Recognition that runs itself, from the directory you already have
Branded eCards for every birthday, work anniversary, and service milestone, sent automatically from your directory. Managers and peers add thank-yous in under a minute. A real gift card rides along when the moment earns one. Managers get a heads-up days ahead and add their own cards, so the day brings a flood, not one email.
30-minute personalized walkthrough · tailored to your program · no commitment
In short
eCardRecognizer is an employee recognition platform that sends branded eCards for birthdays, work anniversaries, service milestones, spot awards, and peer thank-yous automatically from your team directory, with optional gift card rewards. Nothing to install and nothing to remember, so every card reaches an employee, and a real gift card at face value when you choose.
- Automations from birthdays and hire dates in your directory
- Peer and manager recognition with no login
- Gift card rewards with Finance controls on the Enterprise plan
Trusted by 9,000+ organizations
Recognition that depends on someone remembering does not happen
Gallup finds employees who receive high-quality recognition are 65% less likely to be job hunting, and that recognition needs to arrive roughly weekly to hold. Most programs miss because the dates live in a spreadsheet and the sending lives with one busy person.
Source: Gallup, Employee Retention Depends on Getting Recognition Right.
Dates from the directory
Birthdays and hire dates drive every send. Upload once or sync from your HRIS, and the calendar fills itself for the year.
A card people open
Branded, animated, full screen in any browser. Not a claim link, not a Slack emoji. The card says what was done and who noticed.
Anyone can say thanks
A recognition form on your intranet, a kiosk, or behind a QR code. No login for the sender or the recipient.
Leadership sees the gaps
Sends and opens by department and sender. The quiet team shows up the week it goes quiet, not at the annual survey.
Everything a recognition program needs, without a platform to run
Upload the directory once. The rest is templates, timing, and the occasional gift card.
A branded card that opens anywhere, with no login
The card arrives at whatever email is in the directory, work or personal, and opens full screen in any browser, on a laptop or a phone. Nothing to install for the frontline or the field.
- 500+ templates or your own artwork
- Your logo and colors on every card
Set it up once. Every birthday and anniversary goes out on the day, and the team piles on.
Hire dates and birthdays in your directory schedule every card, and years 1 to 50 each get their own designs. One to 30 days ahead, the manager and the department get a heads-up with a Schedule eCard button, and their cards land on the same day. If nobody adds one, the company card still goes out, so every person is covered every year.
- Several designs and messages per milestone, picked at random, so year two never repeats year one
- Local-time sends, weekend shifting, and a 3-year preview of what goes out when
Anyone can say thank you in under a minute, with no login to forget
A recognition form on SharePoint, your intranet, or behind a share link you can put on a QR code. Pick a colleague from the directory, write two sentences, send. The card arrives by email, text, or WhatsApp and opens in any browser, so frontline staff without a company inbox are in.
- Embed with one iFrame or share the link; no login for sender or recipient
- Profanity filter and domain allowlists keep it tidy; every send shows in reporting
Know what was sent, opened, and clicked, from day one
Sent, delivered, opened, clicked, shared, and bounced, per card, per automation, and per campaign. The CSV export goes to leadership without a spreadsheet.
- Opens and clicks per card
- CSV export for HR and leadership
Live in an afternoon
Three steps, no code, no app rollout.
Upload the directory
A CSV from your HRIS, or SCIM on the Enterprise plan. Departments, managers, and dates come along.
Pick templates and dates
Choose from 350+ designs or upload your own artwork. Turn on birthdays, anniversaries, and the milestones you care about.
Add the human layer
Embed the peer recognition form on your intranet and, if you like, attach a gift card to the milestones that deserve one.
See recognition running on your branding
30 minutes, on your branding, no commitment.
One directory, four programs, one dashboard
Birthday and anniversary automations run on their own. Managers send spot awards the same day. Peers send thank-yous from a form. Service awards carry a gift card at the tiers you choose. All of it reports to one place.
- Automated birthdays and work anniversaries from hire dates
- Spot awards and peer thank-yous with no login
- Tiered service awards with an optional gift card
- Analytics by sender, department, and campaign
Recognition that is still happening a year after launch
Most programs die the same way: managers forget, the tool gets ignored, and the cards start to feel like a template blast. eCardRecognizer is built for the tough cases, so recognition keeps happening whether or not anyone remembers.
A flood on the day, not one email
Birthday, anniversary, and milestone cards go out on their own from hire dates. Days ahead, the manager and the department get a heads-up and schedule their own personalized cards, so the employee gets a flood of recognition on the day, not one email.
The safety net
Even if nobody schedules a personal card, the company card still lands on the date. Minimum guaranteed recognition: every person, every year, and usually a stack of personal ones on top.
Nothing performative
Every automated card is different: rotating designs, personalized messages, and the manager's own words on top. Year two never repeats year one.
Your campaign, our infrastructure
You write the manager notification emails in your own voice, add in-person shout-out ideas, and run it from SharePoint or Teams. The tool carries the campaign. The culture is yours.
Reaches the plant floor
A share link lets anyone create a card and send it by text, personal email, or messaging app, so frontline staff without a company inbox are in. Customers run this today for factory and field teams.
Locked down to IT's taste
From/to-only cards, no attachments, a profanity filter, and an HR moderation queue when you want one. A security page and questionnaire support for the vetting.
Gift card rewards are optional and stay off until you want them.
What HR and culture leaders say after launch
Verbatim from the people who run recognition at Axon, Modivcare, and a 7,000-person healthcare system.
"We've been using the eCard widget to automate our birthday and service anniversary messages, and it has genuinely transformed our workflow. What once took hours each month now happens seamlessly in the background."
"We have been able to create birthday cards, anniversary cards, company value cards as well as get well soon, thank you, and sympathy. This program has enhanced our overall culture, and I couldn't be more satisfied with my experience."
"A+ customer service and plugin! Loved the plugin/widget from the beginning, and Tim made it even better by being super helpful and responsive to ensure it worked well for our organization of about 7,000 staff."
How organizations use it
Four patterns that make recognition stick.
Birthdays and anniversaries on autopilot
The baseline every employee gets, on the day, from the company, with their manager copied.
Same-day spot awards
A manager names the win within 24 hours, with a reward inside the range Finance allows.
Tiered service awards
Year one gets a card. Year five gets a card and a gift card. Year twenty gets the CEO.
Peer thank-yous
A form on the intranet or behind a QR code in the break room. Every send shows up in reporting.
Know who is recognizing, and who is not
Sends, opens, and clicks by campaign, sender, and department. Quiet teams show up the week it happens.
- Sends, opens, and clicks by campaign, sender, and department
- Reward orders and claims in an audit log
- Export to CSV for payroll and leadership reporting
Rated 5.0 on Capterra and G2 by the HR teams who run it
Reviewers rate eCardWidget, the platform behind eCardRecognizer, 5.0 out of 5 on Capterra, with 4.8 for ease of use and 5.0 for customer service, and 5 stars on G2 and the Shopify App Store. Support is a real person who answers the same day.
Milestones, spot awards, and peer thank-yous from one directory
The same directory, templates, and reward rules power every program below.
Employee recognition, answered
Common questions from HR and people teams
See the recognition platform on your branding in 30 minutes
We will load a sample directory, turn on birthday, anniversary, and service award automations on your templates, send a peer recognition eCard, and show the reporting. Bring your current process; we bring the demo account.
- Automations running from a sample directory with your templates
- Peer-to-peer recognition and gift card rewards, live
- HRIS sync and SSO options
- No pressure to decide on the call
Book your demo
Pick a time on the next screen. We will come prepared with your use case.