Connect Rippling and Slack

Rippling is where HR records a new starter or a change to an employee. FlowMattic takes the Rippling event you choose and turns it into Slack work: a welcome post, channel invitations, a reminder for IT and a check-in after the first week. For HR and people-ops teams at companies that run on Slack.

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When this happens in Rippling1 trigger

Do this in Slack14 actions

1. TriggerSetup Webhooks

2. ActionSend Channel Message

When Rippling fires Setup Webhooks, FlowMattic runs Send Channel Message in Slack with the data from that event.

You build this in the FlowMattic workflow builder on your own site. See the setup steps

Rippling and Slack workflows you can build

Each one uses only triggers and actions the two integrations ship today, plus FlowMattic's own tools. Where the library has a ready-made template, import it instead of building from scratch.

Ready-made template

Welcome each new employee in the team channel

When Rippling reports a new employee, the company channel gets their name, role and team, so colleagues can say hello before the first stand-up.

Setup WebhooksSend Channel Message

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Add the new starter to their department's channels

Once the person has a Slack account, Find User by Email locates them by work email and Invite User To Channel adds them to the channels their team uses.

Setup WebhooksFind User by EmailInvite User To Channel

Post engineering hires to the engineering channel only

A Filter on the department field keeps the post to the team that will work with the person, which suits companies where the general channel is already busy.

Setup WebhooksFilterSend Channel Message

Remind IT to prepare a laptop and accounts

Add Reminder gives the IT lead a dated reminder with the starter's name and start date, so equipment is ready on day one rather than day three.

Setup WebhooksAdd Reminder

Send a first-week check-in from HR

A Delay waits a week after the event, then the new employee gets a direct message asking how things are going, a habit that is easy to forget by hand.

Setup WebhooksDelayFind User by EmailSend Direct Message

Keep HR's private channel informed of employee changes

Point a second workflow at an employee change event in Rippling and post a summary to HR's private channel, so changes are visible to the people team only.

Setup WebhooksSend Private Channel Message

Set up: welcome new employees

At the end, each new employee added in Rippling is announced in a Slack channel with their role and team.

Connect Slack
In FlowMattic, open Connects and add a Slack connection with an account that can post in your welcome channel.
Add the Rippling trigger
Create a workflow with Rippling and Setup Webhooks, then follow the trigger's instructions to send the new employee event from Rippling to the workflow.
Capture a test record
Add or update a test employee in Rippling so FlowMattic captures the fields the event sends.
Write the welcome
Add Send Channel Message, choose the channel, write the welcome from the name, title and department fields, test the step and switch the workflow on.

Import the ready-made template Beginner, about 5 min to set up

Slack app icon — Built on the FlowMattic canvas. Test each step with real data, then switch the workflow on.

From Rippling	To Slack
First name	Message: name
Job title	Message: role
Department	Message: team
Start date	Message: joining on

Triggers and actions in this pair

A trigger starts a workflow. An action is something FlowMattic does in the app as a step.

Good to know

Setup Webhooks is one trigger for the event you choose in Rippling. Build one workflow per event, such as new hires and employee changes, so each message fits what happened.
Field names depend on the Rippling event, so the mapping above is an example. Capture a test record before writing the message.
Find User by Email works only once the person's Slack account exists with the same work email. Add a Delay if accounts are created a day or two after the Rippling record.
Keep salary, address and other personal fields out of channel messages. Post them, if at all, to a private HR channel.

Rippling

Integration page

Triggers (1)

Setup WebhooksTriggers on the specified event in rippling.

Slack

Integration page

Actions (14)

Send Channel MessagePost or Schedule a new message to a specific #channel
Add ReminderAdds a reminder for the user
Create ChannelCreates a new channel
List All ChannelsRetrieve list of all channels
Set Channel TopicSets the topic on a selected channel
Set StatusSets your Slack status to the given text and emoji
Invite User To ChannelInvite an existing User to an existing Channel. You must be a member of the channel to invite someone to it
Find User by EmailFinds a user by matching against their email instead of their username
Find User by IDFinds a user by their ID.
Send Direct MessageSend a direct message to a user or yourself from the Slackbot. Can also schedule a message for later
Send Private Channel MessagePost a new message to a private channel you choose. Can also schedule a message for later
Update ProfileUpdate basic profile fields such as name or title
Find MessageFinds a Slack message using the Slack Search feature
Upload FileUpload file to your slack workplace

Why run this pair with FlowMattic

Rippling and Slack connect through FlowMattic on your own site, with no separate automation account in the middle and no charge per run.

Onboarding steps happen on time

Welcome posts, channel invitations and IT reminders follow from the Rippling record, so a new starter's first day does not depend on someone's memory.

HR keeps Rippling as the source

People data is entered once in Rippling and Slack reflects it, which avoids a second list of starters kept by hand.

Employee data passes through your server

FlowMattic runs on your own WordPress site with unlimited runs, so HR events are handled on infrastructure you control.

Common questions

How do I post new Rippling employees to Slack?

Create a FlowMattic workflow with the Rippling Setup Webhooks trigger, choose the new employee event in Rippling as the trigger describes, then add Slack Send Channel Message and map the name, role and team.

Can new hires be added to Slack channels automatically?

Yes, once their Slack account exists. Use Find User by Email with the work email from Rippling, then Invite User To Channel for each team channel. The connected Slack account must be a member of those channels.

Can different departments get their own welcome posts?

Yes. Add a Router after the trigger with one path per department, each posting to that team's channel, or a Filter if only one team wants the posts.

Can I react to employee changes as well as new hires?

Yes. Set up a second workflow with Setup Webhooks pointed at the change event you need in Rippling, and post a summary to HR's private channel with Send Private Channel Message.

Can the welcome wait until the start date?

Yes. Add a Delay after the trigger so the message goes out on the start date instead of the day the record was created.

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Reviewed 27 Oct 2026. The example workflows are written with AI from the real triggers and actions of both integrations and checked against them. Rippling integration 1.0.0, Slack integration 1.0.