our product manager who built our our new travel management suite, show you what this looks like from the travel perspective. Thanks, Matt. And without further ado, I'm super excited to jump in and show you Rippling Travel in action. Hi, everyone. I am Timo, and I have been leading product on our travel team for the last three years that I've been to Rippling. And so this is what the employee booking experience looks like. We've worked really hard to build a seamless booking experience that mimics what employees would be used to in consumer travel booking tools like Kayak or Google Flights. If you're an employee, we've got the slick interface. You can manage travel for yourself. You can also, if you're delegate, manage travel on behalf of others within your company. So for example, EAs could manage travel on behalf of executives. Some small businesses we know like to have one person be the all time travel manager for everyone within the company, and and that's supported as well. If you're an employee, booking a flight is as easy as searching for the the place you wanna go, and I'm sure we've all searched for a flight before. You can see we've got inventory from all major domestic US airlines. We've also got great international inventory. We pull an inventory from a number of sources. So we've got major travel industry players called Global Distribution Systems. We've also got online travel agencies like Priceline, booking.com, and Expedia, among others. And we've got direct integrations directly with the airlines. So we will guarantee that if your employee can can find the flight on Google, then then they can find it within Rippling Travel. It's easy for employees to filter by whether something's in policy, whether approval is required, the number of stops, the airline, whether there are bags included in the fare or not. In this case, I'm just gonna go ahead and book my favorite airline, Rippling Airlines. And as you can see, it's easy to select seats. When you select seats, you can it's easy for an employee to tell if something is in policy. More on that later. And you can create a trip. And when you create a trip, I love to show off this for any of the accounting nerds in the audience. We have these special accounting fields. When the travel gets booked within Rippling, if you're also a Rippling spend customer, then these transactions are go going to show up in the spend app. And when they show up in the spend app, they're gonna be precoded. In this case, this was a custom accounting dimension that we added, and so the transaction will be coded with this accounting field, and then that will automatically get synced to your general ledger. So it means less time for your accountants to close the books, and it also means less time for your employees to code their own transactions. And, just another way that the the Rippling platform kind of is most powerful when it all works together. In this case, I'm going to add this booking to, preexisting trip. Your travel information is gonna be automatically populated with information that we already have for employees in our HRIS. And so even the first time they go through and book a flight, this experience is gonna be seamless. All the fields will be prefilled. We have support for major loyalty programs for flights and hotels and and more. Here's just a few examples, but, basically, any major loyalty program you can think of, we support it. We support redress numbers, TSA precheck numbers, saving those to your profile so that you can book with the minimum number of clicks as an employee. We also do support corporate loyalty programs so that your company can get rewarded for the travel that that your employees book if you have reward programs with specific airlines. And if you don't have reward programs with specific airlines, then you can speak with our support team. We'd be happy to help get you set up. So once you've done all that, they can just go ahead and confirm their booking. And when we hop over to the trip details page, you'll be able to see all the details of your booking. You'll be able to see, add that booking to your calendar. You can also easily modify your bookings, cancel your bookings, and here's where you can contact our support team if I and it looks like we've booked now. So I'm gonna hop back over to the trips page. You can see that that flight that we just booked and the hotel to go along with it. From here, you can also contact our twenty four seven support team. We're really proud that we've built a support team all in house. And here we go. If I need support with a particular booking, then I can select either flights or hotels. If if I had a car rental, that would be available for support as well. As I was saying, our our support team is is fully in house. We never use third party agents or outsourced agents. It's round the clock Rippling employees with whom you'll be you'll be speaking if you contact our support team. You can chat with them. You can call them. You can also contact them via our mobile app. And so if you want to see your trip itinerary, excuse me, on the go, then you can download our mobile app, and you can get, check-in details for your hotel. You can get the the address of your hotel with a link to the maps app of your choice, and you can see details about your flight like the terminal that it takes off from. So that's that's a bit on the the employee booking side. I know we've we've got folks who will be booking for themselves, but, also, I just wanna show you the admin experience and just a few of