Turn Rippling payroll data into R&D tax credit numbers
Claimship reads salary data from Rippling to build wage expense numbers, then pushes the elected credit back in and tracks it each quarter.
What Claimship reads from Rippling
Claimship reads payroll data from Rippling: employee salaries, departments, and pay history across your pay periods.
Because Rippling often manages both payroll and workforce data in one place, Claimship can also read department and role information, which helps sort out which employees are engineering staff whose pay counts toward research expenses.
Rippling is the other payroll integration where Claimship writes data, with your approval. After you elect a credit amount, Claimship pushes it into Rippling to apply against payroll taxes, then checks in every quarter until the full offset lands.
The evidence it extracts
Salary data builds the wage expense number
Pay by employee and pay period is the starting input Claimship uses to calculate qualified research expenses for engineering staff.
Department and role data helps scope who counts
Rippling's org structure data helps Claimship identify engineering and technical roles distinct from sales, support, or admin.
Quarterly tracking confirms the credit landed
Once the elected credit is pushed into Rippling, Claimship checks each quarter that it's reducing payroll tax liability as expected.
Permissions
Read-only by design
Claimship can read your data. It cannot write, change, or delete anything in your tools. The one exception is the payroll credit push, which you approve first.
You choose the scope
Pick the repos, projects, and channels we can see. Skip anything sensitive. The study only uses what you share.
Revoke anytime
Disconnect a tool in one click from your dashboard or from the tool itself. Syncing stops immediately.
- Rippling is one of two tools where Claimship writes data, and only the elected credit amount, and only after you approve it.
- All other access is read-only. Claimship reads salary, department, and role data but never changes pay, benefits, or employment records.
- Revoke access anytime from Rippling or your Claimship dashboard. A credit already pushed and approved stays applied until it's fully used.
Setup
- 1Open the Integrations tab in your Claimship dashboard.
- 2Click Connect on Rippling and sign in with your Rippling admin account.
- 3Authorize read access to payroll and workforce data.
- 4Review and approve the elected credit amount when your study is ready. Claimship pushes it into Rippling and tracks it from there.
Common questions
Setup in 15 minutes. First estimate the same week.