Campfire + Rippling: Eliminate the most manual part of your financial close

Campfire

Team

April 14, 2026

Finance Accounting Invoicing General

Every month, finance teams at high-growth companies lose days to the same problem. Payroll data lives in one system, your accounting and close workflow lives in another. Getting from one to the other means manual exports, spreadsheet cleanup, and hours of categorization and reconciliation, all at the exact moment a 2-10 person team is already stretched thin trying to close. That's why we built a native integration with Rippling, and why we're proud that Rippling recognized Campfire as a Rippling Choice integration, their designation for best-in-class solutions in the app ecosystem. It's the shortest path from "payroll is a manual nightmare" to "payroll accounting runs itself."

The close bottleneck most finance teams just accept

At Campfire, we built an AI-native accounting platform to eliminate the manual work that slows finance teams down. This integration is one of the most direct expressions of that mission. For teams already on Rippling, it brings workforce data directly into Campfire's accounting stack and puts Ember Agents to work on the most repetitive part of your close:

Automated payroll journal entries: Campfire pulls individual pay statement line items directly from Rippling and generates post-ready journal entries automatically, from a departmental roll-up to a fully itemized breakdown of wages, taxes, benefits, and deductions. No exports, no spreadsheets, no manual edits.
Ember Agents: Once payroll data is in Campfire, Ember Agents handle reconciliation, draft accruals when pay periods cross months, and flag anomalies before they become close blockers. When something needs action, they don't just notify, they create adjusting journal entries, invoices, bills, and other objects automatically. Your team only gets pulled in when genuine judgment is required.
Continuous data sync: As roles, departments, and compensation change in Rippling, Campfire updates automatically. Your financial data stays current without anyone on the finance team managing it.

The result is the most manual part of your close running itself, every month, without intervention.

Integration capabilities in action

The integration connects Rippling's workforce system directly to Campfire's accounting stack:

Real-time payroll data sync: Employee and compensation data flows automatically from Rippling into Campfire's general ledger, supporting multi-entity environments and payroll accounting across entities, departments, and classes.
Enterprise-grade security and compliance: Both platforms are SOC 1 Type II and SOC 2 Type II certified, ASC 606 compliant, with 1,500+ role-based access controls, full audit trails, and SSO so employees access Campfire securely through Rippling.
Custom automated workflows: Finance teams can build their own workflows in plain English using Campfire's custom agents, no code or consultants required. Describe the task, set a schedule, and it runs, whether that's a cost allocation, board report, or anything specific to how your business operates.

Built for the pace of high-growth

The manual close bottleneck gets worse as you scale. More entities, more departments, more headcount, more complexity, but rarely more people on the finance team to absorb it. The teams that feel this most are the ones growing fastest: post-Series B software companies adding entities, entering new markets, or preparing for a funding round or audit with the same lean team they had at half the revenue.

This integration is built for that moment. Payroll accounting that once took days of manual effort scales automatically as your business grows, without adding reconciliation work, without adding headcount, and without inheriting the chaos that comes with outgrowing your current system.

Ready to eliminate the most manual part of your close?

Rippling customers get 25% off their first year on Campfire. And for teams stuck in a NetSuite contract or another legacy system, Campfire's $5M CFO Buyout Fund covers your existing contract exit costs so switching doesn't mean waiting.

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