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Performance Management Software
Performance management software for building high-performing teams
Performance management is powered by your employee data. That makes it effortless to set up and sustain your performance review process across the employee lifecycle.
Overview
Connect every step of performance management
Set up evaluations in minutes
Customisable performance review cycles so you can run them exactly the way you want, in a fraction of the time it takes other systems.
Calibrate ratings and raises
Collaborate on ratings, promotions and raises. Effortlessly sync approved changes to payroll.
Align on employee goals and OKRs
Assign, share and track goals across your company. Surface individuals’ goal progress in performance reviews.
Run effective 1:1 meetings
Document discussions, track action items and ensure accountability with structured 1:1s between managers, direct reports and colleagues.
Identify performance trends
Report on performance alongside all your employee data to unlock deeper, more impactful insights.
Goals & OKRS
Unite your teams around the right goals
Align your org with objectives that are accountable, traceable and measurable.
- Surface relevant goals to the right people
Instantly assign everyone the right goals, based on their department, team or custom Supergroups.
- Keep your entire org accountable
Practise goal setting and show everyone the goals they're responsible for. Surface goal progress in performance reviews.
- Track progress in real time
Review goals by status, owner and more, and quickly identify places where you need to take direct action.
Review cycles
Launch the perfect review cycle in minutes
Configure your review cycle
Assign employees to your cycle in bulk using attributes, like location, and then select which review types to include.
Configure your permissions
Define the scope of executives, managers and HR business partners instantly, based on their role and reporting relationships.
Configure your questions
Build question sets for all your reviewer types. Add targeted questions using employee attributes, like department.
Calibration
Calibrate performance ratings with less effort
How do you ensure performance assessments are consistent and fair? Only Rippling has the power to let you compare and calibrate ratings across any employee data.
Share confidential information securely
Easily share scores and remuneration recommendations with managers and then collaborate on a final score.
Make your decisions more data-driven
Pull in any employee data and relevant metrics, like tenure or compa-ratio, to keep your calibration decisions data-driven and holistic.
Eliminate bias from the equation
Customise calibration groups to ensure everyone is rated on the same scale and that managers stay objective.
Merit cycles
Manage remuneration, not spreadsheets
Remuneration planning is too important to fragment across systems and spreadsheets. Rippling brings everything related to remuneration onto one unified platform.
Assign merit guidelines to performance ratings
Rippling automatically advises managers on how to allocate their team budget for merit increases based on admin settings.
Automate time-consuming approval processes
Changes in remuneration automatically follow your company’s existing approval chains. Rippling flags issues like managers going over budget for quick review.
Push changes in remuneration directly to payroll
Updating multiple people’s remuneration after a cycle is a slow and error-prone process. With Rippling, you can effortlessly sync changes to payroll.
Custom reporting
See performance trends in greater detail
View performance reviews by department, seniority and more
Compare performance ratings over time and across cycles
View performance ratings by employee demographics
Built different
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Most all-in-one software consists of acquired systems. These modules are disconnected, so your business data is too. Rippling takes a platform approach, building products on a single source of truth for all the business data related to employees. This rich, flexible data source unlocks a powerful set of capabilities.
End-to-end performance management
Everything you need to develop and retain talent
Continuous feedback
Schedule feedback at whatever interval makes sense for your organisation — monthly, quarterly, annually or on a custom cadence.
Employee experience
Let employees view and revisit feedback in the same system they use on a daily basis instead of forcing them to sign in to another system.
Structured conversations
Equip managers with structured templates to guide their performance conversations with direct reports.
Customised feedback forms
Measure what’s most important for your org by customising review criteria — or kick start your cycle using one of Rippling’s templates.
360-degree feedback
Give employees the power to nominate their peer reviewers; and give managers the ability to approve or counter-propose reviewers.
Development plans
Help low-performers get back on track by creating a development plan and setting a cadence for progress check-ins.
PDF packets
Revisit feedback easily with PDFs providing a snapshot of the review cycle — or simply log in to the Rippling dashboard to access past cycles.
One-click reminders
Finish your cycle in a timely manner by quickly spotting stragglers and alerting them to finish their reviews.
Set continuous feedback (and continuous improvement) in motion
Automate continuous performance management based on the employee data or events of your choosing — like 30-60-90 check-ins to help onboard your new workers.
Track quality feedback during manager changes
Build policies defining who reviews employees with recently changed managers. Assign skip-level managers, historical managers and more.
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FAQs
How does performance management software work?
Performance management software helps companies track, evaluate and improve employee performance through tools like reviews, feedback and goal tracking.
It works by centralising and automating key performance management processes, including:
- Running structured performance review cycles
- Collecting continuous and 360-degree feedback
- Tracking employee goals and OKRs
- Providing real-time performance analytics
- Documenting 1:1 meetings, coaching and action items
Rippling takes this further by combining performance management, HRIS and payroll in a single platform. This means performance insights are always up to date, tied to real business outcomes and instantly actionable without switching systems.
What features should performance management software have?
Performance management software should include tools for feedback, reviews, goal tracking and analytics. Key features include
- Continuous feedback and coaching
- 360-degree performance feedback
- Performance evaluations and appraisals
- Calibration tools such as 9-box grids
- OKRs and goal management
- Performance analytics and reporting
- 1:1 meeting notes and tracking
- Employee recognition and appreciation
Rippling offers all of these features in one platform, reducing manual work and keeping performance data consistent.
What is the difference between performance evaluations and performance appraisals?
Performance appraisals are formal reviews that happen at set times, like annually or quarterly, to assess past performance. Performance evaluations are broader and include ongoing feedback, goal tracking and regular check-ins throughout the year. Rippling combines both approaches, allowing companies to run structured review cycles while also tracking performance continuously in one system.
How does 360 performance feedback improve employee performance?
360 performance feedback improves performance by gathering input from multiple sources such as managers, peers and direct reports rather than relying on a single reviewer. This creates a more complete and balanced view of employee performance and helps identify strengths and areas for improvement. With Rippling, you can easily capture a holistic view of performance by combining performance data with employee data and additional context like 1:1s notes and goals.
How can performance management software improve employee engagement?
Performance management software improves employee engagement by providing regular feedback, clear goals and recognition for achievements.
Key drivers of engagement include:
- Continuous feedback and coaching
- Transparent goal tracking
- Employee recognition and appreciation
Rippling supports engagement by combining performance management with employee data and workflows, making it easy to recognise achievements, track progress and keep employees aligned with company goals.
How does performance management software help companies make better decisions?
Performance management software helps companies make better decisions by providing clear, data-driven insights into employee performance, goal progress and engagement. Managers can use performance analytics to identify top performers, spot gaps and make informed decisions about promotions, remuneration and development. Rippling enhances this by combining performance data with HR, payroll and employee records in one system. This gives leaders a more complete and accurate view of their workforce, so decisions are based on real-time data, not guesswork.
How is Rippling different from other performance management software?
Rippling is different because it is built on a unified employee data platform, not a standalone performance tool.
Most performance management software:
- Operates separately from HR and payroll systems
- Requires manual data syncing
- Relies on outdated or inconsistent employee data
Rippling eliminates these issues by natively connecting performance management with HR, payroll and other business systems in one platform.
Key differences include:
- A single source of truth for employee data
- Real-time syncing across performance, HR and payroll
- Automated workflows based on employee events
- Performance reviews tied directly to remuneration and business outcomes
Unlike point solutions, Rippling allows companies to run performance reviews, manage remuneration and analyse workforce data in one place, reducing complexity and improving decision-making.