Puzzle + Rippling: From Pay Run to Journal Entry—Automatically
Integrate Rippling with Puzzle to automate payroll journal entries, categorize with precision, and stay audit-ready—without lifting a finger.
About
Rippling
Rippling is the all-in-one workforce platform that brings together payroll, HR, benefits, and IT. Designed for modern companies, Rippling helps businesses manage employee operations and compliance with ease—whether they’re 2 or 200 people strong.
How It Works
Connect Rippling and Puzzle to sync payroll data automatically. Each pay run is transformed into accurate journal entries in Puzzle, categorized by salaries, taxes, and benefits, with employee and department breakouts, so you are not hand-keying numbers. As payroll cash settles in your bank, Puzzle links those debits to payroll clearing for end to end reconciliation.
Streamline Your Books with Seamless Payroll Sync
Integrate your payroll provider with Puzzle to automatically sync salary, bonus, and tax data—eliminating manual entry and reducing the risk of errors. Get real-time visibility into payroll expenses the moment they hit your accounts, with clean categorization and audit-ready records.
Built for Growth-Stage Teams
Whether you're paying a lean founding team or scaling quick, Puzzle grows with you. Support for multiple entities, and complex comp structures means you're always ready for what’s next—without changing tools.
Instant, Accurate Burn Tracking
Get real-time visibility into payroll expenses the moment they hit your accounts, with clean categorization and audit-ready records.
Simplify Compliance and Close Faster
Puzzle maps payroll entries directly into your accounting, aligning with GAAP and tax requirements from day one. Automate reconciliations and accelerate monthly close with accurate, categorized payroll data flowing in automatically.
How to Connect
FAQs
Rippling connects to a wide range of accounting platforms via native integrations and its integrations directory (600+ total). What matters when looking at the integrations Rippling offers is that you’re preserving journal detail and attachments end-to-end. The best accounting integration for this is Puzzle, where Rippling payroll data syncs into clean, categorized journal entries with employee/department breakouts. Using Puzzle leads to no manual calculations.
Rippling isn’t a general ledger. It automates HR, payroll, and spend. It ultimately integrates with your accounting system so entries post correctly. Using a modern accounting tool like Puzzle, pay runs become automatic journal entries with useful dimensions for analysis.
At minimum: gross wages, employee/department (or class) dimensions, employer taxes, benefits/deductions, pay period and pay date, and the mapping to your chart of accounts. For tax support, you’ll also want jurisdictional tax details and taxable wage bases. Rippling’s guidance on payroll journal entries and ledgers aligns with this structure and leading companies connect a Puzzle accounting account to post accurate entries automatically to their accounting tool.
Use Rippling for payroll (and optional spend/bill pay), Stripe for payments revenue, Mercury or Meow for banking, and Puzzle as the AI accounting hub that categorizes, reconciles, and closes. All of these tools will minimize spreadsheets and cut down on manual work. Rippling advocates a consolidated finance stack, and the Rippling↔Puzzle integration is built for founder-speed accounting.
Founder-led, fast-growing startups that want to move quickly without sacrificing accuracy; the most common power users are typically Seed to Series B tech companies. Rippling positions its platform for startups and venture portfolios, and the Rippling↔Puzzle integration was launched specifically to simplify payroll accounting for founders.
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