# Rippling

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/rippling/  
**Website:** https://www.rippling.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 22

Rippling is a unified workforce platform spanning HR, IT, and Finance with programmable APIs for employees, payroll, devices, apps, time tracking, benefits, expenses, and SCIM identity provisioning.

## Kin Score — 35.9 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 35.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 46.3 |
| Contract Quality | 68.2 |
| Governance | 11.4 |
| Contract Governance | 11.4 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 14.3 |
| Commercial Clarity | 32.9 |
| Access Clarity | 32.9 |

## Agent readiness — 32.4 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | documented |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | derived |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (22)

- **Rippling Platform API** — The Rippling Platform API exposes core HRIS resources — companies, employees, departments, work locations, custom fields, employment types, and compensation history — for partne...
- **Rippling Employees API** — Read and write employee records — personal information, employment details, manager hierarchy, work email, work location, and custom employee fields — for active and terminated ...
- **Rippling Companies API** — Retrieve company-level metadata, legal entities, business addresses, and account-wide configuration scoped to the authenticated tenant.
- **Rippling Departments API** — List and manage departments and the hierarchical org structure used to group employees and route approvals.
- **Rippling Teams API** — Manage cross-functional teams that group employees independently of the department hierarchy.
- **Rippling Work Locations API** — Read and manage company work locations including office addresses and remote-work designations referenced by employee records.
- **Rippling Payroll API** — Push earnings, deductions, and reimbursements into Rippling Payroll for off-cycle and on-cycle pay runs, and read pay-history events.
- **Rippling Time Off API** — Submit and manage time-off requests, leave balances, and policies for vacation, sick leave, and other absence categories.
- **Rippling Time Tracking API** — Capture clock-in / clock-out events, hourly timesheets, breaks, and shift schedules for hourly and shift-based workers.
- **Rippling Benefits API** — Retrieve employee benefits enrollments, dependents, and plan details across health, dental, vision, and other insurance lines.
- **Rippling Expenses API** — Submit and approve employee expense reports, attach receipts, and reimburse approved expenses through Rippling Spend.
- **Rippling Corporate Cards API** — Issue, manage, and reconcile corporate cards, spend limits, and transactions for Rippling Spend customers.
- **Rippling Bill Pay API** — Manage vendor invoices, approvals, and payments through Rippling Bill Pay for accounts-payable workflows.
- **Rippling Recruiting API** — Sync candidates, applications, and offers between external ATS platforms and Rippling's recruiting and onboarding flows.
- **Rippling Onboarding API** — Trigger new-hire onboarding, capture personal details, distribute offer letters and policy documents, and provision day-one access.
- **Rippling Devices API** — Manage company-owned devices, MDM enrollment, ownership assignment, and lifecycle status across macOS, Windows, iOS, and Android.
- **Rippling Apps API** — Manage SaaS app provisioning, role assignment, and de-provisioning across the Rippling Apps catalog for IT teams.
- **Rippling SCIM API** — SCIM 2.0 endpoints for inbound user, group, and role provisioning from identity providers (Okta, Azure AD, Google) and outbound to partner SaaS applications.
- **Rippling SSO API** — Configure SAML/OIDC single sign-on between Rippling as an IdP and external service providers, plus SP integrations into Rippling.
- **Rippling Custom Fields API** — Define and read custom fields attached to employees, departments, and other Rippling resources for tenant-specific metadata.
- **Rippling Webhooks API** — Subscribe to Rippling events (employee created/updated/terminated, time-off approved, payroll finalized, device assigned) for near real-time downstream integration.
- **Rippling Platform API** — The Platform API from Rippling — 24 operation(s) for platform.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Rippling Agentic Access** — 29 operations · 10 acting

## Security (2)

- **Rippling Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Rippling Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Rippling Plans Pricing**

## Tags

HR, HCM, Payroll, IT, Identity, SCIM, Devices, Spend Management

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/rippling/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.