Authenticate to the Rippling API using the OAuth 2.0 flow appropriate for your integration type (company OAuth or employee OAuth).
Retrieve available benefit plans for the company via the Rippling benefits endpoints to get plan IDs, types, and carrier information.
Read the employee's current benefit elections using the employee benefits endpoint, filtering by employee ID.
Submit or update an employee's benefit enrollment by posting to the enrollment endpoint with the plan ID, coverage tier, and effective date.
Confirm the enrollment and verify that payroll deduction amounts are updated for the next pay period.
Known gotchas
Rippling's API has tiered access — benefits write operations may require elevated OAuth scopes or a specific partnership agreement with Rippling; confirm scope availability before building the integration.
Benefit elections in Rippling are often tied to enrollment events with open windows; attempting to enroll outside an active window may be rejected without a clear error message.
Rippling handles benefits administration and payroll in a tightly coupled system; changes made via API may interact with automated carrier feeds in ways that are not immediately visible.
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