How does Rippling handle attendance and time?
Rippling handles attendance through a product called Time and Attendance, which lets employees clock in, request time off and view timesheets. Rippling sells it separately, on top of its required core platform, and publishes no price for it. PeopleMuster includes attendance, leave and timesheets in one $3 per person monthly price.
Rippling's own product page, read on 24 September 2026, sums the module up in one line: "Let employees clock in, request time off, and view timesheets." So yes, Rippling does attendance.
What you pay for it is harder to see. Rippling's pricing page says each HR, finance and IT product "can be purchased separately", sold "alongside the core, required Rippling Platform". Billing runs per employee, per month, and it adds that "some may be charged at (or include) a monthly basis fee". No figure is published for the platform or for Time and Attendance.
That model matters when you budget. Your bill is the platform plus each product you add, and you won't know the total until a sales call. Ask for the platform fee and the Time and Attendance fee as two separate lines, so you can compare like with like.
PeopleMuster prices attendance the other way round. It's $3 per person, per month, with every module in the price, and there's no base or platform fee on top. Your first 14 days are free, with no card.
Your team checks in one of two ways. A fingerprint terminal on your office network is one. PeopleMuster pulls new punches from it every 30 minutes on weekdays, with nothing installed on the device. Or an admin switches on browser check-in, which opens in a window around each person's shift.
The numbers you'd look for come built in. Attendance reports show each person's on-time rate and late minutes, and HR fixes a wrong punch through a correction request that leaves a record.
Leave and hours sit in the same place. Leave runs on yearly quotas per leave type with approvals, and the company holiday calendar feeds attendance. Your people log their hours by project each day, and those timesheets roll up into utilisation.
Related questions
Is Rippling Time and Attendance included in the core platform?
Rippling's pricing page says each product is bought separately, alongside the required core Rippling Platform. Time and Attendance is one of those products, and no price is published for it as of September 2026.
How do employees clock in with PeopleMuster?
Employees punch in on a fingerprint terminal, or check in from the browser once an admin turns that on. Browser check-in opens 60 minutes before a shift starts and closes 120 minutes after, and an admin can change all four window edges.
What happens when someone misses the check-in window?
PeopleMuster sends them to a manual punch request. HR reviews each request, so the day is never left as a silent gap.
What does attendance cost in PeopleMuster?
Attendance is part of the $3 per person monthly price, with every other module. Annual billing is $30 per person per year, and there's no setup fee.