Rippling outage, November 2025: Issues accessing Payroll

Rippling reported and resolved an incident: Issues accessing Payroll. It lasted 58 minutes.

Resolved

From Rippling's official status page, in their words.

What happened

Started
Resolved
Duration
58 minutes
Impact
none
  1. Investigating
  2. Identified
  3. Monitoringnot posted
  4. Resolved

Why it happened

Rippling has not given a cause in its updates. We never guess one.

How it was resolved

Issue is now resolved. We have automatically extended the approval deadline for runs that had an approval date of November 5th. US-funded pay runs now have an approval time of 5pm PT, and Canada-funded runs have an approval deadline of 4pm PT.

Rippling's closing update

This incident on the Rippling status page

Timeline

Oldest first, from the first notice to the resolution. From Rippling's official status page, in their words.

  1. identified

    We are aware of an issue where users are unable to access the Payroll app. The root cause has been identified and will be resolved within the next hour.

  2. resolved

    Issue is now resolved. We have automatically extended the approval deadline for runs that had an approval date of November 5th. US-funded pay runs now have an approval time of 5pm PT, and Canada-funded runs have an approval deadline of 4pm PT.

What this means for a business (and what to check now)

  • Retry anything that failed during the 58 minutes.
  • Enter any payments, bookings or jobs you took another way.
  • If a deadline fell inside the window, keep this page as your record of the outage.

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