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Say goodbye to surprises with Rippling Spend

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Published

September 19, 2024

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October 23, 2024

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4 MIN

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Most spend solutions, no matter how modern, allow wasteful spend to slip through the cracks. At the end of the month, you’re left with surprises—and not the good kind. 

Rippling Spend is a spend management solution that enables you to bring your corporate cards, expense management, bill pay, and more into one place to achieve real-time visibility and uniquely granular control.

Starting today, you can use Rippling Spend with or without Rippling HCM, Rippling Payroll, or any other Rippling business suites.

All-in-one spend management, unparalleled visibility and control

Early on, Rippling recognized the value of combining a company’s rich HR data with real-time spend data. We believe breadth and depth of employee-centered data is the backbone of robust spending controls. And it’s what sets Rippling Spend apart.

Rippling Spend incorporates employee roles, levels, department, and location into spend management workflows. This enables finance teams to create granular spending permissions, automated approvals, and insightful reports. The result: up to 75% less time spent on administrative work and massive company savings.

With Rippling Spend, you can say goodbye to: 

  • A lack of visibility into spending trends. Track and analyze employee spend in real time by specific attributes including department, location, and manager for up-to-the-minute visibility.

  • Surprising—and wasteful—expenses. Block out-of-policy spend based on vendor, amount, or granular employee attributes like job level, department, or location.

  • Deciding which employees get corporate cards and what their limits are. Automatically issue cards with pre-set, role-based spending limits to new employees as soon as they finish onboarding. 

  • Tracking down complex approvals. Route expense approvals automatically to the right team members for sign off without anyone lifting a finger.

Run better on Rippling Spend

Rippling Spend is just one part of our overall Rippling offering, which has nearly every application you need to run your business, from HR to finance to IT and beyond. 

And as of today, we now offer Rippling Spend in two ways: as part of our overall Rippling suite of products, or as a standalone product.

If you decide to start on Rippling Spend without Rippling HCM, you can easily use the data from your current HRIS to manage corporate cards, expenses, and vendor invoices from within Rippling. And if you don’t yet have an HRIS, or prefer a manual backup, we can bulk import data via a CSV upload.

Rippling Spend gives you dynamic controls to intercept wasteful spend and streamline your month-end close.

And, if in the future you want to reap the full benefits of the Rippling platform, Rippling’s HCM suite only compounds the power of your company’s infrastructure.

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Time and money saved, visibility gained 

Don’t just take it from us. Companies across industries use Rippling Spend to achieve deep insight into their spend and drive down costs.

Andros saves $100K each year by reducing third party vendor spend on solutions and leveraging Rippling automation. Plus, they close the books 3 times faster each month. They are now easily assigning corporate cards to individuals and tracking their spend. “Because of the real-time reporting in Rippling, we can run this report straight away, and it’s visible in seconds,” said Maksim Gekhman, Andros’ Director of Finance. 

Honeylove saves four hours a month reconciling expenses and resolves disputed credit card charges three weeks shorter than with its previous credit card solution. “There’s another level of accounting control with Rippling,” said Austin Chang, Honeylove’s Controller. “We can validate a charge to see if it’s legit or not. And if we need to dispute, we can dispute right away.”

Emotive spends 75% less time on expense reimbursements and closes monthly books in a third of the time. With its prior spend solution, Will White, Emotive’s CFO said, “we'd have to pull our bank statement here, pull this statement here, pull that statement there. Whereas now, we go directly into Rippling and see much, much more detail on what we're spending.”

Get started with better spend management today

So, if you’ve been watching from the sidelines and thinking about making a change, it’s time to jump in with Rippling Spend and make surprises a thing of the past. Request a guided walkthrough of our platform to see how any part of your business can run better with Rippling, whether you start with our Spend, HCM, or Payroll.

Gain unprecedented control of spend

Disclaimer

Rippling and its affiliates do not provide tax, accounting, or legal advice. This material has been prepared for informational purposes only, and is not intended to provide or be relied on for tax, accounting, or legal advice. You should consult your own tax, accounting, and legal advisors before engaging in any related activities or transactions.

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Lizzie Rouleau

VP Sales - Rippling Spend

Lizzie is a San Francisco-based sales executive who leads the Rippling Spend team. Before Rippling, she spent her career in technology sales across benefits and travel startups.

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