Case Study: NIHAO Cultural Arts Center achieves streamlined scheduling, 3x faster payroll, and faster onboarding with Rippling

NIHAO Cultural Arts Center saves hours a week scheduling, onboarding, and paying employees

NIHAO Cultural Arts Center, an education organization operating Chinese preschools and programs across eight Southern California locations, faced fragmented spreadsheet-based scheduling, manual onboarding through ADP, and slow payroll processes that caused confusion and administrative delays. To address these challenges, NIHAO adopted Rippling’s unified HR and workforce management platform for scheduling, onboarding, payroll, time & attendance, recruiting, and learning management.

Rippling replaced spreadsheets and ADP with a single system that centralizes schedules, automates new-hire setup, and streamlines payroll. As a result, NIHAO can create shift schedules across eight locations in less than an hour, saves two hours onboarding every new hire, and runs payroll three times faster (reducing pay runs from about six hours to two), improving visibility, coverage, and operational efficiency.

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Fong Hsu

Vice President of Finance