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Onboarding & Payroll: Hire, onboard and pay contractors across 185+ countries in 50+ currencies.

Compliance: Ensure peace of mind with KYC and thorough classification documentation.

Speed & Control: Submit and approve invoices easily, then pay contractors within days. Eliminate manual mistakes with automation.

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Compliantly Hire & Pay Contractors Anywhere in the World

Hire and pay contractors across the globe, enhance your contractor's experience, and safeguard against costly compliance risks.

Trusted by 16,000+ companies big or small

Simple Administration

The world-class way to hire, pay, and manage

Hire top talent anywhere in the world. We’ll guide the next steps—from handling locally compliant contracts to intuitive payment processes to managing everything in one place.

Hire anywhere quickly

Onboard in 140+ countries within minutes. Contractors can sign agreements, complete KYC verification, enter payroll details, and get a company email address—all in one flow.

Pay without delay

Automate contractor invoices and approvals so you're always ready to pay contractors on time. Send payments in 50+ currencies without worrying about the complexities of moving money internationally.

Manage in one place

All of your contractors’ workplace needs— time off, time tracking, license provisioning— are centralized within the same quality system as your employees. 

CONTRACTOR EXPERIENCE

Pay around the world 3x faster

Start with easy, transparent invoicing and end with payments processed faster than any other all-in-one solution. Enjoy a superior global workforce experience.

Approvals at super speed

Submit and approve invoices faster than other contractor management platforms. Manage the end-to-end process in Rippling for control and visibility.

Status checks in real-time

Check on pending contracts, know exactly what they’re for, see which ones are paid out, and have a unified view for approvers, HR, finance, and contractors.

Contractor controls

Contractors can come in at any time to check their balance and upcoming payments. This gives contractors control to withdraw on their own terms.

Pay in days

Cross-border payments and currency conversions are time consuming, complex, and tedious. Rippling handles all of that and pays contractors in days, not weeks.

See Rippling in action

Learn how Rippling can help you effortlessly onboard and pay your contractors, whether you have a workforce of 2 or 2,000.

What CUSTOMERS HAVE TO SAY

Before Rippling, I would have had to coordinate with seven different people in different time zones. But I was able to do it for myself in 15 minutes—it was surprising and delightful, and inspirational.

Varun Sharma

CEO at Enterpret

IT & Services Company

10-100 Employees

It took me five minutes to [run payroll]. It was so straightforward, so simple. It was just clicking two buttons, making sure the information was correct, and then that's it.

Laura Ferreira

Co-Founder and COO at Vambora

IT & Services Company

1-10 Employees

Global AUTOMATION

Gain speed and control

When it comes to contractor processes, manual mistakes are eliminated because you can trust your automation. Rippling protects you from errors, so your work speeds up.

Do less data entry

Generate an invoice for hourly or fixed-rate contractors. You don’t need to spend time uploading hours. Invoices automatically load into payroll.

Get everything ready on time

Powerful, flexible tools mean pay runs stay on time. Customize approval routing policies, and create workflows to escalate invoice approval reminders.

Put KYC on autopilot

Rippling automatically collects KYC documents from your contractors and handles compliance work, like background checks. You can pull an audit trail any time.

Transparent invoicing for every payment

Simplified Global Contractors
Onboarding and Payroll

Hire contractors globally in minutes and run payroll across 185+ countries.

COMPLIANCE

You grow your business. 
Rippling safeguards it.

Rippling makes it easier to stay compliant with laws abroad than any other system by proactively flagging compliance risks as they arise.

Lean on our regional compliance experts

Need help on sensitive employment issues or country-specific laws? Our HR advisors are experts in local jurisdictions.

FAQ

Where can I hire contractors with Rippling?

You can hire contractors in 185+ countries.

What currencies does Rippling support to pay global contractors?

We support over 50 unique currencies.

How long does it take to pay contractors in Rippling?

It typically takes 5-10 minutes to process contractor pay runs in Rippling, including reviewing approvals, data entry, confirming pay amounts, and processing payroll. After pay runs are approved, it typically takes 2-4 days for funds to arrive in a contractor's balance, depending on the bank that funds contractor payroll.

Can contractors submit their own invoices?

Contractors can generate their own invoices, which Rippling automatically routes for appropriate approvals. When Rippling has the information to generate an invoice automatically (like for contract terms of a fixed-rate every month, or hourly contractors who track time using Rippling), Rippling can also auto-generate invoices.

See Rippling in action

Learn how Rippling can help you effortlessly onboard and manage your employees, whether you have a workforce of 2 or 2,000.