the things that you can do with the policy side. As as as you could see, you know, it's it's a seamless experience for employees, but there were guardrails in place, to control, the or rather to give you control over what they were allowed to book. And so you can control what you can what you consider to be a reasonable flight. You can specify, you know, employees are expected to be able to book nonstop flights or maybe even a one stop flight is considered reasonable. You can add a percentage buffer, and these tools all work together to allow you to set a dynamic price limit. And so the policies dynamically auto adjust to whatever flout whatever route the employee is looking at, and it gives employees flexibility while still giving you control and and peace of mind that that they're booking something reasonable. You can choose whether you get notified when employees make changes to their flight. You can control, obviously, which which fare brands they're allowed to book. You can and let's say we wanna give our give our employees a a premium experience. We can allow paid seat selection as well. We can also allow, whether they're allowed to to bring extra bags above and beyond what's what's included in the fare. And based on on these these criteria here, we'll we'll decide whether a flight is in or out of policy, and then you can decide who the approver should be and how it should be approved, when it's when it's in or out of policy. So you can specify that approval is optional. You can put approvals on autopilot and have peace of mind knowing that your guardrails are in place. And if someone books something in policy, you'll just get notified as an admin, but it won't require extra approval, or you can specify that approval is required to confirm a booking. In that case, when an employee requests something that that, triggers your your policy, you'll get a request that looks like this. You can configure these approval notifications and when and how you get notified and get e notified by email, via Slack, and you can easily see what the employees requested to book and then approve or reject it. Another last call out is with the power of super groups within Rippling, obviously, and you can specify approvers by groups, by relative relationships to employees, or or or basically anything. Last thing I wanna show off on the policy side before, I, show a little bit about our report and then hand it back is custom policies. You can build these really granular custom policies based on almost any data that's in Rippling, including even custom data for your organization. And so in this case, we built this policy based on the the individual's level. Let's say we wanna include directors here as well. We've got, level, and then we can specify that there are different fair brands allowed for these employees. So we've added business and first class for folks who are executives. Nice little perk for them. And the last thing I wanna show you all is the the insights that you gain from having a a managed travel solution like Rippling. So you can see breakdowns of travel spend by department. You can see who's in or out of policy. You can see who your top travel spenders are. And if you have concerns about duty of care, you can see who's currently traveling, the dates that they're traveling, what their flight and hotel bookings are, where they're traveling to, when they're traveling. Whereas if previously employees were booking for themselves and then expensing, you might not have this data in real time. But with Rippling, all of these reports are real time and will update whenever whenever travel is booked. You can also build custom reports on just about anything, any of the data that you have here, and you can combine it with data elsewhere in Rippling to get more insights into how your company is traveling. One way that Rippling used this internally was we saw that we actually booked a a huge number of flights. This is in our data. We spend, unfortunately, much more on United Airlines, so we went to United Airlines and, negotiated a a special rate with them. We've also negotiated special rates with large car rental providers like Enterprise and National. And I'm pleased to let you all know that if you don't have a negotiated, deal with a car rental provider of your own, then we've made those rates available for you within Travel. So when your employees book cars within Travel, you get access to our special company rates, that we've negotiated on your behalf. And that is all that I've got to show off about Travel. So with that, I'm gonna hand it back off to Lacey to close us out. Awesome. Thanks, Timo. And as we wrap up, I wanna say a quick thank you to all of our speakers as well as our customer guests, Tony and Katie, and each of you for joining us today. We've covered a lot of ground in this Rippling rundown from how Rippling connects all of your data and workflows in one platform to managing global teams compliantly to streamlining spend and travel, all with the goal of helping your business work smarter and move faster. We hope you're leaving with some new ideas about how to put Rippling to work across your organization. In fact, if you're interested in learning more about any of the solutions covered today, feel free to let us know directly in the poll that will launch on the screen. And don't worry, if you missed any part of the session, the full on demand recording will be in your inbox shortly. Thanks for spending the hour with us. We'll look forward to seeing you next time on the Brooklyn rundown.