Streamline Certified Payroll Reporting with Rippling and Points North Integration
For businesses that regularly perform work on federally- or state-funded projects, submitting a weekly certified payroll report to prove compliance with wage and hour laws is notoriously complex and time-consuming.
Completing the mandatory forms can prove convoluted for HR depending on your team's size, the project's scope, and the work schedule. For a project with just 5 employees, it takes 55 minutes to generate one report each week, and that time grows exponentially with more employees or projects. And contractors face challenges in accurately calculating prevailing wages, managing fringe benefits, and generating compliant reports for various government agencies.
That’s why we're excited to announce our new integration with Certified Payroll Reporting by Points North, designed to simplify the entire process. This integration allows customers to benefit from streamlined Davis-Bacon reporting at the federal, state, and municipal levels.
How it works
The new integration between Rippling and Points North modernizes your certified payroll reporting process, with real-time employee data seamlessly flowing from Rippling to Points North.
Based on data from Time & Attendance, employee data, approved hours, project information, wages, and can be seamlessly uploaded to Points North each pay period. Points North links approved employee hours with mandated prevailing and union wages, considering various factors such as work classification and project specifics. Once this information is verified, the employees' pay rates—connected to their time, work classification, and project data and can be uploaded back into Rippling. This helps to ensure they are paid the correct amount based on the hours worked, job classifications, and projects they completed.
Once payroll is processed in Rippling, the integration ensures that data needed to run certified payroll reports is transferred to Points North in real time. With a few clicks, you can easily generate all certified payroll reports and send them where they need to go directly from the Certified Payroll Reporting interface, eliminating the need for manual report creation and reducing the potential for costly errors.
Key benefits
The integration’s end-to-end automation significantly reduces the potential for errors and saves countless hours of manual work for your team. It helps ensure that your certified payroll reports are always accurate, compliant, and ready when you need them.
Eliminate manual work and reduce the potential for costly errors
With Rippling as your single source of truth for business data, you have access to the most current and accurate information for prevailing wage processing and certified payroll reporting. Our integration with Points North allows for synchronization of employee data, daily hours, project information, payroll data, and more. It also provides data to help ensure employees are paid correctly based on hours worked and job details and generates required reports, helping your team win back time for more strategic initiatives.
Safeguard your business from compliance risks
Points North monitors report formats so that they are current with federal, state, and municipal regulations. By tracking regulatory changes, Points North helps facilitate current report formats to help mitigate compliance risks. This helps reduce the potential for costly errors and enables your team to avoid consequences, such as back pay, contract termination, and even criminal liability.
Getting started
This represents a significant leap forward in certified payroll management. By automating complex calculations, reducing manual data entry, and ensuring compliance with various regulations, this integration frees up valuable time and resources for your business.
If your organization handles government contracts or prevailing wage projects, see for yourself how it can revolutionize your certified payroll reporting process, boosting accuracy, efficiency, and compliance.
This blog is based on information available to Rippling as of July 7, 2025.
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.
