Automate Rippling

Rippling ties HR, IT and payroll to one employee record, and the start date on that record sets off work for several teams. Get told when someone joins, a reminder on their first day, and a weekly list of who's starting soon, so IT, managers and office staff are ready. Describe what you want to your AI assistant, check what it will do, and it keeps running.

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Create a ClickRuntime automation: every hour, check Rippling for newly added employees and post their name, job title, department and start date to #new-hires in Slack.

Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.

Ideas

What you can automate in Rippling

Hear about new hires as they're added, get a nudge on each person's first day, and see the starters coming up in the next two weeks. These are ready-made starting points. Anything else you can describe works too.

Hourly

Tell Slack when someone joins in Rippling

Each new hire shows up in Slack with their role and start date, so the people setting things up can start.

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On a schedule

Get a first-day reminder for new starters

On the morning someone starts, you get their name so you can welcome them.

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Weekly

Get a weekly list of upcoming starters

Every Monday you see who starts in the next two weeks, with time left to order equipment and set up accounts.

See how it works Your own logic

Any other automation you can describe in words

Your own rules, schedule and AI steps with Rippling, plus any other app. Describe it and your assistant builds it.

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Build your own

Build any Rippling automation you can describe

The ideas above are ready-made starting points, not a fixed list. Describe what Rippling should do in your own words, with your conditions, other apps or an AI step, and your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.

Your own rules
Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.
Any number of apps
One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.
AI where it helps
Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.
On a schedule or on each event
Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

For example, ask your assistant

Every Monday, list Rippling employees starting or leaving in the next two weeks and point out anyone without a manager or department set.

Every morning, post new starters and leavers from Rippling to our #it Slack channel so devices and accounts get prepared.

When an employee's end date is set in Rippling, create an offboarding Jira ticket, add the date to the IT Google Calendar, and remind the manager in Slack two days before.

Beyond chat

Have Rippling work when you're not in the chat

Connecting Rippling to ChatGPT or Claude lets you ask about it while you chat. ClickRuntime handles the part that should happen on its own: checks on a schedule and actions on each new event, set up from the same chat and running after you close it.

On a schedule
Get a first-day reminder for new starters
On a schedule
Watches for changes
Tell Slack when someone joins in Rippling
Hourly
On a schedule
Get a weekly list of upcoming starters
Weekly

Setup

Connect Rippling

You connect Rippling with a company API token that a Rippling admin creates. The admin picks its scopes, so it only reaches the data the automations need.

Rippling

HR / HRIS / IT

As a Rippling admin, open the API Tokens app (search for it, or go to Settings, then Company Settings, then API Tokens).
Choose Create API token, give it a name and select the scopes, such as read access to workers.
Copy the token straight away, because Rippling shows it only once.
In the ClickRuntime dashboard, open Connections & secrets and save the token as a secret.

Good to know

Rippling limits that affect automations

Only Rippling admins can create API tokens.
The token reaches only the scopes chosen when it was created, so pick every scope your automations need.
New hires are checked hourly, so an announcement can arrive up to an hour after the person is added.

FAQ

Questions about automating Rippling

What can ClickRuntime see in Rippling?

Only the data covered by the scopes you gave the token. The automations here read worker records, such as names, roles and start dates, and don't change anything.

Can I connect Rippling through an OAuth app instead of a token?

Not today. Rippling's public OAuth apps need approval through its partner program, so a company API token is the way to connect.

How soon after someone is added will I hear about it?

Rippling is checked every hour, and each new person is reported once.

Do I need AI for Rippling automations?

No. Joiner alerts and start-date reminders run without it. If you want a summary or a drafted welcome message, it uses the AI that comes with every ClickRuntime plan, with no AI key of your own.

Is this a Rippling connector for ChatGPT or Claude?

Not for chatting with Rippling data. A chat connector lets your assistant read and change Rippling while you're in the conversation. ClickRuntime is for the work that should happen without you: you set up an automation from the chat once, and it keeps running on a schedule or on each Rippling event.

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